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Just switch wrist guards!
Appt to see my provider to get the x-ray refferal is on Wednesday...damn i hate being old!
Word.
Hear you on the being old thing. I just cracked a rib last week. Got in a fight with curb. The curb won. It's not a super bad break, but enough to bother me a bit in daily life (esp. sleeping...I toss and turn a lot, and that shit hurts), and is also going to prevent me going even medium-hard on the board for quite awhile (e.g. fast twists, jolts, hard run-outs, falling, etc. are all bad). I've been skating a few times since it happened, but it's all going to be super mellow shit for 4-8 weeks. Right as the weather finally gets nice, too! I think the Polarizer is about to see some serious action.
Cracked ribs suck. sneezing, farting, whipping your butt, coughing… all become painful
Wishing you a speedy recovery
It seems like it is often the most simple slips or just a misfortunate half a second off balance that brings on the rib bashing, but it can easily happen at any time, especially when my arm got pinned under me at an odd angle and cracked a rib or two.
Can't remember if it was the same side, but I know I had done it twice over the years, both from the most simple slip ups - one on a curb and another on a half pipe. Then the joy of taking a deep breath or even just eating a little too much in one meal and damn you really know about it.
Good times!!!
I wear a fwd elbow about 90% of the time I step on a skateboard. I always assumed then when I broke a rib, it would be from a tuck and roll type thing where my elbow (pad) went too hard into my ribs. But ttat's not what happened.
I was skating this 5" tall curb / ledge thingy at my local park. I was doing b/s 180 to fakie 50-50 grinds, and doing a little fakie ollies out of it, before coming to the end of the ledge. I decided to wanted to fakie ollie straight off the very end (e.g. like nose grinding off the end). I tried a few, but wasn't going fast enough to really clear my rear (front truck). So, I came in really hot on the next attempt. I ollied too much, over-shot the grind, and landed with all four wheels on top of the ledge. Board shoots out, I immediately go horizontal, and then land with my ribs right on the angle iron / edge. Fun. Game over.
It's kind of weird, too. Over the last two weeks before this happened, I had SEVERAL really close calls going to rib-to-coping on transition when something slipped out. It was sort of like a rib injury was "in the air" but just hadn't managed to manifest yet...until it did.
All of this actually ties directly into Madness thread in an odd way. I follow-up over there on it tomorrow some time.
Thanks for the well-wishes everyone.
Topic: Skateboarding After 50 (Read 18623 times)