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Oof, ouch. That’s rough!
I’ve had a broken arm from skating too: sketchy bowl, borrowed gear, jetlag, beer : /It’s been 3-4 years since I stopped regular noodling on any type of board. In lockdown I’ve tried to get out more. Rolling around streets with no traffic makes me remember why I love it so much. While I’m never going to retire from work because I can’t afford to - there is a possibility of becoming classified as a home worker - and that means my dreams of a backyard green bowl (tyres? rammed earth?) COULD come true : )
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That would be awesome. Do it!
I’ve always dreamed of bowl riding and never had transport to any worth visiting, and kinda missed the boat now.
Big dream is a tiny death bowl or dual purpose mini velodrome/bowl setup so I cycle/bmx/skate and get all the wave with none of the traffic. Maybe one day.
But yea broken bones suck. My humerus was snapped in half. I was hit by a taxi in a bus lane when crossing stopped traffic and went flying.
I landed on my back, saw my arm at a weird angle and rolled over grabbed it and just stayed put in recovery position and shouted for an ambulance.
Police told my dad I was lucky to be alive, the damage to the taxi was like it got hit by a sledgehammer and yet...
...Of course, being on a board meant that the solicitors refused to pursue the case and I was ‘lucky not to be done for criminal damage to the taxi’ - literally got told that the same week as the doctors told me it was ‘no guarantees’ whether I’d ever regain feeling or function in my left hand (massive radial/ulner nerve damage). Not worth going into the hell of the MRSA from overnight in hospital, cancelled operation, nurses removing my cast too early or any of the other nonsense! Ha!
Decade later and still get weird twinges and sometimes drop stuff.
pdlouche
After riding longboards for years I wasn’t awful, but stopped seriously riding a decade ago after being hit by a car and my arm snapping in half. Still went out as much as possible after that, but been 5 years since I did more than the odd day.
Not sure I could even balance on a board any more!