I thought I’ve seen it all with crossfit but this is definitely a first.
Discuss.
I thought I’ve seen it all with crossfit but this is definitely a first.
http://www.cnn.com/…-paralyzed.ksdk.html
Discuss.
I know some folks at work who have been injured doing Crossfit, but this sounds like a truly tragic, freak accident. The guy looked enormously fit and just pushed himself too hard. With that drive though, he is the kind of guy who could refocus after he recovers and do well at Kona as a paratriathlete.
He wasn’t really doing anything especially crossfit there, just a lift and lost his balance and it all went wrong.
Triathletes die every year in crashes and swims.
He looks more like a power lifter than a crossfit guy just thought it was interesting how much publicity came about it and then mentioning crossfit about a million times. I’m by no means a crossfit hater just don’t like the people that preach it and then do workouts with improper form and are hurt every other week.
Thats a shame. The guy was just doing what he loves to do…like many of us here on ST. Its too bad theres a divide between the two ‘sports’ because they are both very positive things for most people. All we hear/listen to are the terrible things about crossfit(rhapdo, split spine etc) and all they hear are bikers killed, weight fluctuations, and drowning. Cant we all just get along in the name of fitness and getting off our fat asses.
He looks more like a power lifter than a crossfit guy just thought it was interesting how much publicity came about it and then mentioning crossfit about a million times. I’m by no means a crossfit hater just don’t like the people that preach it and then do workouts with improper form and are hurt every other week.
Kevin Ogar is an elite level olympic lifter. There is a thread about this in the Lavender Room, of course some posters used this tragic accident to trash crossfit. He’s an extremely experienced lifter, used perfect technique, was not in a fatigued state, and it was a warmup rep with a submaximal load; just a freak accident. Crossfit was the cause as much as triathlon is to blame for my torn achilles.
Cant we all just get along in the name of fitness and getting off our fat asses.
Completely agree, why can’t we all just get along and grow positive publicity for all sports. In the end it’s all better than sitting on the couch.
Never said he used improper form or anything by no means you can tell he knows what he’s doing just by looking at him; the guy is ripped. Just a tragic accident.
used perfect technique
I would question this statement…
deadspin has the video
http://deadspin.com/crossfit-athlete-paralyzed-after-severing-spine-during-1504384263
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used perfect technique
I would question this statement…
I am a certified OW-1, I spent several years teaching athletes how to olympic lift for a living. Watch the video and tell me where the flaw in his technique is. Teach me.
He dropped the bar from what I can see, that would be a pretty major flaw in my eyes.
heh. You do realize WHY he dropped the bar, right?
He dropped the bar from what I can see, that would be a pretty major flaw in my eyes.
You’d probably drop a 225lbs. overhead load if you had a severed spine as well. Seriously?
Well, I may well be wrong, but going by this statement;
" A missed snatch at the 2014 OC Throwdown came down on his back, severing his spinal cord "
My guess is that he didnt quite perform the lift with perfect technique, somewhat flawed you might say and the bar dropped onto his spine.
Anyway, I think this has been dragged low enough.
Watch the video.
I’m not a big crossfit fan - kind of 50/50 on the whole thing (I think a lot of it is misused and can have disastrous consequences when done wrong, but if done right is a very useful tool - as it has been for my wife) and I’m definitely no expert on anything related to weightlifting or crossfit - but if you watch the video it’s pretty apparent to me what happened.
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I think the bigger concern was the lack of medical support (which my brother-in-law, who was at the event, told me was minimal).
He dropped the bar from what I can see, that would be a pretty major flaw in my eyes.
You’ve obviously never done any Olympic lifting. Dropping the bar like is the proper way to escape a failed snatch. His form during the snatch was clean, he just missed the lift, and executed a very standard snatch escape. Note the plates stacked behind the platform, those are there for a reason. On a failed snatch, you drop the bar behind you, and then without stopper plates, the bar goes rolling to the back wall. Maybe his shoulders or wrists were tighter that day than usual, maybe he was just a bit more off balance over his heels than normal during his escape technique, whatever the case, but the bar obviously didn’t clear his body on the drop, and fell on him.
Really tragic, fluke accident. This is NOT the stereotypical Crossfitter that is throwing up a bazillion reps of weights too heavy for themselves without proper technique.
And as far as Ogar looking like a powerlifter more than a crossfitter, watch the Crossfit Games on youtube (like most things Crossfit puts EVERYTHING out there for all to see). Ogar’s a bit taller and thicker than the average Competitive Crossfitter (5’10" 185-195lbs), but his build is absolutely standard. The way the “Crossfit Games” are structured, these guys have to be elite Olympic and powerlifters. It’s like the new evolution of “World’s Strongest Man”, but with a BIG volume component (Rather than seeing Marius Pudjanowski (sp) that could lift a Boeing 747 but couldn’t run a 5k).
I’m not on the “Crossfit Koolaid”, but as a guy that spent 20yrs Olympic and powerlifting, I respect the craft of the Games level guys. There are a lot of dumbasses out there that either program for themselves and run themselves into the ground, OR spend $1000 and take a 3day seminar to get certified as a Crossfit trainer, then open their own “Box” with no previous training or programming experience (some of them with only a year or so of actual training themselves!), then run their members into the ground. I’m sure there are guys that go try to run 20mi every time they run because they want to run a marathon too, which I’m sure leads THEM to a lot of injuries as well. But that’s NOT what the competitive guys are doing, be it Triathlon or Crossfit.
I did.
I also read lots of different accounts of this accident on lots of different websites. They all seem to say that unfortunately, he dropped the bar onto his spine and that is what caused the issue.
Anyway, I hope the guy gets better regardless of the cause, extremely poor taste from me to make a mockery of the whole thing.
Well, I may well be wrong, but going by this statement;
" A missed snatch at the 2014 OC Throwdown came down on his back, severing his spinal cord "
My guess is that he didnt quite perform the lift with perfect technique, somewhat flawed you might say and the bar dropped onto his spine.
Anyway, I think this has been dragged low enough.
Yes, you are wrong and your guess is wrong as well. The injury has nothing to do with a bar hitting his back. The injury occurred halfway up the squat and **caused **the bar to fall. Watch the video and stop making conjecture.
You mean watch the ‘edited’ and ‘censored’ video.
I guess most of the websites in the first 2 pages of google when you search for this that make mention of the fact that he dropped the weight and the weight hitting him caused the issues are also wrong?
“He was performing weightlifting move called ‘snatch’ when the bar fell, bounced and struck him in the back”
“But on Sunday, as Ogar lifted hundreds of pounds of weights first to his waist, and then up over his head, he bailed on the lift, letting the bar bounce to the floor behind him. There, it bounced against another set of weights, came up, and hit Ogar in the back, critically injuring his spine.”
But I guess that you were there, or have insider knowledge that no-one else seems to have. Apologies for taking the consensus and reading it wrong.
You mean watch the ‘edited’ and ‘censored’ video.
I guess most of the websites in the first 2 pages of google when you search for this that make mention of the fact that he dropped the weight and the weight hitting him caused the issues are also wrong?
“He was performing weightlifting move called ‘snatch’ when the bar fell, bounced and struck him in the back”
“But on Sunday, as Ogar lifted hundreds of pounds of weights first to his waist, and then up over his head, he bailed on the lift, letting the bar bounce to the floor behind him. There, it bounced against another set of weights, came up, and hit Ogar in the back, critically injuring his spine.”
And you are right because?
Seriously, watch the video and stop commenting about a topic you know nothing about. The bar hitting his back is not what caused the injury.