Board before self?
I was practising my higher speed slides today and underturned doing a colemen.
Longstory short, it was either i hit the curb on my board going 20-30kms or jump off the board.
I took option B, kicked omy board backwards and began free running trying to lose speed, before i knew it my hit it the kerb and my brother thought i broke a rib.
Grazes on my elbow through my jumper, littles cuts on my knee and a large grazes through my pants on my upper thigh, my hip will bruise up good tomorrow :)
Anyhow, i have a video and ill take some photos of my awesome battle scars.
PS, i was wearing a helmet and gloves. Should have chucked my trackies on too.
My question is have you every had to make a desision to kill your board or hurt yourself? I wanna see pictures of a board destroyed by hitting a kerb.
Rob
Longstory short, it was either i hit the curb on my board going 20-30kms or jump off the board.
I took option B, kicked omy board backwards and began free running trying to lose speed, before i knew it my hit it the kerb and my brother thought i broke a rib.
Grazes on my elbow through my jumper, littles cuts on my knee and a large grazes through my pants on my upper thigh, my hip will bruise up good tomorrow :)
Anyhow, i have a video and ill take some photos of my awesome battle scars.
PS, i was wearing a helmet and gloves. Should have chucked my trackies on too.
My question is have you every had to make a desision to kill your board or hurt yourself? I wanna see pictures of a board destroyed by hitting a kerb.
Rob
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Shannon on -
I dont even think about it. I have had one or two slides where it become evident that I will hit a gutter or similar. I always ensure it is board / feet first. If I have to smash a board to come off scott free (It hasn't happened yet) then that's a very fair trade.
Same goes with chasing a run away board. Let it go, walk after it once its safe. I once let a street deck that was only 3 days old go under a car. I probably could have grabbed it, but the risk was too great. The fact that a car hit it proves that.
As for medical bills, lets just say that the local Chinese Pressure point people have done well out of me.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Robert-Da-Bomb on -
i go to a private school so the insurance covers me anyways.
I went for another skate today.. my parents are considering taking my board and my brothers because its such a dangerous sport and apparently all i do is get hurt =='' only been injured properly once which was yesterday. I've told them its a learning curve.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by James on -
I'm pretty sure your school's insurance is not going to cover a completely unrelated to school injury. Maybe you would be covered travelling to and from school (although I reckon there is probably an exclusion in the policy that would rule out claims from skating) but they aren't going to cover you bombing hills on the weekend.
They also aren't going to cover the costs of your parents loss of wages if they have to take time off work to look after you or take you to doctors appointments.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Robert-Da-Bomb on -
Nah the schools insurance is so gold policy thing thats 24/7 all year round.
My mate broke his collar bone during the holidays and got paid for it, i broke my tooth during sport time at school and got covered for my 4 months of surgery + compo. My parents wouldnt take time off for me lol.. im old enough to look after myself.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by James on -
How did your mate break his collar bone?
The tooth thing is to be expected, even a public schools insurance would cover that if it happened because of an in school activity.
Obviously you have never had a serious injury. No matter how old you are, if you get drilled real bad, someone is going to have to look after you and help you get to things. Me and most of my mates have moved out of home and a couple of them have had to move back home after big crashes on mountain bikes and stuff.
Whilst there's no point in worrying about injury too much in a sport like this (cause you will never progress) you have to acknowlage that there is a possibilty of serious injury, and be reasonable enough to think that your board (if it comes to that) is worth less than your health. Maybe if you had that attitude, your parents would be less worried about you skating
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Robert-Da-Bomb on -
James said:How did your mate break his collar bone?
The tooth thing is to be expected, even a public schools insurance would cover that if it happened because of an in school activity.
Obviously you have never had a serious injury. No matter how old you are, if you get drilled real bad, someone is going to have to look after you and help you get to things. Me and most of my mates have moved out of home and a couple of them have had to move back home after big crashes on mountain bikes and stuff.
Whilst there's no point in worrying about injury too much in a sport like this (cause you will never progress) you have to acknowlage that there is a possibilty of serious injury, and be reasonable enough to think that your board (if it comes to that) is worth less than your health. Maybe if you had that attitude, your parents would be less worried about you skating
np man, my mate broke his collarbone at the beach swimming on a non related school accident
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Jacko on -
if your going down your going down, theres not choice between the board and yourself.
You can eat shit while trying to bail on your board, or you could try save your board and eat shit then the board rolls off and gets smashed somewhere else. shit happens and its unpredictable. you get hurt skating.
hell, my calf muscle tore from pushing home from the bus stop, shit happens.
if your worried about breaking yourself or your board, try tennis or something, skateboarding isnt for you
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by James on -
I agree that you can't be too worried about eating it (there wouldn't be a rush if there wasn't a risk of getting drilled), but if for some reason you had a choice between a board that can be replaced pretty much immediately or a broken bone that will result in at least 6 weeks off skating and a whole lot of other hassles, I'd sacrifice the board any day.
I buggered my back the other day and haven't been able to skate for nearly a week. If I could have sacrificed deck to avoid that (not that it was even an option because it wasn't skate related) I definitely would have
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Permalink Reply by Timothy Shu on
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Its illogical to not save yourself at the cost of the board in every scenario
Any accident that would critically damage the board will definitely severely hurt you.
Conversely, any accident that you're not going to get hurt in that badly would not damage the board substantially anyway.
There are no scenarios where trying to save your board is the better choice.
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