Just got back from Accident & Emergency

[Beastie]

Hi all,

I need some advice about hand protection.

A mate and I were out on our bocks tonight. We've both only had our bocks a week or so and we were just practicing wandering about in the park.

He fell on a bad bit of pavement and managed to snap his little finger. So we spent several hours in the casualty dept of the local hospital... two x-rays... one syringe of rather useless anasthetic... and a doctor grabbing, twisting and resetting the broken pinky.

He was wearing decent wrist guards but obviously they offer little protection for the fingers.

I imagine he'll be posting a picture of his broken digit on here later!

Can anyone recommend some better hand protection? I was considering wearing my motorcycle gloves... but I figure it would be extremely painful to have to take them off if I damaged my hand...

Boxing gloves?!

Cheers,

John

[webmaster]

sorry to hear that, hope he gets better soon..

mx or motorcycle gloves wouldnt protect ur wrists! and boxing gloves would llook v.funny... I'm sure there must be something out there that protects the wrist & fingers as well...

[Dark Knight]

What sort are you using ?
And do they fit right ( size )
Another thing have you got them the right way around  
Most guards are fingerless, as most falls the palm hits frist not the fingers and he sound unlucky to hit/break one  

[Dark Knight]

sorry to hear that, hope he gets better soon..

mx or motorcycle gloves wouldnt protect ur wrists! and boxing gloves would llook v.funny... I'm sure there must be something out there that protects the wrist & fingers as well...

I've got an old suit of armour you could try !? It's a bit heavy 

[Sx Nutta]

i have had something in the planning but it is nowhere near ready, guess i will have to speed things up, but that is just bad luck

[Beastie]

I'm wondering if motorcross gloves can be worn with a wrist brace... I'll have to pay the local bike shop a visit (oh damn! How terrible for me.. I have to go look at bike stuff! )

And Alt has now posted a pic of his hand...

http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view;id=773

I'm glad we didn't try to 'fix' what we thought to be a dislocated finger...  that could have been...err... messy.

[Alt]

Thanks again Beastie for beening a mate. 

[Beastie]

It was all worth it... that nurse was exceptionally cute.

[hybrid_hex]

If you didn't get her number, then you did not try hard enough! shame on you! 

[Alt]

Don't think her hubby would have liked that. I always check for wedding rings

[hybrid_hex]

Doesnt mean anything nowadays!!!

[Dark Knight]

I know a couple of nurses that take their rings off at work !?

[lovely03]

I just want to say that you should always take care of your self in order for you to avoid accident and go to hospital again.




_________________

[Trixter]

you could wear all the pads in the world but you will still brake sumin in least expect to only thing i could come up with would be MX gloves or bmx'in ones but the offroad style ones they will be abit more padded but wont stop a brake its all about how you land on it, i know its abig difference but a motorbiker can come off in full pads and brake his spine with a spine protector its all about learnin to fall over

[sprog]

I just want to say that you should always take care of your self in order for you to avoid accident and go to hospital again.




_________________

POORLY DISGUISED SPAM FTW

[darfgarf]

medical insurance...oh wait nhs 

[CJ]

the NHS aint tht bad i suppose just need to get rid of all the pen pushers to get the money back to people who need it.

[Spud]

Numpties replying to spam..i could delete it all but i would either have to delete what everybody said... or just the spam but that woukd make trix look like he dug up an old topic and the rest of you crazy so meh..Just deleted the link

Anybody got a better idea

 

[CJ]

yeah lets go bocking