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On 9/24/2002
efarpe Downhill
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i took a nice hit the other day. i did a cool 5m face/shoulder plant through a rocky side road going about 70ks round this corner... it was bad. when i eventually got up i was VERY confused, i was dissoriantated and at that speed the only idea i had of where i fell was by following the path i had made as i slid across the gravel. unfortunately my board was nowhere to be seen... me in a state of shock the pain slowly creeping in on me, nausea setting in and what do i have to do.. "wombble" along the side of a mountain searching for my board in thick bushes on a steep slope in agonisg pain...i eventually found my board after nearly passing out, in the gutter on the opposite side of the road.! so next time you take a hit try (if you can) watch your board! peace.
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On 9/23/2002
Malakai
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Hey been longboarding for about a yer now, thing is I had never bailed I mean I had gone down but never with any real injury. But now I have, it was a weak bail, carving a small hill fresh asphalt, tight toe side carve and my wheel dug into my board I was way to on top of my trucks and on the edge, the board halted my legs got crossed and I hit the ground hard, managed to cath myself with my left hand but my right got pinned, lost a good bit o' flesh on my elbow and hand, now I have bled and I no longer fear my board for I know the pain is real and the expirience is priceless....
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On 9/22/2002
the rookie
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DDDD what is your email?
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On 9/18/2002 -
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So I'm cruising down this hill for the first time when I realissed I should of checked the road first. I straigghten out and avoid various pot holes and I'm now going at about 40 when my board hit something don't know what. But it hit something. My friend said I cleard about 4 metres of concrete before slamming head first into a grassy mound. Now my knee is buggared and so are my wrists. But hell you only live once.
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On 9/15/2002 h0dad
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h0dad recalls a crush on an older woman who runs a video store in his neighbourhood. On the way down to get membership he steps on a back wheel while kicking and takes a dive, losing a bit of palm, that sort of stack one has whilst riding a new setup in Dr Marten boots. Anyway, so much for impressing the woman in the shop. He bleeds all over the first membership form and has to start another one. Babe gives h0dad bandaids so that he can finish the next one. Got some grazes on his back...funny how that happens sometimes, when you cant remember rolling or anything aye.
Agreed on the way stacking is occasionally satisfying..sometimes it's neccessary to remind one that it's not always fatal, and to relax more, to combat the trepidation factor. h0dad has a friend who kind of tricks himself into having a low-grade stack so that he can relax into his session more. We're talking surfstyling here, not speedboarding or anything.
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On 9/13/2002
joseph
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crashin is fine sometimes but now i have no steingth in my left hand. i dont crash much but when i do i am always going fast and end up breaking or tearing something. my elbow got broke at the end of last year and three or four weeks ago i stuffed all my forearm and hand muscles. all the road rash and bruises are gone but the hand is so weak! crashin is alright when you dont do it too bad. sympathys good aswell. but i didnt get much of that just got yelled at.
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On 9/13/2002
K-LEE
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DDDD,
We may be masochists, but I like slamming too. A good hard slam (no bones broken or anything major) wakes you up and reminds you why you should be proud of your skills as a skateboarder and that even longboarding IS a bit extreme after all. So the next time you carve that hill successfully, you can think about how badass you are that you didn't fall like last time. I'm usually stoked about any fall I can comfortably walk away from, because I can try again!
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On 9/13/2002 DDDD
wrote in from
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Ohh yeah my crash storie, almost forgot...
About two weeks ago i met some friends downtown at one of the local pubs for a beer. After BS'in for a while i was talking about how latley i've had lots of time to skate and the weather has been nice, its all ive wanted to do, for the most part. but i never get the shuttle ride to the top.
feeling some pity or somethin my bros got all aggro about taking me to these hills that thy used to skate when they were kids( they don't skate any more. It was late after 11:45 or so and really dark no light s but the moon and front yard lamp posts along this hill. The hill itself was moderate, good for about 35-40 max but its was buuummmpy.
all straight exept for one turn in the center rated 20 mph front side for me. so i come into this corner at about thirty and grab no traction at all... as i began to eat stuff i figure maybe i could save with a coleman slide the other way, bigg mistake , twisted my ankle and got the cheesegrater good all up my elbow when my pad slip to my wrist, anlke is just limber enough now to skate again.
as odd as it sounds i think i kind of like goin down, it wouldn't be skatin without some road rash
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On 9/13/2002 DDDD
wrote in from
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Hey Rookie
is that Lakemont hill in Issaquah Wa?
If so lets go skate sometime cause i know the hill your talkin about and its close to my house
d
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On 9/9/2002 Graham Sims
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Heh, at the skatepark I was riding my shortboard. Trying noseblunt stalls on a 3 ft 1/4 pipe. Stick it, pop out. hang truck. landed clean on my helmet. *whew* tgfh (thank god for helmets)
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On 9/4/2002
John Y.
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Oops, that should be http://www.enteric.org/todd.htm
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On 9/4/2002
John Y
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I wrote a story about a pretty bad crash for an english class. Thought it might be of intrest here. It's about this waayyy kooky guy named todd, and goes on for 6 pages about skating in general and then about todd, then the crash.
http://www.enteric.org/todd.html or http://www.enteric.org/todd.doc
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On 9/3/2002 The Rookie
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I was bombing this hill up in my area known as Lakemont. The run is about 1.1 miles long with a fairly fast start. You first dip into this gradual lefty at about 30mph, then in goes into this huge drop then to a deadly sharp left at about 35mph. Then you go into about a 1/3 mile long strait away and you get up to about 50mph. Then it goes into an offbanked right hand huge sweeper that is about 1/3 mile long at about 45mph. Then you come out of that at about 55-60mph. Then into a easy right to the shut down area. Well I was coming into that sharp left at the top at about 40mph instead of 35mph and I was really smooth through it so my speed shot up to about 50mph. The board did this gnarly fish tail and threw me off the front of it. I slid on my back with my head facing down the hill, then i rolled on to my stomach about half way through the slide, it didnt feel like I was moving very fast but I was still going about 25mph and I SLAMMED into the curb. My friend in the car behind me said that I looked like a rag doll being thrown around. I slammed my hand into the curb really hard and possibly broke my thumb but I didn't go to the hospital or anything.
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On 9/3/2002 sk8nwolf
wrote in from
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hope you had a helmet on graham
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On 9/2/2002 Graham Sims
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While at the Hanger Bowl yesterday I was haluing ass frontside through the deepend and did a LITTLE frontside 5-0 on the old pool coping. Come down aimed at the waterfall and my board just... i dunno. I kept goign and took a brutal hit to my shoulder and flipped up into the flat on my head. TGFH. Ouch. Ice......
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On 9/2/2002 ArCo
wrote in from
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WhAt Up DoGs???
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On 9/2/2002
Kevin
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I was coming home the other day and I was flying down this hill. I hit the one thing that pisses me off the most... A rock. So anyway my board got caught up and I went flying and hit the cement hella hard. I was bleeding from my arm and had a huge headache.
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On 9/2/2002
Kevin
wrote in from
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I was coming out of a nose manual (and just about had it to) when I figured out there was a drop then flat ground so I decided to try the drop. Bad idea I indoed and fell flat on my face. I was going pretty fast so my legs curled over and hit me in the back of my head. Knocked the wind out of me and I hurt my backbone. But nothing real serious.
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On 8/26/2002 Spicoli Rules
wrote in from
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My friend and I were riding on this road that's known by the riders in our area as The Devil's Backbone. We were going through this nasty 90 degree lefty. My friend made it through clean...he had it heelside. I had it toeside. I took a bad line and didn't lean into the turn enough. My board slid and recoiled, throughing me off on my back. I slid for about 5 ft then my body caught on the road and I went up on my shoulders and my momentum flipped me over and onto my feet. I was so amazed because I was able to walk the rest of it out backwards. I thought it was so cool until I noticed the pain in my wrist. I had scrapes on my back and arms and my shirt ripped on the colar pretty bad. I went to the Hospital thinking I had sprained my wrist, but ended up breaking off a piece of bone on the outside of my left hand and there were multiple fractures in the middle of the wrist and up the outside bone.
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On 8/26/2002
joseph
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fell of my board yesterday afternoon. estimating 50 kilometers give or take 5 k's. went to cave some speed off after bombing a lttle of the hill i hit some damp road and all of a sudden my boards sideways and i've launched. had enough time to lift my head before hitting the ground. i skidded on my hands and ribs for 3 metres or so judging my boards distance from me but hard to tell as board flipped and rolled. couldnt breath when i stopped and i blacked out for a bit. bruised ribs extensive muscle damage to left hand lots of skin missing from knees knuckles hands elbow and a little from face. bruised right knee. i also ruined my shorts and gap jumper and board looks real ugly.
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On 8/26/2002 patio mendino
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hey hodad,
patio has done a similar feat whilst snowboarding. launches off a big kicker, gets squirrely in the air, lands sideways on the rump. left cheek continues to the base lodge as the right cheek stays planted in the snow. hand down the back of the trousers to see if it's sweat or blood back there.
luckily patio was not split down the middle.
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On 8/21/2002 h0dad
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Yeah that kind of thing happens..h0dads seen a couple of such foot injuries, both of them totally like "oh my god my foot's come off" and thankfully such that the joints were able to be repaired (since they were dislocations). One foot belonged to a girl who crashes her pickup into a post (which fell across the highway with full-on sparks) then, somewhat dusted, she attempts to walk away..h0dad and friends carry her to a hotel office, where she touches up her makeup until the medics arrive.
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On 8/21/2002 gary
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one minute I'm on my board next I'm wondering why I'm on the ground and my foot is 90 degrees to the side, still can't figure out what happened
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On 8/20/2002 sk8nwolf
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Umm...gary...how did you snap your foot off? I hate that it may be three weeks, but I was just wondering so I don't make the mistake of being too distracted (especially since I ride avoid trucks from the local quarry).
wolf
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On 8/20/2002 gary
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Waiting for a car to go by, not payin' attention, I snapped my foot off the end of my leg. ER staff all came to check it out and hung around to hear me scream when they "reduced" (reset) it. Didn't make a peep.
Only three more weeks and I can take all my new titanium hardware out for a stroll, might be able to skate in a few months.
Moral of the story, "Always pay attention!"
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