Topic: Fell on concrete face first-ish

[Nos0323]

Date of Injury- January 12, 2010
Time of injury (0:00 to 23:59)- around 2:19pm
Your DOB and age- March 23, 1994  ; 15
name (remember this is the internet, name is helpful but not mandatory)-Jiyoung
City, State- Honolulu, HI
# years practicing Parkour / Freerunning- about 1 week of trying to self learn
Hours of training per week. (real, not what you'd like to do)- about 7
Other exercise / fitness experience- N/A
Location where injury occurred - Roosevelt high school next to band room building
Conditions of location (wet, dark, icy, etc)-Perfect
What you were doing / trying to do when injury occurred?-Was gonna try 2 hand vault for first time...feet got caught on rail cause friend surprised me and i didnt want to attract any attention and thought i was alone...
Where any other people involved?-None until friend showed up
Part of body  - description of injury, rating of severity 1-10.- Head, hit head on ground about 1.5-3' (idk cant remember will check tomorrow), about 3
Did you see a doctor for diagnosis?-no
Did you get X-rays or MRI's?-no
Picture of the injury-N/A
Could you / how could you have avoided the injury?-honestly idk...maybe shoulda waited until i went to a HIPK jam for first time for some help? (there is almost no grass in my school so that couldn't be helped)
Date / type / severity of your last injury?-cant remember wen but i sprained ankle first time i jumped off of 6 steps of stairs
Notes on the experience?-*sigh*  feel crappy especially since im a girl (now with a few scratches on side of face...) and people will wonder wat happened tomorrow wen i go school again...   

[Zac Scanlon]

Thats sounds like me kind of yesterday! i went to perch a rail to see if i could jump to attempt it. My friend was standing next to me. The drop was about 8 ft. So as i try to perch i got my foot stuck in the rail so i flipped over the rail head first and almost hit the concrete, but i caught the rail with my hands and flipped over and saved myself. Just saying cause it totally reminder of what happen with you.

[Nos0323]

Thats sounds like me kind of yesterday! i went to perch a rail to see if i could jump to attempt it. My friend was standing next to me. The drop was about 8 ft. So as i try to perch i got my foot stuck in the rail so i flipped over the rail head first and almost hit the concrete, but i caught the rail with my hands and flipped over and saved myself. Just saying cause it totally reminder of what happen with you.

lol wow well you were lucky haha  ^^

[John Amos]

when anyone finds themselves in the situation of a foot getting stuck on the rail while they are going over it, the definite best thing to do is attempt to catch the railing with your hand or if you are falling face first, try to roll on the ground at the last second!

[FreeStyleFox]

Yes and you just one upped all the guys at your school who are too afraid to do parkour because of falling on their face.     Wear your scratches with pride dear!

[Zilly1]

i did the exact same thing except a bench and it was gravel

[Just Scott I guess]

wow, your tougher than me xD i did something like that once, cept i was doing a dash vault into a sitting position and fell backwards and nailed the back of my head on the rail >.> I give you props though for hanging in there.