Stafon’s Incident: As recounted from a friend who has friends that were present in the weight room when it happened.

Stafon had just finished his reps and was starting another set. Lifting somewhere between 280-300 lb. He lifted the bar and didn’t have the perfect grip on it. It slipped from his grasp and fell, but at an angle. As it fell, Stafon threw up his hand to stop the bar from hitting him full-force. It hit his hand and neck, and fell off. He sat up instantly and the whole weight room was watching him as he grasped his throat and said nothing for 30 second

s, while coaches and players asked if he was OK. When he finally did make a sound, it was a gasping for air. His

windpipe had been crushed. He spit up blood and coaches immediately called 911.

Apparently if it wasn’t for Stafon throwing up his hand, and his athletic neck, he most likely would have been internally decapitated, in which everything that attaches his head to neck would have been severed internally from the weight of the bar. As it stands, fitness both saved his life and nearly stole it.

Doctors have re-aligned the windpipe and larynx. It will be a long road for Stafon to learn to talk again and he will

likely have a new voice as well.

Let’s support http://www.twitter.com/@stafon13 and wish him the best in this tragic accident.

Fight On!