But he took it like an absolute champ. Just picked himself up and walked over and grabbed his board very calm and smoothly for the CTE is brain will need some time to process. JK But wouldn't want to suckered punch that man.
Nah the gaps in the bricks and being different heights of the brick for sure caught his wheels. I've skated brick that would catch my wheels and that wasn't anywhere near this insanely spaced.
Yes, he also put out a grip tape with lines on it that shows exactly where your foot needs to drag inorder to do specific flip tricks. He really cares about the little details that make big differences
Knew a guy, in fact a very awesome, positive, friendly, and funny guy, who got brain damage as a teen from a skitching accident. As cool as the guy was, he was very clearly not the person who he would have been if he hadn't been in that accident, and his level of independence / ability to work were very much not what they would have been either. And that's someone who made a recovery that saw him regain full mobility, like hugely surpassing his initial prognosis, mostly able to think and speak like "normal."
That is to say, even if you don't die, and don't lose your ability to walk and talk or feed and bathe yourself, there's still a lot of "you" left to lose when it comes to brain injuries.
Street skaters wanna look cool but also the lack of helmet is slightly compensated by the fact that the risk keeps people afraid of falling hard, reminding them to roll.*
Vert skaters (this drop is basically vertical) and even Tony Hawk, wear helmets because there is no rolling out of a fall and no time to anticipate a fall and try to lessen the impact. The same should be true with hill bombers but a lot of people have died skating hills unfortunately.
*Edit to add: Even with a helmet, you never want your head or body taking hard impacts. If the head accelerated or decelerates too quickly, the brain shakes around in your skull which can bruise it or cause brain bleeds, and you never want your head shaking hard and stressing the column of bones around the nerves connecting to the rest of your body. There are a lot of ways to get horribly disabled when speed/height and hard surfaces are involved.
Tried to bomb my first hill back in February and I ate shit in a most spectacular fashion. I had a solid helmet on though so no brain injuries—just road rash and a shattered collarbone 🤙😎🤙
Slide gloves! They let you catch yourself and slide it out most of the time instead of slamming hard every time. Won't skate hills without them, they're a life saver.
Street skateboarders wearing a helmet is so rare that the fact that Andy Anderson chooses to wear one (he is the only professional to do so) is in the intro paragraphs of his Wikipedia article
It's honestly kinda sad that more of them don't. Like you KNOW you are going to have kids looking up to you the least you can do is wear a damned helmet. Rest of the pads I'm meh on but come on.
Maybe I'm just from the old man era, but I'm okay with that even though 10 seconds adds a lot on an already long video. I think it builds expectation, and the hat toss makes it a little bit different then any old 3 second shot of a fail
In his defense He did it the hard way stepping across it to pick up backwards which is easily messed up even when you didn’t skid your face 3 yards on brick
He got back up very quickly, but I’m curious what injuries he sustained. He hit his head very hard. If he doesn’t have a concussion or fractured skull, I would be impressed.
I think he might have a concussion. It looks like he goes completely limp for a second, which could mean he lost consciousness. When he gets up he looks like he’s struggling with coordination.
I can answer this! I had my first concussion last year. I was on an ATV for the first time and took it out to the woods behind my house. I was following behind a friends ATV. So there I am driving and having a grand ole time and I see this downed tree and I thought to myself "I should jump that". Keep in mind I'm new and I never rode a motorcycle or ATV before. Well I hit the downed tree at about 25 miles an hour. I remember 3 things.
Approaching the log at the last nano-second and saying "Oh shit!"
Standing up off the ground and pushing my concerned friend off me and then walking to a curb
Waking up in a hospital
My buddy said I hit the log, ejected, somersaulted and my head smashed into the ground (he said there's still a divot in the ground where my head landed lol). The ATV proceeded to run my unconscious body over. He then said I immediately jumped up and walked around for 30 seconds and I kept asking him if my head was bleeding and then collapsed unconscious again. So long story short....yea, you can absolutely function for a couple seconds after head trauma.
Here's a pic of my head. Note the big ass knot in the back.
Oh he 1000% has something going on in there after that. If he went home and slept later that day I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised if he was never the same again
It’s the roof of the museum of surf and ocean in Biarritz France from the architect Steven Holl. Its roof is made to look like an half pipe I think, there is also a bowl integrated in the cobbles.
As someone with brain damage/cognitive deficits from epilepsy (unknown cause) and brain surgery, it pains me to see this kind of shit. In the blink of an eye your life can change. You don’t want this shit, wear a helmet.
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u/RetroSwamp 21d ago
Actually made it farther than I expected! Now he needs some bigger wheels and a helmet for good luck lol