Skateboarding Safely

OK, let us have a look at skateboarding safely. Dont get the wrong impression that this entails crawling along on your skateboard at 2 miles per hour in a crouched position!
No skateboarding safely is just taking all the steps you can while you are skating to prevent serious injury. Nobody is telling you not to do wild tricks and moves.

So once you have your safety gear, helmet buckled up (essential), knee pads and wrist braces (essential when doing ramps or verts), elbow pads (non-essential but a broken elbow is a particularly sore injury which takes a long time to heal), and cups (now this is a particularly sore, painful injury!), you then want to look at how you are skating, to prevent injury, and to be skateboarding safely as much as poss.

When you fall off your skateboard, which trust me will be frequently, it is important not to try to break your fall by throwing your hands out, as all this will do will damage your hands, arms and wrists. So what you need to try to do is to turn your shoulder and roll it as you hit the ground. Your shoulder is one of the fleshiest parts of your body and will take impact better than most other parts, as long as you dont stiffen up as you are hitting the floor, but rolling with the shoulder so that the impact is minimal.

Look around you before and during skating, are there any obstacles, both moving and stationary, that you may hit on your travels. Find a safe environment to skate in.

Do not run before you can walk. Start with simple moves, go on to the most basic tricks, and build yourself up to the most inventive and wilder tricks. They will come in time, but if you injure yourself badly through trying things too early it could shatter your confidence, as well as your bones!!

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Skateboard Safety

Skateboard safety may not be the most exciting subject to look at in the skateboard field, but it is the darn most important.
I know a lot of skateboarders get into the sport cos its extreme and wild, it gives you an adrenaline kick like no other and it gives you complete freedom when you are out there on the board.

But skateboard safety is mega important exactly for this reason. Skateboarding gives you that adrenaline rush as you can be right on the edge at times, and it is because you are right on the edge that you at great risk of seriosly hurting yourself.
And some injuries you just do not recover from, like a sickening crack to the back of your head.

You can still feel free and wild and uninhibited while following simple safety procedures. It really is the dumbest thing not to.
Skateboarders are on concrete most of the time, and that stuff does not give an inch when you hit it! Also you are leaving terra firma quite a bit of the time, and if you dont land right then man it hurts.

So please follow some simple skateboard safety rules to keep yourself fit and healthy and in top notch form.
First and foremost, wear a helmet and buckle it too. It aint no use if you go flying through the air and your helmet flies off in an alternative direction!
Also, wrist braces will stop you breaking your wrist or arm when you fall and put your hands out. A little note here, when you fall try to turn your body and roll over on your shoulder instead of throwing your arms out and making a mess of them.

Wear knee pads, especially when you are ramp or vert skating.
Elbow pads ditto.
And then there is the cup! It may not seem cool, but nobody knows its there, and if you do want babies in later life I figure its a good idea! Also guys, the pain really is intense down there when you get caught, I am sure I dont really need to tell you that.

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Skateboard Tips

In skateboard tips we are going to have a look at one particular skill, and that is how to build speed and gain momentum on a skateboard ramp.
An important point for this, please wear your helmet for it as there is a danger of alling back and cracking your head if you judge it wrong.

So here goes with these skateboard tips.OK, so as you are looking down the ramp, you have your back wheels over the edge of the coping and your back foot balanced on the tail of your board. You need to have your body leaning forward but not too far forward that you are going to tip right over. Also,if you do not lean forward enough you are going to fall back and take a nasty crack to the back of the head.

Now put your front foot over the front bolts, and with your back foot on the tail you just drop into the skateboard ramp. You must have your front foot over the front bolts, as if you have your front foot further back you are likely to fall back when you drop down the ramp.

So start with your weight on the tail, and then with your front foot ease down so that the board drops down the ramp. Lean forward,but not too much, and bend your knees some to gain momentum on the ramp.

You may come to grief a few times until you get the hang of how far you are leaning so again I cant stress the importance of wearing your helmet on this one.
Keep practicing this until it becomes second nature to you, and then once you have confidence you can build up your speeds more and more. Hope these skateboard tips will help you.

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