One of my most embarrassing slams is also one of my favorites.
About 5 years ago I sold my house and before I moved overseas indefinitely I rented a cheap room in a shitty share accom right in the city in my home town for a summer. I didn't work, I just went swimming and hung out till the temperature was nice and then skated for hours on end every single day. It was the best time of my life.
On my last night skating before leaving I wanted to get at least one trick at all my favourite spots, some I'd been skating for more than 20 years, some I might not ever get to skate again. In a minor miracle for a skater as deeply untalented as I am I skated really well that night. I rattled off old favorite tricks at classic haunts and knocked out some new stuff I'd never done without any battles, no slams, I had the juice.
I pushed around around taking it all in till I could barely stand and life was beautiful.
I stopped at the supermarket on my way home and bought a bunch of my favourite foods for dinner to celebrate the end of an era and grabbed a huge slushie for good measure. I was going a pretty good speed down a mellow hill on the footpath with two bags of shopping and a full slushie in my hands when I saw two dudes walking up the street towards me. We were coming towards a bottleneck in the path but I thought I could throw an extra push in speed up and make it around them. I hit a rock and flung myself into the ground right in front of them, they had to jump out of the way as I skidded to a halt right where they were, slushie all over me, shopping scattered to the winds, skin off and bleeding on both arms and legs. One of the guys was asking if I was okay and helping me pick up my stuff, the other guy stood there looking traumatized by what he saw and just said "fuck that man" in disbelief that anyone would willingly set foot on a skateboard and risk something like that happening.
It was awful, but it was also kind of the perfect denouement to my night and that time in my life. Slamming is part of skating, you can't have one without the other ,yin and yang . Life is beautiful.