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On 1/14/2000
DT
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Heres another roll story from two days ago, a buddy and i were racing on this really windy road that has no cars. or so we thought. I drafted and passed my friend going into the second to last turn before the final straight away. were moving in the high 30s and as i come out of the final turn of this one and a half lane wide road, a car was going into the turn at about 35. My line had me aimed right at him, i somehow was able to get out of my tuck and swerve in about 2 seconds time. i cleanly missed by about 6 inches. my friend wasn't so lucky. Since i had just passed him, he was following me and looking right at me, not the road. when i swerved his reaction was delayed and he did some type of quick swerve/dive thing. he didnt get hit by the car(thank God), but landed and went into a roll. he part way popped his shoulder out, had road rash on both hips as well as swelling, and a huge scrape/deep cut in his elbow. he began to go into shock, but remained calm enough to get up and have his shoulder put back in place. An hour later, he was laughing as we drank some cold new castle. he wont be able to skate for a few weeks, but is lucky to be alive. If he would have landed on his gloves and kneepads he could be skating today.
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On 1/13/2000
Speedy
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LoL, Yeah, grades are a good thing! (Haven't been here in a few) Um, on rolls: Agreed, at hish speeds, you're gonna get hurt, and pads do help. I'm one of those people who don't do a lot of hard-core bombing and just ride wherever whenever. But if you're moving fairly slow, and DO roll, pads can REALLY suck. Especialy if you're used to rolling withough them. Ok, one more thing: Quick way to evaid cops at low speeds: Step off with pusher (back) foot, lean forward and simultaniously put the front foot the ground and pick up your ride. Insta-pedestrian. One more funny story: My bro and I where riding past a churche, and heard a voice bellow out something about "NO SKATEBOARDING".We hopped off, and looked around for the voice in the most perplexed manner. "Sucker". We held up the bird and turned around a few times to make sure he saw, where ever he was, and ditched. To this day, we don't where that jerk with the PA was!
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On 1/12/2000 Herbn
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To bad it wasn't your phyics prof. you could have explained to him it was an experiment or at least some sort of proof of some complicated gravitational therom, and got a grade out of the slam.
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On 1/12/2000 Luke
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Hilarious!
I've got a similar stair/hill event in between my home and work (SE corner of the Capitol building in Denver) that varies from easlily skateable on even a shortboard to totally soggy or covered with leaves & rocks. No wonder--people generally just sweep the sidewalk; not the grass. Hmmm. Usually it is a quite stylie portion of the commute: shirt, tie, nice frontside longboard carve--but when it's bad, it's bad and all too public. Oh, well; next summer I hope to start ollieing it (on shortboards, anyway).
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On 1/11/2000
Spacer
wrote in from
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So I used to go to this preppy college in Maine...one day in the very beginning of the semester I was pumping my way across this sidewalk on my 80's Shmidt Stix short board (mind you, I had just puffed a little of the wacky tuh-backy) when I see my music theory professor waving to get my attention.
Now the sidewalk I was on ended at some stairs that descended a small hillside that was about 8 feet high (which ain't nothin compared to ME, at the time). My prof was waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs.
To the side of the stairs was a little dirt path worn into the grass about a foot wide. I'd shot this path before with no prob, so I didn't think twice about sending it (thereby giving my teach a little taste of just who the hell he was about to be dealin with for the rest of the year).
So, hot-shot that I was, I steered for the top of the dirt path realizing, as if in a dream, that maybe I had a little too much speed. Oh well, here we go.
So I shoot the path cleanly, dropping down the face with the agility of a great cat, gaining even more speed and anticipating the slide I was about to begin which would bring me to a stop right in front of my Professor.
Danger, danger Will Robinson...
I spot a few loose stones just where the dirt meets the pavement. My rat-bones stop short and I'm pitched up into the sunny skies of Maine in early September. While in the air, super-man style, I note the presence of my professor off to my left and contemplate the landing....
well, the contemplation proved fruitless, as I came to a grace-less crash on my hands, chest, and hips. I rolled a little, came to a stop and stood up, staring in dissociated wonder at the blood that began to appear on my palms. My professor (a timid fellow with Birkenstok's and a tweed jacket with leather elbow patches on) obliged me,
"are you ok?"
"ahhhhhhhhhhhhh, yeah, I guess so."
He hesitated not in dazing me even further with a little lecture about the up-coming semester, changes to the syllabus, the inspiration a young lad could find at such a pillar of the academic community...
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On 1/10/2000 Lindsay
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Is the boss around? No? Here's how you learn the roll...
1. Kneel down on your right knee, left foot on the ground so that left knee is at bent 90 degrees, like a natural-foot drop knee stance
2. Touch the ground next to your left foot and curve that arm with elbow pointing forwards, creating a 'wheel rim' to roll on
4. Duck your head and look to the right as if your trying to stick your head under your right armpit, curve your back
5. Tip forward, keep that right leg tucked to your butt and that left arm rigid
You'll roll on the 'wheel' created by your left arm, onto your left shoulder, diagonally across your back, off your right hip and back into the drop knee stance just
like you started in, and it will look extreme!
You can do it in reverse for a backward roll. Later you can try it on mats or the lawn from standing position.
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On 1/10/2000 eggman
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Yeah, the roll.
I have an old skateboarder mag that has that technique. I guess that was the way to protect yourself before the days of the "pad". I also have an old skateboard saftey film. These guys would sew cotton "pads" to their clothes.. Talk about a good way to goof up your 501's! It is good to be livin in the duce tripple oh.
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On 1/9/2000 Oldskool punx
wrote in from
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I know EXACTLY what you are talking about. I can remember
how badly i would get beaten up when i first started skating
but, actually LEARNED how to fall. now its not so usual that i
scrape my knees or elbows. I find that just rolling as i hit the
ground can do wonders. sorta like on old westerns where they
jumped off of a moving train. I always remembered that you were
supposed to roll with the ground, and not try to brace yourself
against it, because that is how you scrape yourself up. But of course
if you are going REALLY fast you are going to break bones no matter what.
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On 1/9/2000 Lindsay
wrote in from
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Oh I hate that
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On 1/9/2000 Lindsay
wrote in from
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Hey Speedy
You're right..I used to do aikido until my knees finally gave out.
Then I got back into old school skating and when I'm in a bowl or
on the flats or a carpark, I found some of the breakfalls I
used to do helped me absorb some impact when falling off,
and helped me protect my head.
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On 1/9/2000 Lindsay
wrote in from
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Hey Speedy
You're right..I used to do aikido until my knees finally gave out.
Then I got back into old school skating and when I'm in a bowl or
on the flats or a carpark, I found some of the breakfalls I
used to do helped me absorb some impact when falling off,
and helped me protect my head.
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On 1/8/2000 Ed
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Just thought you may want to know that (since I'm a medical professional) Wearing wrist gaurds can take the forces from your hands and place those forces at the end of the wrist gaurd. This is usually the end of those 2 wacky bones that make up your forearm (the ulna and radius bones). If those 2 don't break then, if something is going to break, you will almost always break one of the structures that make up your elbow joint. This was told to me by one of my colleagues (an Orthopedist). The elbow is much more difficult to repair surgically and has less chances of a complete recovery. My advice: good gloves with abrasion resistive palms. A good wrap of velcro around the wrist is part of some of the gloves I've seen. Proper support is way better than a hard plastic "brace". Remember that broken bones are part of the risk, but who could give up all that fun? Skate on.
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On 1/8/2000
DT
wrote in from
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Yes Brian, but if your truly pushing yourself and skating fast your going to fall, sooner or later. It happens to the best.
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On 1/8/2000 brian
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my favorite way to fall is not too.
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On 1/7/2000
DT
wrote in from
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I dont know if i would call shoulder rolls my friend, they may be fine and dandy at low speeds but when your going over 30 or so you will break bones. my personal mode of crashing requires sliding gloves and kneepads (i also would reccomend elbow pads) when i fall,i fall forward and i always land on my hands and knees and slide to a stop, i've crashed going 40mph and didnt get a scratch. also if you dont have strong wrists you should wear wrist guards. these are my two cents.
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On 1/7/2000
Carlo Medina
wrote in from
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Hey Speedy,
There is a thing called a "Professional Fall" Sounds like you are mastering it! Good luck and be safe!
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On 1/7/2000
Speedy
wrote in from
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I'm a sucky boarder, though I've been doing it for ever. Just nothing to ride here. But here a tip that helped me a lot: Shoulder rolls are your friend! If you know somebody in Judo or somehing like that, have them teach you. It's kinda like a "Sumersault", except that you go over diagonal. Left shoulder to right hip or vice versa. Don't try this 'till you know what you're doing, though. Have someone show you. But it helps a lot! Basicly, it can transform a header into a really cool lookin' little maneuver that you can just stand up and walk away out of, pretty much unhurt. Yeah, that's my $0.02!
Speedy
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On 1/6/2000
Joel
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It happened last week. I was bombing this huge hill in Puyallup WA when a car swept past me. The side view mirror hit me in the back and I went out of control. I was swerving and hitting city titties all over the place. Then I hit the curb on the side of the road and hit a fence. My ear was ripped off half way and I broke my femer in my right leg and tore my quads in my left leg. It hurt.
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On 12/26/1999 MATT
wrote in from
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well when i first started to longboard as a kid i wasnt at all good
so i went to the steepest hill in my town and thought
that if i bombed it i would get better, big mistake
at about 30 i started gettin the wobbles and i was all over the road
plus there were cars parked all along the road near the bottom i cut left a little too much and
ate it in the back of a car that night i got to take a free trip to the hospital
well what im tryin to say is if your
inexperienced stay the h*ll away from the big roads.
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On 12/26/1999 tim/oldskool punx
wrote in from
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i got an error when i enterd that message the first time.
maybe an error in the site? just so you know.
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On 12/26/1999
tim
wrote in from
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A piece of advice, dont skate after being sick in bed for more than 2 days
I had been in bed with the flue for about a week. not particularly sick,
just tired enough to sleep 17hrs a day. Well that doesn't do verymuch for
your sense of balance or strenght. I was on my way to school on my board as
usual and there was this one hill that i used to have MAD troubles with when
i was just starting to skate. The hill is really tight, less than a lane and
is fast enough that if you just bomb it you will wobble. and end up going
straight onto a main road. so i decided to smoke a fag on the top of the hill,
and feeling all light headed dropped down the hill. man was that stupid. i fell
on my head infront of a bus stop loaded with people (embaressing) and dropped all
my shit everywhere. and put a cut on my chin which bled the rest of the day.
so here is the moral, dont skate after being in bed a week, and DEFINATELY dont
smoke a cig when you havent smoked in a week. really f'n dumb.
peace
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On 12/26/1999
oldskool punx
wrote in from
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A piece of advice, dont skate after being sick in bed for more than 2 days
I had been in bed with the flue for about a week. not particularly sick,
just tired enough to sleep 17hrs a day. Well that doesn't do verymuch for
your sense of balance or strenght. I was on my way to school on my board as
usual and there was this one hill that i used to have MAD troubles with when
i was just starting to skate. The hill is really tight, less than a lane and
is fast enough that if you just bomb it you will wobble. and end up going
straight onto a main road. so i decided to smoke a fag on the top of the hill,
and feeling all light headed dropped down the hill. man was that stupid. i fell
on my head infront of a bus stop loaded with people (embaressing) and dropped all
my shit everywhere. and put a cut on my chin which bled the rest of the day.
so here is the moral, dont skate after being in bed a week, and DEFINATELY dont
smoke a cig when you havent smoked in a week. really f'n dumb.
peace
headed and sick just dropped down the hill trying to carve. As you could guess i got to
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On 12/24/1999 steve
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Ha ha, there are a FEW good motorists... rock on, meatheads.
steve
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On 12/21/1999 Lindsay
wrote in from
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Sorry not a crash..
Went for a cruise last night as I do every night...this is
trivial but I thought it was cool...I'm carving back and forth
down the summit road. I did not realise that cars were stacking
up behind me until people start honking, I turn to see
these cars and I'm wondering why nobody overtakes. But then I notice
the grin on the dude in the station wagon right behind me,
he gives me the 'hang loose' sign as he drives wide to obstruct
the traffic for me, awsome!
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On 12/20/1999
Newbie Boarder
wrote in from
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Luke & Cory,
Hey Luke, haven't heard from you in a while. All the Denver boys are present!
So that anti-freeze crap is the stuff on the roads huh? I was out one night, and all the roads were wet, but it didn't rain or snow. I crossed the intersection and crashed HARD! When I got up, my hands looked wet, but the liquid on my hand was evaporating as fast as rubbing alcohol. I was wondering what the hell it was, and why my clothes and shoes were so greasy. Now I know why.
Cory, I know that stretch of Speer you're talking about (It's actually my back yard). There is too much gravel on it now to hit. I've fell on it a couple of times last week.
On a non-crashing note, Tonight, I braved the streets even with a gimpy ankle, and started at the top of 15th st. I hit every green light. When I hit the fastest part of the hill, this car pulled up next to me. the driver was like "What the hell are you doing?!" I asked him how fast he had me clocked, he was beside me saying I was at 37mph...my fastest (and freakest) yet.
Keep Carvin'
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