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On 3/27/2000
DT
wrote in from
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a few days ago, i learned the valuable lesson of not maintaing my sliding gloves.
i was riding my 42" TVS Mid, with Randal 2s, Ninja 3s, and Bones Bombers 68mm 85a. i was wearing my sliding gloves, a pair of shorts, and shoes.
the hill i was riding is the same one in the bodyboarding video, the Inside, it features Jimmy Flindt and Joe Grozen, Joe goes down hard in the video. it is about 3/4 mi, smooth and in the upper 40s low 50s if you bomb it.
when i started the hill i still had about 3mm of plastic on the sliders, i am regular stance, and i was doing two handed pendulom toe side slides at 35 - 40mph, i had done 7 in a row, when i did the 8th slide (on the same run) i burned a hole through my sliders, causing them to stop sliding and yank me off my board onto the street, just inches below me.
i suffered road rash on my left palm and wrist, right forarm and wrist, the outside of my right hand, my left hip, left thigh, and a large patch on my stomach.
since then, i have set up my sliders with plates that are an inch thick, and much harder. i finally got the slide down today (of course now i was wearing my leathers)...now to work on a 360 slide.
here's what you should learn from this:
ALWAYS CHECK YOUR GEAR BEFORE DOING ANY MODERATLY FAST RIDING.
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On 3/23/2000
Nick Sites
wrote in from
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I was crusin' through the college were I live and I
came upon a 4 set with a hand rail. I went to do a back side
board slide. As soon as my board got to the rail it slid
away, I fell, hit my chin and nearly racked myself on the
bar. When I got on my feet people were staring and began to
ask questions. To save the embarrasment I rolled off with
out looking back and lived to skate another day. (age-15)
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On 3/23/2000 Lindsay
wrote in from
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Yeah Luke, you're not alone out there...I surf to work too
in my shirt and tie (and sneakers). It takes control first thing in the
morning when you're not yet awake, but something kicks in and
it's all good. Although I stopped doing it recently as it
made purely recreational sessions seem more normal and I
almost got bored with longboarding, plus if I have a stack
in my white shirt that would not look good to clients or
whatever.
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On 3/23/2000 Luke
wrote in from
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Mr. Corporate goes down. Last night I found some rails for my near mint old-school 34" Blockhead stretch (recently outfitted with a tailbone) and installed them with the original Sex-Bolts (Thriftystick in Denver ROCKS for old-school/longboards) so obviously I was psyched to ride that board to work today. Shirt & tie as always, I'm one block from work when I approach 4 suits from behind. They're taking up the whole double-sidewalk, but I get around them to find another blockade of clueless people. I had to swerve to the outside of a lightpost & both my outside wheels slipped off the curb. If I had anticipated it, it would have been a sweet way to begin the day, but instead I stopped in one of those body-torqueing (sp?) spills, ending in a chest/hand plant on the sidewalk. Turns out the 4 suits entered my building with me & in the elevator each were saying "gnarly fall" and such. My response: "Yeah, some people don't know how to use the sidewalk."
Until next time, that's our latest adventure of . . . Luke Gregory: Professional/Skateboarder.
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On 3/20/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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Went down a new hill,it was almost dark I had my brother captive as we were on our way to "the ninth gate"(don't bother with that movie)any way checked it from the car pretty steep, a couple rough spots, got some crack(not the drug) induced speed wobble but it smoothed right out on the next carve, I kept it sane with heavy speed carves, I get to the flatter sections and slide into a turn up a driveway, it looked paved,turns out the driveway is quater inch round pebbles,(it was pretty dark) the twenty foot long channels made by my wheels and gloves looked pretty funny,there's a little lesson here,is it a crash story even if you don't get hurt?
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On 3/19/2000
FLOWER
wrote in from
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SO I WAS ON THIS SWEET NEWLY PAVED ROAD AND I WAS JES CARVING AND MINDING MY OWN BUSINESS WHEN I SAW THIS SPOT WITH SAND....SO I WENT UP TO IT AND FOR SUM REASON DICIDED TO DO A POWERSLIDE(reelly smart)....and so i did and as i turned about 90 dergreesmy board jes stopped for sum reason and there i went full of momentum not wearing any pads....i landed and slid bout 5 feet....wasn't that bad till i realized sum one was stANDING THERE AND COUGHT THE WHOLE THING ON TAPE (lucky me) i tried playing it off but it was too hard..........
l8r dude
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On 3/16/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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Had a little bactine moment last night, took my birch and glass homemade with,r1's,and aluminators out on one of my more serious/scary hills,especially scary since i'm still not 100% tuned into exactly how fast I can go on the R1s with them loose as hell, its a great ride but I over loaded the wheels ,yes even 74a paw urithane will slipout,minor 1"x1" burn on my elbow,I was leaned way over(so the ground was kind of close) and fighting gravity with some crazy cool carves(until the one that slipped)its just that when your entering the really steep section and going real fast already(in the dark)its easy to over crank the turns,the runs after the crash were faster with no wobbles at all,so what was the fear for?just gotta learn from this kind of stuff.
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On 3/15/2000 Davis
wrote in from
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My boy Brian and I were at Georgia Tech over the weekend so it was pretty empty.
We got up the nerve to go about 3/4ths of the way up one of the bigger hills on
campus.It was extremly step and long. The speed was incredible so Brian decided
he would try al the way at the top on his short board instead of the longboard.
Bad mistake.About half way down i saw the board start to loss it. He tried to run off
but was going way too fast. He busted and sled the rest of the way down the hill and
into the street through a big puddle. It was a great fall ,wished i been taping it.
He was only hurt minor, but it was worth it.
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On 3/11/2000
Keith Fellmy
wrote in from
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Yep
I knew plenty of luge guys before I got mine. Hearing their horror stories, I had my leathers and helmet BEFORE I had my luge. I did do a 70 mph helmet grind down a guardrail once. What would have happened if I didn't wear the full gear. My kid would have probably grown up without a father or worse a father that was a vegetable. WEAR THOSE PADS.
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On 3/10/2000 brian
wrote in from
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isn't it funny, that before the crash..."i don't need pads, i won't hurt myself"...and after..."everybody wear pads!!!"--it just doesn't sink in till you feel the pain
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On 3/10/2000 Nic
wrote in from
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Owwch! today on my way to school, i hid a bump in the sidewalk and flew off my board. I landed straight on my wrist, breaking it. Now, i sit here in a cast waiting to get better. Wear wrist guards!
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On 3/9/2000
speedemon
wrote in from
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i had a similiar accident.i was carving up my neighborhood,when i came to a col de sac,which i usually turn sharply out of.so i made the turn and was going about 10 miles per-hour-pushing time.i pushed a couple times then stepped on my back wheel and flew superman style to the ground.whats amazing was that if i hadnt had been wearing my wrist guards,both wrists would be broken.so i pop back up real quick,look around to see if there were any witnesses or americas funniest home video fans,and grab my board which flew into a grassy area
speedemon
p.s:when your riding randle2s,remember your riding randle 2s
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On 3/8/2000
Jessie
wrote in from
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Ok, so this time it IS a crash. Dumb move too: I was going to put my foot down to pedal, and was shaky on my balance at the moment for some reason anyway, hit my foot on the wheel and lost it. The only really cool thing about it was that I went completely horizontal in the air. Some little kid saw me do it and apparently he'd crashed biking and he came up, showed me a lil' scab on his knee and said "look, I got hurted too!" I landed on my elbows mostly, knocked my left one out of joint, serious road rash on the right. Ah well, I knew it came with the territory when I got the board.
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On 3/6/2000
alex-soul skate
wrote in from
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well it wasn't a bad crash but today I was at uni (university) longboarding between classes. anyway it started raining when I was ready to go home, and I thought bummer. So we went to this car park, its got a totally smooth road, and I went down the ramp on my cosmic 1 (went real fast, it was so cool!) and I decided that because it was wet (and my shoes were wet) that instead of putting my foot down to slide my board to a stop that I would just keep on going and do a tight turn, anyway..the turn was real tight, I thought I was going to make it but I didn't! and I banged my knee into the bumper bar of a 4 wheel drive, and landed on my hip. It hurt, but wasn't too severe cause Im used to things like that.
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On 3/4/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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Crashed last night,third run back on my Sector concave pin, with the R2 trucks tripped up on the back wheel like a begginer, on like the second or third push,felt real dumb but I havn't gotten that many rides in this winter and the last ride was on a different board with R1's (narrower)I dont know how any body rides without slider gloves,I ppressed them down hard and managed to keep almost everything off the pavement,sliding it out on the sides of my shoes and the gloves,only slight roadrash on one knee.
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On 3/1/2000 Spacer
wrote in from
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Last night I was skating home and rounded the curve into a pretty hairy drop...the home stretch. I pulled into a slide and ended up fakie with a little too much speed. I tried to slide 'er back around, but didn't have enough speed for a slide. Anyway, I got dumped and my board took off down the hill. I chased after it, but no dice, it was goin straight down. All I could do was stand there and watch it pick up speed and wait for the inevitable.
Pretty soon it was cah-RUISIN and then disappeared under a parked station wagon...
WHAM!!!!
I ran down and grabbed it. It's a Fibreflex, so it's pretty light wieght...thin plywood. The tail got a little smashed in, nuthin some good wood glue and clamps won't cure. I hope the wagon was ok, but I didn't stick around to find out.
DAMN that's familiar...gettin dumped and watchin her go!
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On 2/29/2000
Chris
wrote in from
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Blah,
I can relate. I did almost the same thing when I tried to drop in on the bowl at Temecula, only I didn't hit me chin. The board went out from under me and I slammed real hard on my right hip.
Temecula is probably a better park to start with. As for learning to drop in, I would try the Mission Valley, YMCA park. There are a couple of 3-4 foot halfpipes that you can learn to drop in on, and then build up to bigger stuff. The advantage are that it's smaller and ramps are a bit more forgiving when you slam. E-mail and we'll go skate. Might be doing some downhill/carving this weekend. Later,
Chris
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On 2/29/2000
Blah
wrote in from
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Well, I now have four stitches under my chin. Yesterday afternoon I hit the Robb Field Skatepark (Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA). It was my first time skating a park ever, and I felt a little wierd with my 42" TVS Mid amongst a bunch of shortboarders. Anyways, I decide I want to try skating a bowl. On the drop in I sudden find my chin on the concrete. A guy told me I leaned to far back and twisted my body around, but it happenned so fast that I don't even know what happenned. The fall split the skin under my chin, and left some blood decorations on my griptape. Ah well, if anybody in San Diego wants to take the time to teach me the ropes (or the ramps rather) of park skating give me an email, planting my chin in concrete was not fun.
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On 2/23/2000
Nic
wrote in from
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Me and my friend were carving down some hills in the rich neiborhood in my town the other day. He had been longboarding for a few months, but it was my first hill ever on my homemade deck. I was carving, but i guess my trucks were too loose and i got viscious wobbles, lost control, and fell, at first flying like superman but then rolling into a curb (the bottom of the hill was perpindicular to a road). I chipped the hell out of the nose of my board, and scraped my elbow pretty bad. That was my first big crash. Does any one know how to control speed wobbles? I tightened my trucks but now i can't carve as well.
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On 2/20/2000
Keith Fellmy
wrote in from
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Well I got a new longboard. The only one of it's kind. Built by my luge buddy Bama Harmen. He calls it a Bodyrocket. It is longer than most boards and made from aluminum. Indy 215 trucks and some hard wheels. Was butt-boarding with it this morning on the baby hill. 15 mph tops. Well I didn't realize how hard the wheels were so I carved this corner and the next thing I know the asphalt is burning my ass. Right through the jeans (wal mart crap). After picking pebbles out of my butt and putting on lots of cream I went back. Wearing the leathers this time. Carved the corner perfect and the board didn't come out from under me this time. It was fun...painful but (butt) fun.
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On 2/20/2000 matt laurell
wrote in from
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I was cruising down a small hill going about 5 miles an hour. I did not notice the small pebels of gravel because it was dark. The S-9 stopped dead in its tracks and I flew head first right into a curb. Being very stupid, I was not wearing a helmet and the last thing I remember was waking up in the hostpital room. I had two skull fractures and a concusion. It sucked because they filled me up with all kinds of drugs and I acted like a vegetable. I will always wear my helmet. Matt Laurell-Santa Rosa, CA
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On 2/20/2000 BEn L
wrote in from
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A few weeks ago, i was cruising with my bro in this neighborhood. We were going down this wide sidewalk and were approaching another street. I decided to ride onto the grass with my S-9 supercruiser with xt offroad wheels. My brother on the other hand only had some small 65's or something. So he decided to jump in to the grass. when he jumped into the grass, his board shot out into the street. luckily no cars were nearby. I started chasing it down but couldn't catch up. It hit the gutter and started rolling down it. Then, it shot into a storm sewer-ooohhhh shit-- Well, being good boyscouts, i pulled my truck key out of my pocket and was able to pry up a manhole cover. I crawled down into the sewer and ran down it and got the board back. Ever since then the board has been called the sewer rat.
Happy cruisin-Gentle ben
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On 2/18/2000
rob k
wrote in from
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yea nick, ha ha. it was a fun ride tonight. i was the other guy he almost ran into. i was also the guy that was taking up the other lane when the suburbin came his way. nobody was hurt, so it was just funny.
seeya,
rob
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On 2/18/2000 Nick
wrote in from
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I was on this hill by a friends house and a Suburbin was driving right at me. So I paniced and slid my foot and gloves on the ground until I came to a complete stop. But before that I almost ran into the middle of my friends board. We were two inches away from each other. But we didn't hit, thank you very much. So be careful people and don't get hurt. PLEASE!
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On 2/13/2000
Keith Fellmy
wrote in from
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Well Mr. Safety went down. Riding my new board (built by Tannis Watson). I put Z-Rollers and Cherry Bombs on it. Well I didn't tighten the trucks up because I was in a hurry to get to the hill before dark. Then while riding I was in a hurry to get off the board the thing was wobbling so much. Tightened the trucks and the next ride was very smooth. ANyway while dismounting into a rose bush I had a spectator. Yep A cop. Luckily we went to school together and lectured me about my age and brain capacity. Then we had a laugh and went on our seperate ways. When I took my helmet off I thought he was going to die from laughing so hard. I was the class brain and no one ever thought I would end up riding skateboards. Oh well.
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