That's awesome. Seriously, safety gear is the best thing to "reduce risk of injury" (but that's for a different video haha). I love seeing people with their protective gear on. I can't afford to get hurt either, and the more pain I am in the worse I skate! Don't want to risk that! 🥲
Thanks Loukas! That's awesome. I'm glad my videos have translated into long boarding to an extent too 😃 If it's got a board and four wheels, I'm pretty stoked 💪
My worst falls have been the "unexpected" ones, wheelbite and those evil little pebbles, have been responsible for my worst injuries. I became paranoid of slipping out hard (e.g. shuvits) because I kept landing on my wheelbite injured wrist, but the fall itself wasn't so bad. Same for landing primo multiple times... unless I've just been lucky on those ..😅 Not that it matters since falling will always seem scary when you've spent 97% of your life NOT doing it...
for sure, it's the unexpected pebbles that get you the hardest 😭I've been hurt more on a pebble than I have landing primo as well. You just never know. And big "yes" to the fact that of course it's scary when we spend most of our lives not falling 😂 Funny but accurate way to think of it.
I can relate. Landed primo tons while learning to kickflip and had no probs. Switched to new bearings and wound up spraining my wrist on the first push. Dammit!
Same dam thing! Left wrist. Starts getting better and bam 😂. I swear now it’s like I don’t even think about, I protect it at all costs. Ripped my knee to pieces a few weeks ago, but hey, wrist is good to go. After that incident, my dum butt started wearing pads and wrist guards 😂
Excellent video and explanation, falling properly is actually a skillset needed for skateboarding, glad you covered it in detail, I find it helps with a bit of fear factor as well knowing if I can fall properly and not have things escalate quickly.
I always recommend your videos to my friends who starts skateboards recently, and even your video helps me to check again with basic tips! waiting for next one, thank you Sarah!
Always be prepared. I slipped out on a no comply 180 the other day because I failed to get my front foot off but yet had already started the rotation and shifting of weight. I was seriously not expecting that. Was some fall but fantastically enough I just got some bruisng on my back and elbow.
@@SarahParkMatott was on Monday. Could barely walk stairs in the evening. Now it’s Wednesday and I could feasibly get out tomorrow again. So all is well!
Thank you! I keep getting stuck in that zero gravity mindset whenever I fall so I don't usually react fast enough, so this is nice. Going to fall on grass after school now
Yes! Actually, being able to react fast enough is probably the hardest thing. So, getting into good habits of staying "bendy" and absorbing impact rather than trying to stop is are just good habits to work on now! And the grass is a great place to do that!
Thank you for this video, Sarah! I've been skating for about a year and while I still suck, it's videos like this that give me motivation and guidance so that I'll continue to get better. I love your calm and wholesome demeanour, so you've earned a new subscriber! 😊
just learnt yoyo hop from you tutorial on the grass. with enough confidence I tried on asphalt and the board immediately slipped and I fell hard. now I need to practice these tips, for which I thank you. also it helps to fall and roll on the grass many times so you're more used to the idea of falling
my friend broke his arm trying to stop the fall with straight arms. he hit a pebble not some high risk trick. learn some rolls on grass or anything soft, will benefit in the long run 👍 but don't roll on a quarter pipe, 😅just lean towards the quaterpipe and slide down
wearing safety gear and learning how to fall is not a bad thing and most importantly paying attention while skating. not all of us has the nerve of steel to come back after an injury.
This is exactly the video I wanted, and I don't know if I have seen anyone else cover stationary falls like you did. Thanks so much, my fear of hurting and injuring myself is one of the biggest things deterring me from skating, I am so scared of taking a bad fall and permanently damaging my body in some way. A big thing here I feel is being able to react in the heat of the moment to any fall you are having to deal with. Did you practice falling in certain ways to get the reflexes? I don't think I could trust myself to bend my knees and elbows consistently. I panic and freeze up alot
I completely get it. I don't know how I love skating, as I have always been a huge scardy cat. I'm not one to do stuff that might get me hurt. I've always had pretty quick reflexes. And with falling, you can practice tumbling and rolling, falling on bent elbows and rolling out (tuck and roll) kind of things in the grass. That familiarity really does help, because you know that it doesn't hurt as much as you think it might. And after falling a few times, I realized that most falls really didn't hurt at all, especially when you can roll with them or absorb a lot of the force. I think the most important part is to practice with that loose and gentle mindset. So, when you're learning to ollie or shove it or anything, make sure you're always trying to land with bent knees. Because if you have this practice under your belt, when something does go wrong, it is a little more second nature. I'm always ready to hop off with bent knees because that's how I've been training myself to land tricks in the first place. It's like setting yourself up for both situations.
just fell about 2 weeks ago. Was going down a hill and fell hard enough to actually fracture my thumb. I remember rolling, but i did it like a millisecond too late. Now im waiting for it to heal so i can finally start skating again, but this time i should probs watch vids like these first lol
i hadn't thought about the hop!! i noticed now thinking about it that i did it a lot unconciously, like a late bail xDDD but this is definitely the biggest difference imo in the impact of a fall!! the one time i fell the hardest was when i tried to get off the board but my feet somehow felt stuck and so i just fell hard on my side (i absorbed the impact with my arms "acordioning" but i got a headache from the sudden impact anyway even if i didn't fall on my head). I'll keep this in mind for next time! if i ever feel stuck, just try to conciously hop!! thank you :DD
Yeah, it's so tough when your feet are stuck to the board and just slam! Definitely just a good idea to have in your conscious. 💪 Just pull the feet up any way you can 😂
Today was my first time trying to land a yo-yo hop on concrete. The board slipped out, wouldn’t have been so bad if I just landed on my butt, but I stuck my back foot out and really crunched it. I’m usually pretty careful and methodical when learning this kind of stuff, but never really planned on falling. Definitely could’ve used that little hop out you demonstrated. Let’s hope that I can get back on my board soon.
Same here, man! I made the same mistake in May and broke 5 bones in my foot as a result. It’s helpful to see versions of falls where you can (hopefully) avoid crushing your feet, too, since I think the arms/wrists are such a big point in most of these kinds of videos.
omfg this is scary. I just took a HARD slam last Sunday at the park! Launched my board straight into the fence hard enough it got a good nick, and my hip and shoulder got smacked something fierce. But I got back on the board... Not since tho, holy shit have I been sore kill me!
I slipped today and fell straight on my butt... well it's not a great experience. I was trying 180 switch kickturns and I forgot to bend my knees... I often do a little hop but in this case my mind just turned off I think haha
I feel that! Fear has held me back a lot too. But I definitely noticed, besides tips like these, just the more I skated and got better at rolling around and just playing, the braver I felt. It took me 250 hours of skating to get to that point though lol 😂
I slipped out and rolled my ankle, broke some tiny bits of bones in my foot It was the silliest slip too, I just tried a regular ollie like I tried hundreds of times before :(
Idk how you control your falls. For me, when I slam, it just happens. Like I don’t even know what happened. It happens so fast and I don’t have time to think. I’m just on the ground in pain. I will say after hurting my wrist over and over, it’s almost instinctual now to protect my left wrist. Yesterday I slammed hard on my butt, but didn’t put down my wrist haha. Board literally just went out from under me. My butt is sore as heck today. I wonder if you just develop instincts over time after getting hurt to protect areas that get repeatedly hammered. Oh and after getting hurt a lot in the beginning, I wear safety gear 90% of the time. Ironically, seems I fall less when it’s on 😂
haha I have definitely gotten better at falling over time. I think you do develop skills, strength, flexibility etc that helps. I know also the more I train those areas, the better I am at avoiding or catching a fall. Even just the more board control I got, the better I became at getting off the board before it was too late. It's a skill 💯
When I fall I never remenber to at least try to fall safely, everything is so fast and somehow you usually are not thinking like "oh shit I gonna fall really bad now", I need to work more in preventing injuries or gonna get fucked up someday
It's all about that good practice. Practicing while keeping joints nice and bendy. You're totally right. It's hard to switch to "fall mode". But, sometimes there are tiny moments where we can build up that fall tolerance(?), remembering to roll and collapse starting with the little tumbles. It saves you as time goes on 💪
Oh wow! I injured myself yesterday almost exactly like what you did at :30. I'm trying to learn how to drop in (unsuccessfully), and when I dropped my rear foot slipped off, while my front foot was still on the rollng board- stretching my knee out sideways and hyperextending it. Just got back from the doctor - luckily its just an MCL strain so will need to rest for ~month. In that instance, it would be better to "hop bail"? LIke do I need to train myself to get off the board when the sh*t hits the fan?
ouch, yeah..and that back foot slipping off during a drop in seems to be pretty common. Controlled practice of these methods is definitely not a bad idea. Whether it's tucking and rolling, spinning, leaning back and trying to get your feet off the board before it completely slips out. Kinds of reminds your body what to do in the heat of the moment if it's had that practice before. But also, focusing on things like form (bent knees etc) puts you in a good position to perform them when accidents do happen. In that instance, it depends on the angle you're slipping out of. It's pretty hard to get the front foot off sliding down the ramp like that, but being able to roll or fall forward or back, like I did, allowed me to kind of change the angle of the stretch in a way and protect my ligaments. When you do a full on split slipping out, it's easy to over stretch those joints. I'm glad you only strained it though! Gotta take that rest to heart and maybe try some PT. I'm doing PT right now to try and avoid future injuries! :D
Hi 🙋♀️ High-tops won't prevent ankle rolls. But, they can definitely offer a little more support than low cut sneakers when it happens. They also offer good protection from when the board hits you in the ankles, which can be pretty painful.
@@josephrivera6721 It’s hard to prevent a rolled ankle. Taking your time and learning at your own speed will definitely help reduce them. And stretching is great. Gentle stretching. I would look up mobility and strength exercises for the ankle. Mobility and strength in any joint are typically what help reduce the risk or seriousness of an injury 💪
I’m an older skater that just started months ago, I wear safety gear since I’m also a runner and can’t afford getting hurt, awesome video.
That's awesome. Seriously, safety gear is the best thing to "reduce risk of injury" (but that's for a different video haha). I love seeing people with their protective gear on. I can't afford to get hurt either, and the more pain I am in the worse I skate! Don't want to risk that! 🥲
I always wear safety gear too and i'm shocked how little other people care about it.
It sucks that sometimes pads can get in the way for flexibility on the board 😔
Always go with the momentum. Trick number 1. And always go for it. You are more likely to hurt yourself if you second guess yourself
Yes. Never try to stop the momentum. Always want to go with it 🙏
One of the best if not the best skating youtubers, I get so much out of your videos even though I longboard instead
Thanks Loukas! That's awesome. I'm glad my videos have translated into long boarding to an extent too 😃 If it's got a board and four wheels, I'm pretty stoked 💪
My worst falls have been the "unexpected" ones, wheelbite and those evil little pebbles, have been responsible for my worst injuries.
I became paranoid of slipping out hard (e.g. shuvits) because I kept landing on my wheelbite injured wrist, but the fall itself wasn't so bad. Same for landing primo multiple times... unless I've just been lucky on those ..😅
Not that it matters since falling will always seem scary when you've spent 97% of your life NOT doing it...
for sure, it's the unexpected pebbles that get you the hardest 😭I've been hurt more on a pebble than I have landing primo as well. You just never know.
And big "yes" to the fact that of course it's scary when we spend most of our lives not falling 😂 Funny but accurate way to think of it.
I can relate. Landed primo tons while learning to kickflip and had no probs. Switched to new bearings and wound up spraining my wrist on the first push.
Dammit!
@@thomasj.9686 🤦♀️ ugh...the most skateboarding of all things
Same dam thing! Left wrist. Starts getting better and bam 😂. I swear now it’s like I don’t even think about, I protect it at all costs. Ripped my knee to pieces a few weeks ago, but hey, wrist is good to go. After that incident, my dum butt started wearing pads and wrist guards 😂
@@theaustralianhulk that wrist took 5 months to fully heal for me....
Excellent video and explanation, falling properly is actually a skillset needed for skateboarding, glad you covered it in detail, I find it helps with a bit of fear factor as well knowing if I can fall properly and not have things escalate quickly.
For sure! I totally agree. It's a huge advantage. 💪
I always recommend your videos to my friends who starts skateboards recently, and even your video helps me to check again with basic tips! waiting for next one, thank you Sarah!
That's awesome 😃 I'm glad they've been helpful for you and hopefully for your friends too. 😃
🙏🏾✌🏾🐜God Bless🙏🏾✌🏾🐜 i dig your explanation✌🏾🙏🏾🐜
I've been skating 30 years. These are valuable principles. Will save you some potential surgeries
Always be prepared. I slipped out on a no comply 180 the other day because I failed to get my front foot off but yet had already started the rotation and shifting of weight. I was seriously not expecting that. Was some fall but fantastically enough I just got some bruisng on my back and elbow.
Yeah..for sure. I've fallen hard doing pivots before. Trying to keep light and flexible and prepared to react is so important. Sorry you fell 😑
@@SarahParkMatott was on Monday. Could barely walk stairs in the evening. Now it’s Wednesday and I could feasibly get out tomorrow again. So all is well!
@@RikRiorik well, I’m glad you’re feeling better! Injuries are the worst😭
Thank you! I keep getting stuck in that zero gravity mindset whenever I fall so I don't usually react fast enough, so this is nice. Going to fall on grass after school now
Yes! Actually, being able to react fast enough is probably the hardest thing. So, getting into good habits of staying "bendy" and absorbing impact rather than trying to stop is are just good habits to work on now! And the grass is a great place to do that!
Good tips
I hardly ever comment on videos. But this one is so good! Exactly what I need and I haven't seen any similar content. Thanks for sharing😆
Thank you for this video, Sarah! I've been skating for about a year and while I still suck, it's videos like this that give me motivation and guidance so that I'll continue to get better.
I love your calm and wholesome demeanour, so you've earned a new subscriber! 😊
Hi Jonah! I'm really happy you enjoyed the video 😃 I have no doubt you'll continue to keep getting better 💪
just learnt yoyo hop from you tutorial on the grass. with enough confidence I tried on asphalt and the board immediately slipped and I fell hard. now I need to practice these tips, for which I thank you. also it helps to fall and roll on the grass many times so you're more used to the idea of falling
aw, sorry you slipped out! Falling sucks. But, you'll get it. The yo-yo hop is a lot of fun 💪
Good tips! I don't fall much so I should probably practice these in case I do fall next time. :')
Haha better to practice now for sure!
Thanks bestie, i'm watching this while recovering from breaking both wrists because i fell backwards with my arms straight lol
Ah, I’m so sorry to hear that 😭 Hope they recover soon!
my friend broke his arm trying to stop the fall with straight arms. he hit a pebble not some high risk trick. learn some rolls on grass or anything soft, will benefit in the long run 👍 but don't roll on a quarter pipe, 😅just lean towards the quaterpipe and slide down
uh 😨 Yes, breaking an arm while falling is such a scary thought
@@SarahParkMatott my friend never got over his trauma and never skate after that
@@panaroyal that’s too bad 😭 I think I would have a hard time getting over that injury too
@@SarahParkMatott yeah he never got over it. i myself is traumatized for a month seeing an arm bent the other way😱
wearing safety gear and learning how to fall is not a bad thing and most importantly paying attention while skating. not all of us has the nerve of steel to come back after an injury.
This is exactly the video I wanted, and I don't know if I have seen anyone else cover stationary falls like you did. Thanks so much, my fear of hurting and injuring myself is one of the biggest things deterring me from skating, I am so scared of taking a bad fall and permanently damaging my body in some way.
A big thing here I feel is being able to react in the heat of the moment to any fall you are having to deal with. Did you practice falling in certain ways to get the reflexes? I don't think I could trust myself to bend my knees and elbows consistently. I panic and freeze up alot
I completely get it. I don't know how I love skating, as I have always been a huge scardy cat. I'm not one to do stuff that might get me hurt. I've always had pretty quick reflexes. And with falling, you can practice tumbling and rolling, falling on bent elbows and rolling out (tuck and roll) kind of things in the grass. That familiarity really does help, because you know that it doesn't hurt as much as you think it might. And after falling a few times, I realized that most falls really didn't hurt at all, especially when you can roll with them or absorb a lot of the force. I think the most important part is to practice with that loose and gentle mindset. So, when you're learning to ollie or shove it or anything, make sure you're always trying to land with bent knees. Because if you have this practice under your belt, when something does go wrong, it is a little more second nature. I'm always ready to hop off with bent knees because that's how I've been training myself to land tricks in the first place. It's like setting yourself up for both situations.
As beginner, this is incredibly helpful. Thank you!!
Thank you! :D Glad it was helpful!
just fell about 2 weeks ago. Was going down a hill and fell hard enough to actually fracture my thumb. I remember rolling, but i did it like a millisecond too late. Now im waiting for it to heal so i can finally start skating again, but this time i should probs watch vids like these first lol
ahh it takes a while to start getting the hang of falling 😭 hope that heals up quick so you can get back to skating!
Such an amazing video thank very easily digestible and informative
Thank you! :D Glad you enjoyed it!
Omg you made the video I was hoping for! Yay! 🥰
Yes! I was trying to get it up quickly 😃
@@SarahParkMatott thank you so much!
❤🧡💛💚💙💜
i hadn't thought about the hop!! i noticed now thinking about it that i did it a lot unconciously, like a late bail xDDD but this is definitely the biggest difference imo in the impact of a fall!! the one time i fell the hardest was when i tried to get off the board but my feet somehow felt stuck and so i just fell hard on my side (i absorbed the impact with my arms "acordioning" but i got a headache from the sudden impact anyway even if i didn't fall on my head). I'll keep this in mind for next time! if i ever feel stuck, just try to conciously hop!! thank you :DD
Yeah, it's so tough when your feet are stuck to the board and just slam! Definitely just a good idea to have in your conscious. 💪 Just pull the feet up any way you can 😂
Today was my first time trying to land a yo-yo hop on concrete. The board slipped out, wouldn’t have been so bad if I just landed on my butt, but I stuck my back foot out and really crunched it.
I’m usually pretty careful and methodical when learning this kind of stuff, but never really planned on falling. Definitely could’ve used that little hop out you demonstrated.
Let’s hope that I can get back on my board soon.
ahh hope you're ok and back soon!
Same here, man! I made the same mistake in May and broke 5 bones in my foot as a result. It’s helpful to see versions of falls where you can (hopefully) avoid crushing your feet, too, since I think the arms/wrists are such a big point in most of these kinds of videos.
Thankyou so much! 💖
Thank you 😊 every video from your channel is a masterpiece 🔥🔥 I love your explanations
ah thank you Stefan! :D
Thanks, really enjoying your videos.
:D Glad you like them!
Great video! Very helpful.
FINALLY. LOVE YA!
😃thank you! Glad to have gotten the video out!
Great Clip awesome Channel thumbs up
an extremely helpful video!!!!! thanks
Thank you! Glad it was helpful!
Great content, but I have to comment on how soft your voice is!! This video looks like an ASMR. I love it!
I know 😂 Thankfully, I am getting better at editing the audio levels. Thank you though! I am glad you're enjoying the content!
omfg this is scary. I just took a HARD slam last Sunday at the park! Launched my board straight into the fence hard enough it got a good nick, and my hip and shoulder got smacked something fierce. But I got back on the board... Not since tho, holy shit have I been sore kill me!
ugh...yeah. Taking a hard slam can be so scary. Hope you feel better!
@@SarahParkMatott I felt alot better today! Should be back at it tomorrow or Friday
@@lunarstain7545 that’s good!!
one about primos :)
hey sara my experience trained me how to fall
Haha experience falling? Same...I had a lot of practice 😂
I slipped today and fell straight on my butt... well it's not a great experience. I was trying 180 switch kickturns and I forgot to bend my knees... I often do a little hop but in this case my mind just turned off I think haha
Sorry you fell! Unfortunately, we can’t always catch ourselves 🥲 Hope you’re okay now! 💪
Gracias 😊
Ah, con gusto. Gracias a ti 😃
I love to skate but falling is my only fear, thanks for the tips
I feel that! Fear has held me back a lot too. But I definitely noticed, besides tips like these, just the more I skated and got better at rolling around and just playing, the braver I felt. It took me 250 hours of skating to get to that point though lol 😂
When i fall forward, i always roll over my shoulder. When i fall backwards, i keep my head and hands up.
Yeah, tucking your shoulder to roll is great!
@@SarahParkMatott
It's the best you can do.
I slipped out and rolled my ankle, broke some tiny bits of bones in my foot
It was the silliest slip too, I just tried a regular ollie like I tried hundreds of times before :(
😢aw, sorry to hear that..I hope you recover fully and come back to skate!
Idk how you control your falls. For me, when I slam, it just happens. Like I don’t even know what happened. It happens so fast and I don’t have time to think. I’m just on the ground in pain. I will say after hurting my wrist over and over, it’s almost instinctual now to protect my left wrist. Yesterday I slammed hard on my butt, but didn’t put down my wrist haha. Board literally just went out from under me. My butt is sore as heck today. I wonder if you just develop instincts over time after getting hurt to protect areas that get repeatedly hammered. Oh and after getting hurt a lot in the beginning, I wear safety gear 90% of the time. Ironically, seems I fall less when it’s on 😂
haha I have definitely gotten better at falling over time. I think you do develop skills, strength, flexibility etc that helps. I know also the more I train those areas, the better I am at avoiding or catching a fall. Even just the more board control I got, the better I became at getting off the board before it was too late. It's a skill 💯
Nice, all its true :)
That stuffs programmed in
That’s good 😂
When I fall I never remenber to at least try to fall safely, everything is so fast and somehow you usually are not thinking like "oh shit I gonna fall really bad now", I need to work more in preventing injuries or gonna get fucked up someday
It's all about that good practice. Practicing while keeping joints nice and bendy. You're totally right. It's hard to switch to "fall mode". But, sometimes there are tiny moments where we can build up that fall tolerance(?), remembering to roll and collapse starting with the little tumbles. It saves you as time goes on 💪
What brand are the knee pads and elbow pads that your using?
They’re triple8 I believe ☺️
Oh wow! I injured myself yesterday almost exactly like what you did at :30. I'm trying to learn how to drop in (unsuccessfully), and when I dropped my rear foot slipped off, while my front foot was still on the rollng board- stretching my knee out sideways and hyperextending it. Just got back from the doctor - luckily its just an MCL strain so will need to rest for ~month. In that instance, it would be better to "hop bail"? LIke do I need to train myself to get off the board when the sh*t hits the fan?
ouch, yeah..and that back foot slipping off during a drop in seems to be pretty common. Controlled practice of these methods is definitely not a bad idea. Whether it's tucking and rolling, spinning, leaning back and trying to get your feet off the board before it completely slips out. Kinds of reminds your body what to do in the heat of the moment if it's had that practice before. But also, focusing on things like form (bent knees etc) puts you in a good position to perform them when accidents do happen.
In that instance, it depends on the angle you're slipping out of. It's pretty hard to get the front foot off sliding down the ramp like that, but being able to roll or fall forward or back, like I did, allowed me to kind of change the angle of the stretch in a way and protect my ligaments. When you do a full on split slipping out, it's easy to over stretch those joints. I'm glad you only strained it though! Gotta take that rest to heart and maybe try some PT. I'm doing PT right now to try and avoid future injuries! :D
@@SarahParkMatott Thanks for the advice, pretty sure the doctor will have me do PT in a few weeks. Good luck with your PT recovery!
@@edhsiu PT is honestly great advice for all of us💪 hope you get to do some too!
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Last Thursday i accidentally hit a pebbles after i do a rolling Ollie, and then i fly out and hit the ground with my elbow 😭
ouch...pebbles get you every time :( I hope you're okay!
How often do you skateboard?
For the first six months I was learning, I skated almost every day. But, now I skate 3 or 4 days a week for about an hour 🙂
How good is your skateboarding?
Hi! Will high top sneakers prevent ankle rolls? I am also a beginner, and bought all the paddings, but worried about my ankle. Btw I am 14yrs old
Hi 🙋♀️ High-tops won't prevent ankle rolls. But, they can definitely offer a little more support than low cut sneakers when it happens. They also offer good protection from when the board hits you in the ankles, which can be pretty painful.
@@SarahParkMatott oh ok thanks 😊! So is there any way to protect ankles? Will stretching ankles help?
@@josephrivera6721 It’s hard to prevent a rolled ankle. Taking your time and learning at your own speed will definitely help reduce them. And stretching is great. Gentle stretching. I would look up mobility and strength exercises for the ankle. Mobility and strength in any joint are typically what help reduce the risk or seriousness of an injury 💪
@@SarahParkMatott oh ok thanks a lot!😃😄😄😄
when i fall i just stick my face to the location where im falling and take the face plant right into the concrete. lol jk.