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On 3/1/2001
jakey p
wrote in from
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Well, gee guys this is hardly the most hardcore story you'll hear, some of you are pretty mad. I was down at woolacombe (in north devon, england) last summer, riding my old pintail. After laying down some lines in town, me and my mate dan(MEXICO!!!) decided to try the cliff road. Being fairly drunk at the time, it seemed a good idea to try bombing it, much to dans amusement. I probably should have tightened my trucks up, but at a good 25+, i got the wobbles. You americans probably have a good method figured out to stop this , but us brits are fairly new to the game, so i was faced with trying to ride it out or bail. Eventually the board decided it had had enough of me and we parted company, spitting me into the road, then a bank, then a field. I was pretty much scab from head to toe for a week, but worst of all, i dropped a fresh can of Caffreys!! Oh the humanity. Any way, there is no moral to the story, but hopefully it will prove that being stoopid is a worldwide hobby!! Drop me a line and ill tell u about the caravan incident. Strength and honour.
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On 2/27/2001
Ricky
wrote in from
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I have been skating off and on since the late 70's and for the last 3 years have been back on, mostly slalom with some longboard carving. Well...they finally built a skatepark where I live and I had to go. I was heavily into parks and ramps back in the day so you know I had to go. Forgetting (or trying to forget) that I am 40 and hadn't really rode a ramp in quite a while, I slipped up while dropping in on a 4 ft. ramp (Duh) and proceeded to twist my foot under the board. I fractured three of the bones in my foot and did some type of harm to the tendons and ligaments in the foot. The docs don't know the extent of the tendon and ligaments damage yet. I can't move my toes very much. I limped around for almost 3 weeks thinking it would get better, after all, skaters are bullet-proof, right? I finally went to a bone doc and we put me in an "aircast" for 4 weeks. At 3 1/2 weeks into it, the swelling isn't gone completely, my foots a light shade of purple and I still have some pain. The only way to find out for sure what's going on is to open the foot up. I sure don't want this, but if it's necessary, what else can you do? I worry about what the foot is going to do as I get older if I don't have it fixed.
So many people have told me "You're to old for that skateboard stuff", but obviously they don't understand. Skating gets in your blood and you can't just quit. If I had hurt it playing basketball or some other main stream sport they would be saying "Just hang in there and you'll be back on the court in no time". No one has good things to say like that, only giggles and smart-ass comments about an old man skating. Of course, I live in Jackson, MS and skaters are not something you see very often. People around here just don't get it. I'm going back to the park as soon as I heal (or sooner) no matter how stupid it may seem.
Has anyone ever had a similar injury? If so, what was the outcome?
Thanks guys! I really enjoy the NCDSA page and visit daily to see what's going on in the real world.
Thanks again. Ricky
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On 2/26/2001
Remember ur gloves
wrote in from
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as a reminder to anyone starting to bomb a few hill, rememeber ur gloves...a friend of mine and i were up in penn this weekend snowboarding, and after we thought it would be kwel if we went out and bombed some hills. well i left my gloves at home...but being a dumbass thought maybe i could slow down by simply carving back up the hill........
i was wrong. while startin the hill i looked down and suddenly relized that there was eithier a hard left, just as hard right, or a nice lil snowbank wit some trees behind it. soon as i relized this i tried turning back up the hill (after of course kickin my own ass for not being more observent) but i was already movin about 35+ wit shitty trucks...any slight movement would result in a very bad slide on some rocks all over the road...so now traveling at 40 i had a choice...a car was now coming down the right turn...do i attempt a slide witout gloves, just try turnin left, jump off (which is prety much suicide at that speed, tho my friend actually pulled it off) or head into the snow bank? i said fuck it, hit the snow bank, planted my right foot on it, flipped both vericaly and horizonaly...i saw the sky, ground, sky, tree(as my left ankel smashed into it) and then then ground again...more closely this time...also when i hit the tree, i spun the other way on impact. just wished someone video taped it...wouldve been a kick ass crash i think
Ean
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On 2/22/2001 dEETs
wrote in from
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PCB,
in my chemical course at school my fingers had contact with fairly concentrated h2o2. And they were kind of bleached for a few days or even weeks. Of course this is a matter of concentration, and normaly you wont get your fingers on the high concentrated stuff.
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On 2/22/2001
R.
wrote in from
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hey all,
I know this may sound weird as all hell, but I bought some citrus cleaner to clean bearings and grip goo, and apparently, it's good to clean the tar (black stuff) out of wounds. Doctors apparently have used it on burn and crash victims (or at least there's an article on it in JAMA). The brand name is De-Solv-It I bought it at ACE hardware, but more info is probably at www.orange-sol.com . you just spray it on, leave it for half a minute and rinse with water. I've never used it on wounds, though, so I don't know how well it works, and you probably still need to sterilize and get pebbles, etc. out. The only way to do that is scrubbing and sterilizing agent like alcohol/iodine, etc. And no, I'm not affiliated with De-Solv-It in any way.
As for scabs and moisture, I actually hate Neosporin--it makes the scab too moist and it pusses and rips off. I'd say let it breathe some so it can get good and hard (depending on size). Then you can wrap it in gauze and/or cotton and wear pads over that.
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On 2/22/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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Sorry for incinuating what I did, GBJ.
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On 2/22/2001
GBJ
wrote in from
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Actually PCB, I hadn't even read the other posts when I entered mine. I just haven't fallen much this winter. That I happened to have pads on the first time I did is a lesson that is more effective as I get older, really. It wasn't a shot at you. The fact that I fell, kind of hard, and am not beaten to a pulp definitely encourages me to put on the equipment next time.
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On 2/21/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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BTW, does anyone know how to keep a scab from getting soaked with sweat while wearing a pad over it?
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On 2/21/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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Well gee GJB, I hope that wasn't a barb at me. I'm sitting here wondering if it's wet neosporin or infectious ooz that's making my elbow and palms look like a cheap pizza. My cold weather fun was the skatepark and now I probably won't be able to wear the requiered elbow pads or my trusty wrist guards because they'll prevent my scrapes from healing. I've learned my lesson.
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On 2/21/2001 GBJ
wrote in from
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The other day, I was running slalom at the site for "The Gathering", and managed to lean right off the front of my Turner, while reaching for the finish line. I went down pretty hard, but staying conscious of my pads, I fell on all the right places and got back up unhurt. Y'know, the older I get, the more I appreciate my safety equipment and the smarter I feel when I fall wearing it.
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On 2/21/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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I got my advice from a family member that I trust, who was prescribed this by a doctor. Was your experience with just the hydrogen peroxide, without the water to go with it?
To clarify:
One part hydrogen peroxide and one part water.
Apply it with Q-tips in a swabbing motion.
Notice the black stuff showing up on the Q-tip.
Each Q-tip gets used up quickly, so make sure you start off with enough of them. I thought cotton balls might work better because they have a larger surface area but it turned out to not be as effective as q-tips had been.
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On 2/21/2001 dEETs
wrote in from
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PCB,
although I have no medical education, I know from my own expiriences that hydrogen peroxide can cause serious cauterization. So, if it helped you, thats cool. But I want to stress out that your recipe is potentially dangerous - so, don't do that at home, kids! Getting tetanus is no fun either!
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On 2/20/2001
hugh r
wrote in from
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PCB,
Not only have I had this method used on me by nurses, I have used it on myself, my buddies, and even one of my kids.
Sure, it hurts a bunch... but not as much as the infection that most assuredly will follow.
I used to crash my dirtbikes a lot, so I got used to "scrubbing out" particals of dirt/rocks/asphalt/stuff... HR
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On 2/20/2001 roger
wrote in from
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PCB, I have a tiny black stripe a little longer than a centimeter of asphalt, tar, rubber, or whatever was on the street. I left it there, it got infected, stinky, concerned nurses, and got hypertetnis (?) shots. Now I have it as a tattoo.
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On 2/19/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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A BRUSH?!? Would you really use that method yourself Hugh? Ouch! This might be more comfortable - Since that last post, I've gotten the suggestion of hydrogen peroxide and then tried it. I didn't think it would work but it does. If you ever have this problem, get a whole box of Q-tips (you'll need alot of them anyways). Mix one part hydrogen peroxide with one part water and apply this mixture with Q-tip in a wiping motion. The black stuff gets "sizzled" out of the scrape and comes off onto the Q-tip.
On another note, before anyone asks, no, I couldn't slide or scrub out my speed. This was on a 4.5' wide multi-use path.
Was I stupid for riding on it? YES.
Was I stupid for not wearing some type of gloves? YES.
Was I stupid for standing too far forward on the board? Probably.
Should I have dove to the side, to the dirt and grass? Probably.
Did I shame myself in front of all traffic on Prince William Parkway, 4 miles out of Woodbridge at 3:30pm on Monday? Possibly.
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On 2/19/2001
hugh r
wrote in from
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PCB,
Yes, worry about the asphalt in your skin. You need to scrub it out, no matter how much it may hurt (and it WILL hurt) Use a very stiff bristle brush... like one you might scrub potatoes with. If you can't do it yourself, find someone who doesn't like you much and have them scrub HARD.
That stuff can cause a pretty nasty infection and you don't want to risk absorbing too much into your body... HR
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On 2/19/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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I crashed today going between maybe 15 and 20 mph due to ocillation of my truck pivots (speed wobbles). (Note to newbies: If you just got R2s, don't assume that you won't get speed wobbles with them. To go 20+ mph they need to be fairly tight)
Anyways, it wasn't too bad because I was crouching really low on the board when I fell off but now I'm missing some skin and the blacktop that took it from me left a nasty black stain in my scrape that I can't even wash out with soap. I put some neosporin on it. Should I still be worried about this black stuff? In the most prolific area, it appears to be many tiny scratches with black tar in them.
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On 2/16/2001 mikez
wrote in from
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THIS IS TOO MUCH FOR MY POOR BODY I HAVE WIPED 4 TIMES IN THREE SKATES :( the first wipe this morning was on a hill with a hardcore left hand hairpin. I wanted to try to get to the corner first and have more room to brake and take the corner nice and neatly anyways I slowed down too much and Gustav(skater friend) hit me from the behind boosting me outwards onto the wrong lane(we drive on the left hand side of the road of the road) he was sitting on me I thought we were going to eat bushes;. But I thought I should put to use the colemans slide. I busted a slide and sat on the tar Gustav fell off me and we just skided across the tar got up checked ourselves for wounds. Thankfully we coudn't find any.(thanks leathers). The next wipe however was way worse. We were skating down dal road (check riding locations for review) And we came around one of the hairpins only to see the damn wind had made a sprinkler put water on the road. Icame around the corner second(in a group of four.) and smacked the water at just the wrong angle slipped and beat my ass on the tar. (I had to type this standing)
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On 2/14/2001 mikez
wrote in from
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I don't care what anyone says TWO FALLS in TWO SKATES is TOO MUCH. AFter taking about 8 hairpins I slow down politly for the last(and tightest) hairpin of the course and I went into a huge slide cotrolled recovered and in a desparate attempt to stay in my lane on a blind corner went into another slide. Anyways it seems my cherries are a lot stickier than I thought, well you know the rest. The board jammed back into the road and I went flying forwards landing on 2 of the same roasties as the previous skate.(man I am glad I was wearing my leather jacket.)
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On 2/12/2001 mikez
wrote in from
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Todays first run was...... VERY unsuccsesful. It was all going well untill one of the guys that I was skating with drafted me and took me over. He pulled back in front of me to early and our wheels locked. He stopped and I flew clean over him. I landed on my gloves and slid across the tarmac leaving a mean couple of roasties. I ate CAROTS (local slang for wiping hard)
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On 1/31/2001
Leo
wrote in from
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Well im sad ia m here again, but i hace to tell my story.
i was riding as usual in the same downhill, at 930pm as usual, this particular street starts on a gentle curve and then passes through a school and closed streets of private neighborhood, half of the way passes this 4 way (2 principal and 2 auxiliar)lines....it doesnt have too traffic, but the trafic it has, passes at high speed or they just stop the car and drink and get-togheter in the street, yesterday it was normal, not so many cars but a few parked car, about 3 or 4 car, i was going for my 3rd time and my buds and i decide to go downhill real fast, so when i approched the avenue i was carving to reduce speed, my friend passed ok and i was abot 100feets behind him, when i saw thispick up, going real slow...the driver look my friend, then i saw hime in a fraction of sec. that he saw me and he DIDNT STOP!!!!!!....man i got to tell you, i got really scared, i couldnt go either right or left bcause of the parked cars and i cant do a slide bcaise i was going about 35 kp/h, impact wasnt avoidable, i tought that i can jump over the hood insted of crasing on the door, so i jumped and crased my both legs on the right front fender, broke the side mirror and the whiper, i kept grabed on the pick up for about 10 feets and then he stoped, i fell down, walk a little, then i lay down and start to touch all myself to see if i was ok....
THANK GOD AND JESUS, i was ok, i could have crashed on the door and my face will have smahed the glass or i could be roll over by the truck or i could be smashed by the wheel, or i dont know......
now i changed my kryptos 70mm to my nineballs 60mm to go a little slower, i am not going to quit, just to take a little rest while my bruces and my neck,left arm, both legs, chest pain goes away.
thats all
leo
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On 1/30/2001
Alex
wrote in from
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I was going down this path that has a really steep incline. I had done it before but this time I started further up. As you go down, you gain alot of speed. At the bottom there is a traffic circle that doesn't have many cars but lots of people. Any way, as you hit the bottom of the path you get shot out into the circle and have to hang a hard left (against traffic) and then go about a quarter of the circle and pull another hard left to a side street that is wide enough for cars but is for pedestrians and service vehicles only. Being that it is traffic restricted there is the type of gate that is just a bar that swings up and out of the way for cars with the code. This time it was down, leaving only about 2 feet to get around it. Unfortunatly, thos 2 feet are pretty rough pavement and at 25 mph its hard to pull the hard left. I made it around the gate, but got a wobble trying to turn back and flew about seven feet through the air landing almost perpendicular on my side, smacking my head on the pavement and sliding another five to ten feet. I blacked out and came to with people stairing down at me,"Are you OK?". I was but I have a nice knot on my head as a battle scar. I guess if your not falling, you not learning.
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On 1/30/2001 sam
wrote in from
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I was Flying down this huge hill a street over from mine called "Lanipo". I took the bottom turn entering the top of the last hill on Lanipo. i realized i was going way too fast and i jumped off and tried to run like mario bros. and was traveling about 30-35 mph and got triped up and fell. I wasn't wearing a shirt and had no pads. My friend that was following me said that i hit my head first and i blanked out. I then got dragged about 25 feet on pure gravel and skurbed up my shoulder, face, elbows, knees and hands really good. I was out of it for almost two months, and that was over six months ago. I now OWN that hill and use it as a warm up...
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On 1/29/2001
Leo
wrote in from
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i was night riding with my new skatemates and i was "trying" to show how to do a coleman, so i was really quick, i was escorted by my g/f, i alwasy check the distance between us, and i saw this car coming at a moderat-to-fast speed and the he passed her by THE RIGHT!!!!! just in time when i was starting to slide, of course, it was my board or my body..i pushed the feets to put the board away and then i roll over it and landed on my elbow, affortunatly the car saw me (thanx reflective tape on helmet) and stop, i had to pull this little rock that was into my skin like a stone piercing.......man i had to get elbow protectors
leo
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On 1/25/2001 dEETs
wrote in from
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HI,
this happened 2 years ago. A friend of mine made himself a pintail. Not very sophisticated, with low-cost trucks and hard small diameter wheels. Then he went off to France, for surfing and snowboardig and longboarding - without a clue about the last one. After a few rides down some gentle hills near the beach, he decide to let himself be pulled by their car. At 40-50 km/h, he got the wobbles and let the car go. He bailed out and hit the ground. With major roadrash, the surfing in salt water was over, of course. But the most amazing point is that one of his buddies filmed the crash on his digi-cam. In slomo, you can see how he runs, the high speed forcing him into his knees, and then threse the magic moment of his knee touching the asphalt. I hope I can get my hands on that tape, an publish some screenshots.
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