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busting it
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On 1/10/2005
betty
wrote in from
United States
(64.247.nnn.nnn)
This weekend in Jackson, MS we held an AWESOME gs style slalom race called Madlands Mayhem. During a practice run I was pushing it as hard as I could and I got wheelbite on a 36" pocket pistol... right OVER the handlebars. I didn't get up for a while and I have a wicked hipper. So I realized I'd had my front foot up to far over the front trucks. I'm still gonna race, so on my qualifying run I think I'm racing Ricky Byrd. I hear that fourth beep and I'm pushing, and that front foot, I see, is too far up over that front truck again, and I PICK IT UP and try to move it and I wob and die. Now the knee, the rolled ankle, and the elbow are wrecked. My entire right side this morning feels like ground beef. It was awesome. Oh, and did I mention I WON? and I came close to winning open B class!!! Stoked as hell! :D
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OUCH!
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On 12/13/2004 North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(63.167.nnn.nnn)
Anthony: Yep, finger pain can be the worse. I crashed mountain biking and caught my ring finger on my left hand on the break lever as I was doing a two foot over the handle bar dismount. When I came to a landing my ring finger was actually snapped back to the point it was touching the back of my hand!
Hope you heal fast dude!
Marion Karr (a dude)
North Carolina Longboarder
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Stupid Skateboarding 101
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On 12/8/2004
Anthony
wrote in from
United States
(68.49.nnn.nnn)
I was having some residual pain today from an accident that happened this time last year and after remembering how stupidly I obtained it, I figured I should share it with everybody. I was riding with Doug Dupin late at night on a dark, sketchy local downhill run and we collided, knocking me off my board. I already knew there was no way I'd catch him standing up, so I jumped on my board luge style and started maching around corners and hunted him down like the dog he is......went to make my pass at the last left turn and leaned hard into it, when all of a sudden my hand hit the front left wheel which basically sucked my hand in and ran over my pinkie which was damn near severed. 145lbs pressure at 40mph. Still hurts to this day and as far as pain is concerned, it was probably one of the worst injuries I've had. They start torture in the fingers....keep 'em away from your wheels!
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like an avalanche coming down a mountain
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On 12/5/2004 betty
wrote in from
United States
(24.170.nnn.nnn)
Whilst in Eureeka Springs Arkansas, we were driving up into the mountains and there were motorcycles everywhere, driving crazy, around completely blind turns with no guard rails keeping you from going 5-6000 feet down the side of these heavily wooded hills. Well, as you can probably figure, at one point we get to, there are a couple bikers on the side of the road, bikes parked, looking down, and emergency vehicles. I love bombing hills, but I can't slide well yet either, am learning, but to be going around those curves and all of a sudden finding yourself thrown thousands of feet down the side, screw that. What's tai chi? Meditating? Stinkin' hippies, lol!
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good times and friends
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On 12/3/2004
s a v a g e crew
wrote in from
United States
(67.180.nnn.nnn)
My friend TJ and I had scoped out a sick road down Mount Diablo in Nor Cal and we showed up there on a thursday after school to hit the run with my longboarding buddies, andy, brad, taylor and colin while TJ drove and filmed. We took off into the setting sun with the wind at our backs and soon we were bombing exposed mountain roads, and tucking through blind corners. As we arrived at the first of the three danger curves (the ones marked with a "curvy road/15mph" sign to warn cars) we realised we were going a little to fast. Colin and i had taken a run down it before, but we hadnt thought of how much speed we would gain with more people and the drafting effect. The turn itself is a 180+ degree hairpin turn with little or no noticable bank on the outside about halfway down the mountain. As we entered it, brad pulled through the first section, sliding around it to control his speed and direction but he was just going too fast and he hit some sticks on the side of the road and ate it, sliding on his left side and arm for a good 20-30 feet into the ditch on the roadside. Colin was in front of me and he quickly decided that there was no way he could pull through and he just steered toward the edge and did a superman stop, flying into the hill going around 25 or 30 mph until he stopped in some dirt and dead leaves, I tired hard to pull through but there was a noticable problem. I dont know how to slide. I was pulling hard in a tuck and the G forces were crushing me onto my board and it was too much and my back end slid out while I was going heelside and i just hit the pavement and rolled. It was insane, our entire crew went down ont he same turn!!! when the dust had cleared and the damage was done, we had all road rash on our knees, elbows and side of our body, but interestigly enough, our clothes were not ripped. It somehow burned us through the material without breaking it. weird phenomenon. brads shoe had a melted mark on the front toe and sadly andy never made it down to us, as he was stopped by some dick ranger who told him that "skateboarding down state park road is illeagal" and threatened to fine him 300$ ticket. we finished up the day by driving back up to the top and doing tai chi on the mountain side with the setting sun. S A V A G E
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Good Stories
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On 11/17/2004
Betty
wrote in from
United States
(24.170.nnn.nnn)
Man, there's some good readin' at the start of this thread, goes back to 1997, I'm tempted to just print it out to have some bathroom reading material. :D After a page or two, I'll just go ahead and warn you now about Spanky Malone. But the crash stories are so gnarley- they aren't just "I fell down," they are, "I wobbled, I flipped over a mailbox and landed ass first through the window of a car!" kinda stories. Getcher readin' on!
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pads help
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On 11/16/2004 Civ
wrote in from
Canada
(24.141.nnn.nnn)
I was learning 720 sldies tonight and decided to go in really fast so i could get the 900, I go into the first heelside slide and my wheels grip and to go flying. I land on my knees and slide gloves and slide for 70 feet(measured). Imagine what i would look like if i didnt have knee pads on....slide gloves and knee pads....very important...oh, and a helmet too.
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See Safety Equipment For Latest Dumb NCL Trick
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On 11/15/2004 North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(63.167.nnn.nnn)
See the Safety Equipment Forum from 11/15/2004 for the latest in that hit TV show:
"What Not To Try/Do At Home"
Featuring the crash test dummy of the day, North Carolina Longboard
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On 11/11/2004
Keli
wrote in from
United States
(64.161.nnn.nnn)
Man Brendan that's gotta hurt like hell. Where was the hill you crashed on? Sounds like an awsome hill when your not rollin down it. I thought my crash was bad when i had no skin left on my entire shin. That made for a nasty scar but thats gotta suck. Now we both know why parents tell you to wear pads all the time. I was 13 when my crash happened. Kind of a wake up call I guess.
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On 11/8/2004 Betty
wrote in from
United States
(24.170.nnn.nnn)
Well, first crash in a looooong time came this weekend. Went up to Ft. Smith Arkansas to see my sister- WHOA. We're talking the gnarliest of gnarley hills. This would be a great skate vacation for anyone interested- Ft. Smith has the hills, Fayettville has a concrete park, Eureeka Springs has a concrete park, Little Rock and Jonesboro both do as well. So we were driving home, stopped off in Little Rock to check out their new Grindline park- and it was awesome, they're already planning on adding on- and they need it desperately. I actually didn't even get to skate it, there was a HUGE crowd, all big burly mens, so I let the husband skate, waited patiently, and then we drove to Kanis. Kanis is a pool in a park that I had skated before- completely abandoned now that they have the park. So we skated that for a few hours, and it really felt awesome, it's an amazing pool. The story goes that two guys from California commissioned the pool be built, they meant to skate and swim it, and the guys built it all wrong. Well, it's still an awesome pool. I got way up there and slippidy dippity down onto a little hipper. The hip bone, actually, and I'm realizing now that falling out of the air like that could really hurt your back. Of course I had on all my safety gear, but still... Good times, good times.
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On 11/1/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(63.167.nnn.nnn)
Betty:
NCL thinks this forum is one of his favorite places on NCDSA as well. He crashes on a semi-regular basis and it makes him feel less alone in Scabville knowing that there are others out there making dermal offerings to the skate gods. In his mountain biking days NCL was known as "the Great Defoliater" or "Agent Orange" for his ability to shred through the fauna at speed and return to the trail without being completely impaled.
(Hey, 3rd person is FUN!)
NCL reminds you all to Roll on Brothers And Sisters! Roll on!
SCHOOL'S OUT
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On 10/30/2004 Betty
wrote in from
United States
(24.170.nnn.nnn)
Everyone should talk about themself in third person. It would make the world a funnier place. This is my absolute favorite forum on ncdsa.
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On 10/26/2004 h0dad
wrote in from
New Zealand
(219.88.nnn.nnn)
h0dad finishes his last run with a low-speed superman-style wipeout, minus gloves. h0dad could hear the weird zizzing sound of skin being liberated from his left palm by fresh ashpalt.
We went to the new spot to surf concrete; h0dad did a little bodysurfing as well, in perfect form, left hand out to plane the concrete wave, body long and rigid.
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On 10/26/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(63.167.nnn.nnn)
Brendan: Two morals to this story:
1. The obvious as stated my Brendan >WEAR GEAR!
2. Less obvious but as important. NEVER, I mean NEVER, skate any terrain without scouting it first! (One of my night riding rules(see previous post) that when broken almost always lead to disaster!)
Amen.
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On 10/24/2004
Brendan
wrote in from
United States
(68.101.nnn.nnn)
First off, I've never crashed on a longboard. That being said, here's my most wicked shortboard crash story:
I was at my friend's lake house for the first time ever and he said he had this killer driveway down to the lake that's really steep. So when we got there we got our shtuff out of the truck and started skating in front of the house with his kicker and rail. After a while he pointed out the "private drive" down to their dock at the lake, he told me that he'd only done it sitting down and that I should have enough room to stop. So I go into the hill full tilt and go around the mellow curve at the top and realize I'm f#@!ed when I see the hill. I get about half-way down and decided to try and foot brake it. BAD IDEA. I go to take my back foot off the board and since the driveway was sealed tar the torque of my front foot on the board turned it perpendicular to the hill and I try to run it off. Going about 20-25mph I only get like four steps and bite it hard. My shoes were the first to go and then my socks, looking back on it I wasn't really running, only scraping my feet briefly while my body careened down the hill. So, the shoes were off and the socks were shredded, my feet then scrape a minute and grip the tar which makes me start to tumble. OUCH, I go for like twenty feet tumbling before I slid on my elbow for another eight or so. I stood up with no shoes or socks, with torn up feet, my shirt barely on my back, blood dripping down my elbow (which at this point consists of bone and whatever little skin hangs on) to my fingers where it pools on the ground. So you know what I do? I yell up the hill to my friend who can't see me because there are pine trees in the way, "Hey, we're gonna need some gause and tape!" then, I threw up and walked up the hill, got his dad to bandage me up and passed out for a while. Now my elbow isn't skin but rather lots of scar tissue that hurts like f#@! when it barely gets knocked and that was two years ago. Somewhere between 13 and 15 (then and today) I gat smart and wear pads now. So to all who do not wish to have a scar for an elbow I leave you with this:
WEAR f#@!ING PADS DUMBASSES!
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On 10/22/2004
G-Flash
wrote in from
United States
(152.163.nnn.nnn)
I am just glad we are on the subject of helmets and how important thay are. Now go put your "LID" on and skate. As for me I plan on sneaking into pro-player staduims home team locker -room this Sunday and snaking me a Dolphins football helmet! It's not like they are going to use it anyway. I know I will! My Dolphins suck the wad this year and I plan on making a fashion statement like OLSON or HACKETT in ALVA wear hunting vest! Checkout the Kenny mollica forum! LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!
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On 10/21/2004 North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(63.167.nnn.nnn)
...yeah..I saw that one too.....LOL
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On 10/21/2004 bean-a-reano
wrote in from
United States
(216.89.nnn.nnn)
he didn't spell mountain correctly either......
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On 10/20/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(63.167.nnn.nnn)
Supersk8ter: Being called stupid by someone who can't spell helmet hurts...
I believe the helmet that Rustyborrito was referring to is a downhill mountain bike helmet and if you check with a lot of the skateboard downhillers and slalom dudes that is exactly what they are wearing. For example, the Giro Switchblade helmet is very popular in the slalom crowd and it was specifically designed for both downhill and cross country mountain bicycle racing/riding. The great Hackett wore a Giro Switchblade at the Indian School Ditch Race this last year. If you don't believe me, search the Slalom forum with keyword "Giro" or "switchblade" and you will find it referred to at least 6 times.
Do the same look-up for "Giro" on the "Safety Equipment" forum for the last year and you will find at least 12 referrals to either the Switchblade or Mad Max II helmets (which is also a mountain bike downhill helmet).
Dude, if it protects your head in a crash it will work fine. Just so you know, I own a Pro Tec Skateboard specific helmet and wear it for most of my riding but when I am bombing hills I wear a Specialized Full Face DH Mountain Bike Helmet.
Roll on Brothers and Sisters! Roll on. Just wear a helmet when you do!
SCHOOL'S OUT
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On 10/20/2004
SuperSk8ter!
wrote in from
United States
(24.194.nnn.nnn)
Rustyborrito55 your are stupid . A montian bike helmate is for riding an biking not skate boarding.
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On 10/13/2004
betty
wrote in from
United States
(24.170.nnn.nnn)
Yeah, I'm gonna need it. It's been doing nothing but raining here, and I'm so sick of it already... but I swear I saw some viddy of some guys out sliding on wet streets... might as well try it. So far I think the wheels I try to slide on are too soft, gonna try some harder ones. Cause, boy, I'll slide around but the board doesn't come with me.
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On 10/10/2004
rustyburrito55
wrote in from
United States
(24.194.nnn.nnn)
i use a mountain bike helmet and it works great. you can get them at pretty much any bike store for around $80
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On 10/5/2004
Eddy
wrote in from
United States
(207.69.nnn.nnn)
AAAHHH Betty, Joe I turned me on to a New grey and black Giro Switch Blade like the one that he wears, it was up for sale on Ebay. I was the only one who bid on it. The helmet is awesome. Eddy Texas Outlaws
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On 9/30/2004
betty
wrote in from
United States
(64.247.nnn.nnn)
ME TOO! I would LOVE a face helmet. I see guys at races (Joe I) with them, someone's gotta know where to get one.
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On 9/28/2004
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(63.167.nnn.nnn)
Repost for "Safety Equipment" Forum Hey gang. AFter much thought and contemplation (and yet another crash that took my face pretty damn close to the pavement) I have decided I need to purchase a helmet with face protection for some of the downhill bombing we have been doing lately. I have a great Protect Helmet I wear carving, sliding, and riding transition, but I need a helmet with some face protection for bombing because my stance puts my hands behind my back and my head directed forward. In a forward fall I may not be able to get my hands with my slide gloves out in front of me fast enough.
Please post links to websites or the name of the helmet you would suggest. You can also email me. I am looking at downhill mountain biking helmets and a variety of other options so please if you have any thoughts hook me up brah!
Roll on Brothers and Sisters.
SCHOOL'S OUT
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