from How To Inline Skate on 1 Feb 2017
Urban Inline Skating:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzWF7SPT8Qn6N6H_KKZgCQ
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Backwards Stair Roll FAIL – Safety Lessons
A channel I’m subscribed to, “Urban Inline Skating,” shared this failed attemt at a backwards stair roll.
It’s painful to watch but thankfully he was not badly hurt.
Some lessons that come to mind.
1. Wear a helmet!
After an impact, remember to replace the helmet. This applies to hard foam helmets, which is the kind I recommend you wear. In the European Union and in Calfornia hard foam helmets are the only legal choice, so depending on where you live, these may be the only certified options anyway.
2. What’s in your backpack?
The contents of your backpack may protect you or they may seriously hurt you. Be smart about what you carry in your back pack.
3. Wrists are vulnerable!
From the footage it doesn’t seem like it, yet he did sprain his left wrist. Thankfully x-rays showed no break. Obviously, without wrist guards the outcome could have been worse.
I really admire “Urban Inline Skating” for sharing this. If it happens to him, it can happen to anyone. Every skater, at any level, do fall sometimes.
I applaud him for being smart about wearing the right protection, but also keep in mind that he’s very strong, and not everyone would be as unharmed as him from a fall like this.
I’m also happy to see he’s back rolling stairs again. That’s the spirit!
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I’ve just set up a facebook page where I share interesting videos from around YouTube, and I also plan to use this page to consult the comunity about my own upcoming videos.