most scared youve been skating

[tag_king]

trying that ledge when I was young and stupid.

[mikefork]

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

i had never even skated a skatepark bowl before i skated my first pool(it was the one that zered frontside pivot fakies in the dvs video)
i went up the wall and somehow got pitched 12 feet down to flat completely missing the transition. i had a broken wrist for months after that

[loophole]

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....

i remember that. i still feel partly to blame for it.... sorrryyy

[loophole]

my worst moment was when my friend was trying a 16 set with a big crack about a wheel wide at the bottom, a foot away from the last step

i freaked the shit out, and there was a huuge crowd around, like 100 people or something curious as to what was happening (it was on a fucking busy street). 4 tries later (! this impressed me to no end), cops showed up and we had to scramble. even more adrenaline. i hid under a bench. they found me. i ran.

[ahlee]

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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....

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i remember that. i still feel partly to blame for it.... sorrryyy

[Duffy]

First kickflip attempt after torn ligaments.
Thinking some dude with a gun was following me and my friend.

[-lostart-]

Walking around Liverpool with a skateboard can be the scariest. "Ey you skater goth" that has been said to me countless amount of times. I remember once someone through a traffic cone and a brick at my friend cause we were skateboarding.

[NCLOVE]

Bombing hills. The first time I ever tried to bomb one I died and had 3rd degree road burns on my hand and 9 stitches on my chin.
Now every time we skate them there is ALWAYS a car backing out of a house, turning into the street etc. That always gets my adrenaline pumping and my heart beating fast.

[FakieFlipCG]

everytime ive tried to do a legit rock to fakie.. stilll cant do them

[kevinbacon]

when i was filming a line at a 12 then a 15...a bunch of my friends were like, "its a perfect day to do that line"....and i was like yeah sure, if you say so...and they drove me there and i did the line but i also shit my pants

[able]

  Ollieing this gap    "circa 99"

[swissenheights]

i don't skate handrails because they're scary as fuck.<br>oh and its pretty scary when you have cops chasing you.

[DrNewton]

One time I landed in wet cement (we were walking around in it and it looked and felt completely dry) at a very busy shopping center, and the owner kept screaming that I would go to jail and shit. I was young and not used to street skating. Should've ran.

Running from the police is always pretty scary.

When I was 10 I dropped in on a vert quarterpipe and fell down and got winded pretty badly. Skatepark locals made me do it again. It felt like I was free falling to my death, but it felt so good riding away.

My first time really getting outside the skatepark, also when I was 10, one of the older kids took me to a loading dock. This thing was taller than me, and an older kid I was with made me try it. I actually think this might have been my first time actually street skating. Got that third try. Rolling away was probably one of the best feelings I've ever had. That night really changed my life.

[chopper]

being 9 and learning rock fakies

[Mad Max]

Dropping in for the first time : )

But really, dropping in on some 12 foot steep quarter pipe designed for BMXers a la X-games with coping sticking way out.  You placed your board and your wheels were just hanging in the air. I fucking hate quarter pipes like that.

Oh, when you bomb hills and reache the speed of no return. Any attempt to put a foot down of slow down will result in injury.

[fuckingvegan]

Tie between dropping in on vert (still get scared) or one time I was bombing a hill in SF, it was sort of mellow but long so I was pushing to get some extra speed, my foot hit one of those reflectors that stick out of the road causing me to almost lose my balance, I am going down the hill rather fast from pushing trying to keep my balance with my front foot with my back foot trying to get back on the board, somehow I regained my balance and didn't fall but had to stop for about 5 mins to calm down from being so scared.

[grimcity]

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

For me, it wasn't 12 feet or concrete, but earlier this year I was faded and dropped in on top of the deathbox at our indoor bowl (about 8 or 9 feet or soemthing like that). We had been skating the over the deathbox the whole night, but some of us had stepped out, got a little blunted, and came back in for more skating... I immediately walked to the deep end, set my board up right over the box, and tried to drop in... of note, I was dropping in compressed so I could really haul ass off the wall... the most speed inducing drop-in I could muster... as soon as I made the tip over, the whole back half of my board got shuved into the death box and I was jumping straight down, sideways but more head-first. the thud I took at the bottom kept me off my board for a while off and on, but it was the fucking moment of helpless free fall... my mind knew I was fucked, but my body was still locked into "drop in" mode... I never even stuck out a hand to block myself. *thud*

[rocklobster]

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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....

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i remember that. i still feel partly to blame for it.... sorrryyy

its ok dude, no hard feelings at all....

another scary incident was when my friends and i were bombing a hill next to my house...  it takes like 3 minutes to reach the bottom of the hill, the road is asphalt with lots of speed bumps....  that was probably the first time i prayed while skating.....

[Prison Wallet]

Was skating the 6ft spine in IA city in the middle of winter. We shoveled out the snow, and let it dry for a day. Came back and skated it when it was like 20 degrees out. First run I dropped in, bailed off the top of the spine and stepped on my board halfway down the transition--it was the moment I saw my foot going right for the board. I broke my arm and cracked a rib--I had the wind knocked out of me so I couldn't talk to my friends. I just picked up my board and limped to the car and drove home. My wife came home a while later and took me to the ER.

[poocrusher]

I was driving a car with my 2 of my friends skitching, I heard a and felt a bump.  I stop and look back and his shoe was missing and he was just sitting there trying to figure out what had happened. 

He had tried to grab on when I first started driving and missed. He then tried to push to catch up and got his push leg caught under the tire. 

[Severin]

There's this downhill sidewalk bump spot, right around the corner from my apartment. I've always been intimidated by it, for months I never touched it but last night after a couple beers I just said fuck it and went for the ollie. Bailed, slammed, pulled it and powerslid into the street. I'm going back for the 180 and the half-Cab as soon as it stops raining. It's all a head trip.

[Guinness]

trying to skate this big 4 at gordo at night drunk in the rain hyped i didn't get hurt

[fathalpert]

trying to skate this big 4 at gordo at night drunk in the rain hyped i didn't get hurt

ONE TIME I TRIED TO MAKE A FREE POST, OH WAIT, THAT'S GUINNESS

[john]

bombing the biggest hill i've ever bombed and right before i was about to hit the flat, i see a car just stop and idle right at the flat bottom. there was no way i could swere around it so i tried to run it out and fell and slid on my chest right in front of the dude's front left tire with my head under his car.

[BallDontLie]

Speed wobbles

[jf]

i had on incident a few years ago that pretty much shook me for good. i was trying to jump down some steps and i had to go way to fast at the steps,,, making even an" in control bail" even harder because of the speed you had to travel at.  anyways, i caught my board on one and went for it,,  my nose clipped the last stair, i slid out backwards and the right side of my face and the upper part of my neck and ear just barley tapped the end stair when i was falling backward, on film it really didnt look all that bad but the feeling seriously made my heart skip a beat, if i would have landed a little closer my face would of been in 2 pieces. im been pretty shook up about trying big shit and more laxed and into skating smaller stuff now.

[BriDen]

One night there was a power outage that stretched for blocks, including the skatepark(no lights so we left), and my friends and I went to bomb a hill down the street. It's probably 2 blocks long and pretty smooth, but half way down people started running extension cords across the street to get power. I didn't even notice them until I was about 5 feet away, that's probably the scarriest cuz I knew I was about to eat shit. Either that or the time I smacked my head and started bleeding, and my friend told me he could see my brain. But technically I got scared after I already fell.

[skaterdavid]

One night there was a power outage that stretched for blocks, including the skatepark(no lights so we left), and my friends and I went to bomb a hill down the street. It's probably 2 blocks long and pretty smooth, but half way down people started running extension cords across the street to get power. I didn't even notice them until I was about 5 feet away, that's probably the scarriest cuz I knew I was about to eat shit. Either that or the time I smacked my head and started bleeding, and my friend told me he could see my brain. But technically I got scared after I already fell.

did you jump off before you hit the extension cords or hit them?

[swissenheights]

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One night there was a power outage that stretched for blocks, including the skatepark(no lights so we left), and my friends and I went to bomb a hill down the street. It's probably 2 blocks long and pretty smooth, but half way down people started running extension cords across the street to get power. I didn't even notice them until I was about 5 feet away, that's probably the scarriest cuz I knew I was about to eat shit. Either that or the time I smacked my head and started bleeding, and my friend told me he could see my brain. But technically I got scared after I already fell.

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did you jump off before you hit the extension cords or hit them?

how come you didnt pop a ollie?

[Gutterhead]

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"