How to Fall in Skateboarding

Video Transcript

"We're going to talk about an essential park of street skating and also an avoidable part of street skating and that's falling. When learning how to skateboard it's inevitable that you're going to fall. The trick is to learn how to fall properly to avoid serious injury you can start by practicing how to fall in a grassy surface at the end of a pavement surface like this. The trick when falling is to prevent putting your hands down, putting your hands down and straightening your arms puts all of your body weight on your arms and can possible break them. When you see yourself falling even though you have the instinct to put your hands out it's important to tuck your arms and roll on your shoulder. This will prevent you from serious risk injury. Let's practice on the grass. First we'll demonstrate the improper way to fall, I approach the grass the board stops I begin to fall and put my hands out. This can potentially break or spring or both of my wrist, now let's see the proper way of falling. Once again I approach the grassy surface this time I'm going to tuck in my arms and roll on my shoulder. By rolling on your shoulders your body absorbs most of your weight and it doesn't come down on your arms. Take it from someone who's broken both of their arms skateboarding learning how to fall is an essential part of learning how to skateboard."