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On 4/29/2003
ICE
wrote in from
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Bailed Hard on Saturday, dislocated shoulder. Sk8'en Greer in Palo Alto, rolling in the deep end, got a wobble took a dive, tried to catch myself in the transition, one hand on the flat the other on the wall. POP! there goes the shoulder. Good times!! What have we learned here? Roll Roll Roll don't try to catch a fall, use your pads thats why there on. Funny thing is that last time I really sk8ed this place (6 years ago) I fractured my coller bone in the same bowl, other side, same way!!!!
Roll on!!
ICE
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On 4/26/2003
Robert
wrote in from
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This is a bad crash story, more of an unfortunate one. I was at Vans Milpitas and had just taken my first couple of warm up runs in the bowl. I tried a new run though the washboard and came out on one of the humps at an odd angle that I was unprepared for and fell on my the side of my knee. When I got up I had to limp ot of the bowl and go rest. Within 5 minutes I knew I wouldn't be skating anymore that day. I ended up waiting 2 hours for my friend after only skating 5 minutes of skating. Definately my worst sessions at vans. >=\
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On 4/25/2003 fernandez
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i just did a three way catermeran with a couple of kickflippers. i wanted to prove my manhood to them so i did it skeleton style. before we went five metres, one veered off away and then veered right back, crashing into my side, while the other just locked in next to me. then my pants got caught in my wheels and slid half on my board half off, with the friggin double kicks bouncing into me. i tor my pants up and i got a couple of grazes, and i feel like a twit.
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On 4/24/2003 JimZ
wrote in from
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Check Kiwi Duane's crash at Topchallenge.ca under images, video 3
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On 4/23/2003 kevinW
wrote in from
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I just went for a cruise 4 hours ago, the road was wet from a VERY light drizzle of rain, (i could only just feel the spots of rain) i was carving and the board just slipped right from under my feet, i was busy thinking of other things and it was like a big fat kick return to reality.
I was busy day dreaming, next thing my longboard just went hard left on its own and i just went and did a face plant with my hands out and a slide in the middle of the road.
Of course a lady, her teenage daughter getting in their car were watching, the mother remarked "are you alright" twice, the second time i said, YEP and she said, thats the second time youve come off at the same place and i said yep.
I was not wearing a helmet or protective gear, i got 3 little rips on the palm of my left hand, a elbow scraping as big as a 20cent coin on my right elbow and 6cm worth of scrapings above my left hip.
And now im worried that my randal 180's bolts might snap :)
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On 4/20/2003 Nick
wrote in from
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Yeah, that happened to me once, but I was carving up a bowl and just rode it out. I have randal's, however, those bolts snap all the time on other trucks too. Wear and tear just works them weak after awhile.
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On 4/20/2003
boomer
wrote in from
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So yesterday I decide to head up to harlem to rock some of the nice hills they got up there. On my first run down a nice 7 block hill I cut a nice heelside carve and see my board shoot forward out in front of mee like I just pulled a big slide. Falling on my ass like a champ I bounce downt the sidewalk a few feet and then with some sore pride and a sorer posterior, I went for my board. Thinking that some sand caused me to slide out I was really shocked to find that the main tightner bolt on my Randal 150's just broke clean right above the threading. So now I'm sitting here on a gorgeous day w/ no ride, and yes my ass still hurts. Anyone else had this problem w/ Randals? I'm really surprised by this...
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On 4/11/2003
Josh L
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This is my first crash in 1 year, so i can post here (woohoo)
I was at the local longboard spot with a friend and a longboarder from this board. We had been hiting this sweet hill (It was 2 cars wide, and SMOOTH) for about 2 hours, going at about 20mph each time. I decided it was about time to go home, so hiked up for the last time. At the middle of the run (where it flattend off) there were two people and a couple of dogs, just standing there facing downwads, i decided to slow down, so down went the foot to footbreak. I must have hit a stone or somthing, coz the board started to wobble like hell, and the next thing i know, i am on the floor. Dont know how i fell, but wiped some blood of my hands, and went off again. At the end, i fell over in agony, and could not lift my left arm.
After some Xrays in casualty, i now know that i have broken my left colar bone and have chipped my right shoulder :(
Another fun day :D
Josh
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On 4/10/2003 doug
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air braking is making yourself as un-aerodynamic as possible, ie standing up with shoulders square with the hill, therefore slowing you down
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On 4/10/2003 fiddo
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whats Air Braking and how do you do it?
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On 4/10/2003 Kludy
wrote in from
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I love crash storys, just get a big bowl of popcorn and just start reading and enjoying some great storys.Keep it up ,Iam into this site. Very real and very funny at times.
STAND-UP RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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On 4/6/2003
kanufi
wrote in from
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It could have been nasty but it turned out ok.There,s this hill near where i live its about 1km long and you can get up around 60-70km speed on it .I was riding alone and i was following a car which was about 100mts away.He starts hitt,n his brake lights and i think he is slowing down to check me out coming up behind but instead he puts on the flasher and stops.He is stoped in the middle of the road and waiting for the oncomming ambulance to go bye until he does his turn so i have 2 choices i can go on the inside of him which is full of broken road and potholes or attempt the fastest coleman ive ever done(the incident happened on the fastest part of the hill)so i went the slide option and did it but i didnt stay on the road that long and when i left the road i hit this guys rubbish on his front lawn and all i could remember was this tray and some containers go flying out like a bomb had just been placed under them.It was heavy but pretty funny.I didnt get hurt because my pads and slide gloves saved me.And a puck was ripped off as well.When the ambo went past they didnt even give me a slow down and say r u ok.My rist was hurt,n now its mooved up to the elbow.
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On 4/5/2003
Guy
wrote in from
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Me and my friend always scope hills in Woodland Hills. So this one day, we were bombing some of the regular hills and we decided to find a new, bigger hill. we did. We found Del Moreno St. THis street is about a mile long and is one of the steepest things i ever saw. It had brand new asphalt too. We couldn't resist. So we did it 3 times in 1 day. WHOA. Then we went back the weekend after that, and we started off good, then my friend clipped his foot on his back wheel. He rolled. I had to dodge him going way too fast. I ate it. then my board rolled all the way down the hill. But it was still the most bitchen hill i've ever bombed.
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On 3/27/2003
juha sila
wrote in from
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HOLA!
I forget (left) my longboard at the hill called Miradol de Rio. Somebody took it from a side of the road. If you don´t like it, I would like it back, please. I forged it, because my girlfrend crashed badly and we went to farmasia quikcly.
My board was Sector nine Orginal Pintail wit randal2 and S9) red wheels. Lot of GUL stickers backside of the board.
any info-> silajuha@sci.fi
thanks
juha sila
finland
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On 3/26/2003 Goose
wrote in from
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Yo, just burned and crashed myself, yesterday. First of all I got a rock under my wheel at a lowish speed and I pretty much just looked like a dick rolling onto my back with only a grazed forearm. Then I carried on cursing my carelessness and got up some speed. I was cruising through safewayz car park in stratford London and I did what I do every day, ride my board over those things that stop cars from coing the other way. Every time I've just rode over it for about a year and it waited till yesterday to kill me =P
board stopped, I did a frontside superman and hit the ground about 6-7ft away witht the whole front side of my body. My right knee dont bend proper got minor cuts on left forearm, medium road damage tto the right, got a small graze under my beard and a bruised rib =) Hows that for all inclusive.
I rode over the same place today to prove to myself it was a freak occurance =)
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On 3/24/2003
Rene' Carrasco
wrote in from
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Was practicing with some of the SSS guys today -
...........saw Evans' cuts and mucho bruise on his hip {that bruise was as big as Russia}.........from a fall a week ago. Whoa! Hey!
They say it was amazing what happened - when he crashed,
but I wanna say, I commend him for coming back out to practice -....back at it today- Steve flying thru the course as usual.
Lots of determination, and sacrifice to be the fastest !
Way to go Steve ! ...Inspiring !
.........................-Rene' "Cannonball" Carrasco.
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On 3/23/2003 Dan
wrote in from
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I was bombing this decent hill in my neighboorhood. I was filming me and my friend bombing it. I was getting to much speed and i didnt want to crash and ruin my camera. I tried to slow down because the hill leads into and busy street. I tried to stop and it didnt work. I flew forward and did a frontflip and rolled down the hill. I got a big brush burn on my shoulders and some cuts and scraps on my knees and elbows.The camera somewhat broken. I'll still love bombing hills no matter what.
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On 3/20/2003 Antti S. Brax
wrote in from
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Do we accept park crashes too?
It was one of those "ok, one last run and then I'm out of here" moments. The session was a bit boring and I was trying to fix it by blasting through the pool as fast as possible. My favourite line contains a frontside carve grind in one of the fastest corners and I was doing it like I always do. This time, however, I propably had more speed than ever before. The grind started late and went out of the corner on to the straight wall. Rear wheels hung up on the coping as I started to come down and I plummeted straight to the floor. I did not anticipate the fall at all and all my weight came on my front wrist. That, of course, didn't stop me. My arm bent backwards as I kept on falling. I hit my shoulder to the ground, somehow rotated 180 and hit my tail bone too.
I think I was lucky to walk away with a broken wrist only. Wearing knee, elbow, wrist and brain pads saved me from road rash.
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On 3/14/2003
twirp
wrote in from
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on my way to school a couple years back i decided to bomb a nice hill i got going prettey quick and everything was going fine when i heard something behind me it was horrible!!! what was it you ask? it was a raised up Ford Bronco with a big rig air horn. it scared the s#@! out of me needless to say i lost controll and crashed the worst part was my lack of pads i was flying and i landed prettey hard but all i got out of it was a hole in my back pocket the shape of an altoids can and a good story to tell my fellas at school. - by the way i dont miss getting up at 7am for school but it is all worth it! stay in school kids and maybe you can become a less than the best shoe salesman like me - peace all
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On 3/10/2003
joseph
wrote in from
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fell off my buttboard two days ago now. landed square on my arse and bounced a bit. pants held up hurt, but not too bad got home had a shower and realised the massive bruise and as my kind caring friends at school put it (when i explained why i was taking so long to sit down and the extent of the injuries including a nicely placed and painful cut) i got a crack extension. bugger! lucky it wasnt the week before because that was the weekend of the gay and lesbian mardi gra in sydney and my friends would have got some strange ideas as to why i have a sore arse.
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On 3/10/2003
Geezer-X
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So I show up at a slalom practice, hop out of the car, and take a leisurely pas down the course to see where it goes. Hit melting snow stream across course, backend comes around, rash on knee, calf, arm, hand. Wrist and hand hurt like a wicked bastard. Don't ever assume theres no obstacles unless you pre-ride the course first. And, ride no faster without pads than you're willing to stop from using your skin for a brake.
Padded up from now on.
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On 3/5/2003
joseph
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i have too agree that pads dont stop all injuries. if you fall off going fast it's likely you'll hurt yourself. my most serious injuries would not have been stopped by protective pads. i had a concussion while waring a skate helmet (you dont ware a full face helmet carving) muscle damage in both hands through slide gloves. muscle damage up both forearms while wearing slide gloves and some other minor stuff but if i could afford pads it would save me countless grazes.
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On 3/4/2003 psYch0Lloyd
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Know exactly what you mean snoball...
Had all my gear on for a park session on cold winter day in February, a couple of months before Morro Bay '01, when I took a small tumble...
Deck landed on its side and I wound up on top of it; right smack in the ribs (I can still hear/feel that cracking sound). The muscle swole up around my chest and it didn't bother me till a week or two later, but it wasn't too bad as it only hurt when I tried to breath.
khrt
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On 3/4/2003
snoball
wrote in from
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Here's an injury that no kind of pads could protect me from.
I didn't actually ever fall off my feet and at the time
it happened, though it crossed my eyes for a second, I didn't
think much of it.
Coming off a bank I lost my balance and stepped off with my
rear foot. The other foot still on the board but faithfully following along. Eventually. My knee locked and I stiff legged my femur into my hip socket. I kept skating but slowly
this pain grew. I still blew it off, I mean..you know.
But on the drive home I could not find a comftorable position for my leg at all.Anyway, over a 24 hour period it went from
a low whine to full on screaming at me. No sleeping, not
a comftorable position on the planet.
Looks like I tore some cartiledge in the hip joint. Nice huh?
No skating for a while till it heals and while I'm not
saying you shouldn't wear pads ( please don't read crap
like that into my posts ) I am saying that not all injuries
are what they seem or can be avoided by wearing pads.
But uh, wear your gear ;-)
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On 2/24/2003
squid
wrote in from
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Last summer I had my final 2 lessons in wearing pads, 1st there was the fridays eveing, drinks(and other naughty's) at a friends followed by my usual sk8 home (I have sk8ed it 100's of times) this time was a little different though, halfway down a very shallow hill, my board hit something (still not sure what) my board stopped dead, and so did I after I had slid on concrete for about 50feet, the next day I decided to go sk8ing (back on the horse and all that!) I ws carving a pretty big hill, trying to keep speed off all the way down by doing mini slides, halfway down I lost concentration for a split second (I thought I'd seen vehicular activity) and that was it, I went for another 50 foot power slide using the rightn side of my body as a brake!! It took me 3 weeks before I was able to sk8 proply again, if I had been wearing wrist or knee pads so I had a place to fall onto I would not have missed the best sk8ing weather of last year (in the U.k we only get a couple of weeks of non rain!) I hate putting on full padding but I now neaver sk8 without at least wrists and most of the time knee's even for those sk8's I know like the back of my hand!
Peace and good riding
Squid
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