Interesting Injury Statistics...

[TheKraken]

Skateboarders who have been skating
for less than a week suffer one-third of
the injuries; riders with a year or more of
experience have the next highest number of
injuries.

Interesting...


Here's my source.

[Daniel M.]

It's called adrenaline, and I'm addicted to it.

[Delta]

the longer you skate, the more total times you'll fall.


why's that newsworthy?

[speshlspeclsteak]

thats cause most people who skate do so for like a month or several years

[sterlingc]

if you've only been skating for less than a week you are probably just pushing yourself around in a parking lot,

then you get confident and start pushing yourself to do other things,

more risk = more chance of injury

[MJKam11]

Its because most noobs don't push themselves. For example, when I was new to sliding, all I did were toesides and pendy's. It took me a while to attempt other, harder stuff, thats when I began to fall, because I had less control.

[d-dub]

then you get confident and start pushing yourself to do other things,

more risk = more chance of injury

QFT. i've skated for about 14 years and i just had the worst injury of my life.

[GabMG]

Great! To all noobs, wait a week before trying anything on your board. Have stats on your side! Then quit after a year

[nokeboarder]

here is the deal it's pretty simple really, people who are brand new get hurt b/c they have no idea what they doing send someone who can't skate over a huge as hill and they are gonna get hurt. the more experienced skater is going 60 mph down crazy roads... pretty easy to get hurt at those speeds

[Petary791]

the longer you skate, the more total times you'll fall.


why's that newsworthy?

rofl that was my first thought.

[wooden]

i fell 3 times yesterday doing slides i haven't quite got down pat yet... i shortboarded from age 5 to 10, and started longboarding 4 years ago (speedboarding for almost a year now). that statistic isn't that special, if you skate a lot and push yourself to try and learn new things, you're going to fall.

i've only once in my entire skating career broke/sprained/fractured something, and that was because my glove got stuck in a truck bed while skitching and caused me to fall and sprain my ankle.

really, i think all longboarding related real injuries (more than just road rash and bruises) all come from freak accidents or just bad luck/stupidity. street skating on a popsicle deck, however, should be given it's own category for injuries because there's so many different things that can go wrong and no one lands their tricks 100% of the time.

[Harry]

There may be alot of truth to this, definitely as you push your limits the risk of injury increases, but lets look a little closer at this data.

How many, of all the skaters, have been skating for a week or less? Maby ~5%, it cant be much more than that. Yet they aquire 33% of the total injuries. So the probability that a new skater is going to injure themselves is still much greater than that of the skaters who are more expirienced (the 95% which make up 66% of the injuries).

Non the less, you definitly have to be careful and know where and when to push your limits, no matter how expirienced you are.

[KJ FiveTwo]

It's probly cuz you push yourself alot more when you start getting better. The first week your just getting used to everything.

[Rich Nelson]

the 1/3rd of injuries, by skaters of less then a week is interesting

but then your comparing skaters of 1year + to skaters of less then a year. I'd say the number are pretty lopsided between those two groups.

[chrismcb]

Interesting...


Here's my source.

The fact that 1/3 of the injuries happens in the first week is interesting. The fact that the larger group of riders has the 2 most number of injuries is less interesting. I don't know the numbers, but there must be more riders riding more than 1 year than riding less, so of course they'll have more injuries. Doesn't matter if they are pushing themselves or not.

As for 1/3 in a week, it comes down to the fact that MANY people just jump right in and try something. Shoot, I can imagine a good number of those injuries are just from people who step on the board the first time and fall and hit their head!

I think this is true in a lot of sports, but many people see other people do it, and try it themselves without working up to it. It takes skill JUST to ride a skateboard on a flat surface, let alone to make it ollie, or to drop into a bowl. A lot of people don't realize that, and are immediately out of their element and get hurt.

The lesson to be learned from this state. Start slowly. Just like anything else, learn how to do it before doing it.

[xjason11x]

I think it might have something to do with your boards. When you first start out, you get really used to your board, then as you know your gonna stick with the sport, you buy different equipment, coupled with the fact that you want to push youself, you may not my adjusted to your new board, thus more bails.

Just a thought.

and "No more than 1 person to a skateboard"......lol "Hey dude you stand on that end of the board and we can try to tre-flip together!!"

[KanoaSurf]

Facts about wipeouts...


1. You always hurt yourself REALLY bad on your last run.


2. If you don't know how to skate, your chances of hurting yourself while skating are very high.



3. People with serious head injuries stop skating.