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On 10/16/1998 Spanky Malone
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Eggmans right ren, you knothead, leave the chick alone, if she says she skated off, then she skated off! I once drove a frontwhell drive car around a junk yard that had been cut completely in half, I still "drove" it even though it didn't have rear wheels, so don't be too quick to jump to conclusions. At least she was smart enough to have her safety gear on, thats better than most of the rest of us meatheads! I got boards to build...I'm outta here!
The all knowing, all seeing Spankster the Hipster, back from his many travels to exotic lands, filled with luschious, curvacious, delectable...uh,er...hills and bowls! Spanky loves ya!!!
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On 10/15/1998 eggman
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Hey ren
What do you care? At least it is a crash story from a girl. I don't know if you noticed, but this is a male dominated "sport"
Peace out.
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On 10/15/1998 ren
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I think the story from surfergirl is a load of crap, how could she just skate off after the navigator split her board in two???doesnt work.
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On 10/13/1998
Rudy Jankovich
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I just found this site and was checking out the crashes, when I came across my own story. I thought I would just set the record straight. Yes it is true we were bombing a sickly steep mountain road with a cattle guard at the bottom. No I didn't forget about it, but at the speed I was traveling my options were limited. There wasn't much I could do but bail. The roadside sure looked a lot softer going by at 40+ mph. The moral is it isn't fun sitting on a rock with a broken collarbone being blacked out with blood running down my face while Dexter my friend has to go back to get the car. But that gnarly bone that never healed correctly and almost looks like a third arm really gets the chicks. And the best part about it is that the due to the sensitivity of my bone, it is almost as if I have an extra "you know what!" Sometimes injuries make us better people. Thats the story. Live a little, you never know when your freedom will be taken from you. Maybe you will end up moving to Chicago. Damn that would suck. The only hills are going off the ramps from the highway. Be thankful for what you have.
Rudy
p.s. If you are ever in Utah, drive up Logan Canyon and go up to Tony Grove Lake. I dare you to bring a board and go for a ride. Just know a cattle guard is waiting to mangle you!
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On 10/9/1998 MrMcGnarly
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I was goin home the other day from skool at lunchtime.I was
takin my usual route...the big fast hill way.Any way im carvin and cruisin and everything is fine and dandy.Any way
about 3\4 of the way down youve got to cut some speed off so you can make the 90 degree turn.So i threw a power slide...i was goin faster than usual...not as much carving that day...any way my wheels slid.After a few moments i had my weight too far back and my board just shot out.Other than a bit of beef on my elbow and hip i wasnt hurt at all...but one of my shoes flew off and hit this hot girl from skool who happened to be goin down the sidewalk.It sucked.
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On 10/8/1998 surfergirl
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one of my worst spill is when i was going down this kinda busy road. There were no cars coming my way, so I started to go into the middle of the road. I was doing all of these cut backs on my longboard and then just pumping. I was going about 30 when a big Navigator blew its horn at me. I was shocked and when i turned around i by accident hit this rock which sent me flying over my board and flat on the pavement. I had invested into a helmet and eqiupment so nothing bad, but my shoulder still hurts. Oh, the man in the navigator ran straight over my board spliting it in two, and the car just kept on going. I was so pissed. I got back up and skated on to school, and took an asprin when i got there.
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On 9/17/1998 Adam
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James,
Unless your shirt is padded and made of abrasion-resistent fiber like Kevlar, you'll still get road rash just as bad. Your best protection is still a helmet, quality knee and elbow pads, and a good braking technique!
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On 9/17/1998
james
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here in texas...there aren't that many places to buy long boards, so my cousin and i make our own...out of pine, and sector nine wheels ...anyway we were out crusing the austin area...it is know as the hill country around here...it was in the middle of the summer and so we took off our shirts and were cruising...we were going down a gent slope when the road turned and all of a sudden dropped out from under us and into a 90 degree elbo...there was nothing we could do i panicked and bailed..he held on..just to fly off the end of the road and land in a bed of greenbriar...i will allways wear a shirt from now on, because it took a while to heal after sliding twenty-five feet on asphalt on a bare back
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On 9/17/1998 phil
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bout that pain in your back ren:
two words: coleman slide. Learn to do it. You wont need to stomp your feet and you'll probably save your back, your board, and impress your friends all at the same time! Does chew up wheels, but it's a humdinger of an option when you realize there's traffic ahead.
And spanky, why don't you spank somethin else other than me!
-phil
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On 9/16/1998
eggman
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hey Kiddies.
I was at the local skatepark (derby) trying out my exkates. They are soooooo fun in a park. Anyway I was doing good, just keeping it mellow, no big deal. Then I decided to try to get a little higher on the bank. When I was dropping in, my exkates turned sharp (that is what they do). I tried to pull it off but instead, went flying backwards. My buddy said my feet were above my head. Needless to say I came down pretty hard. Now it is a few weeks later and the bruise is still coming on strong, about the size of a dinner plate. It is definatally the biggest bruise I have ever gotten. One other thing, you don't heal as fast when you are 30 as when you were you were 10. But hey, no pain, no gain....Push the limits!
Later late.
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On 9/16/1998
ren
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I have a question about an injury I keep getting evertime I drag my foot or run with one foot to slow down,, Yesterday I was bombing a hill, half way down after about the sixth turn I realized that at the bottom was an intersection and I could see some cars coming, so I thought that I should either bail before I get there or try and make it past the intersection before they got there,, well what happened was when I got to the bottom there was already a steady flow of cars coming out of the other street so I had no option but to bail or to stomp my foot to slow down saving the board from certain destruction. Anyways when I started to run/stomp my right foot on the ground to slow down I felt this sharp pain in my back,, I had to stomp pretty hard because I was going to fast,, the first stomp almost threw me of the board,, anyways I managed to get through it but am left with this pain on the right side of my lower back,, how do I prevent this from happening again I hate this back pain and I hate cars....anyone know a good safe way to slow down, in an emergenccy without bailing your board, or howabout just agood way to slow down on a hill...thanks remember old school baby, old school...
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On 9/14/1998 Spanky Malone
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Hey Phil, that buddy of yours that creamed your board, well send his ass over to Matts house to take his stick before the boy doesn't have enough good brain cells to pour piss outta a boot! Spankys just Spankin' ya!
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On 9/12/1998
matt highison
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sorry for all the spelling mistakes, i guess ive had one too many falls...
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On 9/12/1998
Matt Highison
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Reading all of these crash stories, and being the tradgic victem of a few myself, I can only think of one thing. The first thing to do when you bite the curb is to get up and see if your board is ok, because, as i think we all know, thats all that matters. Ive been in a few HUGE falls, i mean roadrash all the way up my leg, knee, hip, hands, forearms, and sholders on one side of my body, bruises on the other, but through it all, i never cried, that is until once i found my coveted firts board i ever owned was snapped in half.
matt
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On 9/12/1998 Spanky Malone
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Phil, the friend that sent your board underneath the car, well, all things considered he probably saved your silly life. Spanky is smokin'!
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On 9/11/1998 phil
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Watch out for cars, they can be dicks! They usually slow down when they come up behind me, so when this yellow bug came up honking behind me I put up my hand so he'd slow down and prepared to slide into the opposite lane. So as I crouch down I turn and look back up the hill to make sure the car's still behind me. Instead he's right next to me as I'm turning into the lane. I stand up quick as I can to prevent getting run over, and slam right into the side of his car. I got dropped by this fucker going like 30 miles an hour. So I'm rolling down the cement, luckily no more cars going, and when I stop rolling I look up. That asshole just drove off! Didn't even slow down to see if I was all right. I was all right though, enough to stand up and give him the finger and a whole hearted "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!". He probably didn't hear that though, damn. Oh well
Anyway, the moral is don't trust cars. Sometimes they don't know how to react to skaters. And now I got this fat bruise on my ass. It hurts to sit down. And to top it off, my friend just rolled my deck under a moving car today, so my front exkate got tanked. I'm not a happy camper right now.
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On 9/3/1998 Spanky Malone
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Okay Tyler, I guess you can be a knothead instead, a knothead is someone that does foolish shit, like waving to a friend and running into stuff, but usually learns from his mistakes. One time I was hanging upside down on a parallel bar at a play ground and slipped and fell right on my face, knocked myself out cold. But I learned from my mistake, so that made me a knothead then. I guess you can be a knothead, thats better than being a meathead.... Spanky is friends with everyone!!
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On 9/2/1998 tyler
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Spanky and Sheckey,
I just got a guestbook and I would really appreciate it if you went and signed it because it looks kinda dumb since I just got it and I need some people to sign it. I knew Spanky would have something positive to say. in case you forgot my home page is:
www.angelfire.com/de/longboardskateboards/index/.html
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On 9/2/1998
tyler
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Scheckey,
I feel sorry for ya buddy. Isn't that the worst feeling?I felt really stupid when I did it. It also hurt. I also had to chase my board down the street. On another note..... I was reading souled out and I saw an article that Spanky wrote(I guess it was Spanky Malone since he's the only Spanky I know) Anyway it was a great article but the one right under Spanky's is the one that makes ya think "What is happening to us???" Go here to read Spanky's article and some angry kid's letter. http://www.netspace.net.au/~richardj/S&S2.html
It's kinda funny.
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On 9/1/1998
Scheckey
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Tyler, thats nothing. Once in junior high (like, 7th grade) I was late for school so I was running full speed so as to not be any later. I ran right into a sign post. A metal one. It was right in front of me and I didnt see it at all. Man, I went down flat on my ass. I got up and loooked around to see if anyone had seen me do it. I got lucky, no one was around. That was the last day I ever cared about getting to school on time.
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On 9/1/1998
tyler
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spanky,
that hurt, just kidding
lets be friends
ps. a few days ago i ran into a stop sign while waving to my friend. I thought that qualified as a crash.
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On 9/1/1998 Spanky Malone
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Tyler, (and and all you other guys that crash alot) Eggman's pretty close, Archie called his son-in-law (played by Rob Riener) a meathead all the time. But the true definition of a meathead is: A poser that has scare tissue that has replaced the space between their ears, formerly occupied by the brain, who are not smart enough to check out the surface and conditions of the hill they are about to bomb on their longboards. Now you should be able to understand why I have declared you a meathead, Tyler.
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On 9/1/1998
eggman
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What is a meathead?
Check out some "All in the Family" re-runs and you will soon figure it out.
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On 8/31/1998
tyler
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Spanky,and you other people that crash alot
Check out my homepage
www.angelfire.com/de/longboardskateboards/index.html
just thought i'd tell ya about it.
What is a meathead anyway? Makes me wonder where my dictionary is???????
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On 8/31/1998
phil
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in response to jamie's skull bashing experience:
that is the best reason to invest in a helmet. there was a kid in my hometown who did the same thing. the board fell from underneath him and he wacked the back of his head on the cement. this kid didn't make it though, you mightn't of either. everyone go buy a helmet and skate safe
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