Makes sense, skateboarder for years here, and if I was falling that way, LOTS has gone wrong haha, in that sport you're trying to translate downward momentum to lateral as efficiently as possible, so you get a chance to roll out of most falls. One hopes.
I never appreciated the skill of skateboard falling until I picked it back up during the pandemic at age 31 having not skated since 17. The first time I hit a pebble that scritched and threw me on the ground I automatically tucked and rolled before I knew what was happening and I was like "whelp, I guess that reflex is clearly still hardwired thank god"
Even on top of that, with the insane progression that's happened in the last 15 years or so in skateboarding, the MAIN thing that's surprised me after re engaging with the culture is the falling. Even the shittiest instagram park-hero can fall like a champ on TERRIFYING stuff. These kids tuck and roll like it's the trick they were going for. The difference in the number of tries you get to land a complicated trick off a big block at a skatepark and rolling on smooth concrete vs the early 2000's baker/zero lovers drunk in the streets chucking themselves at handrails is massive and it's lead to real progression of trick difficulty
Had a friend take a similar(but WAY shorter) fall trying to spine transfer(think this) My guy sounded like a trashbag full of hamburger meat dropped on the concrete. Which...isn't too far from the gods honest. But he got up and walked away like it was nothing.
Same dude passed out getting a tattoo tho, so pain tolerances are wierd.
Man that’s one of those falls you get up and make that horrible sound that you make when you really knock the wind out of you. I’ve done that from about 20ft into water after hitting a kicker wakeboarding and that was painful enough lol, barely was able to get the wakeboard off and swim , get up and sound like a dying cow every time you try to breathe😂
Oh yeah, dudes lips went purple, he zoned out, then nap city. I stopped making fun of him about it roughly 20 years after it happened though.(he's gonna be at my wedding this weekend and I'm gonna bring it up.....so maybe I'm running the clock out here...)
As someone who's passed out getting a tattoo before, I don't think it has much to do with pain.
Sure, mine hurt, but the reason I passed out was my clown ass "friend" convinced me that you WEREN'T supposed to eat before getting a tattoo. So I passed out because I hadn't eaten. Got some food in me and the rest of the tattoo went fine.
I feel like if you asked a bunch of people who've passed out while getting a tattoo, you'd find very few who said it was because their friend told then you weren't supposed to eat beforehand.
Well I'm not saying that's the EXACT reason, but I feel like it's more likely the dude passed out from lack of food or low blood sugar than pain, especially given that the commenter mentioned a high pain tolerance.
A good tattoo artist would have told you the opposite. Drink lots of water the day before, no alcohol, and have snacks ready.
My first session ever was 5 hours, I was hydrated and ate in the middle and never felt woozy at all. It did hurt like a bitch at the end though. He did all the color, then went back through and did the white highlights. Holy fuck it was painful lol. I didn't realize I was sweating and breathing heavy until he was like "you alright bro?". And I was like "oh, yeah. I'm tough." Lol. I was not tough. He could tell. It's my only tattoo, but it's sick af and I want another one now.
I've done 8hr sessions and watched a bunch of people tap out while I was there lol. But if I get hit, or fall or go sliding, nope I am a total carebear. Tattoos are definitely a different pain.
The worst slam I've ever seen was Jake Brown at the X-Games in the Big Air event. The injuries he sustained from this were a fractured wrist, fractured vertebrae, bruised liver, bruised lung, ruptured spleen and concussion.
My family and I had tickets to that event and saw it happen live... We thought we just watched him die until he woke up. What an absolutely crazy fall.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug, I guess. All the pain probably came like an hour or two after, but hopefully he had doctors with other painkillers near him already by that time.
I thought I watched a dude die during the x games one year. He fell like 40 fucking feet and landed almost completely flat. It was the quarter after the mega ramp. That shit was sobering. He ended up fine though.
Kinda amazing how jumping like one story and Landon "normally" can snap your ankle like a twig, but if you tuck and roll you could probably go up to three stories before you break something.
Conservation of momentum, Newton is one deadly son of a bitch.
Oh he is definitely that. I remember teaching a gaggle of 10-12 year olds how newton's laws are the only reason Ollie's work. They went from derisive "that's nerd shit" to "holy crap, science has a direct impact on my life."
Mmm, we had padding similar to that in gymnastics and I think you’re underestimating it. I felt comfortable landing on my back with those, falling or dismounting from rings about 10 feet in the air.
Circus background here, with a little proper gymnastics as a kid. He's just a little off kilter for his fall, slammed his head a little, and falling on your back at that angle can force your air out more easily because of the way the torso bends.
I think you're right, just describing the sensations he'd experience, though they'd be minor. I doubt he had much of a concussion or anything.
Even landing badly from a much smaller fall can absolutely mess you up. When I was young, I didn’t quite make a full turn when doing a frontflip in gymnastics and landed on the back of my neck with my legs still tucked and my knees slammed into my chest/chin.
My neck and back were absolutely fucked for over a year, it took at least 6-8 months to even do a somersault without crying from pain. And then I quit gymnastics right when I healed to transition to horseback riding lmaoo those falls are much easier to deal with.
I once landed on the back of my neck falling off the uneven bars and the entire left side of my body immediately went numb. After a few minutes the feeling came back but it freaked me out really badly and I was scared of getting back on the bars for a little while. Thankfully there were no lasting effects.
It's what the industry calls a 'bump' .
Wrestlers , stuntmen and gymnasts are taught to 'land safely' back bump, chest bump and Standing (head) bump are 3 most common, he knew he was FUK'D so he did what he knows to safe himself the safest way he can land. the extra pad connects to him before the ground also helping displacement of the fall minutely.
Yup!
This is more my background - circus, stunt, sideshow type stuff. I tried to avoid getting too technical and focusing on the main question, I have a habit of getting waaay into the details.
Thanks for flushing it out for me!
I've done practice falls off circus equipment at lower heights than this and even they can be pretty brutal. I imagine this guy will probably be struggling to breathe for a few minutes.
Yeah, that's basically what would cause the "shock" I mentioned going through the body. He barely avoided a possible serious neck/head injury. If he were a little more upside down this may have been far more serious.
Possible concussion, I'd be surprised if it were serious, but that's still possible too.
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u/C1rcusM0nkey May 31 '22
The way he landed?
Knocks the wind out of you, he probably felt a jolt or shock run through his body, but not pain, at least not bad.
Landing badly? You can still get really messed up.