Riding Flatwater Freestyle - Avoid Injury
- Thread starter hugebass
- Start date
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
Dont let go.
DAG
Yes, my balls tickled from that landing
- Location
- Charlotte, NC
Start of list
Don't let go
End of list
Don't let go
End of list
- Location
- Charlotte NC
Mike W
Infidel
- Location
- North Florida
Wear a helmet...
Yami-Rider
TigerCraft FV-PRO
- Location
- Texoma
Dont ride alone if possible
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
I literally tried a monkey jump 1 time.... 1 time only... never again.
- Location
- Amherst NH
Monkey jump?
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
It's a prehistoric flatwater freestyle trick that predates the rare, but well known Barrell Rolls and the even rarer Back Flip.
Just watched example on YouTube. I'm with you. I'm out on that. Wrong timing and nuts are gone.
Big Kahuna
Administrator
- Location
- Tuscaloosa, AL
Shins to the tray or bars. I think I cried like a little girl.....
Aquaholic
World's Oldest Teenager
- Location
- San Diego, CA.
Quinc
Buy a Superjet
- Location
- California
I want to see this on your Rickter at the next Iceman comp!
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
Riding backwards at high speed and caught leg on water and tore hamstring, pelvic tear and groin injury, basically split in two, 9 months later some nights it feels like being ass raped by a blue whale
CD155MX
Squirrel!!!
- Location
- Alta Loma, CA
I second this!!!!
I sucked at them on my SJ. Yet to try them on my Superfreak, but will prob suck at them on the SF as well.
I'm down for some backwards hood races this year!!!!
- Location
- White lake, Mi
-Don't let go... lol... but seriously don't
-Wear protective footwear if your kicking into footholds... I broke my toe last week wearing wetsuit neoprene shoes instead of wrestling shoes/cleats/whatever
- Stretch out before you ride! I always blew this off being 18 but I tore back a couple back muscles last season and really regretted not spending the 5 minutes stretching while I watched other people ride.
- wear a wet suit when doing old school tricks if you can. even in the middle of the summer I'd normally opt for a wetsuit just for when sliding around on the hood or whatever the thin layer will help your skin, shins and other random stuff that just doesn't feel as good bare.
- if your trying barrel rolls and wear a helmet make sure it doesn't have a visor or you run the risk of getting your head just about ripped off.
-Wear protective footwear if your kicking into footholds... I broke my toe last week wearing wetsuit neoprene shoes instead of wrestling shoes/cleats/whatever
- Stretch out before you ride! I always blew this off being 18 but I tore back a couple back muscles last season and really regretted not spending the 5 minutes stretching while I watched other people ride.
- wear a wet suit when doing old school tricks if you can. even in the middle of the summer I'd normally opt for a wetsuit just for when sliding around on the hood or whatever the thin layer will help your skin, shins and other random stuff that just doesn't feel as good bare.
- if your trying barrel rolls and wear a helmet make sure it doesn't have a visor or you run the risk of getting your head just about ripped off.
- Location
- Coeur D' Alene, ID
Shoes, gloves, helmet, stretch, don't let go. This is pretty much all you need to get Sendy
- Location
- Braapp Factory
stay at home and take up knitting
- Location
- Long Beach, CA
I didn't stretch but got stretched.