Injuries?

[vollrath]

Just out of curiosity... is there any one here who's good at stunting but who has not incurred any type of major injury along the way?

[~03~raven]

[merkk]

Depends whats your definition of "good" is

[vollrath]

"Good" will from here on out be defined as having the capacity to do spreader circles in a controlled fashion

[mb32]

i can do those spreader circle things u speak of and ive never had a serious injury

[hoffmanxtreme]

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Originally Posted by vollrath "Good" will from here on out be defined as having the capacity to do spreader circles in a controlled fashion

I will have to disagree. I think spreader circle is more of a foundation trick because the sport is advancing with a blink of an eye. In a couple years, spreader circles will be every squids warm-up trick.

But it doesnt matter how good or bad you are when it relates to injuries. Tony Hawk was the world champion skateboarder of his time - He only broke an elbow during his career. Mike V - also a skateboarding legend, yet he has broken basically every bone in his body.

Essentially its like comparing a block of cheese to the planet jupiter.

[330f4i]

i think this will all depend on the person's body and bones. there's people like me who fall and somehow always break something or end up pretty hurt, but another person can fall just as hard and get up and be fine.

[DILTS]

I've had 2 surgeries now from stuntriding fuck my luck!! I havent even had much seat time since getting into lot riding!! Sucks being a squid and not having natural talent!

[Duane S.]

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Originally Posted by DILTS I've had 2 surgeries now from stuntriding fuck my luck!! I havent even had much seat time since getting into lot riding!! Sucks being a squid and not having natural talent!

you need to start making trips to Lakeland nukka

[vollrath]

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Originally Posted by hoffmanxtreme I will have to disagree. I think spreader circle is more of a foundation trick because the sport is advancing with a blink of an eye. In a couple years, spreader circles will be every squids warm-up trick. But it doesnt matter how good or bad you are when it relates to injuries. Tony Hawk was the world champion skateboarder of his time - He only broke an elbow during his career. Mike V - also a skateboarding legend, yet he has broken basically every bone in his body. Essentially its like comparing a block of cheese to the planet jupiter.

We're not talking getting paid to stunt or anything here, perhaps "adequate" would be a better term to use. Just me personally as a noobie, if a guy showed me some spreader circles I'd be like that was good.

As for the injuries, i'm kind of looking at it as more of a probability thing. If we take hawk and vallely as you pointed out, then we could say that you can be pro and have a 50/50 of having to fucking wreck yourself in the process. So even though those are two completely different scenarios, it can still be useful to look at in terms of the odds. Although i can imagine tony hawk would be the exception and not the rule in terms of skateboarding injuries.