Now this is a tough watch. Kirill Benderoni is out of hospital and has posted the footage of the crash that put him in a coma and landed him in intensive care for three weeks.
Kirill overshot this 70 foot jump, broke his collarbone and was instantly knocked out. At the time,
we reported:
| On September 21st, Kirill Churbanov - more commonly known as Benderoni - had a severe accident while riding on his home trails close to Moscow. He overshot one of his big backcountry gap jumps, broke his collarbone upon crash landing and was immediately knocked out by the impact. Kirill was wearing a full face helmet as well as a Leatt brace. He didn't regain consciousness and when he was delivered to a hospital about five hours later he was put in an artificial coma to help deal with his injuries.—Ekaterina Ukraintseva |
That was back in September and in the past few weeks
we've heard that Kirill is out of hospital, walking and home, he still has months of rehab ahead but thankfully he should be past the worst of it. This footage wasn't shared until he was on the road to recovery but this crash shows it could have been much worse for Kirill. He
wrote on Instagram, "Normal and POV angles of my crash. Having too much speed is probably the worst thing that can happen on such jumps, and it happened."
We wish Kirill all the best in his continued recovery.
It's really strange that his bike front turned to the left in the end... Don't think this is an intened move not to crash into the bike. In this panic situation your cerebellum takes control and does whatever it takes. I experienced this lately approaching a fallen tree on the trail that came in sight very late. My fingers pulled the brakes hard, but I did not do that, you know. Almost broke my neck :-(
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Impact on the side of his head, the bike was sideways so it didn't absorb anything. In rampage/fest they often eject and then they partially absorb the shock with their limbs, here he couldn't.
It's always hard to understand how some guy that fell from an airplane could survive with few scratches while some people die from slipping on an icy sidewalk. Random luck/bad luck
Trauma is all about energy transfer, and the deceleration is what multiplies the force of the impact. Consider laying a motorcycle down at 100mph and skidding for a while (gradual deceleration) vs hitting a wall head on at 100mph (instantaneous, extreme deceleration). Some of it does come down to luck and other factors, but in the end it's the force applied to each organ vs how much it can tolerate.
*not saying his helmet was bad just curious if a helmet filled with D30 would have helped*
I hope your brother gets better soon
I believe there are only a few brands really pushing safer helmets.
You can use softer gel like materials to decelerate the brain. I just learned that the most important part of an impact is the first 15 milliseconds. If your helmet has hard foam or a hard plastic liner it is doing very little in those first few moments.
Soft materials for the win!
A physicist named Don Morgan invented this.
Everything is a balance. I say give me a call while you are crashing and I'll tell you the best helmet.
I feel horrible this guy got hurt I would love to see the helmet. Jordie Lunn took a similar crash at dark fest last year and walked away. Helmet was destroyed.
My friend had one of those for commuting to work. He slid out on a corner going too fast and it didn't inflate at all. He hit his head on a kerb and spent two weeks in a coma. He is still unable to work over a year later and has serious memory trouble. f*ck those guys for releasing something that can't even do its basic function.
Kirill was shredding up until the overshoot, just goes to show how easily / quickly it can all go wrong whether you’re a pro or a noob. I’ve had a couple of mates take nasty ones and break vertebrae on stuff they’ve hit loads of times and were more than comfortable on.
Get well soon Kirill
Heal up bruv.
A buddy of mine had a heart attack this past April while riding San Clemente Singletracks in Orange County, CA. This is a major metro area with a couple million residents and a trauma hospital less than 10 miles away. We did CPR for 45 minutes before the ground medics got to us. They had called in Life Flight but they couldn't land because of overhead power lines. The ground medics then had to stabilize him, stretcher him 1/2 mile to their ambulance, drive slowly out on dirt roads and after 2+ hours, he was at the hospital....10 miles away!!
copied and pasted, that means it took five hours to get him to the hospital. Having been rescued from the backcountry after a skiing accident, that sounds about right. It's not a quick process, especially given that he was unconscious; that would definitely complicate things.
Much like the sentence
helping my uncle jack off a horse.
helping my uncle Jack, off a horse.
The spot is in the Moscow suburbs and getting back to Moscow at that time of the day - Benderoni says in the vid that they were waiting for the sun to get lower so it won’t blind them - could be really tricky as even an ambulance can’t even get through due to the rush hour.
Makes no sense to me why would he land all crooked.
It's just seems really weird that he landed all crooked instead of trying to stick the landing even on flat, or bailing early.
Did he try to bail at the last second? Is that why he landed soo sideways?
When you hit a jump properly there is an expected trajectory where you go up, level out, then come down matching the transition of the landing with the nose slightly pointing down. When you overshoot by that much, and suddenly just start falling from the sky with no landing under you, shit goes to hell and its not easy to "just land straight". Watch the video. You can see that as he is coming down he's going over the nose. He most likely realized that he was about to go over the nose straight onto his face and leaned the bike sideways on purpose (or just on instinct) so that he didn't go directly to his face/head.