most scared youve been skating

[Tony Sandwiches]

share yours.

i always skate stairs and stuff but never really skate rails at all. The only trick ive done on a handrail is boardslide, so today after skating this skatepark with friends i went to try and 5050 this rail right near my house. even for just a 5050 i was terrified. i tried it a bunch of times, i was getting the ollies onto it but i never landed it. its weird cause a park i go to used to have this pyrmid rail that was pretty legit height and i would  skate that thing for hours withou problems. .whatever . i tried

[skaterdavid]

This one really long gap by my house, not that tall but super long and i was scared as shit. I ollied it then wanted to film it so i tried it again and clipped and ate shit. Then did it next try.

[Penis_Monster]

the scariest thing ever is when you fall off your board and you're in mid-air and you think to yourself "this is gonna fucking hurt and there's nothing i can do about it"

[1987]

Skating downhill with 4 other dudes on a long backroad in Athens, GA which resulted in all of us screaming at this near death experience.  I'm glad nobody wobbled out of control since we were in a somewhat tight formation.  I've never gone faster.  Ever.

[Blue Fescue]

Always from cars

[ZipZinger]

I usually get scared skating some gnarly bowls around where I live.

[k-nutz]

trying to fs boardslide a hand rail after i fell on my back real hard trying it the day before on a different rail

[*BargainShopper*]

i seldomely go into cradles and when i do, i usually don't have any problem getting upside down
anyways there this cradle at the park down the street from my house and i dropped int the bowl went towards the cradle, i have no idea what happened but i got up there and fell straght down on my side,back
it was horrible

[Blue Fescue]

Oh and anything that ends up threatening my teeth.

[mikefork]

went to ollie over this gap down the street from my house onto the sidewalk, stuck as soon as my wheels hit, flew forwards straight into traffic. my buddy jumped in the road to stop this car that was ten feet from running my head over. i just walked home after that

[jrock]

*anything involving moving cars
*grinding this handrail that kept breaking and had rusty jagged nails hanging out of it
*sneaking into this secret spot (the brent atchley skateboarder cover), and having to hide from the levee cops under the rubble.  also, the spot was crumbling into the river, and if you fall into the water you could drown pretty easily
*anytime skating in public since I got sick.  i feel like I have a ticking timebomb in my stomach that can go off at any minute. 

[bumptobar]

It seems like every trick i did all last winter, i was shit scared prior to doing it.  Glad im over that.

[CigaretteBeer]

When I was 16 I tried my first handrail. It was this 5 block thing and kind of steep, about 8 or 9 normal steps. I rolled up to it for about an hour before I got the balls to jump onto it. After that I went there a few days later and did it first try with no fear at all.

Also learning kickflip backlips on a flat bar was pretty scary.

[sanch]

Flailing a 540 attempt on vert. Wasn't even close but was commended for doing the upside down style of 540 and not just spinning. I learned a couple of airs and got all cocky I guess. Shit was hilarious.

[stevedave]

Flailing a 540 attempt on vert. Wasn't even close but was commended for doing the upside down style of 540 and not just spinning. I learned a couple of airs and got all cocky I guess. Shit was hilarious.

damn, i wish i could've seen that.  and NOT saying that in a dick way.  sanch trying 540s.  who knew?

[Edward Penishands]

learning to roll-in on transition.  to this day, my vision blurs real quickly before i roll in to anything bigger than 5 feet.

[MEOW]

anytime you fuck up, and you think youll just not land the trick, then look down and see youre about to land on your board by accident... its always too late by that point and it fucking hurts slipping out that hard

[dave v-house]

That split second of upside down free fall after hanging up on a 12ft concrete wall padless.

[Brandon]

learning to roll-in on transition.  to this day, my vision blurs real quickly before i roll in to anything bigger than 5 feet.

rolling in really does scare the fuck out me as well.  especially when the coping juts out excessively.  shit is frigtening, but there's no better feeling than making it to the next wall after you've taken the plunge.

[deep]

when i tried to ollie off this 13 foot high roof. broke my toe

[bentmode]

generally the only time i get scared skating is if some sort of steep hill is around.

[Art_G]

I was on a family trip to California around '93 (I was 16 or so), skating up and down the streets around Disneyland. At one point I was waiting for the light to change to cross a street.

Three dudes come up to me and one guy says "gimme your board". I say no.

"I'm not kidding. Gimme your board or I'll jack you. I'm from LA. I've got a knife. I'll stab you right here" (first time I ever heard "jack").

I look around, notice that I'm all alone. I was across the street from the hotel strip, with nothing really on my side... vacant lot, strawberry fields, or walled-off disneyland or something. No people to help, anyway.

I just say no again, thinking that I couldn't buy another board. My board was a beat up piece - chipped Willy Santos "Kris Kross" model with lame fluorescent yellow (was in the bargain bin at the shop), flatspotted wheels, etc. But it was all I had and didn't want to lose it to some dick. Make no mistake - there was no "fuck you" or toughness of any kind in my "no"... More like a pleading "c'mon, please, man". I'm sure the fear was written all over my face.

I'm considering that I may be a huge idiot for resisting when he breaks into a grin and says he's just kidding. Claims to be an ex-skater who had once met and skated with Lance Mountain. I'm hugely relieved, but am fully aware that had I handed over my board, he would have kept it. He was only "kidding" when it came to following through with a knife.

The light changes. One of the other dudes asks if I have a dollar. I'm trying to be cool: "sure, dude." I give him a dollar.

I try to keep skating but my knees are shaking from the adrenaline dump.

I go back to the hotel and say nothing to my parents.

[Raw!!!]

A few years ago I was filming a line that ended with kickflip a skinny 13, I was pretty much hoping that I wouldnt land the first tricks. Ended up doing it because my friend offered me a board for it. That and when I was skitching my friends car and got my arm and almost my head run over.

[WonkaBar]

i was bombing a steep ass hill and theres a turn you gotta make before going straight down into a wall. i started making the turn (backside) and just didnt have it. i jumped off got a couple steps in and slammed into the side of a house. couldnt skate for a couple days because i messed my back up but it couldve been worse

[Choad Muskrat]

skating home wasted bombing a hill, ollieing train tracks and fucking up

knowing there was no way i could run this fast, face grinding curb, but I'll have to say I would have been way more scared if I wasn't completely hammered


as far as actual tricks, handrails are scary, big bowls, vert, the problem is sometimes you don't know how scary some shit is until you actually try it

[picklesickshuv-it]

i ollied into this huge bank-thing that goes into traffic, i had my friend checkfor cars and my other homey was filming it, a bus came out of nowhere going waaay too fast, i shot across the street, i think it was 4 lanes, and i missed it by a few feet. it was seriously all instinct, i am so lucky, i would of died for sure.  looking back on it now i don't think i would even try to drop in on something like that, it was rediculously sketchy.

[pher]

everytime i skitch i thinik im just gonna end up sliding on my stomach due to another time i actually did that........oh and don ross secondarys 9 stair ...

[floyd]

the first time i dropped in on vert...

[rocklobster]

i was skating a ledge next to a mellow bank and waxed the top of the ledge by accident....  i missed a bs 50-50 and fell flat on my chest which winded me...  tried it again and i put my right arm to break my fall and my arm twisted outwards at the elbow...  almost dislocated it and had to wear a brace on my arm for 2 months....

[ahlee]

-hill bombs
-coping in the deep end