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On 9/9/2001
Smouse
wrote in from
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speed boy, dont be stupid. you are mortal and i would love to race you any time anywhere!!! not without a helmet though! you can go naked for all i care but no helmet no ride! it is irresponsible and idiotic to go over 15 w/o a helmet. slide gloves are a close second to the helmet in safety. dont be dumb and i will ride with you on TV. keep shreading!
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On 8/31/2001 Danny Connor
wrote in from
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Hey Butt Head....uh, I mean Butt Hurt,
That's why you don't do short board stuff when you are a long boarder! Just kidding, more power to ya! But seriously, I have been riding hills for years, and have taken so many 30-40mph crashes that I lost count a long time ago, and have taken a handfull of 50-60 mph falls (full leathers, gloves, full face helmet...the only way it should be) and have never SERIOUSLY injured myself. Well, after I worked very hard as the chair member of the skate park committy to get the silly thing built, I was able to "test" it the day before the grand opening. Well, not having a longboard there, I decided just to skate my friend's shortboard. After a few modest tricks in the bowl, I just fell, no hard core landing, no rad spill, just a little fall on my butt. Too bad I broke my wrist! I just happened to fall the right way, or the wrong way I guess. Half an hour on a shortboard compared to years of speedboarding and I break my first bone......What's that all about? Later.
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On 8/29/2001 butt hurt in simi
wrote in from
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yeah, the other day i was skatin at one of my local haunts
(a fairly large 5 set by the local bank) and my dumb ass get the genius idea that im gonna try to varial flip this here set of stairs, so anyways, i get goin and apprach the stairs...pop the board as hard as i can....begin to notice that my board isnt spinning the way it should, and proced to credit card my self like ive never thought was even possible..now a credit carding is bad on a short board, but im ridin a sector friggin nine! the final results: a nice purple,blueish, red gash right under my ass cheek roughly 5-6 inches, oh yeah, the people at the pizza place across the road thought it was really really funny........
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On 8/28/2001
mikez
wrote in from
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dear speed(amphetamine)addict/boy
you are dumb
ask Beulah Bennets(R.I.P) parents why
:(
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On 8/28/2001
Fat Fekete
wrote in from
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my friend eugene got the keys to his dads office and parking garage which happen to be on the corner of Wilshire and Figuroa in downown LA... this parking structure is 8 stories high, 3 of which being underground... Anyways, this thing has ramps that connect the levels and about the 4th run down i hit one a little too steep and my board slips out and falls down two stories between the ramps and I almost followed...
moral of the story: Don't run 54mm super-hard skating wheels and expect to take corners at speed
anyways we were there until 1:00am and there were a few other casualties due to oil slicks but that place rocks and i can't wait to go back
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On 8/21/2001
Dave H.
wrote in from
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Anybody want to see their crash story in print?
I'm preparing a story for International Longboarder on the temporary and/or permanent effects of head injury from skateboarding (with or without a helmet). You can have your name listed, or you can be anonymous, but I'd like to hear from you.
This is a serious request and if you think that you can help others by describing what happened to you (or even if it's just an interesting story) send me an email or call.
Thanks
Dave H. (aka: David Hartman, Ph.D. Clinical Neuropsychologist, drdavidhartman1@home.com 312-527-2772)
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On 8/18/2001
knate
wrote in from
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i just took a really great wipe out, just bombing a hill and a kid in a sports car thought it would be funny to play chicken. i hill the ground at like 35 or 40 mph...i killed my best pair of dickies when slidding like 10 feet or so. ive never been where before, i like this place. it makes me feel good knowing there are more downhillers than just me. idaho is a scary place.
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On 8/16/2001
Mitch T
wrote in from
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I went skating with the DC DC last night. I wore full pads even soccer goalkeeper shorts to protect the hips. I was riding very tentatively carving alot and sliding to scrub speed. We came into a section that was a little dark I was going kind of fast then carved a turn and hit a big oil slick and my ass went straight to the ground as my board just slid right out from under me. I can't ever remember slamming so hard. Most of the impact was on my ass but I think my helmet saved the back of my head. I was in shock as the whole crash came from out of nowhere completely unexpected.
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On 8/16/2001
Grant
wrote in from
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You guys havent seen anything. im still in a wheelchair for my crash. my friend and i are racing down a 3 mile hill about 20 miles from my house, and he starts to get speed wobbles. i am right next to him, we are going same speed, and he is whipped out of control at 50 mph, and hits into me! he knocks me forwards, lands on my leg, and spins my femur in two. the doctor stopped counting how many places it broke at 7, but anyways, i am sitting here now with 8 pins along my whole leg. i almost died 3 times from blood clots, and after a while got no effect from morphine, valium, or any pain medication. i startes to do weird things to my body to put the pan on another part. doctors from around the state came and said they had never seen a brake as bad s mine. and, when the people got there to help me, i was allergic to the medication, so i didnt get any pain medication, and they had to take my leg from over my head and straighten it to normal poition. u pussies, aint seen nothing yet. and pads cant prevent it either.
Grant
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On 8/15/2001
Mathieu Scott
wrote in from
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I just got some exkates with the black bushings.. They tuirn really well and the fact that I dont get wheel bite with them got me all excited to the point i decided to take them down peters mtn... A local mtn. where I live.. About 50 feet down I would estimate 35-40mph.. I rode the wobbles out well then I seen what I thought was a diort inbankment when all it was, was greavel... Now My left side is nothing but a scab, I cant find my skin anywhere...
And it sucks cause I can take my randals like 55 and not get the hint of a wobble...
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On 8/10/2001
Dave H.
wrote in from
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Speedboy, while a regular helmet that covers your forehead and back of your head is OK, a full face helmet would stop your nose being shoved into your brain pan if you flew into a tree or the ground at 50+ mph. Might save your teeth too. . .
It's still the best option and if somebody offered you the choice of paying 200 extra bucks or watching reruns of Gilligans Island in the rest home for the next 40 years, you'd reach into your wallet. If you want to know what I'm talking about, see if you can get a tour of a rehab center and take a look at the rebel motorcycle guys who flew into something at 40-60 mph without a helmet.
Make sure whatever helmet you use passes the Snell criteria. You want to put a lot of styrofoam in between the asphalt and your skull. And if you hit something and crack the helmet, buy a new one immediately. It's designed to break so your head won't.
One last thing. There's some new research that says if you get concussed once, give yourself a break and don't go back to skating that day. Some of the people who got two concussions within the same couple of hours had very severe brain injuries or died.
Skate safe, Dave H.
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On 8/10/2001
eric
wrote in from
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Your right Speed, $300, let alone $80, is way to much. Its much better to eat out of a tube and watch tunes all day. At least your priorities are straight. I bet you can hit 80 if you loose the extra weight bushings add on.
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On 8/10/2001
speedboy again
wrote in from
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The full face ones cost too much. I'v seen some cheap full face helmets for 80$, but still 80$? and it's not even a adult size. and a good one would be around $180-$300! will my half-cut skate helmet provide enough protection?
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On 8/10/2001
david
wrote in from
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hey...not all of us young uns are stupid like that...i'm only 17....
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On 8/9/2001
Dave H.
wrote in from
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David is absolutely right. It might feel awesome to skate without a helmet at that speed, but if you've ever seen the inside of a human skull, it has knife-like projections in the front and around the temporal lobes. You bang your skull at that speed and your brain cuts itself up on the edges of the bone. If you hit at 50 mph, you could explode your temporal lobes against the bone. Plus, neurons stretch and snap like old rubberbands across the entire brain.
I've evaluated a lot of young adults who got hit at that speed. Mostly they smile a lot and watch TV in a nursing home. Want to be skating a long time? Wear that helmet.
Dave H.
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On 8/8/2001
david
wrote in from
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dude, those are some seroius fuckin speeds to not be wearing any safety gear. get a full face helmet, at those speeds a motorcycle helmet would be best. you can't race with the pros if your brains are all over the road. i thought i was invincible to...now i have a nice 5 inch scar on my arm
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On 8/6/2001
SPEED b0y
wrote in from
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I started longboarding about a year ago and have never had one serious crash. I've been shortboarding and snowboarding and have crashed, not too serious(brocken arms and toes) but never on my longboard, and I'm starting to feel invincible. I go like 50-55 mph, with no helmet! In my car I feel like a could always go faster. should I get a speedsuit or helmet or what sumthin and start racing? it looks really fun, and I'd like to be on TV racing other guys
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On 8/6/2001 captainmike
wrote in from
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my driveway is about .2 miles long and very steep. I'm pretty much a tech/streetcourse skater and deciding to bomb my driveway was probably not in my best intrest. I can hack a hill, but my railgrinding, loose-trucked, flip stick was just not the right tool for the job. I'm used to rolling ankles and i bruise my shins daily, but damn this sucked. I'll let you crazy old sidewalk surfers use you kneecaps as skid stoppers, im going to go throw myself down some stairs. Much respect- Captainmike
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On 8/5/2001 Drake
wrote in from
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Taking a pretty mellow hill with some speedy sections. Just knew I was going down for some reason, but skated it anyway. I haden't spilled in some time, and knew it was time. You know the feeling. It was getting dark out, I was carving, my rear wheels were sliding a bit to kill some speed, not going too fast maybe 10-20 mph? Anyway on one turn my wheels slid then caught, I got tossed, did a forward somersault, smacked my helmeted head and skidded a bit on my arm and back. If I didn't have that helmet I would be in the hospital right now. Wear a helmet and other safety gear. This was a wakeup call for me.
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On 8/2/2001
mikez
wrote in from
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I know this is only a skateboard site but I had to tell this one.
I was luging today down a local hill with some pretty gnarly turns. the particular turn I was on had a dipwhich when you are on top of can't see the bottom of too clearly and then it goes into a left hand hairpin, Anyways I came over on my luge My friend Leander behind me and see most of the 2 lane road is being taken up by a gready car. I can just see down and tell LEander to SLOW DOWN with my hand and I put on the brakes to an almost complete stop. Leander comes over the bump and quickly thinks over the situation he is going too fast too stop and decides to try and slide on my inside but in doing so his nerf bar hit my head rest shooting me forwards directly at the car a quick attempt at stopping reveals that There's not a chance and I lift my legs and brace myself(all this happened in about a second) wam I hit the car and rebound(the milli second before impact I ask please lord keep me safe) and he did
My nerf bar went under the car(JUST IN FRONT OF MY LEGS) and I slammed off the car(more like bounced)I lay on the ground and quickly checked for breakages(hey they happen) stand up and hop around a lot. Now comes the reason why I thought I should post this here
If I didn't have my left elbow gourd, my helmet(a full face motor bike helmet) and my leathers I would be a very schmangled person(I am very lucky to not be in the hospital having the cast done for the leg which I JUST managed to pull away in time.)other wise the car would have ridden over my shin. Although there was a lot of luck involved in my accident(thank you god(which I said out loud lots of times immidiatly afterwards) ) If I didn't have the exact helmet on that I had one(a solid full face motor bike helmet)I would be farting words out of my left ear and blowing on a straw and spelling out "please rehydrate me"
If I didn't have my leathers on there would be definite stitchage on my right forarm. If I didn't have my one elbow gourd on I would be in a LOT more pain in my left arm. and if a cars tire wasn't so hard Leander wouldn't be paying for a new luge axle(I was trying his luge and he was trying mine)
and please people note
I was not going fast AT ALL
to calculate the head on impact with a car
you calculate your speed plus the cars speed. The figures would scare you If you sre doing 50 miles per hour down a hill and you hit a car car that is doing fifty miles per hour on the way up it is like coming to a complete stop from 100MPH. So try to dodge the cars OK.
Right now I am jumping around in complete enjoyment that I am OK.
It was truly an eye opening experience for me,
and has tought me the true value of proper safety equipment
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On 8/2/2001 Jesse
wrote in from
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Good advice. I wasn't going that fast and actually thought I could run in out. I guess I was wrong.
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On 8/2/2001
Cliff Coleman
wrote in from
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Jesse,
Wear slide gloves if you have them. If you don't have them then make some and learn to slide. If you clap your hands together with slide gloves the sound may scare the dog away. If not, then it's you or the dog. I am an animal lover but if an unleashed dog challenges me I plan on winning the battle. It has happened many times. When it does I ride straight at the dog. Once the dog sees me as the preditor they have always except once run the other way to get away from me. The one time the dog didn't I was able to easily turn and avoid him at the last moment. If the day comes that I don't scare the dog and can't avoid the dog, then I will slide and take the dog out. If they are not on a leash it is impossible to know what the dog will do.
Remember, when you get the slider gloves and the techniques to use them you become the alfa dog.
Cliff Coleman
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On 8/2/2001 Jesse
wrote in from
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Here's a question: You're moving at a moderate clip (nothing crazy) when a dog jumps out in front of you and squares you up with a look on his face that says "let's play". You've got 2 choices: 1) Go for the old reliabe run out/ragdoll and take it on the elbow/hip like a man or 2) attempt evasive manuevers which may result in a much nastier crash, but could get you off scott free. So what do you do? I opted for number one and my hip is a lovely shade of purple.
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On 8/1/2001
matt and john
wrote in from
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we are the only irish longboarders and both of us are made almost entirely from scar tissue. we have too many stories to tell... basically we ride a 60 inch and a 42 inch luge and standup, our roads are shit surface but steep as hell. we rock . oh yeah. and so does ireland...!
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On 7/28/2001
Matt
wrote in from
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OK, 1 I just want to say that the 90a bones bombers dont grip for anything.. Good if your bombing not good if your takeing a turn...
Anyway I tried to take a wide turn going about 45 when my wheels slid across the paint on the road and slipped out from under me.. My ass hurts, the back of my legs are all torn up and I had to waddle home with my ass hanging out..
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