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Longboarders! Tell us your setup and gnarliest slam!

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DavidRoss
Posts: 152 - Karma: 9
Landyachtz chinook with bears and 85 o-tangs freestyles

Gnarliest spill - going at least 25 just cruising, stepped into a turn to hard and went flying into some trees.
Jun 18 2011 7:58PM
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jca
Posts: 4172 - Karma: 6,310
going pretty slow on really mellow road, not paying attention. hit crack, slam head, 9 staples, lost a week of memory.
Jun 18 2011 8:03PM
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Relish_man
Posts: 5386 - Karma: 551
some dude died longboarding near my town last week. would that qualify as gnarly?
Jun 18 2011 8:13PM
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
stock sector nine bamboo uluwatu pintail board,

was cruising, wearing slippers, a short and a tshirt when i decided it was a tight idea to hang behind a car...
so i hang on the side of the car, by the passenger door while my friends accelerate, around 60kph/40mph i get a speedwobble and bail, in a reflex i fear of getting underneath the rear wheels of the car so i push my board towards the car and bail the other way, i roll 4 or 5 times head over heels before getting to a stop, the side of my knee was scraped off, my hand palms were all cut up and one half of my face was also pretty messed up :) luckily i didn't break something and didn't get a concussion either....

the cuts and scrapes were huge but luckily not very deep so they all healed up pretty nicely :)

i still have the shirt, shorts and slipper i wore that day, the shirt has a huge rip over my shoulder, the shorts are totally ripped to pieces around my right leg and the slippers have a huge hole on top, where my toes would be :)


so, i don't think i'll ever hang behind a car again...
at least not on a cruising board with super loose trucks while wearing nothing protective .....


ps: the longboard made it out in one piece, it shot underneath the car between the right front and rear wheel and shot out between the two rear wheels, completely unscratched :)
Jun 18 2011 8:17PM
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Chompo.
Posts: 4952 - Karma: 88
38 kracked skulls scimitar with grooves, paris 180's, and yellow o'tang durians

soon to also have

40 rayne vendetta, paris 180's, and sector 9 speed formulas

Couldnt make a corner so i hit a wall doing like 20 dead on. NOthing special, just really sore
Jun 19 2011 12:02AM
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P-HAGAR
Posts: 608 - Karma: 159
pretty shitty sector 9 with brand new orangoutang wheels, with stock trucks and i think red bone bearings?

gnarliest crash-----the road i was longboarding on merged into another road and got hit by a car..i got really badly bruised and scraped up...might of cracked a rib?
Jun 19 2011 8:31PM
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Toasty.
Posts: 6198 - Karma: 2,330
the sexy set up and i hit a car
Jun 20 2011 2:10PM
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BikeMlatt69
Posts: 1947 - Karma: 60
not me but kid at my school last summer was mobbing this hill near a local river. He did not see the car backing its boat out of the parking lot and he collided, his shins hitting the fender bar thing that holds the boat to the car. He proceeded to slam into the car, head first. He was not wearing a helmet and he went into a coma and doctors preformed multiple brain surgeries. Almost a year later, he is fine and still recovering with a weak, fleshy skull.
Jun 20 2011 3:02PM
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a_pla5tic_bag
Posts: 9217 - Karma: 5,399
right now I have a bustin spliff, paris 150's. in the process of building a speedboard, seen here.
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i've never taken a bad fall yet. but i was bombing hills, and I hit a rock and the board was on like one wheel. i was scared.
Jun 20 2011 3:13PM
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