Big Fall.

[green]

This is my first crash since I started Longboarding. The very first day I started skating I fell. That was 6 months ago.

I was riding a board I made out of wood and metal going rougly 40 into a corner that was fine and all, but I tried a new way to turn so I could get through it cleaner and easier. I leaned too much and twiched. I had a choice of curb and fly into a tree or road rash.

When I got up I chased my board, picked up my cell phone, took off my helmet to look for scratches (which there were none), and proceeded to laugh histerically. My shorts I was wearing are torn from the bottom altheway up the leg, and my phone is grinded all the way up the front. The board is good, but it wasnt anything to cry over even if it did break. I was still laughing the whole way home while my mom was steaming at me because I assured her I wouldnt fall. Me and ehr have done this hill many many times.

Pics:
These cover my entire right side and my right side only. I found that amusing.





The piece of skin I had to cut off my ass.



I will post pics of it now after healing for 2 days tomarrow.

[VulgarDisplayCFH]

Ouch! But I find it kind of hard to believe you got up to 40 after 6 months of skating..

[Parenthetical Vice]

nice a$$ ten car

[pilosopo]

Ouch! But I find it kind of hard to believe you got up to 40 after 6 months of skating..

You never know, my friend got to 35mph (that's what the car speedo said) 2 weeks after learning how to push and balance, he had no problems with the speed, it was only stopping that caused problems, oh and turns.


Green - Live in SJC huh? I'm in Laguna Niguel, where'd you crash?

[green]

Ouch! But I find it kind of hard to believe you got up to 40 after 6 months of skating..

Thanks, But What?
Hill + DH Board + Car following saying im going 45 = Roughly 40.

[VulgarDisplayCFH]

Thanks, But What?
Hill + DH Board + Car following saying im going 45 = Roughly 40.

Whatever dude.

[Chris140]

Ouch! But I find it kind of hard to believe you got up to 40 after 6 months of skating..

I started longboarding about 2 months ago and I have been clocked at 35 multiple times. It isn't hard to stand still on a sturdy skateboard.

[timmysweatpants]

If "Big Fall" is not a sentance why is there a period after it?
And its very possible to go 40+ after only 6 months--- you could be going 50 + after 2 weeks.... can't guarantee that you'll survive

[green]

I dont know why I put the period, its just a habit.

[VulgarDisplayCFH]

Ok. I'm not one to argue. I lost this one.

This smiley has a colorful goat-tee.

[Couplescaddy]

obvously we see the consequences of what happens after going 40 after 6 monts of skating. what i think you meant was that there is no way his skill level is that to warrent going 40 after 6 months of skating

[hailboy]

Ouch man! Glad to see you're alright though.

[green]

I have done the hill I fell on like 20+ times. New board set-up + new turn style = high chance of screwing up.

[TheFuzz]

If "Big Fall" is not a sentance why is there a period after it?
And its very possible to go 40+ after only 6 months--- you could be going 50 + after 2 weeks.... can't guarantee that you'll survive

this grammar b1tching is starting to get out of hand

why don't you all go join an literature forum so you can all be together in your pathetic whining

[woohoobaloogapoo]

why don't you all go join an literature forum so you can all be together in your pathetic whining

I'm diggin the misuse of "an," intentional or otherwise

And I hate those white circle scrapes, they're bitches in the shower...

[Tobes]

It is not far fetched to be going 40 or even 50 after 6 months of skating, I too am proof of that. I would also argue that my skill level is high enough to warrant those speeds. I've fallen a lot while building up to those speeds and I have learned control and balance. After starting out with a S9 Zen with type 2 revenges and bombing hills with those my balance has improved exponentially from when I first started skating(I too fell the first day i stepped on a board, 2nd time down a hill)

[timmysweatpants]

this grammar b1tching is starting to get out of hand

why don't you all go join an literature forum so you can all be together in your pathetic whining

I don't have time to join another forum, I'm already a member of your mom's forum, your grandmom's forum, your sister's forum.....

[midnite-cruiser]

keep up with the peroxide and whatnot for those bad boys, i ate #### when i first got back into longboarding at about 32mph(yes i had my buddy tailing me in the truck, he thought i broke my everything bone, and that was my first DAY of longboarding in about 4 years, which might as well been my first day ever). I took a hill way over my head - i acually made it down standing up the first time, but the 2nd time i got a little too cocky and decided to drop knee it and carve back and forth @ speed = terrible idea. I still have some scars from not using neosporin and what not.

And i was on a 5 year old S9 cosmic II with pivot trucks and trampoline flex. Its very possible for someone with decent balance and leg strength to be doing 40 after 6 months - speedboards today are so rediculously stable that as long as there arent any turns on the hill it really isnt some kind of impossible dream to just stand on a board until it reaches high speeds.

I dont doubt you at all, just dont let it shake you up like my fall did. I dont have any stable boards in my quiver yet, but i really dont go above like 25 anymore. The fall totally ####ed with my head(i wasnt padded at all). But hopefully i can get a nice big pintail on randalls or something and get back up to some speed.

[VulgarDisplayCFH]

Ok. I'm not one to argue. I lost this one.

This smiley has a colorful goat-tee.

Obviously people don't read.

[jkaps]

Im impressed you went 6 months with out falling