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On 4/25/2001 Herbn
wrote in from
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I have some cool video of a crash of mine,last night(dusk)i was sliding around the corner pretty fast,but i went a little wide,where the patches/pot holes are,stripped my board off my feet,then being that my slider gloves are slipperier than shoe rubber they came around the side,hitting the patches initiated the spin as well,i ended up sliding gloves first into the gravel on the side of the road,no skin touched the ground,it was hilarious! on video as well,i then cranked the turn nice on my second attempt.If my plastic was just shoe gooed on i am sure it would have ripped right off.
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On 4/24/2001
Mitch T
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Ok I skated Capitol Crescent trail from Bethesda the over the bridge by Arlington cemetary and into Alexandria. This was about 15 miles altogether, a couple of hours of riding. I take a rest at a park in Alexandria and decide to take the metro home. Start heading towards the metro, first I'm riding in the street, then it gets too narrow and crowded so I start riding the brick sidewalk, no problem ride several black just pumping away then suddenly my board stops and I go flying. What happened? A loose brick and one of my wheels was swallowed by the sidewalk. Bruised and scraped knee and a contusion on my index finger, luckily I was wearing wrist guards. Watch out for loose bricks!
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On 4/23/2001
dumoutier clement
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First of all I am sorry because I am French.My story is a beat particular.I was in Paris resting out of the road on my home made board after a long trip when on the road in front of me a car was hurted by an other behind her the car was going so fast that the driver lost the control and finally hurt me.I knew that road was dangerous but the paradoxe is that I wasn t riding on it when it happened today I never rest out of the road (I had one of my foot finger broken)
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On 4/23/2001
dumoutier clement
wrote in from
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First of all I am sorry because I am French.My story is a beat particular.I was in Paris resting out of the road on my home made board after a long trip when on the road in front of me a car was hurted by an other being her the car was going so fast that the driver lost the control and finally hurt me.I knew that road was dangerous but the paradoxe is that I wasn t riding on it when it happened today I never rest out of the road (I had one of my foot finger broken)
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On 4/18/2001
guerlou guillaume
wrote in from
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in english it will be hard for me to explain but i will resum it, sorry i m french !it was in the city of bordeaux in france and i was riding with my french longboard. one of my friend bringed me with its schwinn bicross, when suddenly i was stopped by a small wall in the street; my friend continued but i fell stongly on the road, just me because the skate stopped to move, not me!!!everybody stopped in the street and asked me if it was ok: i answered that it was good but i hurt my arm. but i m a big boy so at least everything was fine for me; to finish, my skate is a chronic crew, a french brand that i recomand for you in the usa !your country is genious, your lifestyle is perfect and also your girls are so so so good !bye and send me messages if you want and if you come in france to ride, specially in the region of bordeaux.
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On 4/14/2001 Herbn
wrote in from
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I got to test my emergency bailout,at 35+.It was totally dark,moonless night,really fast and smooth hill there's a real steep section that flatens into an intersection,the crossing cars have the stop signs.I'm right in the speed zone,where the hill really does not want to let you carve,the carves get bigger,no choice.Just at the worse moment a car pulls to the stop sign,i keep saying don't believe they can see you so i through a slide,my boards have been changing a lot so i expect more traction than i get ,so my board slide easy with turbos and real wide trucks,my butt hits the pavement,and i immediatly do the "two hand butt saving colemann"i stop on time and the car sits there stunned,the slide had to be 100+ feet.
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On 4/10/2001
brad
wrote in from
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does any one know the speed rule on certain city streets . it is if you start green and match the speed limit you hit greens all the way right , my butt or should i say my friends butt . were bombing down solidad mtn. road whichis a decent 2 1/2 miles from the cross . not very much traffic and no head wind it was perfect . the hill featurs 4 stop lights . we hit he first 3 fine perfect green , no prob. then we rounded onto the straight towred the bottem when what low and behold a red light ah ! both me and my friend puled into huge colmans . i was fine but my friend board shot out from under him at a little 0ver 50 and he slid on his ass for so far . as we walked back to were we parked on garnet people were staring as blood slowly soacked his dickies . i wished him luck w/ the brillo brush after i dropped him at the hospital . late!
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On 4/4/2001 Sidewalk_surfer2000
wrote in from
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Took my 15 yr old son down a hill last weekend. Everything was going fine.. parked at the top grabbed our boards and walked out in front of some hikers. my son went first with me only seconds behind then it happened.. The Wobblies he was bombing about a third of the way down when his board blew out and he was left eating pavement.. I felt bad 'cause I past him right at he moment he hit I was cruisin around 40 mph.. All I could do was Air Brake but I still had half the hill to go when I was finally able to stop I was a half mile away... I ran back to find that he had lost both shoes on impact(yes they were tied), a little road rash, a cracked board and a huge smile... I dont know if I can keep up with the things that kids find enjoyment in these days...As he said "WOW! What a rush, The first few seconds that is"
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On 3/30/2001 Omar
wrote in from
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Geez, today i fell really bad. you see, i had a friend named Alberto Fernandez (super guy, should be in team Dregs) and i was triing to keep up. the worst thing a guy could do on the board i had. we were goin' about 28 mph, i think, just and average day for this guy, but im reall hard headed and stupid. so i got out of my "tuck" (i have a horrible stance) and i got the speed wobbles. then i saw Bert just wasting me and i fell. it really hurt. (yes My "Johnson" was in serious peril and rolled like a flat tire. but i didn't break anything and i'm okay now. Well i've got to go, I'm feeling quite Jovial today! ;)
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On 3/30/2001 el color azul
wrote in from
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ahora me duele un muchos el 'johnson' because me fell. un alberto es de amor for men, eso his 'sister' told me.
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On 3/30/2001 mikez
wrote in from
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today was the stupid wipeout day cause it was raining and I love sliding in rain, so I put on my very hardest wheels and went sliding, I did 1 or two warm up slides which were succesful, I then bombed down a hill and went into a huge slide down a wet patch, I succsesfully landed it and as I came out of the slide(or so I thought)I put some pressure on my inside rail, wam bam ouch dam, I flew into the air and smacked my hip sossosososososooooo hard, please remember, I was doing about.05kph at the time and could have stepped off my board, I now hobble a lot and have a blue right and left hip, got hip protection?
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On 3/28/2001
Joe
wrote in from
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About 3 months ago in January i was travelling down a big hill, as you do, when a kinda large pot hole came out of nowhere, turning my board towards the grass at the side of the road, which i missed landing on by 2 feet, and ended up on my chest sliding for about 10 minutes. A week later i went out street skating and landed on a sore left arm, from the previous week. Another week later my arm was still hurting so i went to a hospital to check it out, and i had broken it. I now only skate down narrow lanes, which i know where the pot holes are.
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On 3/16/2001 mikez
wrote in from
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After recieving lots and lots of wheels from pros after the DHX I sacrificed a couple to sliding well, Eric Lee had just slid a set of 70mm kryptos and I got them from him I was going down my local hill at maby 20-30mph all I know is that there was a hard tailwind I went into my slide and as I put my glove on the tar the leather got stuck between the perspex and the tar causeing me to......................FLY
I smacked my hip leaving that black and blue(slight tinge of red) and skided(thank you denim) Now I have a sore hip and that SUKS maybe next time I'll wear hip protectors, Anyone know where to get them?
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On 3/8/2001
JON WARBURTON
wrote in from
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So there i was in the quarter finals at DHX when complete lack of tread on my shoe left me at the back of the pack and last into the180 left. Turning hard with one hand and one knee on the ground and approaching the exit of the turn I was not exactly delighted to see a board perpendicular to the flow of traffic and dead ahead. Uh oh. So there I was sliding along on my head thinking "OK, ive been here before, I can cope with this" when I heard a really loud "crack" which I have to say unsettled me a little. I want to thank the medics and the spinal team for being so quick and on the case. fortunately it was not my neck that made the noise, but my low CG board which had stripped the bottom laminate off the board I hit and carried on at almost full speed in exactly the same direction as me, finally hitting me hard in the very bottom lip of my helmet around the jaw area. If i had been wearing anything other than a full face bike helmet i would not be writing this now, or talking ever again. Let this be my warning to you all; cycle,skateboard, and any aero helmet would not have protected me at all in this situation. People are made to wear approved helmets to ride mopeds that do 50 max and rarely crash. Race organisers, get strict before its too late. Ross Snowdon lost his lid in a wreck and was lucky to graze his face on a bail and not the road.Hope you dont mind me using that Ross. I wont even tell you about my bad wreck which happened that morning in practice, which left me with a bruised sternum
WEAR A REAL HELMET YOU DUMB SHITS!!!!
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On 3/7/2001
cheshirepus
wrote in from
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I always crash when I'm at school going under 20 mph...
Okay, this last Monday, I had my speed board out and was cruising around campus with it when I saw the potential for a really nice rail-grabbing turn up ahead. I hesitated a little bit because I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to get up to speed or not, but figured "What the hell, I'll do it anyway." So I kick and get up to MAYBE 10 mph, grab the rail and proceed with a backside turn. Well, I wasn't going fast enough after all, and ended up just landing my ass on the concrete. My board shot out and landed upside down in the grass, and I ended up rolling and sitting down right next to it! I looked over, and I was sitting next to a couple of girls who were watching th sun set, so I played it off like that what I was doing too. I worked out so well, I thought I had to tell you about it.
Stay safe.
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On 3/7/2001
Travis
wrote in from
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Haha It was the day after Halloween and i was carving down this pretty nice hill .....doing real big carves and stuff so on a carve i nailed this big spot of smashed pumpkin .......it was splatterd in the pavement .....my back 2 wheels slid right out from under me and i was in the air.... i landed on my shoulder and head ......hurt real real bad .....I laughed
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On 3/6/2001
RooX
wrote in from
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yeah pcb, it was the first thing i did, worked like a charm. But, i think ive broken some carmic rule or something as i ditched again!! same board (slalom) i had taken it slow today and was just at the university when someone waved at me, i waved back and of course hit a rock! my little krypto c-62's couldent handle it (the rock was BIG like baseball sized) and i got tossed to the pavement... arrghh so im afraid that bad things come in threes so i have put the slalom board to the back of the quiver and robe around the exact opposite of my slalom board, my 60" tanker. no problems yet.. but im just waiting for that third incident to happen.
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On 3/6/2001 mikez
wrote in from
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After a weekend of skating the most hardcore hill in Cape Town and dodging injury completely I decide it is time to go for a short skate outside my house. going for a slide I got low on my board got wobbles and slam!!!neet scrape on face and knees. The perspex on my glove broke off and bruised my palm hecticly
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On 3/5/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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RooX,
Sorry to hear of that. I know how it is, the shorter the amount of time it is before you crash, the more embarrasing it is. It's classic. Anyway, if you haven't read it already, read my remedy for removing tar out of wounds that I wrote on Feb 19th and 21st. It worked wonders for me.
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On 3/5/2001 RooX
wrote in from
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im out on the slalom board this morining bright and eary at 7am getting a session in befor classes, it goes great, the paths are sun drenched and gravel free, of course im wearing my gear, and by the end i havent fallen. So i pack everything in and head to school, i take off my protective gear (mistake #1) and head up onto the side walks (trails end). cruizin along i see these girls i had met at the bar a few days back so i stop and talk and walk with them. We get back up onto the trail system and i decide to give it down this tight twisty hill (showing off, mistake #2) pulling big carves on my way to loose board. So anyways i push off and by my 3rd carve ive managed to hit a wet spot thats littered with gravel, i go into an unintentional slide, get bucked off slide on my bare knees (ouch!!!) in front of ten people or so (including these girls i had just met) my board lauches into the air and according to by witnesses flys over a car as it drove by and landed o nits wheels on the other side of the street...never seen that before. So im not really injured, just picking tar and pavment out of my knees, really its only a pride thing, as everyone knows me as the only slalom skater i ntown and i ditched on a path with no cones... im sure ill be hearing about this one for a long time. : )
Cheers,
Colin
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On 3/5/2001 Herbn
wrote in from
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Yesterday i got a bike ride in, outside ride on the road,for the first time in monthes. I went up a hill that i havn't skated in many years,now i gotta skate there. This hill has a few sharp turns in it,anyway they seemed sharp back then,and we used to bomb the top part and turn into the street where my friend neil' mom lived.I wasn't there that day but according to legend,:) This guy Charlie blew by the street headed straight for the "sharp" corner,didn't make the turn and supposedly knee slid REALLY far across this lawn,well as i climbed up checking stuff out and spoted what would most likely be thee yard with the 60 foot skidmarks from an early pair of capped Rector kneepads.
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On 3/4/2001
Lach
wrote in from
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G'day kids,
Me and a few of the boys were down in Torquay (Victoria, Australia)one day and we came across this monster of a hill so we thought we better give it a try. After crusing down the first section and gradualy building up my speed to about 50 km/h I began to notice that the surface of the road was like rideing down a hill of butter and the speed wobles weren't to far off. Coming up was a car park so I decided to turn off into it. Well aparently I didn't turn anywhere sharp enough and I went straight into the curb which sent me flying through the air for a couple of metres before I hit the ground and went cartwheeling through the grass for about another 10 metres. In amoungst all this action I managed to smash the crap out of my knee and couldn't walk properly for a coulple of months. All was fine though because I could still manage to stand on my board and bomb hills.
Keep cruisen
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On 3/2/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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Yeah, a four and a half inch wide path, NOT! That should be 4.5 feet. I hate that quotation/apostrophy key. The path was probably five feet wide anyway but it seemed so damm narrow once my speed got up there. When I tried a heelside slide, my back wheels immediately caught the grass to the side so I straightened back out quick. Getting pitched to that side might've thrown me at the guardrail or worse, over it and into the highway. I quickly decided to continue forward until the hill leveled out again but I never made it that far. Well, you all know the rest.
Do not fall under the spell of these paths you see people jogging and riding bikes on that you drive past everyday. They can kill you.
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On 3/2/2001 PCB
wrote in from
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Well this is a followup to my recent brush with asphalt.
My scrapes are healing up well. Curiousity sets in when I see that the edge of one of my larger scabs is a little separated from the skin. I stretch the skin on the opposite side away from it and the entire scab pops off my arm, with pefect skin where an oozing mess use to be. It's pretty exciting to me.
Thank you hydrogen peroxide / water mix
Thanks Neosporin.
I'll probably frame this expelled scab as a reminder of how stupid I was for downhilling on a 4.5" wide blacktop path that runs just as close to the back of a guardrail and heavily trafficed highway.
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On 3/1/2001
John gilmour
wrote in from
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This story isn't my crash story, but a good one about a woman, Jeanie Clarke, who had recently gotten into slalom skateboarding. Jeanie was a snowboarder turned skateboarder. And like many snowboarders they try to push with their front foot at an angle. She had just bought a Turner Blackbird and was snowboarding up at Mt. hood snowboard camp. She decided to skate down to the dorm and was picking up speed. She had a touch of the wobbles and then saw her salvation.....a driveway that sloped gently uphill- a nice safe runoff. Not wearing any pads she decided to tough it out and stave off the wobbles until the driveway/parking lot. She was going about 35 when she approached the runoff area. That was when she realized the white pavement was not pavement, but razor sharp volcanic gravel. Out of habit from park riding she landed with all the force on her knees and palms. It was as if Hannibal Lecter had just performed a palmectomy and knecapectomy. No skin ----to the bone. Lose the "Pads" on both palms. It was hte first day of ten days at the snowboard camp. Lots of suntanning in bandages. If she had pads she might have been alright. Later she went on to compete in the Verrieres Open in slalom.
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