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On 5/27/2002
dang
wrote in from
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I for one am going to choose to learn from all
these horrible stories. I recently bought a longboard, but
I'm trying limit my activity on it until I buy some pads and
a helmet. Another thing I think can help prevent accidents
is good equipment. IE good trucks and adjusting them to
the road or hill being riden and proper wheels being
dependant on road conditions.
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On 5/27/2002 Scott
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Its kinda a stupid story cuz it was all my fault!
i was Skating down dis hill thing by my house, and the hill was well icey.I tried to do an ollie while scaktin (not a v.gud idea!) and i slipped and landed with my left knee twisted the otha way,... ouch, did it hurt!i had 2 have surgery and now i cant even walk as it only happen 2 weeks ago, i'll be on crutches 4 eva!!
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On 5/26/2002
Ryan
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A couple of months ago two of my friends (one who knew how to longboard and one who didn't) and I (had only been longboarding a couple of weeks) found a very nice looking hill in a little neighborhood a few miles away from our college. It was a short hill, maybe 2 or 3 hundred yards and it looked like it leveled out and ended at a stop sign with non-stopping perpendicular traffic. Since it looked like it leveled quite a bit, the two of us who were learing didn't worry about it too much. We took off and gained speed very rapidly. Our more experienced friend carved smoothly all the way down. My totally unexperienced friend and I didn't have such luck. about a hundred feet away from the stop sign we both regretted not knowing how to stop. I had just recently started to carve properly, but never at high speeds and my friend barely knew the meaning of the word. Sliding was out of the question because I hadn't even seen that done yet and we weren't wearing any protective pads or anything. My friend took it first. He figured that if he were to drop his right foot, he could drag it on the pavement and slow down. This might have worked if he had balanced his other foot in the middle of his board. But he didn't and his left foot slipped off sending his hands, elbows, knees and chest plowing into the ground. Ouch. Well, he fell right in front of me so I had about 2 seconds to make a decision. Hit him and kill us both or bail. I looked to my left only to find massive amounts of pavement covered with rocks and twigs...not where I wanted to fall. On my right I saw a yard with soft grass which looked like a great landing spot but it was up about three feet off the road and it was surrounded by a brick wall the same height. I thought it was the less painful way...and I was probably right. I took a hard right, barely missing my bloody friend and headed strait for that wall/yard. About a foot before my board hit the wall, I tried to jump into the yard. I'm 220 pounds and I'm white...it didn't go as planned. My ankle/shin hit the top outer edge of that brick with more force than I ever thought possible. As my leg was sliding from brick to brick, with more skin being removed each time, I thought to myself "twigs and rocks don't sound all that bad." My other leg, which thankfully didn't hit the wall landed nicely in the grass and slid forward out from under me. While my body was still in the air (about to land of course), I somehow managed to pull my now mutilated leg up with my other and rip about 20 feet of some generous guy's beautifully cut grass out of the ground as my 220 pound body slid across it. That day sucked.
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On 5/24/2002
Chuck
wrote in from
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Speaking of wristguards...
Spent the early evening today skating. Found a nice empty parking lot with clear lanes and a slight grade. Ran 6' inlines for awhile, then as it got dark I headed off to a nearby park (boarding still) to wind down watching the Friday night free concert. Drank a Coke, stretched some, then pushed around awhile to cool down. Then as I was skating back to my car, I started pumping down the last street. It was kind of dark, so I didn't see the rock. My wheel, however, did. The board stopped dead, I did my best Superman-meets-asphalt impersonation. It was much more of an impact than a slide, so I didn't lose much skin (I am heavily tattooed, so this is a REAL concern), but both legs, both arms, chest, and belly all hit at the same time. Hard. The only equipment I was wearing were my wristguards...without them I may be sitting in a hospital emergency room instead of typing this. Fortunately my head didn't hit.
I consider this a wake-up call, and a lucky one at that...I hit hard enough to get my attention, but no major damage done. From now on all my practice sessions will be in pads and helmet.
The funny thing is...as I was buying a set of elbow pads last weekend, I commented, "25 years of skating, and I have NEVER hit my elbows..stupid park rules." So what is the only part of my body that actually lost skin? 3 guesses...guess I even gotta wear elbow pads now LOL.
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On 5/22/2002 Civ
wrote in from
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The fall I took could have been safe with gaurds on, my wrist snapped back and that caused the tear, even slide gloves would have helped. you always feel safe until that instant that you yake flight and know that there is nothing soft to land on, now thats a terrible feeling.
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On 5/22/2002
stevep
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being a broken wrist survivor (broke it snowboarding, thinking it was just a sprain, 2 months later found out it was broken and now i am the proud owner of a titatium screw and a 3 inch scar), i don't look at a skateboard without wristguards on...
best cheap protection you can buy.
steve
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On 5/21/2002 Chuck
wrote in from
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Wrist braces can...
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On 5/21/2002
chris 01
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civ,
i am not an expert, and i know that safety equipment is mighty important but i don't think that pads and guards can really prevent against muscle/ligament tear.
hopefully you'll be drumming again soon,
chris
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On 5/20/2002 Civ
wrote in from
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WEar your wristguards, I took a light fall while running cones and thought i was ok, took off a little skin and had a sore wrist, turns out I tore a ligament in my left wrist, now i need surgery, so much for my drumming career. Gear is your friend.
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On 5/20/2002 joseph
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fell off the other day all body weight landed on my right elbow possible fracture pretty sure i have done some muscle damage. i broke my left elbow fist day off school for six week christmas broke my collar bone year before last and broke my hand last year. i dont fall off much but when i do i usuallyget some serious damage guess my luck sucks. oh yeah did muscle damage to my right forearm two years ago and have lost plenty of skin.
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On 5/17/2002 Whoa
wrote in from
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Todd;
Sorry bro, but I had to reply to your earlier post... Sounds like a future Darwin Award to me. Be careful with cars, they'll ^%*$!% you up good...
Late.
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On 5/16/2002 David"MoonDoggie"Garcia
wrote in from
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My Old school crash story it was 1978 I had been skating
3 years I was about 16/17 years old I thought I was
invincble. I had bombed my hometown bridge in Oxnard and
thought I could bomb anyhill.I was invited to go to church
and afterwards we were promised to go skating in some small
ditches past Camarillo in the Santa Rosa area lots of rich
houses, but it had some ditches that a lot of the
local guys were skating. At the top of one particular road
there was this perfect downhil road which was steep in the
extreme with a uphill runoff which slowed you down safely.
I did it on my board with no problem and I had the foresight
to bring my big brothers motorcycle helmet and some rector
golves. Well there this one kid who went after on his board
it had Kryptonics and he really took off, he got the speed
wobbles and ate it but walked away, I thought we were hitting
45mph/50mph but in retrospect I think we only hit 35mph/40
anyways I thought I so good so I told him to let me try his
board and Id show him how to do it. I tightened down the
trucks and off I went in a full tuck position this board
was fast and towards
the bottom of the run I got the wobbles I stood up
immediatly trying to think what to do, I thought I could
run it out,I took one step and then my friends up at the
top the hill said
I landed on my Head and bounced 3 times like a basketball
if Ihad not been wearing my brothers helmet I think i would
be dead or crippled as I hit hard, I laid there for a minute
was able to shake it off with no after afects. After I had
another buddy tell me that I didnt how to skate and he'd
show me how and took the board and preceeded to tighten the
trucks somemore he took off barefoot,jeans,no gloves, no
shirt he got the wobbles and preceded to do a Supermanflying
on asphalt well you can guess the rest it was bad.
We called the board after that the death board we thought it was
jinxed and no one wanted to ride after that.
One sidenote I am 41 years old now and my son who 16 skates
soI started telling about the places I used skate in Camarillo
Lefts and Rights and santa rosa downhill place so I took him
to the place I crashed it still there the asphalt a little
rougher
but still rideable with the right setup, anyways he said he
wanted to try it I told him your crazy you dont have
safety equipment
I also said I must been nuts after looking at again for
doing it with so little safety equipment, I am now getting
my equipment together to start bombing again.
MoonDoggie Endless Wave Oxnard
Ride Safe live to ride again
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On 5/15/2002
Todd
wrote in from
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my friend pulls me from his carand i hold on to his door with the window open and we started out going like 35 and everyday pushed it higher until we got 50consistently and one day our goal was 60 and so were going 55 and i told him to go for it and he gunned it a little hard and jerk me so i fell but caught myself on his door and my foot draged for a second but i got my feet on tthe running borad and we slowed down my shoe was torn to s#@! the laces ripped in 4 differnt places the sides and tongue shredded it was the scariest thing ever im scared to go that fast agian
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On 5/15/2002
joe
wrote in from
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so an addendum to my earlier post. after my crash I had some really nasty holes in my forarm and elbow and I was walking around trying to let them air out. You can always tell if a girl likes you when she is willing play nurse and put neosporen on your wounds. especialy when she has to touch nasty white yellow pus coming out of you arm!
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On 5/14/2002
brian
wrote in from
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last summer me and some friends were bombing this huge hill near my house on the way to the deli. i had fallen on this road before, and so have many others, but it had been a while since id fallen so i was pretty confident. so towards the end of the hill im coming up behind my buddy, and i decide to carve around him to give him a lil scare, but when straiting out, i got the worst speed wobble of my life, it was one huge fast carve where my back truck complety slid out. i slid along the rought asphault for a good 10 feet then rolled the next 10 into the woods. i got up with a rather bad pain in my hip and shoulder. i brush offf with the usual cursing and my friends goes "oh s#@!". i had a 2 cm deep, 1 and a half inch in diameter chunk removed from my elbow, it was so deep i didnt feel it, and it wasnt really bleeding cuz it was deep flesh and i guess it was seared. anyway, i made a turiquit out of my shirt and kept skating, the wound took 7 months to fully heal, and the scar still hurts if you poke it (this fall was the middle of august 2001, its now may 14 2002)
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On 5/13/2002
jas
wrote in from
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I was just skating in my driveway the other day, doing some
slides and messing around, when I decided to cruise down to
this little boat launch nearby. The road leading down to the
launch is nice new smooth pavement. Well the road is straight
and flat until you get to the launch then it drops down and
switches back. So I start cruising down the hill not going too
fast or anything and start leaning into the turn. Well it was
getting kind of dark out so I didn't notice the pea-sized gravel
covering the road in the middle of the curve. By that time I
was on the ground with holes in my shirt and shorts thinking
that I would be picking gravel out of my ass for the next couple
of months. Man, that was some pain. I walked around cursing
for about 15 minutes until the pain started to subside. Fortunately
there was no gravel imbedded in my ass or my palm, but my ass
looks like someone beat me with a bat and then took a belt
sander to it and it's pretty sore. The only other scrapes I
got are on my side and a little bit of skin off my palm, nothing
too bad but man you should see my ass, it's pretty gruesome
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On 5/13/2002 ICE
wrote in from
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So it was a beautiful day sunday in a city by the bay. I was shooting down a new hill did'ent realize how steep and narrow it was on the drive up but gess what? It was. So Im moving pretty quick 20-25 residential street cars parked on both sides, new randal 180's way too loose. So back to the 20-25. Start getting the wobbles, never had them so big guess it was the 180's well I rode it out on the first and second time but by the time the third set came around I desided I better set up for a slide, well I can only confidentlly do toeside slides so I droped down and slid for a good 15' lost the board slid another 10' and then slid under the bumper of some escort or something like that feet first. The damm muffler caught my belt or some thing on my pants stoped me cold about 2" off the ground. I had to unbuckel my belt and just about take off my pants to free myself. My buddy was paceing me and saw me go down but not hit the car. He had to drag me out. First time I have worne a full set of pads. Though it dident help my ass and the small of my back where the muffler took a nice bite. Oh well these things happen I guess, hey funs fun right?
ROCK ON!!
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On 5/11/2002 Dave
wrote in from
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What a beautiful night, only to be ruined by the irrational bickering of a cheating, borderline schizophrenic, 3rd trimester pregnant ex-fiancée. Well, I had enough of that, so I grabbed my longboard and headed for the nearest seven story parking garage. I parked in a vacant parking lot just down a small hill from the structure, to ensure a quick get-away if I should run into security. Walking up the stairs (avoiding the cameras in the elevator) got the blood running though my body, and started the process of leaving everything behind me. I arrived at the top, gazing at the clear ski I could see the stars much better from up here without all of the city lights in my eyes. Finally relaxed,and forgetting the mess I just came from, I started down the long empty ramps, gaining good speed immediately. good deep carving just seems to relax me even more. Skating all the way down to the basement with enough speed to coast right up to the stairs for the next run. On my fifth run down, going pretty fast at this point, the all to familiar image of that clean white truck with the letters Warren Duck Hotel Security on the door caught my eye. He was watching me ride down from the adjacent ramp going up. I new my ride was over, but I was looking at him while in middle of a good fast carve and didn't realize that someone had spilt there drink rite in my path. As my front wheels slid out from under me, I thought "What The Crap?" but only managed to say out loud "Wha" before I hit the ground sliding and rolling. Shirt torn and knees bloodied, I picked myself up and grabbed my board and continued down to the vacant parking lot to get in my truck and go home, and avoid the confrontation and embarrassment of the security guard who just witnessed my spill. I guess today is just not my day.
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On 5/11/2002 Patio mendino
wrote in from
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I just did a boneless to tail up on a ledge, and the dicks had it all waxed up, and I slid out and tried to catch the nose of the board, and instead the board caught my pinkey finger and folded it into my palm as I heard a "pencil snap" and so now I have a broken finger. I managed to ride out of it, so it's technically not a crashing story, but the broken finger should buy me extra "crash" points...
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On 5/10/2002
Brad
wrote in from
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screwed up something..ok lets try that again...a long time ago...june 23 1976 to be exact..my freind was telling me about this "awesome" hill that we needed to try. I was new to skating, and had never heard of such frivolous things as "high speed wobble"..This guy told me he had taken this hill from the top the day before, with no problems. I agreed..we were riding 26" plastic "Continental Jaws" boards...anyone remember them? our trucks were nice and loose, you know, so we could turn or whatever (high speed what?) and about half way down, my board twiched..the "pit of the stomach" indicator went off..hmmm to fast to jump off..will have to ride it out..right at the bottom at what we later found was a speed of 32 mph, my board wobbled violently and I was on the pavement..no helmet,pads nothing..just shorts and a short sleeve shirt...we both went down..we stood up and yelled as loud as we could, freaked out by what happened..then we started to crack up..my mom came and picked us up after a call, and on the way home I started noticing some weird stuff happening..I couldn't talk straight...my mom,ignorant to the effects of a concussion, was laughing..later I got sick..real sick and ended up in bed for 5 days...saw the doc and he confirmed concussion..my freind did not get a concussion but took so much skin off his hand that it bothers him to this day..later that summer I met a guy from NYC who came to my area "The Berkshires" (a haven for NYers)to spend the summer..same thing, same hill, except this time I was riding a bike along side to get his speed...32..anyone ever see what a board does when it wobbles enough to through you off? it does a 90 degree turn and shoots across the road.. no wonder we get beat so bad..might as well just step off the board at top speed ..same thing..anyway, as soon as we healed from crashes, we were right back on..using helmets, but still doing speed runs..what's wrong with us boarders anyway??
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On 5/10/2002
godhatesme
wrote in from
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So I was in Portland OR and I am taking this astronomy class so me and some friends go up in the west hills to do an observation project. There was this nice hill going into a sub division that was being built. I look down at it from a ridge and I am like yah! So I hop on my stick and ride down to the start of the road. I drop in and realize it is a lot faster and steeper than it looked from the ridge. No bigy I just start carving and do a speed check then I come around a corner and turn it down hill. I look up and notice that all the water acess covers are not flush with the ground they are sticking up about 2" And for some reason there is a ton of them. I slomon therew the first couple and realize I'll never make it around all of them so I go to brake and just tumble. I was wearing a wife beater and just bounced and skided for about five feet. No serious injurys just road rash the worst part was I jsut got there and had to be there for another two hours all bunt up.
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On 5/8/2002 plunkett
wrote in from
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ok the story of micky longboardbuddhas smash up. i'm on his computer now, he is smashed up. we are at cannock chase a nature reserve with long smooth downhills (i dont skate but we race him on downhill mtb's)i am clocking him at 35-40mph and we go into a smooth right hander he rides goofy so his back is to the bend all of a sudden he starts to lose the back of the board and i see him shift position and heave the deck with his hand into the turn then wham the deck does a complete 180 digs in and mick goes whap headfirst straight into the tarmac, he somersualts two or three times as i brake then slides on his leathers at least 40 yards like a rag doll.we get to him and his helmet is split and blood pours out of his nose he gets up and runs after his deck, the dick.i try phone an ambulance and he gets shirty and trys to throw punches we calm him down and he gets up to his van and drives off shouting out the window.his helmet saved his life ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET!!!!!!!!!and i though mtb hardcore craziness was bad but you freaks need therapy
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On 5/3/2002 Matt Brewer
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Longboarding down Flagstaff Mountain in Boulder, CO had to be the best of times. Now highly illegal due to some death of a in-line skater. ( Some lady on the way to her wedding ran over him. As he was sling shoting of the back of a friends car into a blind corner) Though one day right after a cool sunrise we hit the mountain. My friend grabbed his fast flexy sector 9 and took off down the mountian. Never speed checking or dragging his foot(Bad Idea). Half a mile down he started going out of control. I was following in my truck behind and noticed I was going 40 mph plus! He finally took his foot off to footbrake and lost it! One step to run out the momentum and he was superman flying head first down the road and around a corner. I knew he was dead, he flew 20 ft. then I heard a huge Ya Hoo! He came running back to the truck. I was like, are you dead? He was so pumped up he was no I'm fine just goy my elbow a little holding it up all the skin and meat were gone! He was in Shock! I took him to the hospitial and the doctor could not even stitch it it was to open.
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On 4/25/2002 The Bass Fiddler
wrote in from
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This is another funny story, only cause I got to watch it. My friends and I were skating a fairly quick hill in downtown Birmingham, MI. the hill is a 30-35mph hill, one of my friends is just getting into skating so he is not experienced at all. Me and the other friend started to go down, only after about 5 min of pepping the other friend, i carved it up, as i approached the bottom i looked beack, the one friend was right behind me, the other just starting. a few words exchanged when we looked back, just in time to see the other friend fall strait forward on his face. he was going 20-25mph when he did it. it was great, he left 10ft marks on the ground from the leather gloves, 3 buttons left behind and 5inch scrapes on his elbows, no pads. he slid into the curb and stopped, jumped up and started to crack up. it really rocked. later
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On 4/25/2002 Bob
wrote in from
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This one is funny becasue it didn't happen to me. A buddy of mine and me were bombing a hill ou towards SDSU(San Diego State University) an he decides to forgo and attempt to control his speed and takes off in a tuck down the fastet part of the hill. He was going pretty good until about 35 40 mph and then he looses it crashes into the curb and goes over the side of the canyon. It wasn't too steep of a wall, maybe 30 to 35 degrees, but he hit fast and hard and probably would have kept rolling till he hit the bottom of the canyon. Lucky for him he found a nice soft cactus to land on and break his fall. After getting him back to the rode we had to bring him to the emergency room where he spent the next 3 hour getting cactus spines removed from various parts of his body including some that shouldnt be mentioned in polite company. It was like something out of a Road Runner cartoon. All in all he got off light, no permanent damage. Like I siad its funny because it didn't happen to me.
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