Career ending injuries?

[Heshrat]

The “most hilarious career Enders” threat got me thinking. Any skaters that you can think of, took a massive slam and you haven’t heard from them or seen them in video parts?

[ziggy]

Frankie Hill

[GardenSkater77]

Danny Gonzalez knee blow out on a frontside flip over a handrail should have never been televised.

[fineslime]

Frankie Hill

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[Heshrat]

The “most hilarious career Enders” threat got me thinking. Any skaters that you can think of, took a massive slam and you haven’t heard from them or seen them in video parts?

I meant to say heard from them again after their slam*

[Gab]

Jeremiah Vance scorpion

[Aquatic Dinosaur]

Mike York in hot chocolate tour was always horrifying to me.  I almost don’t even wanna talk about it.  Thought it was weird they put him in the video saying “my careers over” then booted him not that much later

[funeral_tuxedo]

Natas Kaupas. He broke his ankle and retired.

[swanronson]

Obvious one is Mike Mo. Trainwrecks knee.

[Heshrat]

Damn so many leg injuries.

[behavioralguide]

Who would've thought 

[Shtonk]

Lennie Kirk head injury from falling off a dumpster 50-50. Pretty dark and unreflected chapter if the story is true the way I was told it.

[Trilogy]

Mike York in hot chocolate tour was always horrifying to me.  I almost don’t even wanna talk about it.  Thought it was weird they put him in the video saying “my careers over” then booted him not that much later

Interesting the Crailtap camp didn't treat Mike Mo the same way.

[tuesday]

Jake Brown's megaramp slam

[Gray Imp Sausage Metal]

Mike Mo ... even though he wasn't skating
Didn't Scott Bourne get taken out after trying that gnarly boardslide he tried for hours?

[Puddy Smally]

Lennie Kirk head injury from falling off a dumpster 50-50. Pretty dark and unreflected chapter if the story is true the way I was told it.

Knocked ole boy straight into Kooksville.

I guess it doubled as a religious experience.

[pizzafliptofakie]

Ed Templeton when he broke his leg at that demo.

[dill8849]

Mike Mo
Colt Cannon (knee and heart issues)
Ryan Smith (motorcycle/knee)
Nick Dompierre (broken neck, can still skate but that injury basically was the trigger for the end of his professional skateboarding career)
Cardiel (ran over by u haul, spine issues, can skate but it's difficult for him)

[jorge]

The biggest robberies to the skating world have to be Natas and Cardiel.

[Alien Weedchop]

Steve Ortega, from H-Street era. I always thought the skating he did was rad, his stuff in hocus pocus is engraved in my mind.

I remember hearing he had done a serious knee injury and that's why he had disappeared. He was skating at a top level, all old heads should remember him and Hensley skating a gap in hocus with the headbanger bmx dudes in the background.

https://au.brixton.com/blogs/broadcast/go-skateboarding-day-with-steve-ortega

[D10S]

Jeremy DeGlopper was a hot commodity for a minute, then he was in a car crash that derailed it all...

[Shtonk]

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Lennie Kirk head injury from falling off a dumpster 50-50. Pretty dark and unreflected chapter if the story is true the way I was told it.

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Knocked ole boy straight into Kooksville.

I guess it doubled as a religious experience.

Brain damage isn't funny, especially in the wave of James Hardy's passing. I wonder how many other (ex)-pros suffer from undocumented slam-related mental issues.

[yghartsyrt]

The biggest robberies to the skating world have to be Natas and Cardiel.

True


Boulala’s motorcycle accident comes to mind

[rejectpaul]

Jake Brown's megaramp slam

I’m sure I remember seeing a picture of him doing a shoeless frontside grind on a very ramp not long after that slam

[Southernmost]

Danny Gonzalez knee blow out on a frontside flip over a handrail should have never been televised.

I never saw this one, what was it televised on?

[GardenSkater77]

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Danny Gonzalez knee blow out on a frontside flip over a handrail should have never been televised.

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I never saw this one, what was it televised on?

It was his first trick in the Transworld video The Reason. I don’t think he ever fully recovered after that. I was being a little silly when I said televised. But, is there is no Reason to begin a video part with the worst knee injury ever documented. I just watched it again to confirm what video it’s in. It’s gross.

[Pooh Drunx]

Trappasso starting LE and everyone that he took with him

[Aquatic Dinosaur]

Trappasso starting LE and everyone that he took with him

He’s actually got a fucked up knee

[tom]

Neal Mims was never the same after the slam on that handrail in Denver in Feedback. He was a rail skater that was afraid to skate rails after that

[Lou Strux]

The prospect of long term recovery seems pretty questionable after Skate Moss sustained what appears to be a career ending injury by dating Paul Hart.