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On 7/15/2000
aftermath
wrote in from
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i was riding down this hill without scoping it first (my first mistake). so i got to that speed where you know you'll just have to hold it out, and i couldn't slide because i forgot my glove, and what do i see but a cliff dropping off into nowhere. so i make the attempt to slide anyway, since a hamburger hand would be better than a trip off a cliff. the slide was going alright until my front wheel melted and left me sliding on three wheels and a couple bearings. so the bearings fell off and left me with my truck against the pavement. the truck broke off my board and i went careening off the cliff. on the way down my head hit a rock and flew off! after about 20 minutes of falling, i finally hit the ground. my arms popped off much like those crash test dummies. of course, the first thing i thought of after getting up was my board. it was alright. i would need new trucks and wheels, but that was little to pay for my solid adamantium board. however, i couldn't find my head or arms, and my wallet was gone! at least my board was alright. i am investing in permanent UHMW pads surgically grafted to my palms to avoid any future damage, and i am also sponsoring a research facility for un-meltable urethane. maybe someday careless errors such as mine will be phased out by proper technology.
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On 7/12/2000
Glick
wrote in from
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Hey! Today my friend got a new longboard. We went out to go a nd try it, but smart us forgot to tighten the trucks since they were moved from a longer deck onto a shorter (new) one. about half way down the hill he hits a "stick" and get wobbles. A second or so later, his board flies out from under him and he goes rolling another quarter of the way down the hill. I immediately stopped to see if he was ok. At first he thought he had broken his knee cap. once i convinced him that it wasn't, he got up and asked aobut the board. It had gone directly into the greass, no damage at all! He soon walked away with road rash on this knees, elbows and lower back. It was kinda funny. First run on the board, first time falling! But the even funnier thing is that as soon as we had him bandaged up, we went back outside and within a few minutes he had fripped off his board and fell headlong into a bush. I was bent over in laughter for a few minutes.
Nothing seriously hurt, so no harm done!
-Jon
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On 7/12/2000
namon
wrote in from
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Hr, funny story, had the same kind of thing happen to me a little while ago. I was just skating around town to go somewhere and I was all tired so I dropped down, so that I could just haunch over my board. BUt then I dropped down, I was all off of balance, and I couldnt do anyhitng. IF I tried to straighen myself out, then I would have fallen, and if I just stayed there I would fall too. So, smart me decided thta I was just going to stay right there off balance down way to low on my board. I go about another block when I just fall off the board and roll to the other side of the street. Looking back at it, it is kind of funny.
well, ride hard.
bomb hills
not people
namon
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On 7/10/2000
Sarah
wrote in from
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I was cruising down this alley/drainage area that leads to the court I live in. This alley is a little sketchy, but since I skate it all the time, I'm usually ok, even with the huge amount of broken glass on it. I came to this one part where there is a triangle of concrete missing about 6" wide. Usually I just ride over it with the hole centered between my wheels and I do a little jump to sort of float the board over it safely. Well, I jumped, but it was badly timed because my wheels caught the edge and the board STOPPED. I did not. I pretty much just slammed down onto the concrete on the back of my right shoulder and my head whipped back onto the concrete, knocking my helmet off, which I did not have buckled-OOPS! Good thing I had it on though. Now I'm just really sore on my right side with some minor road rash on my right elbow & knee, adding to the road rash on my right knee which never fully goes away before I fall again. Oh well, falling is kind of fun as long as you don't get hurt too bad-What does not kill me makes me stronger-that's how I look at it. ---S
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On 7/10/2000 Felix
wrote in from
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I did not have a crash, but I my board did the other day.
I was not sober and a little unhappy, because Germany just
passed out of the European Soccer Championship, stepping of my
board a little laid back, and it running on the street,
with that taxicab approaching, and its rear tire
was running right over it.
One wheel came off, and one truck was bend a little, but
the deck (a gravity 11ply birch) was o.k. !
So, if you want a solid board, try a Gravity !
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On 7/9/2000
hugh r
wrote in from
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Just went to the mail box up the street. On the way down... mail in pocket... I decided to try one of those laid back hard turns (the kind where your butt is only a foot off the ground) Everything was fine until my rear foot un-weighted under flex.
Back end slid out and I bounced on my left cheek. I hopped up real quick... mail blowing in the 20+ mph wind, all down the street. Boards ok, mail was secured, pride was wounded, no other injuries... HR
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On 7/9/2000
Brandon
wrote in from
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Ok this story is a little stupid. One afternoon I decided to go longboarding for awhile in our nieborhood. I soon came acroos this nice hill that was in our nieborhood and decided to go down it. I wanted to go a little more than fast so I not only kicked to start down the hill I gave it a few kicks while on my way down the hill as I was kicking down the hill picking up aaaalot of speed my shoe came untied. I tried to be smart about it and decided to stop kicking so I went to place my foot up on the board to cruise the rest of the way. I was abou 3 quarters of the way down when I gave it one more big kick and in doing so I go to put my foot out and gain alot of speed wobble and lost ballance because my other foot was on my untied shoe lace I went in this graceful twrile for a second and met the newley paved black top road. I rolled, rolled, rolled until I came to a complete stop in a mess of road rashed arms,legs, and yes my face. It hurt sooo bad! but the next day being a little achy I took the hill on again and double notted my shoe laces.
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On 7/7/2000
aftermath
wrote in from
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i was sliding, and my kryptos are kinda old, so they break loose really easily...and i slid...and slid and slid and slid right off the edge of the road, where i came to a complete stop. jeez. so i got mud all over my board and...get this! my ass was dragging the whole 12hr slide and now i have a big hole in my pants...it _was_ a crash!
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On 7/5/2000
psycho78
wrote in from
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At 4:30 a.m. last night I went rideing I was pushing fairly fast. I went to put my foot on the board and missed. I started to do the spilts but my knee went out. I layed there for a little bit then I sat on the and pushed my self home. After four hours in a E.R. I left with three stiches and riped ligaments.Now I can barley walk with crutches and I have to wear a leg brace for at least three weeks but I have some good pain pills. psycho78
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On 7/5/2000
david
wrote in from
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ok here is my crashing story: i was on vacation in maui with a friend and we both brought our longboards. my friendss mom took us skating one day, she went to the top of this hill that did not look that good going up it. well i started skating down it and is was fun for the first minute. i then slowly realized that i was going to fast (about 45), I then realized that the road i was on was to narrow to turn around and i could'nt just wait for the hill to end because it dumped out into the main highway. anyway i got some mad wobbles started to turn, then i became airborn. lucky i did not break anything but i have a 3 inch long cut on my arm and about 20 smaller ones. i got away easy considering i was wearing shorts and a t-shirt. i think i will buy a leather jacket now, if anybody knows a good place in sf/bay area e-mail
peace
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On 7/4/2000
Danny
wrote in from
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You have got to read this! This is not a "fish that got away" story, it really happened! You always hear about luges hitting squirrels, or some other fuzzy little creature, but how about a jack-rabbit going over 45 doing speedboarding? Well, it all started with me begging my dad to take me bomin'. There was a slight wind at my back and the hill is about a mile long. I got a very good kick start, and was going faster than ever before. Just about 3/4 of the way down, I saw a flash(it was right at the borderline of being dark) headed under my wheels, the next thing I know I'm flying through the air after I got bucked off my board. I got shown how 40 year old pavement can be like a cheese grater on leathers as I tumbled for about 50 feet-it really sucked. I was able to keep my head up, and all that really happened was my ankle slamed against the ground, very hard. I was lucky, but the poor little rabbit wasn't. I killed it. Oh well, he wasn't some cute little peter cottontail, it was a flea-bitten jack rabbit that could've prabably kicked most dog's asses. It didn't slow me down though- I went on to get 5th out of 10 amature riders in the EDI mammoth race, not bad for my 1st time racing!
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On 7/3/2000 b-rian
wrote in from
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i only know what was in the article, but i think that he might have lived if he had been wearing a helmet. even if though, he would still be pretty messed up. i drive on 52 all the time, and people speed like crazy. red lights to me are an absolute no no. if you can't avoid the light, i just avoid the hill no matter how tempting it is.
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On 7/3/2000 Blah
wrote in from
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A moment for the dead skater in Pennsylvania . . .
Question: Was he wearing a helmet? Would it have mattered?
And, how do you guys deal with red lights?
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On 7/3/2000 b-rian
wrote in from
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from the News Journal Monday, July 3, 2000
A Pennsylvania teen-ager died sunday when his skateboard collided with a sport-utility vehicle. Harun DeLuce, 18, was traveling east on Pa. 926 when he aproached the intersection with Pa. 52. Pennsylvania police said DeLuce traveled through a steady red light and collided with the right front portion of a 1996 Ford Explorer Sport traveling south on Pa. 52. DeLuce was taken to the Brandywine Hospital and Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead from severe head and abdominal trauma.
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On 7/2/2000
Jake
wrote in from
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I got my first board a few days ago and have been riding around, cruising for a few days now. This morning I went up to the hills I live near and decided to take a run or two. I looked for the smallest streets I could find. Obviously not small enough. I couldn't turn fast enough and I ran into a *cough* parked *cough* car. The owner was on her porch and asked me if I was all right, but I could tell she was glancing at her car for damage (there was none). It aint nearly as harsh as some other dudes' stories, but it kinda hurt my knee and back.
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On 7/2/2000
aftermath
wrote in from
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hey me too! like that time i only noticed my teeth were gone _after_ i'd ran after my board
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On 7/2/2000 b-rian
wrote in from
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herbn, i know exactly what you mean, if i take a spill, the first thing i do is check the board :)
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On 6/30/2000
evan
wrote in from
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stack at 40 kph, no helmet, cut head, bruised back. Top speed was about 70kph so I'm glad i didn't stack then. shouldn't skate drunk, I would have never taken that hill without a helmet when sober. at least I didn't get AU$98 fine from the cops like my friend who was a bit slower.
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On 6/29/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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A long long time ago in a galaxy far far away,my brother was better than me at skating "better than me" meant he learned to cut across the grass next to the steps in front of our apartment before i did. Well we moved that summer and i found a skate shop,(I was more into skating, he was better)so I had saved ,and bought a shiney new polished red Banzai double kick(yes it was that long ago)mom made me share it anyway, so i took him along to a hill i'd found at a church in our new town. I cruise it first,damn it was fast and sketchy,I mean we're talking excaliber trucks and hard loose bearings on a 24 by 5.5 aluminum board,reluctantly hand it to my brother he takes off cautiously"just turn up the hill over there before going down the rest of it"all of a sudden wobble wobble ,slam; actually just more of a body slide.I yelled ,"you ok" as I ran to my shiney new skateboard to see if it was ok,first of many scratches,man did i get chewed out for checking on my skateboard first and my injured crying little brother after:)
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On 6/29/2000
DOOBIE
wrote in from
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I guess I'm not the only one who has a problem with farmers/countrymen.
Avoid cow shit!!!
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On 6/29/2000 Angel
wrote in from
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I was boarding down a hill that my friends and I call the "killer"(the hill is called this because no skater has ever made it down the hill without crashing)
That day I felt like I could make the hill without eating the blacktop but as I approached the last few feet of the hill to my victory a damn hick on a tractor came up the middle of the hill and gave me the choice to either run into the tractor or eat the blacktop. Sorry to say I ate the blacktop instead of getting killed by a tractor.
girl skater,
Angel
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On 6/29/2000
Ali King
wrote in from
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me and two friends were on our way back from a surf when we decided to make a small detour onto dartmoor(in devon, england) to enjoy the huge smooth hills on our longboards.
we'd carved our way down a couple of nice ones when we got to one huge mutha of a hill. my mate dave went down it first and had to bail halfway down onto the
grass because of massive speed wobble and because there's grit all over each side of the road so it's basically bloody dangerous. me and ross went down to
catch up with dave but when we got to him ross just carried on going like he'd skated all his life and not just one week..... anyways, he reaches the bottom
of the hill, realises he's going to hit a cattle grid and so jumped off. he made about five big strides to try and slow down but fell over and ate it big time.
he rolled for ages and lay in a heap until we got to him (laughing... well, you had to see it) the result: sliced up hands, graze from elbow to wrist (full of grit
and shit)grazed knees, cut ankle, grazed back and a hip that looks like it's made of mince beef.there's a lesson to be learned here but obviously i didn't learn it
because i fall off so much i should have a stunt double.
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On 6/23/2000
DOOBIE
wrote in from
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Damn Rednecks, don't get me wrong, I lived in the south for 6 years, but don't try and pass me!!! The other day I was bombin a hill and this contractor guy ran me off the road. He try's to pass me and his big ol' FORD F-ing super duty diesel crew cab dually with ladders and 2x4's on the rack up top tryed to pass me and created a big gust of wind and I blew into the grass, lucky the grass was freshly cut and thin or I would've eaten the sidewalk.
DAMN REDNECKS
---DOOBIE
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On 6/22/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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I was skating Lennys Ramp in the early eighties (old crash story)and hooked a wheel a little coming in off a indy grab tail stall,which pushed me off balence,I veered towards the side of and didn't fly off until I was five or six feet up the tranny,I landed on the fence,constructed of 4 inch diameter posts carved down and put through holes in the verticle posts ,cracked it with my chest,didn't get hurt much,luckyly I landed in the middle,between posts,and they were kind of old,but it did make a loud cracking sound,which every body thought were my ribs.Or the time i pulled a splinter out of my chest that was so thick i needed plyers,that was the Belmar ramp(7.5 foot trannys 3.5 vert but with 6 replings,like a pool,down to the stone coping.).........
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On 6/21/2000 greg
wrote in from
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I was skating at 6 foot mini ramp with a group of friends in the late 80's. It turned into a snake session and someone dropped in the same time as me. We collided head-on and he broke his wrist. Later, his dad came to cart him off and the ramp owner's dog freaked out, chased the injured kid's dad around the yard and bit him on the ass! Noone was sued, so it was a happy ending. THE END
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