Careful at the skatepark

Sorry to hear you're down for a bit. Falling hurts 10x more. Getting up takes 10x longer. I cant hang with park though. I'll stick to sliding 1' ledges, 3 steps and mini ledges, and baby gaps.

 

Skating = good for surfing. The downside is what happened to you & that's severe.

Doctor friends of mine always shake their heads in dismay at skaters, esp, as you mention, older skaters. Reason being if you break a wrist, which is so common in that sport you're in for pain, dead nerves & loss of functionality in your fingers / hand / arm for the rest of your life. With no amount of PT or surgeries able to restore 'normalcy.' Wrist guards mandatory no matter the skill level, but not seen on many skaters.

 

Ahh, the skatepark. My last visit kept me out of the water for over a year, and I didn't take a single footstep for over 6 months. I royally toasted my knee, and had 2 surgeries to reconstruct it. My serious skateboarding days ended with that injury, and more than 10 years later, my knee is pretty shot.

 

F*ck... bummer. Sorry to hear that Lipsmacker. This was on transition?

I was going to say, hey, look at the bright side, you're just gonna miss the uncomfortable winter and then some. But you live in Florida....

Take the time to learn something. Guitar, drawing, coding, whatever suits your fancy.

I haven't skated in a couple of months due to a nagging knee injury. Plus my ankle is wrapped up right now because I jammed it up surfing Wednesday. I just saw some of the local skate crew- they were like "where you been man?" It's always the same story with me, 'I got hurt and haven't been able to skate'. Gotta take your time to heal. It just seems to take longer and longer these days.

 

my dad has a buddy who surfs, skates, and kiteboards all the time. he's 53 and he can probably run a mile faster than me

 

I was 15 when I broke my hip coming off a boardslide to fakie when my foot slipped and then I was magically in a hospital bed.

 

I hate being the used-to-skate-guy, as in conversation (I used to _______). Pathetic. But after I destroyed an ankle skating in college I said no more. It was the standard fracture with some tendon/ligament damage that took like 2 years before it no longer hurt and regained full mobility. For me risk> reward. Especially now at age 34. Long gone are the days of breaking both the bones in my arm( gnarly displaced and everything) while skating at age 16 and being totally healed in 3 weeks. Fear missed water time? I can't even get a tattoo because I can't promise that I'd stay out of the water for a week if the waves were decent.

Sucks...Undoubtedly skating improves surfing... that light on your feet surfing with lots of pop. I feel like a puss when I go to NorCal and visit friends my age who still skate.

Godspeed on the recovery.

 

Sorry hombre. Broke my wrist last year doing the same, took months to re-learn to pop up, etc. Dont want to give it up but def not attempting alot of maneuvers anymore....

 

The Swellers sound like an irate bunch of geriatrics. Having the prudence to live to charge another day is certainly wise, however. I think back to the many spills I took starting to skate the Carver the last couple years and I could've effed myself up bad on any one of those falls. Glad I've been sturdy and durable but that in no way guarantees health on the next fall. I broke my big toe on the sic swell the last day of summer in September and that slowed my surf and skating down big time, not to mention affecting my walking for a couple weeks.

When remaining active is a main source of further injury prevention, it can be a runaway train of injuries.

 

Two of my favorite quotes come to mind here,,,, If your going to be dumb than you got to be tough....Buy the ticket take the ride...... I broke my wrist skating, could not surf for 8 months, had to relearn how to play guitar.. thanks to a great doctor and two surgeries later, I am fully functional and skating and surfing again. Definitely wear wrist guards now.... Good luck.

 

Almost 20 years of skateboarding...2 broken wrist one broken ankle and countless sprains and head thumpers... I only skate tranny and ledges now... Oh and frontside 5-0s should always be to fakie... I don't make the rules I just live by them...

 

spicoli, you're living proof that when a man repeatedly lands on his head brain damage ensues.

 

+1

 

Yes bro that's absolutely true. Taken a lot of hits to the head over the years in and out of sports. Skate and surf spills have been free of cranial injury though, been lucky with that.

Oh and Dune bro, if you want to get salty because I thought it was unacceptable in every way that you made a joke about the Boston Marathon bombing, well you're just pissing into the wind on that one. Everyone here says dumb stuff from time to time, yet that one crossed a line that never should be crossed.

 

How that getting salty? And who gives a flyin f**k

 

Yo dune grass, smoke it.

 

Skating was my life growing up. Rode my board down the hallways in high school, etc. Dunno why but I took 17 years off. A few years back I picked up a popsicle with the sole purpose of dropping my stuff at the beach with Mrs. Two Barrels in the summer, and parking miles away and skating to the spot. I got on the poppy and was freaked out day one, mortified for my ankles, etc. I immediately switched to a longboard and loved it. I got this nostalgic rush of the sounds of wheels on concrete and the smell of summer on a skateboard (it has its own smell). It took a while to get back to it, but I found my skate-legs again. I cant skate enough these days, but I am way afraid to get hurt. My comfort zone is nil. When I was charging steps in 94, if I were to get hurt the bill-fairy just came and paid my medical bills. These days I have surgeries I NEED that I can't afford, so I am not picking up any new injuries if I can help it. I look back at myself when I was 15 and I am like--that dude is the coolest dude alive. No fear whatsoever. These days I have a mental calculator of how much each injury is going to cost. I hate being a grown up.

I feel for your injury bud. Rest up and heal.

 

I'm living proof of this. Broke my wrist 13 (yes, 13!) times skating when I was younger. Its crazy to think about, but I used to have a cast on my arm about half the year. Always the same way too, fall backwards, try to catch self with hands, and snap.

Anyways, I have carpel tunnel syndrome now, get the strange aches in my arm and wrist. Already am showing signs of arthritis. It sucks.

On a side note, I wore wrist guards when I snowboarded and never broke my wrist once. Those things really do work wonders, but i would never wear them skating.

 

Blew my knee out on a half pipe 25 years ago. Haven't set foot in a pipe or park since. Kept street skating but that cement really hurts as you get older. I finally became one of those "skaters" that I made fun of. We called them traversers. Still long board but at fifty stopped bombing big hills.
God speed on your recovery!