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CrossFit coach Kevin Ogar suffers freak accident during competition
DREADLIFT
Member
There is deffinately a lack of regulation and safety. The guerilla competitions with people throwing barbells around fatigued and in close proximity to one another, bad injuries were bound to happen sooner or later.
IWF regulations have competitors lifting on a platform atleast 4 x 4m, with a further 1m buffer zone containing no objects/weight discs etc. Still doesnt stop Mathias Steiner dropping a 450+ barbell on his neck.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qY0pqlvjGFQ
Or broken arms and dislocated elbows...
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DJXESL5VK48
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=op9y5QxzXO8
cue High Roads taking this as a personal attack on himself and goimg waaaaay off tangent
I agree with what you are saying, but this comes down to the event organizer, not crossfit, crossfit hosts the Open, Regionals and the Games. Affiliate comps are not recognized by crossfit Inc.
I don't know what you are trying illustrate by posting clips of Olympic weightlifters injuring themselves. I never said Crossfit or Olympic weightlifting is safe as houses.
Nice of you to retract you comment about taking this as a personal attack. I'd hate to see you go off on some sort of tangent.
I don't know what you are trying illustrate by posting clips of Olympic weightlifters injuring themselves. I never said Crossfit or Olympic weightlifting is safe as houses.
Nice of you to retract you comment about taking this as a personal attack. I'd hate to see you go off on some sort of tangent.
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Goosey
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You're quite right.
As I've mentioned most times in Cross-fit discussions, is- ultimatetly cross-fit is a sport the rules are not about health.
ride29er
Confused Kunce
Crossfit athletes train Olympic lifting under fatigue weekly, I know what I can snatch fresh and under fatigue and I adjust accordingly, last comp I did we had to do a 1rm snatch straight after a 2km row, it's just part of the sport, what happened here was a freak accident, hundreds of thousands people do these sort of workouts weekly, there is bound to be a few casualties,
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Goosey
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That's a given.
I don't believe Cross-fit and the events are any more or less dangerous than other so-called combat sports.
I think this is the issue, in one corner they (mostly crossfitters) say it is safe, in the other corner most say it isn't, just like all sports.
Nobody here has stated football is safe or not dngerous FFS.
ride29er
Confused Kunce
I'm not saying anyone has stated that football is safe or dangerous, it's just that every time someone mentions football everyone doesn't repeat the same shit about how dangerous it is ect like they do with Crossfit, go through all the Crossfit threads, you will know what I'm talking about
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Goosey
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Millions of people watch and play footy, youd need to be pretty dumb to not understand and be aware of the inherant risk.
this is the confusing part for most...
It's why players of sports are - or well, *should* be placed on "off season" weight training programs, to minimize the risk of injury on the field.
During the season, should be scaled down to just maintainance.
compound exercise to develop strength around a joint as they deliver much greater force.
single joint exercise also has it's place here.
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Goosey
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No, you are right, nothing can prepare ones body by a bar loaded with 2 x BW or more crashing and pinning one spine causing catastrophic injury.
His snatch failed backwards, nothing new here, happens every day at any weightlifting club in the world. He didn't drop it on himself, he failed backwards and the bar hit the bumpers behind him bouncing the bar into his back. Blame Crossfit, blame Olympic Weightlifting, blame fatigue, blame his lack of pre season work, whatever mate...not one person on here has presented a reasonable argument to suggest any of these to be true
Well I blame him for doing Olympic lifts with stuff behind him and who ever was supposed to be putting their śhit away.
spartacus
Well-known member
well, I repeat my summary, Olympic lifts are dangerous, have seen a few serious accidents, and I broke my wrist doing them.
Doing Olympic lifts pre-fatigued is even more dangerous. This is not an argument, it is logic.
But I say let the bozos do it in their claim for being part of a great sport.
Doing Olympic lifts pre-fatigued is even more dangerous. This is not an argument, it is logic.
But I say let the bozos do it in their claim for being part of a great sport.
I blame event organizers, that's how they set it up. It's a freak accident, but there is a lesson to be learnt none the less
I'm going off what people have said who claim to have been at the event, not the clip