CrossFit Open WOD achilles rupture
 

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That Sucks!
 

I'm going to assume that your crossfit hate tank is now officially refilled. I hope your friend recovers well.

The Glassman WODs weren't great, but they were about a million times better than the stuff that gets posted nowadays, most of which is simply GIGO in movement format.

I don't know but...
 

Maybe a class action lawsuit would be effective. I'm guessing if the lawyers got a group of people together to testify against them they would have a case. The problem is that crossfit spends a good deal of time convincing people to scale and whatnot, but the exercises are only safe when you scale. The reality is that nearly all the WODs are dangerously unchecked and this is what all of the crossfitters aspire to. They aspire to have the ability to complete a very dangerous exercise routine at a very high rate of speed. This is about equal to cutting wood on a saw for time. You can make your new deck by taking your time and making sure everything is cut properly (quality work), or you can go as fast as you possibly can and end up chopping your damn hand off (crossfit). I'm not saying that there never a time to go fast, its just usually not smart to go "elite" speed during the weird mix and match exercises that crossfit provides. I believe the way crossfit protects itself is the same way the alcohol and tobacco companies do. If you chose to do something thats this dangerous for you its your fault...I disagree but I bet this is how they get away with everything. I expect to see a surgeon general warning about crossfit someday.

See here: http://board.crossfit.com/showpost.p...1&postcount=38

Some affiliate apparently found 4 cases of torn achilles from the CF Games competition without even looking.

all 4 from that same wod.


Others:


Looks like we've found the lower body SLAP tear.

Here are a couple:

http://crossfitfire.com/the-new-stan...nd-we-mean-it/ See comment - so I think it's Games-related.
http://crossfitsnohomish.com/2011/04/07/april-8th-2011/ And apparently somebody there tore an Achilles tendon on box jumps.
http://www.nathanholiday.com/2011/04...s-rupture.html And this young man quite unfortunately seems to have ruptured his achilles tendon.
http://games.crossfit.com/athletes/robert-perovich And another competitor - don't know if he's one of the ones alluded to above.
http://www.crossfitnlp.com/?p=836 One of the coaches.

I suppose this is another reason to leave box jumps out of many types of programming. I wish them all a speedy recovery.

Yeah, those posts goign months and months back are referring to lots of old injuries, but at least four from this one Games workout. It really is quite terrible. People should think long and hard about what they're doing before they engage in "extreme" competitions.

EDITED to be better.

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From the top of my head, back when I studying up on Verks work (creator of depth jump), there's a hierarchy of special exercises that leads into boxjumps/depthjumps use, to prepare the muscles and tendons for the shock method. the minimum I think was 60cm at the start of the block training, but the rep scheme at first does not exceed 30 reps; and this is for elite, conditioned, olympic sport athletes. this is common S&C knowledge.

*6 now, someone at that specific event facebook-ed me and said the number is up to 6. This is insane.