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Blessed and not ironically. Dude should be a vegetable right now. That was fucked fucked fucked. The ko is what does it for me. No good. I had this type extreme sports dvd growing and it was mostly inline shit but the clips were so brutal. This tops all of them. Faces of death type shit.
It would be crazy if hes still skating after this that he switches it up into some ledge tech shit and finally wins a soty. Idk tho. Skateboarders be Skateboarders but dudes been bouncing his cranium heavy off concrete since he was like what 10? Maybe its time to stop or atleast consider switching it up or maybe even the helmet. I get the glory and shit and not wanting to have a jock type conversation but this dude prime case for cte. He been doing this shit heavy to his brain since before it was even fully developed. The intro of rise to shine he slams in a equally brutal way and he was like 13 or 14 at the time. Can not bode well for his older years.
Agree, he is lucky to be alive and/or not a vegetable...fractured skull with brain bleeding can, well, you know. He is very, very, very lucky. One other thing about helmets--they do NOT prevent concussions or CTE (if they did, no one in the NFL would have these problems, and that is clearly not the case). Helmets are mostly designed to prevent skull fractures. So, even if Nyjah (or anyone) started rocking a helmet, and he was still going turbo-gnar, he would absolutely still be exposed to concussions/CTE.
The NFL comparison has to be one of the most dangerous examples of misinformation in recent sports science. The fact that one of Slap's voices of reason is quoting it attests to that. I forgot what the name.of the paper was that found the fact in the NFL and what chungus then spun it on skateboarding (was it the "venerated" USA skateboarding?) or was it action sports in general?
But the point of that paper was: the reason helmets don't prevent you from (most) concussions in the NFL is because there you rarely suffer a hard impact onto an unyielding material. Rather, it's a constant shower of soft impacts (soft in scientific terms, still hard as hell) that make your head and brain move about inside the head and hit your skull. Basically getting loads of micro concussions and some.even without even hitting your head. That is NOT what happens in skateboarding etc.
In a skateboarding fall, a helmet is the only dampening between your head and solid concrete or wood. It will MOST DEFINITELY lower your risk of concussion and therefore also of CTE. Of course at a certain degree of impact you will get concussed even with a helmet (instead of breaking your skull without one). (Certified helmet foam is also as un-bouncy as possible to minimize counter-movement.)
Now, there IS a phenomenon which I forget what it's called, helmet bias or something, where you will become less cautious and more risky because you're wearing a helmet and feeling too safe. And that can lead to more accidents, injuries and also concussions. But that has nothing to do with the NFL.
No personal attack here but this is one of the most dangerous false equivalents in our sport because it has become the most popular argument among helmet deniers. I just heard it from a dude who was trying to learn to skate our local 12ft bowl with zero protection and the board feel of a toddler. Enjoyed watching him get politely made aware of the helmet policy and get evicted by the OGs.
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