yeah i said that but he said its 10x more likely to break when under a physical activity.. idgaf as of february 6,2012 ima be training again. exactly one year after my fall. hopefully im fully recovered by then.
Nick, I wish you a speedy recovery, and one that is as complete as possible. I mean this sincerely, and I don't mean to take away anything from your resilience. However, I think that someone needs to state in this thread that training at that height has it's dangers, and one should ALWAYS expect to end up with punctured and lacerated lungs at the very least. You're lucky to be alive. Like the poster before me, I say don't push your luck.
Doctors know what they're talking about. Yes, people can be resilient, but not everybody is. I read Lance Armstrong's biography recently, and he talks of how he fought back cancer. But he also says that it's nothing that HE did that drove the cancer away, he also quotes the doctors saying that for each person who fights cancer and survives, there are many more who 'fight' a good fight but never make it. Yes, the likeness to your situation is slim. Cancer is not something you can choose (or not choose), however, your situation is one that you've exposed yourself to, and thus 'chosen'.
I hope you see what I mean, and use your experience not just to talk to traceurs about 'loving life & making it if you try enough' and all the usual garbage (there is a million dollar industry in inspirational speaking), but use it as a platform to tell traceurs in particular that things can go wrong very quickly, and that they should 'train' on the ground.
Yes, I know... Parkour is this, parkour is that... blah blah blah... but in the end, you have only one body. You're responsible for it. If you go jumping from heights, expect to fall, expect to be -near death.
Once again. I sincerely hope you recover fully. I also hope you use your experience to share the -correct- message. Train hard. Train safe.
