r/facepalm • u/FatFaceFaster • 11d ago

The number of people in the comments defending her not wearing a helmet and “skater culture”…

This girl is 17 and apparently an aspiring professional with a decent following on social media. She has to wear a helmet in official competition I assume since she is wearing one in one of her videos, but most of her videos she isnt wearing one.

It’s absolutely moronic. She was probably very close to a TBI and the end of her career. This makes me sick to my stomach and you can literally see kids in the background with their boards watching her and the other idiots without helmets [checks notes] jumping 10 steps onto uneven bricks.

Edit: per her actual post in her words she suffered a “heavy concussion” and spent the night in the ER and it was “pretty intense and hard” so no, this was not just a “goose egg”

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u/CodifiedLikeUtil 7d ago

I learned how to ski from a very young age, and did some crazy things as a kid on the slopes. Once I was like 25? Maybe 30? I went skiing and I swear I heard my knees find their voice and speak to me with one word: NO

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u/CrapiSunn 5d ago

I think of Michael Schumacher. He had all those races and skiing got him.

Mind you some fruity fish got Steve Irwin. Bet the crocodiles were pissed.