SKATEBOARDING ACCIDENTS

To improve skateboarding safety, a growing number of communities provide supervised skateboard parks. These may have professionally designed "bowls" and "ramps" or other designated skateboarding areas that are located away from motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic.

Skateboarding is an activity in which you move quickly over hard surfaces. It can lead to injuries that range from minor cuts and bruises to catastrophic brain injury. Each year in the United States, skateboarding injuries cause about 50,000 visits to emergency departments and 1500 children and adolescents to be hospitalized. (Source: AAP, March 2002. )

Most hospitalizations involve head injury. Even injuries that heal quickly can cause pain and anxiety, cost time, and money and may lead to disabilities. This can include loss of vision, hearing and speech; inability to walk, bathe, toilet, dress or feed yourself; and changes in thinking and behavior.

Skateboarding is not recommended for young children. That's because they are still growing and do not yet have the physical skills and thinking ability a person needs to control a skateboard and ride it safely.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP):

• Children under age 5 years old should never ride a skateboard.
• Children aged 6 to 10 years old need close supervision from an adult or trustworthy adolescent whenever they ride a skateboard.

When young children are involved in skateboarding accidents, they are often injured severely. Skateboarding is a special risk for young children because they have:

• A higher center of gravity, less development and poor balance. These factors make children more likely to fall and hurt their heads.
• Slower reactions and less coordination than adults. Children are less able to break their falls.
• Less skill and ability than they think. Children overestimate their skills and abilities and are inexperienced in judging speed, traffic and other risks.

Serious skateboarding injuries happen when you lose control and fall or run into a motor vehicle, road hazard, pedestrian, another skateboarder or bicyclist. You are at risk for injuries:

• If you don't use protective equipment.
• If you don't keep your skateboard in good condition.
• If you skateboard on irregular surfaces.
• If you attempt "tricks" beyond your skill level.

Sixty percent of skateboard injuries involve children under age 15; most of those injured are boys. At highest risk are:

• Inexperienced skateboarders. Those who have been skating for less than one week suffer one-third of injuries, usually caused by falls.
• Skateboarders who do not wear protective equipment. Every skateboarder should wear standard safety gear. This includes a helmet, wrist guards, elbow and knee pads and appropriate shoes. Skateboarders who perform tricks should use heavy duty gear.
• Skateboarders who go near traffic or use homemade skateboard ramps. Both activities are particularly dangerous.
• Experienced skateboarders who encounter unexpected surfaces or try risky stunts. Irregular riding surfaces, rocks or other debris can cause you to fall. You can stumble over twigs or fall down slopes. Wet pavements and rough or uneven surfaces can cause a wipeout. Avoid risky behavior. Don't skateboard too fast or in dangerous or crowded locations.

THE BASIC TRICK!!!

Jumping: the Ollie

Frontside Forces and Fakie Flight: The Physics of Skateboarding Tricks (continued...)

Invented in the late 1970s by Alan "Ollie" Gelfand, the ollie has become a skateboarding fundamental, the basis for many other more complicated tricks. In its simplest form, the ollie is a jumping technique that allows skaters to hop over obstacles and onto curbs, etc. What's so amazing about the ollie is the way the skateboard seems to stick to the skater's feet in midair. Seeing pictures of skaters performing soaring 4-foot ollies, many people assume that the board is somehow attached to the skater's feet. It's not. What's even more amazing about the ollie is that to get the skateboard to jump up, the skater pushes down on the board! The secret to this paradoxical maneuver is rotation around multiple axes. Let's take a closer look.

Forces in the Ollie
Just before a skater performs an ollie, there are three forces acting on the skateboard. One of these forces is the weight of the rider, shown here with two red arrows. Another is the force of gravity on the board itself, shown with a small black arrow. Finally, blue arrows show the force of the ground pushing up on the skateboard. These three forces balance out to zero. With no net force, the skateboard doesn't accelerate, but rolls along at a constant speed.
Notice that the skater is crouching down. A low center of mass will be crucial to getting a high jump. (Don't believe it? Stand perfectly straight and try jumping without crouching . . . you didn't get very high, did you?) Now let's follow the changing forces that go into making an ollie.

The skater accelerates himself upward by explosively straightening his legs and raising his arms. During the jump, his rear foot exerts a much greater force on the tail of the board than his front foot does on the nose, causing the board to pivot counterclockwise about the rear wheel.

As the tail strikes the ground, the ground exerts a large upward force on the tail. The result of this upward force is that the board bounces up and begins to pivot clockwise, this time around its center of mass.

With the board now completely in the air, the skater slides his front foot forward, using the friction between his foot and the rough surface of the board to drag the board upward even higher.

The skater begins to push his front foot down, raising the rear wheels and leveling out the board. Meanwhile, he lifts his rear leg to get it out of the way of the rising tail of the board. If he times this motion perfectly, his rear foot and the rear of the board rise in perfect unison, seemingly "stuck" together.

The board is now level at its maximum height. With both feet touching the board, the skater and board begin to fall together under the influence of gravity.

Gravity eventually wins out and the skater bends his legs to absorb the the impact of the landing.

How to Skateboard

Skateboarding is one of the quintessential extreme sports. It is a relatively modern sport, originated as ‘sidewalk surfing’ in California in the 1950s, born out of surfing as something to do when there weren’t any waves. It has gone on to establish itself as an individual sport in its own right ever since and has a strong following of young and old alike. From Half Pipes, to street skating, to high speed downhill slalom, skateboarding is forever evolving and attracting fresh faces to this exciting sport. We are offering both a half day and full day intro Skateboarding Lessons to give you the chance to challenge yourself and push yourself to the limit!

Skateboarding is among the definitive extraordinary sports. It’s a comparatively modern sport, originated as ‘sidewalk surfing’ in California in the 1950s, born out of surfing as something to do when there were not any waves. It has gone on to build itself as an individual sport in its own right ever since and has a robust following of young and old alike. From Half Pipes, to street skating, to high speed downhill slalom, skate boarding is forever developing and captivating fresh faces to this exciting sport. We are providing both a half day and full day introduction skate boarding to offer you the opportunity to challenge yourself and push yourself to the limit! Many individuals out there are trying to find methods to make additional money.

Why don’t you turn your own abilities into something you can earn money with? If you have got a keenness for skate boarding you can offer lessons to folks. So as to do this though you must be extremely patient and great at communication. Scholars need to think that they are going to have a brilliant teacher to incentivize them and to help them.

WHAT IS SKATEBOARDING??

Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard. A person who skateboards is most often referred to as a skateboarder, or colloquially within the skateboarding community, a skater.

Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation.Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2002 report by American Sports Data found that there were 18.5 million skateboarders in the world. 85 percent of skateboarders polled who had used a board in the last year were under the age of 18, and 74 percent were male.

Skateboarding is relatively modern. A key skateboarding maneuver, the ollie, was developed in the late 1970s by Alan "Ollie" Gelfand as a half-pipe maneuver. Freestyle skateboarder Rodney Mullenwas the first to take it to flat ground and later invented the kickflip and its variations.

SKATEBOARDING

Find out how this extreme sport is governed by the principles
of momentum, gravity, friction, and centripetal force.
Learn skateboarding history, technology, and more!

In the beginning, skateboarding was simple...

With nothing more than a two-by-four on roller-skate wheels, the sidewalk
surfers of the 30s, 40s, and 50s had a straightforward mission: Start at the top
of a hill and ride down.

What is a skateboard?

The basic elements of the skateboard seem pretty straightforward.
A board has three parts: the board or deck, the wheels, and the trucks,
which connect the wheels to the board, and allow the board to turn.

Moment of truth!!

This is me, I own this blog. I am a skater. Many people judge as by our look. They say we looks like uneducated person. But we're not, this is our hobby, this is our life. Its for fun not for hooking up girls. Don't judge us until you know us. Not all skaters are bad. at abroad skaters are jailed because they are playing at the private places. Its our sports, its extreme and its fun. If you want to join as a skater just approach us. We will teach you how. I wish skateboarding at the Philippines is supported by the government like in the States. Support us Philippines!!!! This is also a sport!!!

remember......."Skateboarding is not a crime".

"Di po kami ADIK, SKATER po kami.!!!!!!