Posted on in Mountain Biking

Back Breaking

Got these from the check-up last month.

Means little to me and just look like a spine. Blurred CT scan from before supposedly shows T6 & T7 fracture. Stable Anterior Wedge apparently. X-Ray after said to them that it looks good. Fair enough.

Whatever the case I’ve been back on the bike since end of May which was barely over a month since the crash. Took it easy for a bit though, but scaled up a bit now. Fairly normal stuff now though have some fears of stuff that’s relatively easy on some days and not others. Confidence boost needed but definitely have a greater focus on risk and what I’m capable of. Doesn’t mean I’ll stop, but just if I know I can’t do it without practice and skill, then I won’t do it.

The broken back The broken back (healed)

Posted on in General

Warner YouTube copyright claim on Muse concert clips

Something that occurred a couple of years back now when I posted some dodgy low quality concert videos I took at Muse’s homecoming gigs at Teignmouth.

Warner at the time waded in straight away and claimed copyright on them, and YouTube took them down. Annoyed I was but given the warnings on YouTube’s help page about counter claims and possible legal actions if you proceed, I decided not to take it further.

Problem is I still have a black mark on my YouTube account now, and I’m still unsure their claim is valid.

Muse – Teignmouth 5th Sept 2009 (Resistance & Interlude) – (tjmoore1973)
Video ID: k3YQv70IaLI
Removed due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group on 10 Sep 2009
Muse @ Teignmouth – 4th Sept 2009 (USoE & Cave) – (tjmoore1973)
Video ID: qNAiC5xp-Zg
Removed due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group on 10 Sep 2009
Muse @ Teignmouth – 4th Sept 2009 – Resistance – (tjmoore1973)
Video ID: ARa93yFqxag
Removed due to a copyright claim by Warner Music Group on 10 Sep 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3YQv70IaLI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNAiC5xp-Zg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARa93yFqxag

Keep thinking I should still challenge this on the basis that:

– Their claim is likely via the DMCA which is US law. I live in the UK, footage was shot in the UK
– Quality is low
– It’s non profit
– Serves no threat to the artist or Warner
– Promotes the concert and band

Could also argue that the band are happy with (and I think even promote to some degree) bootlegs of concerts. There are some exceedingly high quality bootlegs about, even of this concert. My humble low quality videos are hardly an issue at all.

Problem with the UK is we have no fair use in copyright law unlike the US, so despite the DMCA I’d probably have more success there.

But don’t know really. I’d just like them to remove the black mark mainly.

Posted on in Mountain Biking

Swinley crash, 9th April 2011

Unending Trees
It’s been a couple of weeks, so time I posted about my little smash on the bike.

It’s difficult to say what exactly happened as the result of this was I ended up in Frimley Park ICU and mostly unconscious for nearly 2 days. I have no memory of the crash or the 1.5 mile walk I apparently did back to the car park, or the ambulance, the helpful guys at GoApe, etc.

Can thank bungalistic though for picking up the pieces and getting me to the ambulance. Thanks also I understand to the folk at GoApe.

From what I understand anyway, after we’d been playing around Babymaker, Labyrinth & Deerstalker area, having a good time, we’d been heading back and found some drops and rolls to do. Seems I’d decided to try them out also, even though I’m not too skilled on drops. Though I’d been playing on the jumps earlier that day with some success.

Next thing apparently I’d disappeared over a drop and was found unconscious, then came to and managed to get back to the car park in a very confused state. Ambulance was called for and off I went to the ICU.

A lesson learnt from all this isn’t what I did or didn’t do, as I have no memory of it, but that it’s well worth keeping decent contact details on yourself for these situations, along with any information that medics may need. I had my phone but it was locked so fairly useless. Main thing of use was my donor card with my parents details on.

Considering how often I go out myself without telling anyone where I’m going and not carrying a great deal of info, it makes me realise it’s worth carrying further info. I do many group rides but no one has contact details for me, or I for them, so similar problems could occur.

Anyway, after finally waking up and being moved to a regular ward, I’ve improved fast. A week after the incident and left hospital, just with a couple of fractured vertebrae that look to be healing fine, and stiff neck, but fine otherwise.

It was just supposed to be a simple day playing about at Swinley, not doing anything too adventurous for me. Somehow it went a bit wrong. Ah well.