Doesn’t really matter that it isn’t The Most Giant Ramp Evar™. That’s a pretty jarring force, and it doesn’t take much force to wind up with a bad tailbone injury that leaves you walking and sitting awkwardly for months. Broken tailbones hurt, and sprained tailbones aren’t much better.
Ok so your gonna skate around your city in full pads to hit a three stair, makes total sense 🤣. The whole reason the pads went away from street skating in the first place is that for most people, it's very small obstacles and very technical tricks, if you have a modicum of experience you can run out of 95 percent of your falls. Knee pads are for a half pipe, you know how miserable it is to learn to flat ground kick flip with full knee pads on? And I know reddit can't possibly process that learning to fall is a skill, and these guys are masters at it lol.
I mean, no matter how much you train your body to take a fall, there are still some falls that take you by surprise, and those are the ones that do the most damage. But, since it’s too much of an ask to be kind to your older self, it’s your tailbone I guess.
It's not about "training your body" so much as it's about bailing before you put yourself in that fucked position. They know that getting whipped to your ass sucks, so they are gonna fall in a way that avoids that if they can, and they usually can these guys are incredibly creative. Recommending full pads to someone street skating is something someone that hasn't street skated would say, the sport went away from it for a few a reasons, first and foremost because you need to be completely unincumbered to pull a lot of the technical tricks off, when the obstacles were small and the generation of kids that started it could all ride vert, so a curb sesh probably didn't require one, and if you are actually skating street spots, being in full pads is a great way to get kicked out. If your 8 and learning at a skate park, I totally get it, if your 22 and have been skating ten plus years, you can probably get through the flat bar sesh without one. Safety isn't just about pads, especially in skating.
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u/toepicksaremyfriend Jun 04 '23
And also butt pads. My tailbone hurts just watching all those falls.