Rolled ankle attempting a flatland kickflip, ouch oof owie
Yes I was wearing a helmet.
I was becoming pretty obsessed with skating recently and was like “ill do 100 moving ollies every day till its second nature” and was skating around for 6-8 hours. I ended spraining my ankle so bad couldnt walk for a week or 2. And I did it from…….
Failing an ollie lol
skate or die motherfucker
Yeah after the first month i still was skating slapped on an ankle brace and taking kratom and ibuprofen despite it still being in such a tragic state. A lot of other skaters do the same thing. We just be stubborn for whatever reason
If you haven’t tired, learn some freestyle stuff, railstands and campers are a good start, old school shove it’s, walk the dogs and stuff is good for footwork too, but it also gives you something else to practice, same with other old school stuff like pressures, slappies, footprints etc, helps let some parts recover and later on harder flip tricks will be easier. Also, it may be a drag but learn to skate switch now and not when you’re good at regular. Get comfortable riding and pushing in switch as well as trying to learn each trick in each stance, get a fakie Ollie down and then try switch or nollie (I find nollie tricks way easier than switch and for shove it stuff easier than regular) and then the other. It pays off HARD later on and I wish I had done it from the start.
Before the ankle sprain I was already riding around switch and doing switch ollies and shuvs as well. And ever since the sprain Ive mainly been doing tricks switch so Im not constantly hitting the hot pocket when I catch. I plan on switch ollieing a gap soon to give the finger to a friend who sent me a pic of him ollieing it as a flex.
That’s the spirit! I do still recommend learning freestyle stuff in cooldowns, caspers fucking rule, especially on a bank, you can casper stall at the peak and really fling yourself off coming on and it feels cool as hell. If you wax the bank and slide it up to the top, ooof
Ooh yeah that sounds nice. Caspers are actually hard as fuck to make look good on street board
I try no complys and also struggle with them heavily. One that Ive been focusing on making look smooth is strawberry milkshake and its looks like ass every time I do it
Straight no complies are harder than doing them with shove it’s or as 180s, I’ve only ever done caspers on a street board, you need to pull up by leaning back instead of just bending your front leg is the trick to doing them stylish. Strawberry milkshakes are easy as hell to do but really really tough to make look smooth. I got into doing a variant where I’d flip it heelside, 180 body varial into the footprint and spring it up like an pressure flip from underneath, you need.to get your toe just between the wheel and the board though
hell yea
Btw I didnt start feeling better until i started doing resistance band ankle workouts on month 2. I could finally start doing every trick after incorporating the workouts everyday.
Ollie’s are one of the hardest tricks you’ll learn. Getting em good and down will make everything Ollie based easier, which is basically every trick invented after the Ollie.
Nice one. One time I bailed so badly I ended up in the hospital, my right shoulder is still visibly different from my left one and one of my ribs pokes out in a funny way now lol.
After decades of rolled ankles, broken and dislocated fingers, shoulders and toes my last skateboard is a wall hanger now.
Be safe Conrad. This one won’t be your last rolled ankle.
why would you try a kickflip no human has ever landed one
I landed a sketchy one (kind of a very tiny, maybe 30deg varial) trying to shuvit 3 years ago and have been chasing that high since.
Skateboarding is so rough on ankles, hope you heal up quick
About damn time
You’re gonna get a LOT of rolled ankles. If you haven’t learned em yet, id suggest shin guards for shove it’s until you have em down
or thick and tall socks under jeans, unless you want to look like you are going to a cricket match, ya jabroni.
