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There's more than one way to lose your friend to an accident
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On 5/10/2007 Mugen
wrote in from
United States
(128.223.nnn.nnn)
Recently, one of my best friends from high school was bombing a large hill behind his house and got the speed wobbles. He had always been extremely talented in all board sports, especially longboarding, so this type of hill normally wouldnt have been a problem for him. But after about 5 seconds of trying to maintain his wobble he was pitched forward off his board, and despite his attempts to absorb the impact by rolling, his head smashed into the concrete with uncompromising force. He suffered major brain damage which the doctors said to be irreparable. I didnt quite understand what this meant until I saw my best friend a week later in a wheel chair. He was completely incoherent and socially unrecognizable. When he saw me he screamed like a child and began to drool. After seeing my best friend like that, a part of me wished he had just died in that crash. To all you skateboarders and longboarders out there, always wear your helemet, because there are worse things than death.
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There's more than one way to lose your friend to a longboarding accident.
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On 5/10/2007 Mugen
wrote in from
United States
(128.223.nnn.nnn)
Recently, one of my best friends from high school was bombing a large hill behind his house and got the speed wobbles. He had always been extremely talented in all board sports, especially longboarding, so this type of hill normally wouldnt have been a problem for him. But after about 5 seconds of trying to maintain his wobble he was pitched forward off his board, and despite his attempts to absorb the impact by rolling, his head smashed into the concrete with uncompromising force. He suffered major brain damage which the doctors said to be irreparable. I didnt quite understand what this meant until I saw my best friend a week later in a wheel chair. He was completely incoherent and socially unrecognizable. When he saw me he screamed like a child and began to drool. After seeing my best friend like that, a part of me wished he had just died instead. To all you skateboarders and longboarders out there, always wear your helemet, because there are worse things than death.
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tragic story in indiana -2005
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On 5/2/2007
paul
wrote in from
United States
(72.40.nnn.nnn)
my oldest 13 year old brother Marc was hit by a truck while skating across an intersection against the light. when he got hit, he rode the hood of the ddrivers truck about 50 ft. when the driver stopped suddenly, my brother flew another 50 ft and hit his head on the pavment and suffered massive brain trauma and died 4 days later.
I miss my borther so very much. ALWAYS WEAR UR HELMET!!!!
In memory of my brother Marc,
-Paul
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Speed wobble on a narrow concrete strip
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On 4/11/2007 Jon
wrote in from
United States
(72.130.nnn.nnn)
I was going down a big a** hill, and hit about thirty-five MPH. My board started to wobble(duh...) and stupid me had decided to ride down on a narrow concrete strip about 4 feet wide. I lost control, and had a hard time staying on course. I veered onto the grass at almost 40 and bailed. Stupid me, jumped, BEFORE I hit the grass. I fell to my knees and dislocated my right knee cap, along with tearing a muscle in my shoulder from the impact. All I'm saying is calculate before you do things like that. I did that to my knee with a knee pad on it. Good luck!!!
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WD-40= Speed wobbles
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On 4/7/2007 Anthony
wrote in from
United States
(76.100.nnn.nnn)
I've been longboarding for 'bout 4 months now, and I've never had any real bad injuries, but that changed a couple days ago. I was about to go out for late day run, I sprayed some WD-40 on my Revenge trucks cause they were squeaking. Bad Idea. I was going down the biggest hill in my neighborhood, I hadn't even hit 30 mph when I started to wobble. I tried to stay on the board for as long as I could. I face-planted at 25 mph, ouch. My entire right side of my face is one huge abrasion, and I ripped open my skin right next to my eye. I was really lucky that I decided to wear a helmet.
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Helmet & slide gloves
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On 3/5/2007 Kludy
wrote in from
United States
(216.70.nnn.nnn)
TO BE OLD AND WISE YOU MUST FIRST BE YOUNG AND STUPID !
I HOPE ALL OF YOU LEARN FROM OTHERS, IT SO MUCH EASIER.
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James and the Giant Ding
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On 3/5/2007
Dr. Dave
wrote in from
United States
(24.13.nnn.nnn)
Dude. Might I suggest that before you get back on your 300 dollar brain damage machine, that you tattoo your head, so you spend a little time protecting your noggin next time. Or just get a helmet. A vegetable with a tattoo and a 300 board ain't nobody's idea of cool.
Dr. Dave
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The Deadly Speed Wobbles
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On 3/4/2007
James
wrote in from
United States
(168.28.nnn.nnn)
So the other day I was coming back from McDonalds in Marietta GA, and decided to try and carve a hill coming down to my apartment, bad idea. I was riding a "virgin" board with loose trucks and brand new bearings. About half way down I got the wobbles, and with the trucks as loose as they were any correction I made was too much. As far as how fast I was going lets put it this way I was passing traffic. I ate it on my right side hellacious road rash on my shoulder and forearm, also broke my big toe on my left foot, and did what I quote my friend said "looked like you were doing a break dance on your head while sliding down the pavement", so the back of my head got gaped up a little and I lost a handful of hair. Thank god I didn't screw up my 300 dollar tattoo on my right arm. Anyways that taught me a painful lesson about down-hilling on a brand new board.
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nasty bad road rash
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On 2/8/2007
nathon lindquist
wrote in from
United States
(168.99.nnn.nnn)
i was hittin downhill on my element i was goin at least 39 mph carving a hella steep hill i wasnt watching out and carved left hit apot hole wobbled a bit hit a huge rock and ate concreate hella bad i slid 58.5 feet on my side road rash all over my arm, hip, and leg and since i havent gone downhill carving.
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concern of the board
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On 2/7/2007
mitchell
wrote in from
United States
(24.125.nnn.nnn)
the speed wobbels they suck so much, i am new to down hill long boarding or what ever you call it, i have a sector 9 board and i got it for christmas.so i havent even had it that long and i think i already have stress cracks on my board ive fell like twice and the other day i was cleaning my board and re-oiling my barrings and i looked at my board and on boath sides i have two lines going down the bottom side of my board, what kind of s#@! is that i thoght sector 9 is good and ive been carving and i dont think that would crack my board that easly does anny body have anny comments or segestions on a next board because im thinking about returning or something because i think thats a bunch of s#@! right there but ill probily get a nother sector 9 board and what board should i get next time around?
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crashing
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On 1/23/2007 Erik
wrote in from
United States
(204.11.nnn.nnn)
I was skating down my driveway one day, and i was leaning forward to gain momentum for petaling, and I fell face first, shredding the skin on my elbow and palm. to this day I have no fealing in those areas.
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pain
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On 1/12/2007
henoos
wrote in from
Australia
(211.31.nnn.nnn)
My buddy Heno just bought a sector nine down hill longboard skata. Love just cruising down hill- big wide carves, awesome fun. We found some sweet hills in a new estate, steep smooth hot mix in a bush land setting with no traffic yet. Spent a couple of hours cruising down hill and towing back up behind our car averaging about 40km's. Charged a different hill, first run i got to about 45km's lost it and skidded on my butt. Next run I was following heno in the car, he was doing fine until he hit a little over 55km's and couldn't dump any more speed. He started losing it, there was trees and copper logs on the side of the road and the softest thing he could hit was one of those big steel drain grates on the side of the road. He crashed into the grate rolled through some wattle trees and skidded down a gravel hill. His knee is swollen and purple with no skin, arms, back and hands are all grazed and f#@!ed up. Wish I had video footage of it, f#@!ing funny. Give him a week to recover and back into it. No pads yet no backages, pretty amazing. DICKHEAD.
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skitching
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On 1/5/2007 jason
wrote in from
United States
(69.121.nnn.nnn)
i was skitching my dads car. i hit about 20 mph and i hit a pot hole, faeplanted, and rolled about 15-20 feet, got stiches in my arm and a concussion. unfortunatly im an idiot and wasnt wearing any padding and sprained my wrist because i put my hands down, (big mistake) and it sucked.
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ouch
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On 12/9/2006 dude man
wrote in from
United States
(69.153.nnn.nnn)
i was riding and all of a sudden i saw a wicked rale i started grinding it when i fell and racked myself and when i fliped off the rale i racked myself again.
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pot holes
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On 12/3/2006
Court
wrote in from
United States
(161.57.nnn.nnn)
So a little while ago I went to park my car in my designated lot (I live in a dorm). I dont mind having to park there because it's one of the highest places in the town so I can drop right to my room at the bottom of a mile long hill. My bearings are pretty much junk but I am going to wait until next spring to replace them and as I was going I couldn't help but notice that my board was running quite a bit better than it normally does and I was going about 15 to 20. I no more than had this thought and the next thing I knew I was horizontal flying through the air. I had some nice road rash and looked to see my front truck in a pot hole the exact size of the truck and wheels. I should mention it was night and I really couldn't see it. Just bad luck I guess, class the next day was all right, nothing like showing off some battle scars.
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speed wobbles and speed bumps
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On 11/9/2006
Daniel M.
wrote in from
United States
(68.212.nnn.nnn)
I went longboarding in North Carolina a few weeks ago. I was riding my sector nine 38" cosmic cruiser down a hill and i began going faster than i had expected and there were leaves in the side of the road so i was afraid to try and carve off the speed. I began to get the wobbles and looked do the road around the curve and saw a huge speedbump. I barely made it over without dying and when i got off my legs were shaking like crazy. But yeah i learned my lesson about not riding a hill from the top first and was glad to be still alive.
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Not posted here for a while
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On 9/6/2006 Kludy
wrote in from
United States
(64.60.nnn.nnn)
Today was the 1st time I have been back to this site in a very long time and love your post. Have not had time to read alot but tomorrow I will and share a crash or two I had in New Yorks downhill race a month ago. Keep them coming!
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Rule Number One
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On 7/25/2006
Crystal
wrote in from
United States
(69.37.nnn.nnn)
I just started longboarding a couple weeks ago. I can carve, pump and sort of slide. The only way of stopping I can do right now is runninf off the board. Haha. Being so new to the sport, I often forget rule number one: Never start at the top of a new hill. So, this past sunday, I went to a slide clinic with my dad. It was at a really awesome hill that didn't really look that steep. It went down smoothly, had a flat road area, and got really steep again when it turned 45 degrees, leading to an intersection. I started down the hill with my GF Hurley cruiser (which I decked out with different wheels, looser trucks and wedges). I went down carving a little, then I gained speed really fast. So, I bombed it. I started going over my comfort speed and then I reached the flat area. I was still going pretty fast, but when I realized that I actually started to slow down, I decided to run off. Bad idea. I was still going too fast, so I slid a few feet with my arms in front of me. I had slide gloves on, elbow pads, knee pads, and a helmet, and I still managed to get road rash on my hip and my left arm. I had to get right back up though because the board was still going down the steep part and into the intersection. So, I started off running, and then I ran faster, and then, I ran even faster. It crossed the intersection fine, but just barely. Just before it crossed, a car sped by, and right after it crossed, another car sped by. I thought it was a gonner, but then I saw it flip over the guardrail on the other side. Man was I relieved!!! That was my first 'real' crash. Pretty awesome if I do say so myself. See, I don't mind it. I certainly don't like it, but if I crash, I crash. As soon as I got my board though, I got right back on and skated the hill some more. There was even grass for me to land in if I aimed right...but I'll save that for my next crash!
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getting better, and a treatment that really works
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On 6/30/2006
Samuel Womack
wrote in from
United States
(68.171.nnn.nnn)
On 6/30/2006 Samuel Womack wrote in from United States (68.171.xxx.xxx)
hey guys thanks for the stories, luckily the chip has gone back into place on its own, so i wont need any surgery, we lost our last allstar game, i couldn't play. but i have one tomorrow and w/ my elbow tapped and braced ill be able to play. basically i just got blessed, all the docs said itd be luike 5-6 weeks, and im bouncing back in just 3 weeks, lots of prayer :) well i hope you guys encounter the same blessing, ill be skating after allstars is over, if anyone lives around Santa Monica hit me up i have like 6 longboards. right now im going thougha series of injections in my elbow, to help restore and strengthen the tendons and ligaments, It s some amazing stuff, it fixed both my knees after injuries that other docs said required surgery, if you want some info on the treatment hit me up, this doctor is amazing! it sounds suspect (his clinic is in ensanada mexico) my mom is a harvard medical graduate, and was a practicing oncologist, and she has had her neck fixed after a car wreck and her back fixed after a fall, docs sadi she needed surgery, but now shes lifting weights and back in shape, better than ever, he also fixed my dads knees, after he had a bunch of knee surgeries that didnt work, and fixed his hipped after he tore some stuff, anbd now im gettting better after only one treatment. so you can call me anytime guys (its not some quack medicine or anything, he just does it in mexico to avoid all the legal issues and taxes, my mom says he knows the body better than anyone else, if she trusts herself with him, then its all good.) 310 467 1399 It really works
Peace,
Sam
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my first taste of downhill
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On 6/30/2006
jeff
wrote in from
United States
(69.181.nnn.nnn)
well the first day i moved to cali i was 13 and i took my uncles pintail sector 9 down my new hill. well i was carving and pretty soon i was going so fast i didnt know what to do. it was fathers day so there were alot of cars parked on the street so i could not dive onto a lawn (which i have done and still isnt fun) but i did have my helmet and at the bottom of the hill was a 90 degree turn i didnot suddenly fall but i did a little baseball slide my anckle teisted and i flipped on my stomach and tore my shirt and my pants. when i stood up this guy was walking his dog and just said "that was a bad one" i had to walk home bleeding and holdong my clothes in my hand. since then i am now riding for greenbrew skateboards and you should definately check them out i am addicted to the sport. ride on bros
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Fricking gay crash that ruines my summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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On 6/10/2006
Samuel Womack
wrote in from
United States
(68.171.nnn.nnn)
well, heres one,
yesteday at 3:30 I was bombing bicknel hill with a couple guys, and we were filming a video. so i bombed it like 6 times doin different stuff, i was riding my loaded pintail. So on like my 7th run, i bombed it as fast as i could and when i was getting toward the bottom I grabbed near the nose of the board with my left arm and streched out my right on the ground (with a sliding glove) and started thes crazy drift slide into the turn. I was going at least 25mph or around there. so as im sliding outward, back and around the "turn" I hit this crack thats about and inch and a half wide and so it stops my board and pitches me backwards. my arm that had been grabbing the board got pinned behind my back and i did a backwards somersault and hit my head really hard,(luckily i was wearing my helmet) and as i summersaulted my elbow dislocated witha loud pop, but when i popped up it wewnt into place again, but i had chipped a pretty good size piece off my elbow, so i left to skate home holding my elbow, i had forgot my phone and the bus was like a mile away, and my arm hurt like hell, so like randomly this little 11 year old kid who lives on my block saw me and and yelled out to me, so i told him i broke my arm and needed a ride, so i hopped in the czar and his babbysitter gave me a ride home, so yeah lucky i didnt have to skate home witha busted arm, so yeah then my mom took me to get xrays, and now im done with life for like six weeks. no working at the surf camp, no skating, no surfing, no bikeing, no throwing my little sister in the air, and the worst of it is, ive been batting .800 all season in baseball and made allstars and now i have to forfeit my spot, so yeah life sucks, but hey sh@% happens
Sam
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Speed Wobble
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On 5/26/2006 Spike
wrote in from
United States
(24.131.nnn.nnn)
About 4 weeks ago I was riding down a hill and I started to get speed wobble. I went stupid and in denial at that point. Of course I go flying, land and roll about 10 feet. I finaly get home from a LONG car ride(witch was only 10 minutes)and I can't move my arm. About a half an hour later I have a bump on my shoulder about 1/8 an inch high and 1/2 an inch wide. So I go to the emergency room just to wait 6 HOURS to get an x-ray. So now at 2 in the morning I'm laying in a hospital bed, tired, and pissed off cause a docter just came in and told me I broke my Collar Bone. Plus I have road rash. Moral of the story if you think when you get speed wobble you're not gonna crash your're gonna end up hurt. But if you jump off into grass you might get a bruise.
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What longboarding can really do.
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On 5/22/2006
Calli
wrote in from
United States
(204.38.nnn.nnn)
My brother died longboarding. He was an awesome longboarder but he hit a wet spot and flipped back and smacked his head. He had an enclosed head injury was in the ICU and died. I won't ever get my brother back. I would rather take a little knee injury than life.
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reck
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On 5/22/2006
mike
wrote in from
United States
(167.128.nnn.nnn)
one time i went to olie a bilding and i olied lateand hit my front truck and landed on my head 15 feet from the top of the bilding and now i have brain damage
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Birthday Crash
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On 5/3/2006 *The J Bomb*
wrote in from
United States
(206.110.nnn.nnn)
Last sunday i had my 18th birthday BBQ and all my freinds were over and about 10 of us were bombing the hill i live on. I was flying down the hill about 35mph and turned onto a street losing control and slaming a parked car. I flew into the widsheild and fliped over the car and slamed hard. The window shatered and i got glass all over me cuz i wasent wearing a shirt or helmet.I got up and was like holy s#@!! Then i saw the car and freaked out cuz it was f#@!ed up! i was accualy more worried about the damage to the car cuz it was my dads freinds car. we were gonna blame it on some kids down the street but they witnessed the crash. Long story short I had the balls to tell my dads friend and I only had to pay $50 deductable for the insurance for the guy. I'm blessed to be okay. Walked away with a few scrapes and a cuncution. The moral of the story? Watch out for parked cars, they'll hurt you. It would suck to have a grave stone that was dated April 23,1988-April 23,2006
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