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Downhill FTL

so one day i thought i could go down this steep hill. so i did....30-40 mph and i crashed because my brother was on his bike and he told me to move. i hit a freakin rock and fell down and hit my head it swoll up and i was cut up BAD and bleeding bad. my brother kept going ignoring me and i almost hit a truck. yay
—Guest Someone

Hard fall

One day i was at the skate park and i had dropped in several times until once.i went to drop in the same spot but hit a rock and flew into the bowl and pierced my lip with my braces.Holy cow did it hurt.
—Guest Damon Townsend

wat the helk!

hahahah so as i chick im kinda mocked cuz im learning to skate. well this just happened. no i mean littereally like 10 minutes ago hahahah anyways well i fell off my board and scraped the helk outta my hands arms and knees. but turns out i fell infront of a few skaters from my area...aside from the stitches my ego was hurt more =)
—Guest ImAnEVilNerd

Eating Concrete

I was trying this new line, it was to ollie over the curb and wallplant off the door ahead. WHen I was riding my board I went for the ollie and landed clean and somehow I lost my balance and fell having my mouth wide open. So I ended up breaking my teeth.
—Guest Guest 777

Ouch

I was trying to airwalk from my skatepark's launch ramp, but I pulled the board towards me in midair and it landed... uh... somewhere. It hurt
—Guest Makoshak

ankles

i was trying to learn a kickflip(MAGICflip) when the board flip perfectly but shot away from me i was standing on the groud watching it fly to the left when the wind made it fly into a heelfip i was just standing the mouth wide open watching as the wind made it quickly come back to my ankle and scratched it bad. it was a super windy day.
—Guest youch!

dont leave skateboard by the pool

i left my board by the diving board of my pool and one night my lil brother was running across the deck to the diving board (he knows how to skate) and he jumped to early to hit the skateboard and olied on to the diving board it shot him about 5 feet up he tries a pop shive and misses the board when he comes down and smashes his face into the deck. i think he broke about 10 bones, and my skateboard got left in the pool it rusted right thought the trucks.
—Guest Rob

nose slip, elbow delocate

I was skating with my best friend and at once i saw a small ... somthing like a rail but it was very low so i decided to go and do a nose stall. I gained the speed and i manualed on to the ledge and gave pressure on the nose but unfortunatly for me the nose slipped, the skateboard went back and my right elbow fell on the ledge so hard that it was crushed a little when i got to the hospital with my best friend
—Guest sk8adee

not really a longboard

i was with an 80's pool board when i saw two good hills. i though that i'd ride down the 'smaller' hill and up the bigger one. about 1/4 of the way down i got speed wobble. left elbow: 2 in scar, right elbow: 3 in scar curving with my upper and lower arm, smaller one next to it, two bloody knees, one bloody ankle, two bloody hands, road imprints along my thighs, i lost a shoe in the crash, and i got three scars around my waist
—Guest stupid

frontside faceplant ( into the board )

i was just on the street practicing tricks. I try a fs flip. I spin fine and so does the board. my back foot lands on the tail and my front one lands on the ground, so i end up doing a Rob dyrdek sort of bail ( the one in mindfield where his board pops up into his face)
—Guest frankie j

breakdancing flip

i was at my skatepark and there is like this series of ramps that starts with a quarter pipe and goes __ \__ \__ \ / \___/ so i get alotttt of speed and right ^ my board starts to wobbleand as soon as i start going up the other side my board stop and i fly ff and flip over my head and slam into the ground Best.Day.Ever
—Guest oww

rocks in the way

I was visiting my aunt, and where she lives, there's some massive hills. So I decided to go down one, and there were some pebbles in the way. I was going about 15-20 mph, then I hit the rocks. I went flying and landed on my side. Luckily, I didn't break anything. Just some gnarly bruises.
—Guest will

Frontside Air

okay, so i was skating in a minibowl at a local park, The minibowl has a hip wich is like 1meter high and i decided to try an frontside air from the hip. So i good some good amount of speed and went of the hip and just as i was about to land it i got scared for some reason and kicked my board away and ran it out.. It all seemed chill until my board hit the back of my foot with a good amout of speed, It hurt so bad D: Even tho i have broken both my wrists and a thumb a couple of times, this hurt the most
—Guest Erik

weird wipeout

a few days back i tried to do an ollie. i did it perfectly but while celebrating i skated into a wall and the skateboard landed on my pinkie and i am annoyed by this bandage! =)
—Guest RogerregoRRoger

weird wipe out

a few days back i tried to do an ollie. i did it perfectly but while celebrating i skated into a wall and the skateboard landed on my pinkie . i broke it and i am annoyed by this bandage!! LOL =)
—Guest RogerregoRRoger

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