Bomb Hills

[Tate 1st MRB]

Here's another skate video. Florida is relatively flat everywhere, but in Clermont, FL there are plenty of hills and elevation. Please watch and comment thanks

[Gearhart 1st MRB]

Where's your helmet? Tony Hawk wears a helmet, so should you.

[Wirths]

Who needs helmet if you can have Brain Damage ^^

*sarcasm mode off* he is right, better go safe especially on roads with cars.

[J. Hill]

That was a hill? Seen ant hills higher than that.

[S. Hill]

I Have skateboard on hills, and i had a bad accident on one when i skinned the whole left side of my leg when i wiped out and it was skinned from the mid thigh all the way down to my ankle while on a boogie skateboard (that is a WIDE board and was very loose from tricks and such i used to do on it) and shortly there after i quit skateboarding. i learned to NEVER go down a semi steep hill or a VERY steep hill. i try avoiding going down the Biggest hill into our apartment complex and i went down a side path and lost control thus my accident. I still have the scars from that accident and its been over 25 yrs since then.

[J. Ascencio 1st MRB]

Where's your helmet? Tony Hawk wears a helmet, so should you.

Bruhh all ze kewl kids don't wear helmets herpaderp

Nice video tho!

[J. Hill]

Where's your helmet? Tony Hawk wears a helmet, so should you.

Bruhh all ze kewl kids don't wear helmets herpaderp

Nice video tho!

All ze kewl kidz have brain damage too.......

[Magic 1st MRB]

Thanks for sharing the video. This reminds me of my only day I've ever skated.

Story time:

At the end of highschool a few of my friends were skaters/longboarders so they wanted to teach me how to skate. I of course for some reason said sure and I got picked up and went to this neighborhood-on-a-hill. At the very top of the hill there was a Cul de Sac, and I was given a skateboard and I learned to move on my own and turn by leaning the skateboard/my body. I didn't need any protective gear other than some gloves and my tshirt because I was all safe in that nice little circular road. By the time lunch rolls around we grab some pizza and they tell me I'm ready to get some real skating lessons.

So we go back to the top of the neighborhood and go to the Cul de Sac. This time they tell me to turn around and point me down the street. We go and this fucking street is a huuuge downward slope (20 degree slopes) thats starts ontop of a goddamn mountain and goes 1/2 mile long road that has small twists and turns. The pavement was really smooth tho ill give it that. It was a super-rich neighborhood. They tell me some basic rules:

You know how to turn, so do it.

If you start going too fast, jump and run it off.

If you're about to hit the curb/car, jump and run it off.

And with this bible I was left ontop of the hill as the other skated down. I was like *welp* and went off myself.

example 20 degree slope for anyone interested.

As you start going down you can turn a little as you aren't going too fast. But eventually you just start gaining speed and you keep turning and it seems like it is an easy act. Just push toes and lean body, right? But the confidence soon faded as I felt the beast of the board trying to get out. Once you pick up speed it starts vibrating so hard I thought there was an atom bomb reaching critical mass under my feet. I got scared and jumped off the board. It didn't end there as soon as I touched the ground again my legs went in overdrive mode running faster than humanely possible just attempting to keep myself from falling forward from all of my momentum, and in the end I somehow made it and my board hit a curb and landed in some dudes lawn. Needless to say after a minute long breather, I was completely hooked. I grab my board and continued down the hill and eventually made it down. My friends were waiting and laughed their asses off as they saw me sprinting faster than Usain Bolt down the hill to prevent myself from getting that faceplant. We hiked back up the hill and were ready for round 2.

Eventually I got the hang of turning decently fast enough to make it to the end of the road with the others. But there is one thing you guys must understand. I couldn't slow down except for the flat parts of the road. So when you're going down you only have one option: stay on the atomic bomb as long as you can handle it and hope that no car comes up the road unexpectedly.

After another half day of going up and down the hill I finally got caught. I was speeding down and a car came up the left side of the road and I had to jump off and run right. My board went under the car and I missed it too, but there was a car parked right in my running trajectory that I hit it at such a speed I did a roll-over the card and landed on the other side of it. I somehow didn't get any injuries other than scraped knees so I finished the rest of the road and at the bottom I called it a day after that and I've never touched a skateboard since.

It was an amazing day that I had great fun on but, looking back HOLY FUCK it was the 2nd most dangerous thing I've ever done and I escaped it with negligible injuries when I deserved so much more.

Edited April 25, 2015 by Magic 1st MRB

[Quarterman 1st MRB]

Your long friend reminds me of Takel. Tell that hippie to get a hair cut =P

[Tate 1st MRB]

Wow magic what an experience. Thank you for sharing. I have many memories of skating as a kid and when I first got hooked.

I can remember friends showing up to high school with road rash of pieces of there jeans stuck in there skin. I avoid the huge angled steep hills where I will have to "stay on the atomic bomb." lol

But to me, skating is all about falling and getting back up and doing what you love no matter what.

btw what is the most dangerous thing you've done?