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be careful
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On 3/16/2008 sr
wrote in from
Canada
(206.126.nnn.nnn)
I was at a local skatepark and they have all the obstacles there. hips, gaps, stairs... you name it. the ramps all have metal pieces at the bottom so it's easier to ride on. i was hitting the hip and when i bailed, my hand was cut in a straight line about 10 cm long and was bleeding like crazy. i was very lucky because it wasn't that far above where my veins were. it's about 7 month's later and the mark is still there.
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Big guys dont bounce!
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On 2/8/2008
munchh
wrote in from
United Kingdom
(86.149.nnn.nnn)
Dude have you never noticed on the home page it says....
"The Web's #1 Longboard Site!"
dont be daft!
Thought i'd share this although it was last summer....
Racing at the 'Bish Bash' i slid the back out and didn't bounce!
Looked at my hand to see my little finger bent round the back of my hand pointing up my arm...
Busted finger, down to the hospital, came back and sat the rest of the day out, but did the timing and used my x-ray envolope to write the times on
Then drove everyone home, it wasn't until the next day i realised i had 2 busted ribs, godam thats the worst, you cant laugh, cough or breath too hard.
The only thing that might have saved me was one of those 'armour' jackets,
but it was a good day.
PS. Slipa dood, how do you end up with only Tumeric and Brandy in the house man? hehe
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f#@!in longboards
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On 2/7/2008
Mitch Lankford
wrote in from
United States
(24.140.nnn.nnn)
dude wass up with all da longboard stories? im not dissin longboarding, but we need some streetskating stories man!
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1234
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On 1/29/2008 54321
wrote in from
United States
(38.100.nnn.nnn)
testttt
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stack
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On 1/18/2008 kkay
wrote in from
(121.45.nnn.nnn)
it was my birthday recently and for my birthday i got a brand new layback cruiser, so i decided to go for a ride. There was a hill near the place i was staying, it was a very slight decline so i thought ide be fine with it. So I'm carving down this hill when i start gaining a lot of speed. I'm speeding up, going faster and faster when the speed wobbles set in. I started to freak out and didn't know what to do, i was going about 40 k's an hour and these wobbles were getting terrible. I decided to jump off the board and take my chances running, so i jump off but as im jumping, my back foot catches on the front of the board and i slip out while on the board with one foot.
well i got some bad cuts and grazes on my elbow, wrist and hand on my right side, and my left leg got a huge big road rash on the upper thigh and a big graze on my ankle.
You'd think ide learn my lesson but yesterday i was riding my skateboard on the way back from the shops and i spot this big hill, steep and long. My first instinct was to walk down but as im walking i think, this hill isnt so steep, i could take it if i curve a lot. So i take off, swerving loads and doin ok when i realize the angles of my curves are reducing, im gaining loads of speed and getting wobbles so i take some advice ide recently been given and head for the curb. There was a driveway nearby and it had a bump at the edge. The landing looked grassy and i thought ide be alright, going pretty damn fast.
I hit the driveway, go over the bump, fall back, realize the grass was only in a small section and the rest of it is gravel. Im flyin through the year and take a step to see if i can run outa this, well that doesnt work, i take on step and do a front flip. Im sliding on my back and get a bunch of big cuts on my left leg. Other than that i was fine cause i landed on my back which had a backpack on it.
i realize from reading a lot of these stories that i got off incredibly easy, and im gonna be a lot more responsible from now
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Crash and burn
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On 11/30/2007 Newburgh longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(165.139.nnn.nnn)
Ok, so me and my best friend are out crusin thru Newburgh, when we happen upon a hellacious hill that we had never hit. I'm the dumb one, so I took off first with alex behind me. I get up to around 30-40, and I notice that I'm headed right at the river and the big-a** sharp rocks on the shore. So I tried to whip it over into a driveway, slide out, slam my head into pavement, slide, flip, and bounce for about 20 feet. I was out for ten minutes at least and the whole time, Alex is laughing his a** off at me. I ended up getting road rash up my back, up my arms, and getting a nice egg on my head. Moral of this story, wear a helmet and don't bomb hills you don't know anything about.
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Slalom crash
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On 10/20/2007 Louis
wrote in from
United Kingdom
(194.106.nnn.nnn)
A few days ago i took a nice fall off my slalom board doing a tight flat land course. I wasnt wearing any pads. Thankfully I didn't get badly injured but this is a warning to wear heavy weight tshirts when skating because the old light weight tshirt i was wearing literally disintegrated when i hit the ground causing me to get a nice road rash as i slid bare skin along the tarmac. Even on a flat land slalom course you can still get enough speed to hurt yourself. I hardly got it bad, but any injury is worse than none.
By the way, as i had nothing else to hand other than a couple of anti septic wipes, i used those and then applied a paste made from a mixture of Turmeric powder (indian cooking spice) and brandy. It hurts like nothing else but the turmeric really helps to speed up the healing process. Just a tip when you have nothing else.
Click here for link
Slipa
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Longboard crash
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On 9/28/2007
Dan
wrote in from
United States
(74.60.nnn.nnn)
About 3 weeks ago I bought my 8 year old son a brand new longboard. We were comming home from a BBQ and there was this nice hill about a mile long fairly steep. I told my girl friend to drive to the bottom and wait for me. I pulled out the board without giving it another thought and jumped on no helmet sandals t shirt and shorts. Im 41 and havent been on a board in 25 years. Well 20 seconds into it I realize Im an idiot. i bet I was doing 30-35 when I got the speed wobbles. It through me off and I hit my head disslocated my shoulder and got road rash on both legs both hips lt shoulder and both butt cheeks. Im lucky to be alive. Everyone please wear a helmet when bombing these hills
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tackling parked trucks and blind corners
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On 7/14/2007
whiteguyin714
wrote in from
United States
(64.12.nnn.nnn)
went out randomly scouting hills with some friends found a long smooth freshly repaved hill in a slow residential hood i decided to pioneer this run and took off slow but quickly picked up speed as i hit the bottom of the hill i tried to skate around the right hand turn close to the inside as i came around the corner someone comes tearin out of a side alley through a stop sign head on at me forcing me to bail and try and run it out at easily 15 20mph i did run it out but it was straight into the side of a brand new truck at a full run i seriously bruised up my left hip and shoulder and the top of my ??right elbow??go figure but i crashed hard enough that the cars owner came out of his house to see wat happened and my friends heard the impact around the corner and like 500yards uphill i didnt even get the guys car dirty and surprisingly quickly considering i was still in shock and lightheaded for the next 20 minutes came up with a cover story for the crash but i split my elbow deep allmost all the way to the bone severed some muscles and had a gash deep enough my friend was alble to take an oversized iodined qtip and insert it all the way into my elbow wound while cleaning it probally should have gotten stitches that day especially while looking at the scar today butinstead i wentout and skated a very long rough and hilly local park luckily i was allready dosed up on painkillers from a concert the day before which i think kept me loose and relaxed for when i tackeld the truck not too painfull of a crash but really stupid and really funny and a really mean lookin battle wound could have been MUCH WORSE so allways have a spotter at the end of a hill especially with a blind corner
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what a dog!
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On 7/8/2007 sam
wrote in from
United States
(68.193.nnn.nnn)
that son of a bitch!
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i got owned
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On 6/3/2007 roman
wrote in from
United States
(24.19.nnn.nnn)
Yesterday me and some friends went to a beautiful park in Seattle Washington called Discovery Park I'm not fimiliar with the area and i'm pretty new to longboarding. We we're walking like .5 miles to the beach down a steep, long declining road. I mean Really steep and twisty. I was carrying my longboard, but no way in hell was i gonna crave a steep ass, neverending, turning road. We came to a clearing in the road where i could see atleast 200yds out in front of me and it was a slight decline, but perfect to carve! so i hopped on my board was carving on the street when i noticed i had picked quite some speed on this straitaway. probably 20mps just then i saw an unexpexted corner when the street turned again so i decided not to jump off and ride it since the road would probably straiten out and i could slow down. (btw i'd be an idiot to jump going 20mps) Bad idea i went around the corner and the road just dropped insanely down, i wasn't confident cuz i wasn't expecting it i was prolly going about 35 when i hit the next set of corners and another strait down hill. I was doubting myself and got the speed wobbles of death... there where about 10 bikers/hikers watching me try to balance like an idiot in nothing but shorts and a sleeveless shirt, no helment either. When i read a sign that said warning, be prepared to stop, i bit it. Right after i dont remember how i fell but i remember flipping, rolling and sliding on my leg. Everyone froze and just stared at me i jumped up and said something stupid and walked to my board. s#@! i tweaked my shoulder so bad i can bairly type this. It's either a hyperextention or a torn ligament. Hurts like a mother. 2nd degree road rash on 9inches of my leg. Red elbows, hips, shoulder, and my left hand has barely any skin left on it, it took it off so clean that it looks like a burn. Then i spent the rest of the day in a parking lot as my laughing friends poured hydrogen porixide on my wounds. I was lucky not to hit me head at all and no broken bones. Moral of the story? Don't ride a street that you don't know!
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not even downhill...
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On 5/27/2007 idiot
wrote in from
United States
(72.208.nnn.nnn)
ok, i was being stupid, and i decided, hey lets go and get my dog and longboard with her. So, i was getting out of the driveway, (yes, i wasnt even going downhill.) and my dog, with leash in my hand wrapped around my wrist, saw another dog, and bolted down the sidewalk. I was lucky, and happened to have a huge pile of tree clippings and such, and completely flew. My dog, wanting to catch up witht he other one, kept running, and dragged my a few yards. I got up, pissed off and embarrassed, cuz there were people on the other side of the road staring at me, and just limped home. I didnt even look at my knee until i was halfway up the driveway, and it was bleeding heavily. This was my first crash ever (it was maybe a week after i bought it) and im A LOT safer around it.
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both knees, both elbows, and a concussion
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On 5/26/2007 Will
wrote in from
United States
(71.200.nnn.nnn)
hey, speed wobble is deadly. I should know because ive been long boarding for 5 years. Well, a couple days ago, i was bombing down this awesome hill. the only problem was i had skitched a bike cranking at about 20 mph on a long driveway next to the very top of the hill, and by the time i was on the hill, i was going faster than 40 mph[twice as fast as i usually go]. halfway down the hill, i got major speed wobble i had no luck trying to slide. i knew i was gonna bail terribly... i wobble out of control and flipped, rolled, and slid more than 50 feet. i scraped up everything, and got a minor head concussion. heres the bad part.. i cant kneel down so i can really long board for a while...WEAR YOUR HELMET AND PADS!!!!
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a night with the homies..death wobbling...
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On 5/19/2007
Artizan
wrote in from
United States
(24.2.nnn.nnn)
About two days ago me and a couple of homies decided to go long boarding...so one of my homies knew this sweet! down hill, no gravel nice open pavement surrounded by trees...where we could ride and chillax!...so we did...since I had been off from being grounded and had also "note- I had not a lot of experience down hill "ripping"...I wasn't the only one, so did my other two homies..except for the the other homie who brought us to this anonymous location, who had invited his "Heyna"(Spanish slang) girl for the ride...so we got their and it was quite dark..around 10 p.m.. well we start rolling down this steep..hill which felt like a roller coaster as we rode down...catching speeds from 15mph-25mph...not bad, so as we rode two of my homies had gone ahead of me cuz I was too slow for some reason...and the other fool with his girl were out in back,...off quite bit from each other...so I rode holding on mine mini flash light feeling the cool wind in my hair..then suddenly..I started catching speed down hill...then I became concerned about the speed cuz I started to Death wobble man I swear I tried to balance myself but it was to late when I came up short of balance on a turn...man did I "Beefed it"..I landed left foot first..then..left shoulder and then my pretty face..then I lost it I just kept going for about 10 ft..I was a ligit face skater...I felt like I had done a summer sault..back flip..face sliding, torso spinning damm...I swear! I had in printed the left side of my face on the concrete....As if the concrete was a Stencil spray canned by dark blood red...well after that land I was unconscious for about a minute or less, which seem pretty quick in the moment...I got up and got back on the board fine...mmmyyyy a** what in Idiot!!...I rode till I caught up with my homies...as I rode...It was too late I was speeding again and I didn't get a ahead check to see my homies faces as I passed them, but I did get a glimpse of one their flash lights...so I immediately jumped of the board cuz I was wobbleling again and headed straight in to a gate...so I jumped off wuuhh! landed all right..so I walked up hill feeling nauseas and when I got their my two homies "beefed it" too but not as bad as I, they landed on grass ok with some gravel...but they had no problem staying up or awake just some scratches..however I was f'd-up badly loosing my vision and feeling weak...a few seconds later my other homie comes down hill with his girl (walking)...so he asks if we was all right nope...man did I need medical attention...the homie and his girl freaked out about my face and how I was limping....and one of the homies who "beefed it" too rushed me to a hospital...as for the rest of the other homies they where their by my side at the Hospital...I then later left the hospital around 3:00 a.m with one huge face abrasion on the left side and a small one around my left shoulder, with a some scratches around my legs and a sad mom..man was I one lucky homie...why? cuz I had no helmet and padding...lost some hair but still here, thankful too be alive... for the next time I'll be more cautious..use a helmet don't ride at night alone...ride in groups and ride up hills first not downhill on new locations...learn from this "menso'"(Idiot)...what a night!
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There's more than one way to lose your friend to an accident
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On 5/10/2007 Mugen
wrote in from
United States
(128.223.nnn.nnn)
Recently, one of my best friends from high school was bombing a large hill behind his house and got the speed wobbles. He had always been extremely talented in all board sports, especially longboarding, so this type of hill normally wouldnt have been a problem for him. But after about 5 seconds of trying to maintain his wobble he was pitched forward off his board, and despite his attempts to absorb the impact by rolling, his head smashed into the concrete with uncompromising force. He suffered major brain damage which the doctors said to be irreparable. I didnt quite understand what this meant until I saw my best friend a week later in a wheel chair. He was completely incoherent and socially unrecognizable. When he saw me he screamed like a child and began to drool. After seeing my best friend like that, a part of me wished he had just died in that crash. To all you skateboarders and longboarders out there, always wear your helemet, because there are worse things than death.
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There's more than one way to lose your friend to a longboarding accident.
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On 5/10/2007 Mugen
wrote in from
United States
(128.223.nnn.nnn)
Recently, one of my best friends from high school was bombing a large hill behind his house and got the speed wobbles. He had always been extremely talented in all board sports, especially longboarding, so this type of hill normally wouldnt have been a problem for him. But after about 5 seconds of trying to maintain his wobble he was pitched forward off his board, and despite his attempts to absorb the impact by rolling, his head smashed into the concrete with uncompromising force. He suffered major brain damage which the doctors said to be irreparable. I didnt quite understand what this meant until I saw my best friend a week later in a wheel chair. He was completely incoherent and socially unrecognizable. When he saw me he screamed like a child and began to drool. After seeing my best friend like that, a part of me wished he had just died instead. To all you skateboarders and longboarders out there, always wear your helemet, because there are worse things than death.
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tragic story in indiana -2005
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On 5/2/2007
paul
wrote in from
United States
(72.40.nnn.nnn)
my oldest 13 year old brother Marc was hit by a truck while skating across an intersection against the light. when he got hit, he rode the hood of the ddrivers truck about 50 ft. when the driver stopped suddenly, my brother flew another 50 ft and hit his head on the pavment and suffered massive brain trauma and died 4 days later.
I miss my borther so very much. ALWAYS WEAR UR HELMET!!!!
In memory of my brother Marc,
-Paul
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Speed wobble on a narrow concrete strip
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On 4/11/2007 Jon
wrote in from
United States
(72.130.nnn.nnn)
I was going down a big a** hill, and hit about thirty-five MPH. My board started to wobble(duh...) and stupid me had decided to ride down on a narrow concrete strip about 4 feet wide. I lost control, and had a hard time staying on course. I veered onto the grass at almost 40 and bailed. Stupid me, jumped, BEFORE I hit the grass. I fell to my knees and dislocated my right knee cap, along with tearing a muscle in my shoulder from the impact. All I'm saying is calculate before you do things like that. I did that to my knee with a knee pad on it. Good luck!!!
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WD-40= Speed wobbles
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On 4/7/2007 Anthony
wrote in from
United States
(76.100.nnn.nnn)
I've been longboarding for 'bout 4 months now, and I've never had any real bad injuries, but that changed a couple days ago. I was about to go out for late day run, I sprayed some WD-40 on my Revenge trucks cause they were squeaking. Bad Idea. I was going down the biggest hill in my neighborhood, I hadn't even hit 30 mph when I started to wobble. I tried to stay on the board for as long as I could. I face-planted at 25 mph, ouch. My entire right side of my face is one huge abrasion, and I ripped open my skin right next to my eye. I was really lucky that I decided to wear a helmet.
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Helmet & slide gloves
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On 3/5/2007 Kludy
wrote in from
United States
(216.70.nnn.nnn)
TO BE OLD AND WISE YOU MUST FIRST BE YOUNG AND STUPID !
I HOPE ALL OF YOU LEARN FROM OTHERS, IT SO MUCH EASIER.
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James and the Giant Ding
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On 3/5/2007
Dr. Dave
wrote in from
United States
(24.13.nnn.nnn)
Dude. Might I suggest that before you get back on your 300 dollar brain damage machine, that you tattoo your head, so you spend a little time protecting your noggin next time. Or just get a helmet. A vegetable with a tattoo and a 300 board ain't nobody's idea of cool.
Dr. Dave
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The Deadly Speed Wobbles
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On 3/4/2007
James
wrote in from
United States
(168.28.nnn.nnn)
So the other day I was coming back from McDonalds in Marietta GA, and decided to try and carve a hill coming down to my apartment, bad idea. I was riding a "virgin" board with loose trucks and brand new bearings. About half way down I got the wobbles, and with the trucks as loose as they were any correction I made was too much. As far as how fast I was going lets put it this way I was passing traffic. I ate it on my right side hellacious road rash on my shoulder and forearm, also broke my big toe on my left foot, and did what I quote my friend said "looked like you were doing a break dance on your head while sliding down the pavement", so the back of my head got gaped up a little and I lost a handful of hair. Thank god I didn't screw up my 300 dollar tattoo on my right arm. Anyways that taught me a painful lesson about down-hilling on a brand new board.
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nasty bad road rash
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On 2/8/2007
nathon lindquist
wrote in from
United States
(168.99.nnn.nnn)
i was hittin downhill on my element i was goin at least 39 mph carving a hella steep hill i wasnt watching out and carved left hit apot hole wobbled a bit hit a huge rock and ate concreate hella bad i slid 58.5 feet on my side road rash all over my arm, hip, and leg and since i havent gone downhill carving.
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concern of the board
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On 2/7/2007
mitchell
wrote in from
United States
(24.125.nnn.nnn)
the speed wobbels they suck so much, i am new to down hill long boarding or what ever you call it, i have a sector 9 board and i got it for christmas.so i havent even had it that long and i think i already have stress cracks on my board ive fell like twice and the other day i was cleaning my board and re-oiling my barrings and i looked at my board and on boath sides i have two lines going down the bottom side of my board, what kind of s#@! is that i thoght sector 9 is good and ive been carving and i dont think that would crack my board that easly does anny body have anny comments or segestions on a next board because im thinking about returning or something because i think thats a bunch of s#@! right there but ill probily get a nother sector 9 board and what board should i get next time around?
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