Date of Injury: Err... I will hazard a guess at August 15th. Sometime around then.
Time of injury: (0:00 to 23:59): 15:00
Your DOB and age: 2/1/93, 16 years of age
name: Andrew Stockton
City, State: Philadelphia, PA
# years practicing Parkour / Freerunning: 3 months at time of injury
Hours of training per week. Before I was injured, about 7 hours. After, maybe 3 and a half, just working out upper body.
Other exercise / fitness experience: None really. I run on my own, not on a team.
Location where injury occurred: The middle school I used to attend.
Conditions of location (wet, dark, icy, etc): Sunny, grassy
What you were doing / trying to do when injury occurred?: I attempted to jump off a building about 12 feet tall, onto a grassy surface. I didn't extend my legs enough, and so the injury was absorbed by my poor old foot
. Not that my roll is good enough to handle such a jump anyways.
Where any other people involved? No.
Part of body - description of injury, rating of severity 1-10. Foot- 2nd and 5th metatarsal suffering minor stress fractures. Not the worst break in the world, but not a scrape either, so I give it about 7.
Did you see a doctor for diagnosis? Yes.
Did you get X-rays or MRI's? Yes.
Picture of the injury: Sorry, don't own a digital camera
. It doesn't look like much anyways, swollen and red. Not misshapen or anything.
Could you / how could you have avoided the injury? Climbed down a safer way, kept my legs extended and absorbing shock properly, actually having a serviceable roll.
Date / type / severity of your last injury? The only real injury worth mentioning before this one was a broken arm back in 2006 or '07. That was pretty severe, give it about an 8.
Notes on the experience? I made a stupid mistake. I took on a height far too great for my meager experience, and suffered as a result. There are long term consequences. My already-slightly-flat feet are now going to need orthopedic inserts. I've had to wait about a month so far without any physical activity, and it will probably be October before I can even run again, let alone vault or land from height. This had its positive aspects though. My feet will gain support they've never had before from the inserts. I now have a healthy respect for my limitations, and for the basic foundations of parkour. My time off my feet has given me some time to think, and I will return to training with greater enthusiasm and discipline than ever before
