Hall of meat
By reeve beggs
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Practice makes perfect, but the more you challenge yourself the more likely you are to get injured. For David Gonzalez this is a daily routine. David, a 23 year old from Columbia and he is a professional skateboarder who was named Thrasher Magazine's “Skater Of The Year” in 2012. From rails to ramps he has had many falls and setbacks when trying to land that perfect grind or flip. Throughout all his interviews, he has shown that he doesn't care toward stacking a trick 5 to 6 times before he lands it, he quotes “When you fall, you don’t feel pain because of all the adrenalin pumping inside you. You just get up and try again.” Falling is a part of every skateboarders journey to landing a trick or even becoming pro. it happens to all of us, from small stacks to huge stacks the injures go on and on. The worst stack of all was from Danny Way in the 2008 X Games when he backflips the mega ramp into the quarter pipe and tries to 540 method but lands on the coping and breaks his ankle, this is just one of the many injuries that professional skateboarders have to cope with.
Why do we, as the audience, find it funny watching skateboarders stack tricks? Is it because we watch them hurt themselves and think what if that was me? Or because we fear the injury may happen to us? Watching skateboarders stack tricks makes us recognise the danger that skateboarding involves and that trying that trick will have a dangerous aspect. This leads us to taking risks to land that perfect jump.
Another Big stack in skateboarding history was Jake Brown in X Games 13, where he got the 'death wobbles' near the top of the mega-ramp, causing him to loose balance and bail his board in mid-air. He gets around 16 feet of air above the already huge ramp and then landed feet first on the flat where he breaks both legs.
Skateboarding can be a dangerous sport with all the risk taking that happens with even the simplest of tricks. The chance of a fractured wrist, hip etc, increases with height, speed and adventurous challenges that skateboarders enjoy. Skateboarding injuries often involve the wrist, ankle or face. Many injuries happen when you lose your balance, fall off the skateboard and land on an outstretched arm. Although it is a fun activity, skateboarding carries with it a serious risk for injury. In 2011, skateboard-related injuries accounted for more than 78,000 emergency room visits among children and teenagers.
Overall, skateboarding is a fun and healthy sport that can give you a low-impact aerobic workout, plus an adrenaline rush!
Why do we, as the audience, find it funny watching skateboarders stack tricks? Is it because we watch them hurt themselves and think what if that was me? Or because we fear the injury may happen to us? Watching skateboarders stack tricks makes us recognise the danger that skateboarding involves and that trying that trick will have a dangerous aspect. This leads us to taking risks to land that perfect jump.
Another Big stack in skateboarding history was Jake Brown in X Games 13, where he got the 'death wobbles' near the top of the mega-ramp, causing him to loose balance and bail his board in mid-air. He gets around 16 feet of air above the already huge ramp and then landed feet first on the flat where he breaks both legs.
Skateboarding can be a dangerous sport with all the risk taking that happens with even the simplest of tricks. The chance of a fractured wrist, hip etc, increases with height, speed and adventurous challenges that skateboarders enjoy. Skateboarding injuries often involve the wrist, ankle or face. Many injuries happen when you lose your balance, fall off the skateboard and land on an outstretched arm. Although it is a fun activity, skateboarding carries with it a serious risk for injury. In 2011, skateboard-related injuries accounted for more than 78,000 emergency room visits among children and teenagers.
Overall, skateboarding is a fun and healthy sport that can give you a low-impact aerobic workout, plus an adrenaline rush!