Alsmot had my eye (and brain) out
Back whyen I was younger and alot more foolish I tried to learn to skateboard.

I made an important discovery quite quickly. It hurts. But I senlessly decided to carry on.

Even though my ingury list is pretty minor compared to an actualy skateboarder I decided to quit trying to learn after 1 almost deadly accident.

I was skating down a hill in the park. I was moving quite fast and I started to lose control. My skateboard started wobbling and I knew I was about to crash. I had a split second to decide what to do.
1) Keep going and pray for the best.
2) jump off onto the tarmac path.
3) Jump off into the spiky bushes on my right.
4) Jump off onto the muddy ground on the left.

Amazingly I chose the last option and managed to pull it off. I landed body 1st in a large puddle of mud and knocked all the wind out of my lungs. When I raised my ehad I noticed a stick in the mud, 6 inches sticking straight out of the mud. Barely a centermeter from my head. It suddenly dawned on me that if I had been a millisecond later in jumping off my board then that stick might of ended up in my eye and with it;s length being what it was it may not of just stopped with destroying my eye.

That was the day I decided to quite skateboarding.

(on a side note, the 1st friend I told about this told me how he'd fallen over skating last month and woke up an hour later with a blood encrusted head. Skull damage. Nice)
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 14:03, Reply)