dissabte, 29 de novembre del 2014

A kitesurfing accidental day

Last weekend I went to sail to La Palme (France), because I knew there was a good forecast there and I didn't want to lose such an oportunity. I left home at 9:30 A.M. and went straight to the frontier, where my friends and I stopped to get some food. I think I began feeling pain on my back by that moment. 45 minutes after, we got there, and there was no wind yet, so we mounted our basecamp and stayed joking until the wind became strong enough to have a nice session. At 12:00 AM more or less the wind picked up to 15 gnarly knots, that went up and down unconstantly. We decided to sail though, we where really desperated.

The first accident of the day happened when my friend Genis, (who is a bit silly sometimes)-sorry me if you read this- got lost in the worst part of the lagoon. La Palme is a lagoon surrounded by forests and when he wanted to investigate insider he didn't know how to come back. The thing is: the wind went down and we didn't know where he was, so we decided to go for him. After 1 hour of hard research we found him walking on the side of the road with the kite under the arm and dirty of mud! Well at least he wasn't hurt.

The second one was when my friend Carlos jumped and faceplanted his landing on his own car (nobody thought that this could happen but it did so...).

Then the third involved me and my back pain. I had been sailing the whole day and I hadn't almost felt any pain, but at 3:00 PM the wind picked up to 20 steady knots and I went straight into the water for having the sesh I hadn't had yet, and that happened, when i tried to do the backmobe i landed very hard and had an overstrectchment in my back. I couldn't take my shoes off, I was tied to the board and I couldn't move, I felt an intense pain. My friends took me out of the water how they could and brought me to the sand, when I was getting up to stay on foot I got stucked, I began feeling a lot of pain in my back and couldn't move. Oh shit, this is serious. We were a bit scared, I'm just 15. 15 year-old people don't get stucked on their backs. We went straight to the closest hospital where they gave me something that made me recover a bit of my movement.

This is a normal day of my weekends ;)

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