Getting back up after falling off

Skateboarding can often be unpleasant when coming off of your board nastily. Despite wearing pads all over your body, you will definately at one point or another fall and you will likely get hurt before you get good enough to catch yourself effectively. Apart from the obvious of perhaps wearing a helmet in conjunction with pads, there are some additional things you can do to reduce the damage your body takes.

An important thing to remember is that, once you fall, you should try not to use your hands to catch yourself. At first this may be kind of hard to master, but if you lose your board and you are going to hit the ground, you should try and let your shoulder and body take the brunt of it, whilst rolling along with the blow, which will dampen the negative effects. Catching yourself with your hand is the most common way of breaking your wrists and while wearing wrist guards can protect you from this, it is more dangerous to get used to using your hands, because further down the line you will start to skate without the use of your wrist guards.

So remember for all of those times you do get hurt or injured, what do you do about it? Just crack on and try to get up if you can, walk around and shake it off. Easier said then done I know.

From then on every time you fall, your body will then begin to learn to avoid doing that again. You should not get hurt that bad from skateboarding, but it is a fact that broken bones are quite a common occurrence. If you think you have suffered from a broken bone or maybe damaged a part of your body badly, then get it checked out straight away. You will hate yourself if you come to find out a month later you were indeed hurt severley, but the wound healed the wrong way and now things are twice as bad. The fact of the matter is that wounds heal, and you will be fine in no time. After you are better and up for it, the most important thing to do is to get back on your skateboard, and just carry on skating.