For me skateboarding is fascinating. They weren't around when I was a kid and they frighten the crap out of me although I did land kite with a mountain board before taking to the water.

Check out this video if you haven't already seen it. This guy has achieved stuff no ordinary mortal would contemplate and has used skateboarding as the extreme expression of the resilience of the human experience when the spirit remains.

That will stuff his back up eventually.
All the impact of landing is straight onto his spine, rather than taken up by bending the knees.

Wow, that was an awesome video :). I watched it twice. I loved the music too. Whose the band/song ?

(pweedas, I didn't red thumb you).

I'm gunna watch it again

Stylin too.

That was awesome!
I red thumbed you pweedas, what a crap comment

The master of negativity is at it again

Love your work Pweedle

You really are an inspiring entity

NOT


BTW, awesome clip Japie. When you can make the most of wot you got, why not use it,

and in his situation he's got a lot less than most of us and he's using it to his best

Good on him

P:S You're a tool pweedle

he'd never wear out his vans

With any type of solo sport, somebody wrote the book on moves. .. This guy (and the older guy in middle of the clip) are writing the book, because nobody has used a skate board with no legs. That's what's special about the video I reckon.

I'm just starting to pull off duck gybes now. Starting windsurfing at 37 (I'm 43 now), these duck gybes were bloody hard. It took me a year to get them (it it was mostly a mental blockage, with lots of busting feet in straps and face planting on the sail)... and they are ****house. It will take me another season to get them looking pretty. .. but I didn't invent the move. Somebody else did (Robby Naish ?). I wouldn't have even contemplated them if I hadn't seen them, let alone trying to figure out how to do one with a missing arm etc. .. so I hand it to the young bloke and the old bloke in the video.

Pweedas is right, but skateboarders probably end up with stuffed knees and as they get older, they probably change their style to less destructive moves. .. and then one day you give it away. My day will come for windsurfing too.

The song artists are Simon a Garthfunkel aren't they ?. Nice tune. Never heard it before. I don't like these singers, but that song was good.

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VB MAN said..
The master of negativity is at it again

Love your work Pweedle

You really are an inspiring entity

NOT


BTW, awesome clip Japie. When you can make the most of wot you got, why not use it,

and in his situation he's got a lot less than most of us and he's using it to his best

Good on him

P:S You're a tool pweedle

I didn't make that comment to belittle what he can do. It's impressive.
However, when you don't have a lot, then I think it's best to look after what you've got.
What he will have in another five years will be a stuffed back. I well know what that's like.
He can still use the skateboard without doing things which involve heavy landings, but in my view, heavy landings are out.

If a medico or physio is prepared to contradict that fact than I will retract my comment.
thumb away

Rippin it a million times better than I ever could or ever will.

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pweedas said..
That will stuff his back up eventually.
All the impact of landing is straight onto his spine, rather than taken up by bending the knees.

I'm sure your reply was well-intentioned regarding the medical advice,

however it came across as tactless.

If you watch the video closely,

you can see his elbows, shoulders, hands, fingers and butt muscles absorb some of the impact forces along with his back.

Sorry about that then.
Usually I'm criticised for too many words.
In the above instance I just said the thing that really hit me when I watched it.

Having had a number of long stretches with a back so bad, all I could do was lie around the house for six months, I'm now really attuned to anything which will cause a re-occurrence. In that vid I saw exactly that.

For those who have never experienced what a really bad back can do to you, you're very lucky.
My advice is to try and keep it that way.

Great vid - I worry about him jamming his fingers more than anything.

First thing I thought of when I saw the thread title:

Better than me too.

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waveslave said..

pweedas said..
That will stuff his back up eventually.
All the impact of landing is straight onto his spine, rather than taken up by bending the knees.

I'm sure your reply was well-intentioned regarding the medical advice,

however it came across as tactless.

If you watch the video closely,

you can see his elbows, shoulders, hands, fingers and butt muscles absorb some of the impact forces along with his back.

I suppose in Kitesurfing your butt muscles would have to absorb a fair bit too.

Well, at least Kitesurfers bums are tight

Unlike Poleriders

Gee,.. Is that the 'Heavy weather' forum I see approaching at a rapid rate??

How can such a benign topic end up in mud slinging and red thumbs?

^^ Shoosh! Quit while you're behind forum junky.

Really he is doing it the easy way, flipping board with his hands rather than his feet.

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pweedas said...
Sorry about that then.
Usually I'm criticised for too many words.
In the above instance I just said the thing that really hit me when I watched it.

Having had a number of long stretches with a back so bad, all I could do was lie around the house for six months, I'm now really attuned to anything which will cause a re-occurrence. In that vid I saw exactly that.

For those who have never experienced what a really bad back can do to you, you're very lucky.
My advice is to try and keep it that way.

As a male I was more concerned for his testicles , whatch it again with that in mind, I can only watch a couple of tricks, ughhhhh argghhhhh

I think that the most remarkable thing about this vid is his resilience. He took some heavy falls, and scrapes, and just got back on the board. That is mental toughness that I admire...
Thanks for posting the video Japie..