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On 5/8/2001
BoBo
wrote in from
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Here is one I'll no soon forget. Here in Baltimore we have Loch Raven Water shed area which is a resevior over a mile around [I guess]. They block off the road and let the locals go inlining and bike riding there. Well I went up there and checked it out. Very nice hills and chances for speed with no cars to contend with! Met 4 other guys there with longboards. And they were happy to let me join. They were doing a little X-Game type stuff and going into the corners 3 wide but I hadn't tried the hill yet so I waited till they went down and tried it myself. It was nice and fast and I thought that it was OK to try with a pack. MY FIRST MISTAKE!!! I'll never again go down a hill with guys who I don't know or know how much experience they have. We went down a few times and I was getting up front every time and passing and all that. Well it seems 1 guy didn't like that. His trucks were loose and I offered my wrenchto tighten em up. He didn't bite. No prob right? On what was to be my last ride of the day we were 3 wide and heading for the turn when I was bumped from the left by the squirrely guy. I bumped the guy next to me fairly hard and he went over to the side to avoid any more contact. Well he ran out of real estate and came back into me and we went down HARD! the rest of the pack kept going and me and my new pal just laid there hold our various parts and groaning. The squirrelly guy didn't even have the class to bite it too! I now have a fractured elbow and a seious sprained wrist. The othe guy broke his arm [we were going about 45]. It'll be a month or so before I can skate again! I'm so pissed! I didn't even get an apologie!
What can we learn from this?
Don't skate with someone who's limits you are not aware of!
I certainly won't
Mahalo
BoBo
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On 5/8/2001 mikez
wrote in from
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Ok two of the stupidest wipeouts ever, the first in volves me being late for school and in a rush grabbing for bag and the truck of the car intercepting with my forhead, the skating one involves a bouncy longboard with RII's with red bushings and the bushings I am able to spin with my finger.
I was pumping up and down a road, and forgot about the large possibility of wheel bite..............................FOUR TIMES...... OUCH!, I smacked my hand and put a lump on my knee, NOT NICE, I am going to sit in the c0ornewr and feel dumb now!;(
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On 5/6/2001 Repairman Cam
wrote in from
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Just had my latest crash today... File this under pride goeth before a fall...We were at a friend's house for a barbeque and I was chaperoning all the boys on a little ride in the cul-de-sac. I was telling them all about the old days (steel wheels, no trucks etc) and I figured I would try my son's shortboard...Next thing I know I'm off the back of the thing, landing on my butt sendingthe board, my sunglasses and drink flying! We all had a good laugh over that. Nothing more than a bruised pride luckily.
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On 5/6/2001
paul (England)
wrote in from
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Please wear pads and stuff!! me and my friend were out lonboarding the other week, I was on my sector9 "nine" He was on the 47" hypercarve, anyhow, we were walkin up this road and decided to ride down the hill, which didnt look too bad, anyway I made it down ok on the nine as it doesnt pick up as fast as the gravity, but my friend was soon whizzin along at about 30 - 35mph, he was comin up to the corner and didnt think he would make it , so he decided to bail, unfortunately he couldnt run at the same speed as the board and smacked into the ground bigtime. He had this hole in his knee like a mouth, it looked pretty awful and he was like just lyin there, eventually we got him to the hospital in his mothers car and they thought it looked real bad, the gravel had gone into the wound so deep that they thought the best thing to do was clean it out in theatre under a general anaesthetic, there was a lot of tissue and skin damage and they kept him in for about 4 or 5 days. I now wear my pads on easy runs to the shops, or just cruisin round, its real scary how bad things can get in a short time.
lets be careful out there................Paul
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On 5/4/2001 Repairman Cam
wrote in from
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I was cooking down a hill when a pile of wet leaves stopped the board dead...unfortunately I stopped about 5 feet later with my palms and my face...youch! That was 1967 and the board was a steel wheeled p.o.s. I'm now in the process of building my next board to go riding with my son.
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On 4/27/2001
franz
wrote in from
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Back when I was a kid I had a buddy that was riding downhill on his butt. He got some speed wobbles and his ass some how slipped off. One cheek got caught on the pavement while the other went with his momentium. He tore his asshole open and had to get like 3 stiches down there.
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On 4/25/2001 lindsay
wrote in from
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I always seem to have a stack on a new setup. I reckon my
most dangerous board is my 55 incher. It's like a big dog
on a leash, it just wants to keep going where it's going,
and I must obey sometimes. After riding something that obeys
instantly, I then go down the road to the video store on my
log and step in the front wheel (I have 210 indys on it) and do
a nice and dramatic dive roll gives me grazes right around
my bod, girlfriend thinks they are impressive though aye. Actually
I was joining up as a member of the video hire place, and I
bled all over the membership form. The lady there gives me
sticking plasters and another form to start again. Typical
skater's blood control problem. Had to work yet again to
get the cockiness back after that little screw up, you all
know how that goes I'm sure.
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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
wrote in from
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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
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 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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