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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Permalink Reply by Michael English on
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when calculating a crash, pucks are first things to take damage, then pants, then randals.
the rest is instinct
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Robert-Da-Bomb on -
Michael English said:
Sorry, short pants ==''when calculating a crash, pucks are first things to take damage, then pants, then randals.
the rest is instinct
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whaaa???
i always skate in some solid pants
Robert Le said:
Michael English said:
Sorry, short pants ==''when calculating a crash, pucks are first things to take damage, then pants, then randals.
the rest is instinct
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Ian Coggan on -
dickiess
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Permalink Reply by stephen.mhsrider on
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Michael English said:whaaa???
i always skate in some solid pants
Robert Le said:
Michael English said:
Sorry, short pants ==''when calculating a crash, pucks are first things to take damage, then pants, then randals.
the rest is instinct
your picture tells me otherwise :P
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by Lance and Josh on -
wear knee and elbow pads with Decent Hardware padded pants , or buy some old leather pants and trash them till your skill level improves....saves a lot of uncomfortable sleepless nights as well . the older you get the more boring you find those scrapes to be.....
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Permalink Reply by Nick Drummond on
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the hip looks pretty nasty man
i skate in shorts, probably shouldnt but it gets too hot with long pants
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Permalink Reply by Timothy Shu on
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This thread just reminds me of time's i nearly have been critically hurt or whatnot.
One time i decided to bail out on a little bush just infront of me instead of crashing into people/pillars/etc.
As i bailed, i ended up doing a forward roll onto my back into the bush, and i came out of it without a scratch, but when i get up to have a look at my landing spot, i find out that i had barely made it between two cut off ends of rusty steel star pickets, and i had flown just in between them, 30cm left or right i would have been impaled though the chest or belly and probably at that speed been torn to shreds...
From then on i've always been wary about bailing into bushes, because there's no tell what's hidden beneath.
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Permalink Reply by Matthew Pascoe on
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Either way at some stage in your skating life you WILL have a bad injury from a crash, whether it is your fault or not. The hard thing is keeping your body in good enough condition till you get competent enough to narrow the chances.
I took alot of bad beatings in my first year, I still get them, just nowhere near as frequently haha
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Permalink Reply by Jake Day on
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I try to save my board most times. I don't really care how messed up I get, and opportunities for new decks are pretty rare.
Damage in broken decks from crashing: $0
Damage in broken decks from too many shovits, gutter drops etc.: ~$250 rayne nemesis :|
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by The Dave on -
Michael English said:medical bills = $0
broken boards because of crashing = $0
thats how i like it
Dave R said:Compared to medical bills for more gnarly injuries, cost of a new board is chickenfeed....
Invest in a noseguard, dude.
It's a good score so far my balance sheet looks the same, but if I know it's a choice between the board breaking or me, then the board's going to eat it.... It's just a piece of wood. Bones don't always heal up perfectly. Chronic pain/injury is a bitch. I have enough skate-related chronic joint pain as it is.
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Premium MemberPermalink Reply by James on -
Medical bills will definitely add up to more than a deck if you break something or worse.
Even two days off work (or two days of your parents being off work taking you to get x-rays and operations and such) would cost more than a deck (sure there is sick leave, but that is limited and you never know what else could go wrong that year).
I try to save my board if possible, but I wouldn't sacrifice myself. If I had a choice between breaking a bone and losing $2000, i would gladly pay the $2000. Having a cast on licks balls.
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