Long Board Skating
By. C.A.
When it comes down to hard core skateboarding, it's not a matter of if an accident will occur, but when it will happen.
It happens to the best of them. Broken bones and cartledge deep body scrapes come with the territory. All of this for an adrenaline rush and a reputation as a lunatic.
Long board skaters go looking for perfectly paved runs, ditches and parking structures that will send them flying.
Well we caught a glimpse of this action this week while hanging with skating legends, Victor Earhart, Jimmy Roa, and Jeff Budro. Victor Earhart is a 60-year-old die hard skating veteran and long board history guru. Earhart has been blazing down hills in San Diego since 1963.
He's one of skate boardings most respected and knowledgeable characters. That’s likely the reason Sector 9 skateboards has Victor Earhart building their boards for them.
Spending the day with this legend as well as popular pro skaters Jeff Budro and Jimmy Rao was a great learning experience.
We discovered that not even age can separate these skaters from their passion. Now thats hard core.
Travis Barker
"All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding"
Skateboarding
Deaths by Age
12 and under: 6
13 – 18: 21
19 – 24: 12
25 and up: 3
14 – 15: 12 Fatalities
By Sex
Male: 40
Female: 2
Place of death
Within skatepark: 2
Outside skatepark: 40
Facts
about skateboards
Skateboards send an estimated 50,000 people to emergency rooms for treatment of serious injuries each yr, according to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Hospital reports show that the most common form of injury from a skateboard crash is broken bones.
Most skateboard crashes happen because of irregular riding surfaces.
Your chances of death after Wiping out on a long board skate board at 45 mph is 45%.
