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too bad he won't wear a helmet. i get it, image means a lot and its hard to worry about tomorrow when you're young and crushing life. but he will surely regret it if he lives into middle age and beyond. feels awful watching him get wrecked like that
I fucking hate people who don’t actually care about the person slamming pontificating about how he should wear a helmet
What about slothflip's statement makes it seem like he doesn't care? Does he have to personally know him to wish he would skate safely? With that recent Jenkem article coming out, slams like that aren't anything I want to see nor do I wish them to be glorified. Makes me sick that young kids will look at this being portrayed as cool.
The fact that he doesn’t know him. Also, saying “he should have worn a helmet” AFTER a slam is just arrogant pontificating that helps nobody. Its just a way to talk shit to a guy willing to do something you wouldn’t, and that you just supported by watching.
Helmetless slams in skateboarding are nothing new, and aren’t going away. If you don’t like seeing it, stop watching skate videos, kooks. Lecturing a guy about how he should live his life is so fucking lame.
Y’all are pussies, let the man skate.
How is anyone supposed to know what this video was going to show before watching it? He's reacting to what he saw. And if he's advocating for safer skating, how is that anything to knock? He didn't come off as arrogant, he sounded concerned.
Don't act as though slams like this are common across the entire skate video medium. When was the last time you saw a video where someone was knocked out, eyes rolled into the back of the head twice in a 4 minute span? That's excessive, dangerous, and being glorified to the impressionable audience to whom Deathwish and Thrasher cater. Simply because these types of slams aren't new doesn't mean we can't change our perception of them, especially with more awareness of the debilitating, long-term effects.
I know none of this is going to change your mind, I'm just surprised that you're admonishing posters for their concern of head injuries.
The slams made me uncomfortable too, slam sections and gnar ones like this or Geoff Arto Ali ones from Sorry era all are hard to watch.
But are you fucking serious?
Nearly every skate video or part from the last 20 years or more has featured slams peppered in them.
This is nothing new.
Our entire industry exists and runs on the glorification of an ultimately dangerous pastime.
You skate a handrail, you risk getting knocked out like this or worse.
You bomb a hill, same shit.
You do a hand plant or a fs air.
This is no more a glorification of getting wrecked or smacking your head while skating than Jamie’s first slam in that Dying to Live section.
Or the leap of faith.
Should we now tell kids to not watch Geoff’s Sorry part because it begins with two hard as fuck cracks to the dome in case they’re too impressionable and want to....what? Deliberately try to hit their heads when skating?
What’s more be with line with reality is they will react in the exact same way I did to these slams and want to turn away from the screen.
The very fucking real consequences to this particular genre of skating are on display here- something the youth should be aware of, no? Not sheltered from. And I’m the same vein, maybe it is about time CTE etc was discussed more in skating. We should fully question why wearing helmets isn’t the done thing In skating. A video part for a guy being welcomed to a skate company named DEATHWISH is not the most appropriate medium for the discussion- but it’s definitely one of the most appropriate places to show what kind of injuries can occur if you try and skate to this level and in this way.
I can’t believe that two slams in a undeniably Gnarly part is causing so much nonsense.