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On 1/24/2003 Andrew
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I went down this hill which is kinda infamous for people getting serieously hurt on bikes and stuff. its not tbat steep for all you pros but steep none the less. anyway i bombed it and realised at the last minute saw these 2 inch ditches across the road at the bottom. so i bailed and lost it, sliding on my side kinda like penguin. the button of my pants got ripped off so when i ran off the road when this car came i did it with my pants around my ankles.i then fell to ground in pain as had broken my collar bone and my thumb. so there i was wriggling around in the dirt, trying to pull my pants up with my right hand which had a broken thumb while cradling my left arm because of the collar bone.
i had to weight about 15 minutes until someone walked by and helped. but the good thing was i got a large dose of pethodine out of it.
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On 1/22/2003 KLUDY
wrote in from
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The crash story do alot of things, yes. Tell your story because it gives others something to think about. Storys are good because you can share with others, alot of people can see your story and say, dame that almost happened to me yesterday boy am I lucky.If your young and dum please tell us how you crashed. If you dont wear gear at least where slide gloves and a lid , they will save you time and time again. I know 1st hand.Ha HA!!!!!!!!!!Go big or stay home.
STAND-UP RULES!!!!!!!!!!!
< br>
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On 1/22/2003 snoball
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This is just a quick after thought because that ended rather abruptly and didn't completely convey what I wanted to.
If anything, the crash stories presented here are solid
evidence that all things considered, it's better to wear
your gear than not. There is an impish impetuousness to skating sometimes. You see it, it's now, you wanna ride it...oops! no gear. The temptation's very heavy and logic
begins to slide away rapidly. I'm all for freedom of choice and expression. What generally makes ME pause is taking a moment to put myself in the shoes of those who care for me were I to get hurt, and the people that I might hurt on the way. I can't always control everything at any given time but controlling what I can by minimizing potential damage to myself or others is something I WANT to do. I don't judge any other skaters who don't feel the same or approach these situations differently. Experience will teach you or lose you I guess.
The main thing was just an attempt to explain why it seems
like people are bragging when really, in general, I think
they're just amazed they survived and looking for affirmation.
"Whoa! I can't believe I came out of that!"
"Me either! You better put on some gear."
;-)
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On 1/22/2003
snoball
wrote in from
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I haven't read enough of the threads here to know if anyone
actually claimed their injuries were 'cool' or not. The
thread though, is titled 'Crashes' and that's what people
are writing about. Belittling them for it...why?
I have one on here myself. I didn't think there was anything
remotely cool about scaring all hell out of my dad, the drivers of a couple of cars, or my stack n' bail. I think people just tell the story as a way of expressing their own amazement that skaters can be incredibly lucky at times. It's also somewhat therapeutic I'd imagine.
Now, I'm not gonna get all religious and tell you I'm now
on the straight and narrow, the poster kid for 'should've known better', and ALWAYS wear full gear because the truth is that I don't. Think what you will about me. That's not
something I can control or care to.
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On 1/18/2003 Spanky Malone
wrote in from
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EK~ And you wonder why I used to call them "meatheads"...
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On 1/17/2003
EK
wrote in from
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After reading some of you guys crashes, it made me wonder, "How many of you guys wore any protective gear?". Especially the downhill speeders. Now I know that these stories sound cool and all, great conversation at parties and campfires. But you have got to admitt that it is such a pain to be laid up and losing road time due to crash that could be lessen by wearing gear... even the "scraps and scratches" crash.
Now I crashed at the last San Fran Gravity Fest (Nov. '02) and my full face helmet and leathers would not have helped me from fracturing my right in three places but I was smart eoungh to wear the gear.
Sorry about not giving you the play-by-play on the blood and guts of my crash and sound like a messenger of bad news... but I just want to see at least that some of you skaters are using the gray matter in your bucket and wear protection before you next "cool" crash.
Peace and ride safe to ride again tomorrow.
EK
EK
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On 1/1/2003
doug
wrote in from
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i had just gottem my first longboard. A sector 9 46" complete. I had no real style or carving skills. started to bomb a hill near my house. It started out fairly mellow, but i accelerated fast(some hills are inexplciably fast)I was bombing at this point. I rounded a small curve to find a realy steep drop. i took it, and the hairpin left turn right after it. what I had ot realized was that this hill ended in a a dirt road. oi. I ddint knwo how to slide at all, so i figured my big wheels would carry me through it. As soon as I hit the dirt i spun into a 250 degree powerside into a divit. I was flung from my deck and landed a good 5 feet away, skidded on ym gloveless hands in the rocks and came to a halt. no broken bones or sprained muscles, thakn god. i got off with some bloddy hands and a bruised pelvis, but sall good. i was back on teh slopes in about 20 minites.
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On 12/30/2002
Matt Traver
wrote in from
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I've got a pretty neat crash story... well.. the thing is... i've always had near misses from severe pain... right.. well... i was goin' down a fairly steep hill with a 50m straight section and there was a 90degree right turn that moved into a sorta curve... i was coming down the straight section probably 25mph, not too fast... then it started to sprinkle... JUST A TINY BIT you could only see 1 or 2 miniscule rain drops so i decided to go for the right turn... crouched down... planted my right hand on the road... grabbed the outside rail with my left... then suddenly my wheels broke into a slide... my board spun around 180 and halfway through the rotation I was thrown off backwards and was flipped upside down in the air.. i could see buildings and trees in the upside down world... i thought this was gonna be the end cuz i was only about 5 or 6 ft from a solid steel sign but i ended up falling flat on my back and skidding for a few feet... ripped up my shirt and i nearly landed on my jaw. I just lay there thinking how f#@!ing scary but cool that was and had to run after my board as it was rolling downhill... NOT ONE SCRATCH, SCRAPE OR ACHE, AT ALL... that's cuz I WAS WEARING ALL MY PADS... woooo goooo mee... so after that near miss i saved up and bought myself a fullface. So far no serious accidents... thank you mr.pads and mrs. helmet
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On 12/26/2002
KLUDY
wrote in from
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You guys buy gullwing speed trucks and no more speed wobbbbssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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On 12/26/2002
KLUDY
wrote in from
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I love the post on this site, it keeps downhill real !!!I am 90% healed and ready to tell my worst crash to date.Red Bull puts on a race every year and invites a few pro. to come and race locals.This hill is called skid road and named well. I had raced this hill the year befour and never made it down cleanly and broke my hand in time trails. This year I trained just for this hill, my goil was to bomb this hill top to bottom.We were downtown Seatle , the hill started on a ramp into a hard right made with smooth coblestone and slick ,if you made that turn the hill is flat and you cannot see the bottom just skyline of the city.Then you are looking down at a big drop with manhole covers,we whent over a freeway so there where expanion joints in four places, cracks in the road where up to eight inches.Guys where airbraking halfway down because speeds where up to 50mph and at the bottom was this left that scared the best speedboarder with three manhole covers and a ten story building to deal with before the finish line.Guys where flying over the hay and fence into the people watching , it was wild!I am to bomb this hill, my 1st run started out just like the year befour i slide out in the 1st turn. Changed wheels and i stuck it and made the whole hill , top to bottom. Now it was time trails and I had to do what I came to do, BOMB THAT HILL ! It would be the time to do it.Got off the top ramp clean, whent tru the 1st turn sliding hard buy pulled it off . Looked up and my heart hit another beat, a fast one.I put my head down , took a deap breath grabed my board with two hands and whent for it. A straight line, opened my eyes in time to see my line tru the left, had a great line but this road is wild and i had two hands on my board tru that turn that i was told 45mph , the other rider where at 35 to 40mph because they where airbraking, i didnot!Caveman dave told me i had a foot of air befour i hit hay in a downhill race where air is unheard of.There was a dip in the road that i saw but i was racing and not thinking at all hit it and skiped to the right looked up and saw the finish line and had it! My back foot was sticking out and hit the hay and i followed.The impaced of the hit turned my foot so hard that it broke the bone in my leg, called it a spiral brake. Laid there for a few mins. thinking the pain was to much to live yelling help me , help me. Then i had a few riders put me on my board to finish time trials and i did !!!!!!!
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On 12/16/2002
John Chiaromonte
wrote in from
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I started carving back in the steel wheel days... I remember I got a hobie with clay wheels for christmas... anyway I skated in the 70's most downhill carving and slalom... but stopped in the 80's.... until last year... I made two longboards 44" and 48" both with randal trucks... well in Feb of this year I had been carving this hill near our home... speeds of 35+.... wonderful... I decided to do a run on another section of the road... my wife was behind me in our truck and she clocked me at 45+ before high speed wobble got me.... I bailed and broke my left arm... At the hospital one of the doctors said I was to old (51) to skateboard... what does he know.... it did cost me $10,000+ for medical expenses... I carved the hill the other day.... I've decided your never to old to skate!!!!
John
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On 12/13/2002 Jimmathy
wrote in from
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Well i am Extremely bored cuz i cant skate cuz of a skate injury (already told that one) but i have a kinda funny crash story. Me and my friends were carving this really steep hill right by a school. THe road was kinda narrow which was bad judgement on my part but thats not what cause my crash. Some lady in a Explorer comes flooring up the hill.... I had to make a hard turn into the curb resulting in a long jump over the curb into grass (but there were still those damn twigs.. ouch) anyway... so i was ok cept a scratch or two... But then... the lady turns comes back while im collecting my board and helmet (shoulda buckeled it) and she starts yelling at my friends and I. "You stupid kids i could have hit you, i always do 50 up this hill!" and drives off. Well me and my friends get ready to skate when we realize... THis lady was yelling at us when she was doing 50 in a school zone which was like 15 mph limit..
Thnx
Jimmath
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On 12/13/2002 Glen
wrote in from
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Theres this gnarly hill in my neghborhood that i had succesfully bombed several times. As I was on this street I decided I was in the mood for an adrenaline rush. Little had I remembered that a week ago I had loosened my trucks for some slalom. I was crankin at about 30+ mph (I know because I passed a car going 25 the speed limit) and then got dreaded wobbles. I rode them for a while but knew I woulded make it to the bottom. I aimed for the grass but missed. I slid about 80ft. Took off so much skin on my hip you could see the bone. I walked into someones yard and took off my shirt. I looked like I was grenaded or sumpthin.I went home and hade learned my lesson. Wow it hurt.Ride safely and tighten your trucks.
Peace,Glen
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On 12/12/2002 Kengo
wrote in from
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Well.. this one was a doozy, biggest crash ive ever had. It all started on day when i had just recently gotten my new board, sector 9 deck with some randel rII's it's a pritty sick board. ne way, me and my freind went to go ride this gnarly hill thats in my neighborhood, the whole hill was about the length of a football feild and had a some pritty steep spots to it.. 30 grade atleast, however my neighbor hood is anal about cars goin to fast so they loaded it up with speed bumps and there is one right at towards the bottom of the hill. So my freind is lookin out at the bottom for cars and i start out at the top. I make a couple good carves and then start to speed up. Im feelin it and its great id say i was goin about 35+ anyway the original plan i had was to stop befor i got to the speed bump, but i was feelin adventurous so i decided i would see if i could use it as a ramp sorta (the speed bumb was one of those less drastic ones where u can drive over it at about 20) So im chargin this thing and i hit it and go flyyin... the thing is the board shot off somewhere and i flew back and landed right on my ass and fell backward. I just kinda laid there for a while and then i relized i couldnt move my legs my friend (thank god he was there) got my parents and they carefully got me to the ER, turns out i shaterd one of my vertebra... BUT thank god no damage was done to my spinal cord and it was only pinched, i was hospitalized for almost 3 months they fused one of my good vertabras with my broken one and now im good as new, a little bit of physical theropy and i was back out carvin hills again. what a rush that was!
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On 12/3/2002
waren hostkoeter
wrote in from
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well i juss started longboardin a few months ago, and well i love speed, all fast things i love to do, but i got my new long board"sector 9 board" bran new trucks, pretty thick wheels, but my friend gave it to me, n e ways, i didnt no how to ride, and my friends took me up a realy steep bural hill, well road, i walked up as far as i wanted to. then go on, and started goin. my trucks were pretty loose, so i started to wobble and ended up landin in a ditch, i got a few black berry thorns in my hands, but no biggy, then i got back on, and started ridding. i was goin at least 30 and i lost control cause of wobbles and my board hit a dithc and i went flyin, face planted and skidded on my face in the dirt, i got a few rocks in my cheek and sum blood all down my face. but i got back up. and i had to meet my friend down at the end of the hill. and well i was balling ass man, i mean i couldnt even realy control my speed at all, i didnt even no how to carve, and i juss flew by him and the board started to jump up and down and i ate s#@!, my friend it looked like i broke my leg, but i juss got a big keep road rash on my knee and on my calf, and i cut my ankle to. but no worries, we got it on camera, and man, still i dont even no i got back up on the board, i guess i juss love boarding .
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On 11/26/2002 k.j.
wrote in from
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Once I was bombing a huge hill at a civic center. I had 60 millimeter super hard wheels and ABEC-7 bearings so you could imagine how fast I was going. I started speed wobbling really fast. I ride fairly lose trucks so it was really bad wobble (I know, always ride super tight trucks while bombing hills). I knew I couldn't handle my board so I jumped off of my board. My friend said that I was in the air for 1 and a half seconds! I fell at about 30 MPH and skidded with all me weight on my elbow. It was completely screwed up.
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On 11/19/2002
Jax
wrote in from
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I always walk up a hill I'm going to bomb. If I'm going to be going faster than about 15 or 20mph. ALWAYS. Walking up so that I can see the road better and more straight on. It's also kind of a good luck ritual. It didn't work this one time, though. I started going down this hill and there is a steeper part where you drop a lot in altitude on the hill that makes the board just seem to fall out from under you. Well, I fell off. I scraped myself up pretty good and then had to walk back up it and ride home. Great.
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On 11/18/2002 snoball
wrote in from
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Fall from a speed wobble? zoinks! try not to fall
too far ;-) i.o.w, "Get lowdown to your ride. Quicklike."....
and uh, ROLL it off as much as possible..sliding on back or
front for several feet across snarling, bumpy
pavement is too ouchie, ouchie on your skin :-(
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On 11/17/2002
FisH the DisH
wrote in from
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matt im sure alot of people out there have alot better advice but this technique has worked out good for me and i fall quite a bit... anyway at some point in midair place one hand over your junk one hand over your bum spot your landing and pray to the longboarding gods to be gentle with you then spike the landing jump up look around to make sure none of the honeys saw you and skate on congrats you've just found religon
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On 11/17/2002
Matt Traver
wrote in from
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Hey,
I need to know from someone on correct falling techniques... so far I haven't had a fall that was too bad... I seem to be riding faster and harder each day and I want to know what to do in the event that I happen to fall... is there a certain technique? also, how should I pull out of a speed wobble or how should i fall from a speed wobble when i know there's nothing else to do... if any of you ppl have anything at all to say on falling techniques or how to save your ass then plleeeeasseee e-mail me at fareast_longboarder@hotmail.com
thanks
matt
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On 11/16/2002 pete
wrote in from
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OK this is my first bail story. I'm fourteen and i was getting sick of shortboarding because the media was gobbling it up and everyone was a poser. SO i started long boarding its so great. Well any way I already have a post for that. I have a homemade long board with skateboard trucks (which is the reason for falling) i was going down this hill. It didn't look to bad and me and my friend bombed it. My dad clocked us at 25 MPH which is very fast for me. faster than i have ever gone. Anyway I started wobbling I thought I could ride it out. I kept telling my self that. But I couldn't. I lost all common sense and started to freak out I stood up didn't carve like i should have and pulled into the gravel. I bit it so hard. Of couse my feet just left from under me (as did my board) and I did a face plant. Full on face plant my hands and feet were behind me and i hit gravel spun 180 on my cheek bone (my hands had touched by then) and landed. I Immediatly got up and acted like I was alright so my parents didn't spaz. But it hurt. That just happened to day and I'm glad to be consious. Thanks for reading,happy boarding!
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On 11/11/2002
David Paul
wrote in from
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My name is David paul,I was a pro.skateboarder from 1977 on,I road for . tracker trucks,U.F.O wheels,sunset surfboards,pepsi/rainbow,belair,profire,Van doren,ect.I was in first pro pool event,in spring valley ca,just after that contest,weeks later,I was skating vista skate park,trying a new trick,DID not make it!Deslocated my hip,which took me out for hester 2,upland ca.I also got in a crash in the U.F.O van.I broke my rist then.Sometime after that,just after hester4,Iwas hit from behind in my first car,almost died and broke my back.All the rest of the 80's I spent getting better!.In the 90's I started rock climbing to help my back.That is why I droped out! But "I am" lucky I heal well,I am strong now,VERY,I have been skating again,I never drop the sport!SKATEBOARING IS IN MY BLOOD,I will never stop.Note Give credit where credit is due? David Paul==dpkona@hotmail.com==konaboys*************** **********
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On 11/9/2002
fisH the DisH
wrote in from
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haha good moral feel better heal quickly and i'll carve a hill for you tomm.
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On 11/8/2002 Jimmathy
wrote in from
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There is this huge parkinglot near me that is on a fairly steep hill where i practice slides. I had just gotten my Gravity 39" team and i was sliding better than i ever had. Well the parking lot started filling w/ cars (there was a wedding in the church and i was in the church parkinglot and no i didnt hit a car) and the cars parked where i usually pull my slides (its smoother) so i tried it in another spot. Im in my slide exactly halfway through (180 slide) when i hit a crack previously unseen. well my slide stopped instantly and my ankel went from this L to /_ that(try to use a lil imagination).. long story short im in the ER at the local hospital and no skating for 6-8 weeks. It was a messed up break too. so my new board (literally 2 days old when thids happened) is in the closet for 5 more weeks. So the moral of the story is crack kills.
Jimmathy
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On 11/7/2002 Brad
wrote in from
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not pickin' on you Frank...have seen a lot of these.
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