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On 10/22/2000
John
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Ouch
Last night I found a great spot (a nice parking lot which was slightly downhill, next to a nice long road that wasn't steep, but had a lot of turns) I rode myself silly on the parking lot, and I had determined that I was ready to try the road. So I waited untill their was no traffic, and proceded down the hill. It was a nice ride down, untill the crappy trucks that I'm using (Venture trucks) got a bad case of the speed wobbles (after tighting the crap out of them), and I wound up going off the road, superman for about 15 feet, landed on my right shoulder and rolled a couple of times. Now my shoulder hurts like hell 10 hours later (I think that I did something serious to it).
Yesterday was a bad skating day already (I was messing around in the house, slipped fell off and onto my skate tool in my back pocket, and managed to put my board through a door.)
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On 10/19/2000 steve m
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Was going rather fast (about as fast as one can go pushing as hard as possible on smooth flat) yesterday and playing around with stance.
Thought "oh just one more hard push", i dont know, maybe it was the wind hahaha, started to lose it with sideways balance went to mongel footbreaking(weight was on right rear foot) and i put just a little too much weight down, in danger of doing worse splits, did the feeble hop off two giant leaps (still going quick) wham superman.
Thank you work gloves and knee pads, damn you full backpack.
So the bad part: my skate is now really moving down the street heading for the curb, no cars. Generally it will hit the curb and stop. this time it makes a million dollar bank shot off the curb and a big old hoopti makes a right hand turn into it. He doesn't stop, and cant run over it, the exkates are tweeked to the limit and I can hear the aluminators being ground into nothing. the whole time im running at him yelling stop. He backs up I lift up my board show him what he was trying to run over (now split longways) and walk to school. Damage: one flat aluminator, and my first and favorite homemade board junked.
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On 10/17/2000
Danny Connor
wrote in from
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Hey guys,
Man, wasn't Barrett a fun race? Well, all was good until my first stand-up heat. I was up against John Rogers, and one of the fellows from Landyachtz. After beating both off the line, Jonh was very quick to pass me(I still don't know how)right before the first hair-pin, so as I saw him do this, I got greedy and went into it way too hot. Slid into the hay, no big deal. Right after I got up and started kicking, the Landyachtz guy passed me, so I was thinking "piece of cake, I'll catch him in the last few s-turns." Well, as I was going into hair-pin two, my bandana that I was wearing under my helmet got all scrunched up as a result of the first crash, when I adjusted my helmet, the bandana fell infront of my eyes, and I went into the second hair-pin blind, all I could do was grab my board and brake, HARD. I just slid a litte and smacked into the hay, and all I can say is, um, hard. Broken toe(on kicking foot)and sore shoulder and neck. I still had to race luge after that, so I just wrapped the 'ol toe in some toilet paper, and electrical tape, and tried to get on my way(that didn't go too well for me),I still had tons of fun though!
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On 10/16/2000
Kaylee
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Waxfoot,
And just having the wristguard isn't good enough. You have to make it a permanent fixture on your hand. I took of my wristguard (while skating) for the first time in about a year yesterday. It was just a quick tool around the parking lot, right? I always fall on my wrist when my wristguard is off, always. Now I sleep, shower, and eat with it on. Can't do homework with one on, but you can't do homework with a broken wrist either. Always wear it.
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On 10/16/2000 GBJ
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Three posts in a row, a personal record! ...actually, in the previous story, I neglected to mention that the small kid was on a BMX bike.
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On 10/16/2000
waxfoot
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note to myself (and anybody else): spend the extra minute to put your safety gear on. I was just goofing off 10 minutes before practice yesterday, lost control, tried to run it out (yeah right in rubber slippers - thongs/slaps for you mainlanders)and went down. did a good roll but must have caught myself with my wrist first. end result: skinned knee, missing end of left toe, and me typing with one hand because my right wrist is broken in 3 places. now im out of the water for 3 months all because i figured i was just going for a 10 minute sesh and didnt need to wear my gear. next purchase: wrist guards. lesson learned: take the extra time - your bones will thank you, and you wont have to watch from the sidelines....
waxfoot
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On 10/16/2000
GBJ
wrote in from
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...but as long as Skatebowl is telling bowl stories, I'll bite. It was about 12 years ago, that I was skating Lansdowne Skatepark (Baltimore, MD) on a SchmittStix, Yardstick. The long cruising run consisted of a long (50 yds?) v-shaped channel (about 4' deep), into a big, right hand (circa mid-seventies) wave shaped 180 degree turn. Coming out of the turn, you're beginning to build some speed, cross the flat-bottom to a lefthand kickturn off a face wall, down through a channel, up and over a rise and down into a big round, left hand carving bowl. Crossing the rise into the bowl, one has enough speed to go almost completely weightless and despite the significant size of the bowl, it could be a chore to stay in while carving it. Okay, scene set. One other thing..., the bottom of the center of the bowl is filled with sand. So, I'm flying. Regular-footed, the lefthand kickturn was f-side and up and over the rise to set up a blazing f-side carve around the bowl, at the end of which I'd re-enter the rest of the park and let the run play itself out. Coming over the rise, at full speed, what do I see? A small child beginning to roll down the wall I'm about to carve across. I shout! "HEY, HEY, HEY!!!" We have eye contact, and he's like a deer in the headlights; stopped, halfway down the banked wall. Attempting to reverse my turn, performing, essentially, a mid-wall bottom turn would be out of the question. My only option is to go low and thread the needle between the little kid and the sand. Since I have his eye, I shout, "I'm going IN!", and I emphasize the statement with a head gesture that also initiates my action for me. I'm committed. What does the kid do? Rolls to the edge of the sand. I'm out of choices. I'm about to surf into a sandpile, at the bottom of a big concrete hole in the ground, at somewhere between 20-25 mile and hour. As if preparing to skate into grass, I set my weight as far back as possible. When I hit the sand, the board stopped, and the energy generated as I leveraged over my outstretched front leg, catapulted me over 40' through the air (all 220 lbs of me, at the time) to near the top of the bowl, where I hit and actually bounced further up the wall by about another couple of feet. I felt my entire ribcage compress, mangled (for about the millionth time) my left elbow, scraped a bunch of skin off the lateral aspect of my left leg, and whacked my head, knocking myself out. Actually, I didn't go unconcious immediately. I hit, bounced, sat up and looked back at the kid. I pointed my finger at him and murmured "...you...", just as "the black curtain" was falling over my vision. When I regained conciousness, I had been removed from the bowl, and the kid was nowhere to be seen. He must've thought he'd killed me. I wonder if he remembers it as well as I do?
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On 10/16/2000
GBJ
wrote in from
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I'm not sure, but I don't think the point is to get everyone else to try what you did. I'll not be trying the falling on the head or the hyperextended arm thing, if it's okay with you. ;-)
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On 10/16/2000
Skatebowl
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Try falling twelve feet. I landed on my head and arm, hyperextending my right arm over to my left shoulder. Try that for starters. I have several more severe injuries to discuss. All of these injuries brought to you by the bowl in San Ramon, CA. A place called Central Park.
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On 10/16/2000
vexer
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First time in two years i hit some one! I was skating on a sector nine cosmic1 and was practicing punping the board for speed, I carved hard into a blind 90 degree turn down a handycap ramp and made the turn but when i looked up there was a girl standing right in front of me. I stoped the board board with my front foot and my self with my back foot on the ground, but my top half kept going and i flew into her giving her a bear hug while we staggered backwards. need less to say i appoligesed profusly and sulked off not wanting to skate any more that day.
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On 10/15/2000 Herbn
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Just over cooked a slide into a drive way, at the bottom of a new hill,shuttle car driver said 35 mph,ended up slide backwards over grass to a different driveway and rolled off backwards,,,,,,that's as close to crashing as i come(knock,knock the wooden table top:)but i just felt left out,cause i never post on this page,knock on wood again.
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On 10/11/2000 mikez
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took a mean little wipe just now. I was going down a hill with a slow start to a super fast ending I was at the middle and looked behind me to see if there were any cars coming and hooked my back wheels in the gutter and slid wide i tried to recover and just went into a full "super man style" and landed and skided face first into the gutter and am now very full of very sore "roasties"
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On 10/10/2000
Chris Chaput
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I hope not to be a frequent poster here however, I qualified this past weekend. During a practice run at the Barrett Junction race some riders who knew the course took off ahead of me and I scrambled to get the rest of my gear on and took off after them. I wanted to see what a good line was through the hairpins but it was too late to follow and watch. I foot braked mongo and made the first one okay, but came didn't brake enough in the second and came out too hot to avoid the hay bales. My choices were to slide with my broken big toe first, just run into the bales and see what happens or to do a dive roll over the hay bales. Being somewhat gymnastically inclined, I chose the dive roll and did a perfect front flip over the bales and right onto my back-butt-feet and into the dirt-sand-rocks. A little embarrassed, I jumped back on and was determined to catch up with the pack. That turn is so slow that many actually take pushes after it to regain momentum. I got back up to speed and in my tightest tuck in the middle of the road I hit these Caterpillar tracks and slammed hard. Thank god I was wearing my thickest practice leathers and wrist guards (and a helmet of course). I hobbled back onto my board and rolled down the rest of the road with less than stellar form. The funny thing is, as banged up as I was, I honestly felt that I was now done with all of my falls and so I wasn't nervous about the hill any more. The next day in racing I went to my fast leathers and speedsuit. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
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On 10/6/2000
roger
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Last night I was practicing mongo foot dragging, each time a little faster than the last, most of them being a little sketchy with arms wailing around to keep balance. In retrospect I should have focused on balance before going for more speed. About a half second into dragging my foot I realized that I was not going to pull this one off, way to fast to run out, and I was going down…
I went into "homerun" slide mostly on my right hand, knee, leg and butt. Got up with a slight limp that went away in a few minutes and no blood. Gloves, kneepads, and now Levi jeans have new scrapes. I would have been so rashed without them. Actually the side was fun, or was it relief know I was not getting hurt. Yes the story ends well, wear your gear!
Not another idiot with road rash, just an idiot ;)
Roger
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On 10/6/2000
GBJ
wrote in from
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The Turner, being smarter than I, deposited itself in a nice, soft, grassed ditch.
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On 10/5/2000 roger
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GBJ, Get to the important part, any damage to the Turner?
;)
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On 10/5/2000
GBJ
wrote in from
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I've managed to step right off the front of my Turner slalom deck TWICE in the past week. It and I have a special relationship. Every time I am not paying 100% attention to what I am doing, it dumps me. A week ago, I was cutting tight, consecutive turns down the hill in front of my parents house. I decided to stop doing turns about three turns before the board did. So, upon realizing that I am now sailing through the air, with no pads, AND disconnected from my "highly-collectible" skateboard, I do the only logical thing; I turn my head completely away from the fall to try to spot where my precious Turner is going. Slap! Ouch! The cute, young hotties in the van coming the other way sure got an eyeful of the old, grey-haired guy eating about three yards of pavement. End result... pebble hole in right palm, left "swellbow", right hipper. I must've been twisted-up pretty good to land on my left elbow and right hip. At 38, you'd think I'd realize that I ONLY fall hard, when I'm not wearing equipment, and I only fail to wear equipment for those quick, mindless cruises. Object lesson learned... for the meanwhile. The second fall was fully padded, but it still hurts to lay a full body slap on a tennis court. It was as far back as the seventies that my closest skater-friends started calling me "Ton o' Bricks", because I, laughably, have NO fall reflexes at all. (with the exception of kneesliding park and ramp terrain)
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On 10/4/2000
Hamm
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Todcar, I too ate it while practicing slalom on Sat. Not too hard, but hard enuff. I just could'nt cut the cone and ran right over it. The board just stopped and I kept going. Slammed the lead knee and wrist. My wrist are so messed up since I started skating again. I have GOT to remember to wear my wrist braces even when doing the slow stuff.
Dave
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On 10/2/2000 todcar
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did a little slalom practice yesterday and got a good taste of Mr. Asphalt. Tried to cut a cone doing about 15mph and the board totally cut out from under me. I didn't get pitched, instead just did a good solid downward slam on my right wrist and shoulder. I haven't fallen in about a year so it was a bit of a shocker. Kind of like a quarterback getting hit for the first time in the season - you gotta get used to it if you are going to push your own limits. BTW, rode with Steve Olsen and Richie Carrasco and they had none of the problems I did -the old pros are still the pros.
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On 10/2/2000
Gary
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Ever notice that the "kids" like Gavin & John never wear hlemets and pads, and think it's cool to hit yer head.
I think maybe they have hit there head one too many times. Whats up with there parents not making them wear helemts.
Ask my son about not wearing a helmet if you can make any sence out of him!
Ya know who's not cool the idiots that don't wear pads.
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On 10/1/2000 Ben Lewis
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This is to 13 yr old John- Done it too. Wear pads dumbshit!
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On 9/29/2000
GBJ
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Gavin, The moral of your story should be..., bombing "deathwish" hills, without a helmet and other safety equipment is all fun and games until your "wish" comes true. Skate safe or die an idiot.
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On 9/27/2000
Gavin Mcintosh
wrote in from
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Well this is my first letter to the sight so i'm a little
back logged with bails. Heres my first installment. This summer
about mid june, I went for a session with a buddy of mine
Pat Elliott. We live in vancouver bc, way out west.So we drop this
this deathwish hill after a couple of our buddies pumped us up
up for it. Train tracks run through the middle of the hill,
I figure I'll make up my mind about crossing the tracks at about
half way. Well I was going way to fast to stop so I decided
to to turn off on a side street. Bad Idea, it was about 11 pm
and i couldn't see anything. I hit a rise in the road, halfway
through my toeside arc and just racked myself. Flew backwards
and went sliding across the pavement. Burned my elbow of and
recked my pants. But right after that there was that moment
during a fall when your not quite sure whether your head is
to hit the concrete or not, you know what i'm talkin aboout.
Well my head cracked the road, hard! So I chilled for a bit and
shook of the bail. Worst part was their was a group of highschool
hotties, on the corner. I was so pissed I couldn't even look at them.
But my buddy managed to get their digs. MOral of the story,
their is none, all I know is that i biffed a few more times since then
and I am still alive. Maybe I should get a brain bucket, ya.
P.S. I am starting a club called Western Longboarders Club.
Wright us at westernlongboarders@hotmail.com
Enjoy the ride boys and girls because this is your life to
live, live it on a longboard, live it large!
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On 9/26/2000 fred
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was going at least 20mph in a tuck. hit a piece of uplifted cement. flew off. feet hit ground. feet got sucked under. spiralled into cement with shoulder,head,back and elbows. was hurt. many scrapes on elbows, back, and helmet. knees did not hit ground at time of impact so they were fine. one last bad thing- broken collarbone. bone is almost penetrating through the skin. can't longboard for more than 6 weeks. life sucks when you cant skate.
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On 9/25/2000
Ben Whitaker
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Two 25 mph crashes on the Freebord today, the kind where you try to run it out but only get in one or two steps before you do the "Superman" onto the pavement. Flips, rolls, slides.
From the post-crash checkup, these are the only pads I actually needed: both gloves (foot-long Chinatown specials, welder's gloves, $5), both wristguards, both elbow pads, both kneepads, and my helmet. Didn't need my sunglasses at all. The rivets on my jeans were a lot smaller and shinier, too. I wear a hi-vis giant yellow hockey jersey, small rips there.
The kneepads were OK although one got a rivet ground out of the right and doesn't hinge properly anymore, helmet and elbow pads scarred but look good, gloves and plastic wrist guards good for two more crashes tops. Jeans, Vans, and thick jersey are missing a stitch here and there but in top shape. I somehow got a couple of dime-sized strawberries on my right elbow and each hip (rivets & no undies?) but I'm in top shape. Didn't know any blood got shed for hours.
What's the point? Full pads plus hairy wreck = fewer injuries + lesson learned. Keep skating.
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