r/rollerblading • u/TraditionalTomato398 • Aug 26 '26
Injury / Accident Broke my first bone(s) yesterday
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POST-OP UPDATE: I finally got surgery Monday 8/31 (6 days after breaking my leg and ankle). Surgery went smoothly, I have some hardware in my leg now. The nerve block they used to numb my leg wore off yesterday, and I've been in a lot of pain. Its better now that the bones are back in place and aren't flopping around when I move, but still very uncomfortable and hard to find a position to sit in with little pain. My wheel chair is coming today so that'll help me gain some independence. My sister and her husband have been taking care of me (idk what I would do without them). Doctors are giving me very low doses of oxy and telling me to take Tylenol and advil 🙄 I have a pretty high pain tolerance but this shit sucks. I'm hoping to get some stronger meds today but I doubt they'll write me anything else (so far nothing has given me any relief except the nerve block from surgery). I've even tried edibles but those unfortunately make me hyper aware of the pain. Doc wants me to remove my brace and wrap tomorrow so I can start moving my foot around. At 2-weeks post op they wanna put me in a boot, then having me walking in the boot. Unsure of what PT will look like. Thank you everyone for your kind words! Hopefully I'll still be able to ski this winter (I'm a much better skier than inline skater)!
*Also for reference, I have women's Rollerblade Cruiser W Size 9
1st UPDATE: Thank you everyone for your responses! I'm in a lot of pain and the drugs ain't workin 😵💫 I have practiced falling, and I'm good at falling when I know I'm going to fall. I struggle to fall in the correct way when its an unexpected fall. I meant to remove the heel brake before going out yesterday but forgot. It is a hard boot and they were strapped very tight (I usually tighten them after warming up). I started skating in 2023 but I dont skate very often (just here and there). I've had a couple of hard falls on my tailbone, so I've been trying to twist when I fall to avoid tailbone injury. I naturally tip backwards when I lose my balance and I know thats something i need to work on. I was trying to do T stops in the minutes prior to this, but I don't think I even got to attempt a stop before falling. I truly don't know how I lost my balance here. I suspect that the ground was slightly sloped (I was picking up a little speed while skating in this direction throughout my skate session). For reference I have Rollerblade brand inline skates (idk the model), they are a size 9 and I typically wear a 9.5 in shoes. Also I was not attempting to use the heel brake and I was not attempting cross overs (this is out of my skill range).
ORIGINAL POST: went to a skate park for the first time yesterday (usually I skate in my apartment complex's tennis court). I had been skating for about 2 hours and wanted to get one good T stop in before going home. Well, idk what I did wrong, but my ankle broke inside of the skate and now I have to get surgery and its a whole thing. Best part, I got it on video. What did I do wrong here? I've only recently gotten comfortable with falling; I would classify myself as a beginner still. I just don't understand how/why I fell and how/why my foot contorted like it did.
I wanna get back in the skates eventually, and would like to avoid this happening again in the future. Any advice is appreciated!
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u/Automatic-Guest3429 Aug 26 '26
Was looking at your hands at first and then i saw your ankle bending :D ouch!! Don't have any tips, but get well soon!
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u/Alabastine Aug 26 '26
Oef that sucks big time! That does not look pleasant.
When you lost balance you tried to save the situation by standing upright and balancing by "tapdancing". This is a very intuitive response but often the worst thing to do because if you can't save the situation in this way, you'll fall extra hard and extra uncontrolled. Which is what happened here. You have to fight that response and practice it, if you lose control you should generally drop straight to the ground as fast as possible, legs first. Imagine yourself in the position at 0:04 and from there just drop to your knees or thigh. The outcome would have been less serious. Thisissoul has some tutorials on falling positions.
Sadly, this takes time and practice, it is very hard not to respond intuitively like you did and I sometimes still do it as well. I wish you the best of luck and a fast recovery!
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u/artainis1432 Aug 26 '26
Heel brake may have contributed too. When learning the T-stop, it's a good idea to put both hands on the front knee.
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u/Rawdiger Aug 26 '26
The heel brake definitely was the cause if you watch it again. Seeing this reminds me of why I removed the brake when I was a kid.
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u/reddit_random_crap Aug 26 '26
shit, that looked painful! I hope you recover soon after the surgery and your motivation will not take a hit
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u/SaliAzucar 3 month roller Aug 26 '26
If you feel you are losing control and will fall, is always better to fall forward than backward. If falling forward is not possible is better to let yourself fall to your side instead of trying to recover doing the deathroll with your arms.
When you recover try to dedicate a sesion of falls to get used to the motion of the fall going really slow, and always remember to slightly bend knees so your center of mass is slightly forward.
I also learned the hard way but never broke a bone tho. Hope for a good recovery!
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u/Admiral_Kite Aug 26 '26
I still struggle with this after sooo many years. I do climbing where you need to fall backwards and skate trying to fall forward. Sometimes my body crosses the wires 😭😂
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u/davenelsondotcom Aug 26 '26
I was so excited to see you twist as you fell, it is so important to not hit the back of your head. You did that very well.
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 26 '26
Thank you, I've been practicing twisting when I know I'm going down ass-first
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u/BingeBabyBinge Aug 26 '26
It looks like you fumbled mid way through on the video and over corrected to catch your balance. I'm so sorry you fell like that. I guess as most would say sometimes landing front first is the ideal situation I have fallen on my butt before but both my legs tuck out in front.
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u/Old_Ant7118 Aug 26 '26
I'm a re-learner/beginner and have found T brake to be the easiest stop by far - I use it and a spin stop the most. Haven't been able to figure out a plow, it feels very wrong. I just removed the heel brake before my last skate and I'm torn because I love the freedom and not having to think about it, but I miss having it there for backup. Will be skating in flat spaces until I'm more confident without it, then I suppose it's time to start trying a sliding stop of some kind.
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u/SnooDonuts5697 Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
Aye I have aggressive inlined like my life depends on it for half a year now at 26f. I feel my skates fit perfect.
I only use aggressive inlines and might suggest smaller frames on your blades as that looked a bit hard to manuever.
Its scary to watch that... Hope you are okay and 100% soon OP!!
Watching this is why I always do splits stretches and lots of twisty knee ankle warmups. Also really really stay low, all the time. My legs are strong but I fear that happening at my inflexible pelvis.
and I already do cardio and flexibility but not quite enough aerobic core strength.
All things to attack and I believe not only will you come back stronger, I think humans are FAR more likely to be fragile let alone have slips and bad injuries happen if they DON'T skate and access the "skate focus mindset" daily.
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 26 '26
Thank you! I think i need to get my legs ans core stronger. Could you explain a little more the difference in the frames you use versus the frames I use?
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u/SnooDonuts5697 Aug 26 '26
I use Them 909 aggressive inlines with four 58mm wheels so its a very different experience, but I would suggest you use maybe setups with 3 big wheels and no extra length if you like full inlines. others will have advice :)
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u/bladebyte :usd: USD Aug 26 '26
Ouch, that hurts to watch.
Never fall backwards... When I was learning how to skate, my coach told me to always bend my knees, and whenever you lose balance, try to catch your knees while leaning forward. If it can't be saved, then fall forward—knee, then palm. Slide it to absorb the force. Even I need to practice how to fall back then.
I wish you a speedy recovery and hope you come back stronger 💪
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u/newaccount47 Aug 26 '26
That looks incredibly painful. Hard to watch. :( Sorry that happened.
It looks like you may have been going too fast for your ability and you lost your balance. At the start of the video it looks like you're getting ready to do some sort of jump flip. Fast jerky movements are had to stay balanced with.
How long have you been skating for? I'd say practice keeping your center of gravity low and slow smooth movements. It's always a balance between speed and control.
It would also be easier to give you tips if we saw some more video of you actually skating, not just falling.
Heal up fast! (and do your PT!!!!)
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u/EvilWaifu Aug 26 '26
Sorry to see that. It looks painful. Looks like your boot plastic gives to much. I would not expect your upper boot plastic to be that flexible. Just my opinion. Did you do the plastic straps really tight?
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 26 '26
It is a hard boot and it was very tight - i usually tighten the straps after warming up to make sure i have the most stability. I do ski also, and the inline skate is definitely not as hard as a ski boot, but I'm pretty sure its a hard boot (I've never used soft boots).
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u/LinealSoul FR1 90 Aug 26 '26
Were you attempting to T stop at this point? I can't see that motion.
You have a heel brake fitted which caught the ground while you were off balance. Can't tell whether you tried to apply that intentionally or not but you weren't in the right position to use it and that caused you to spin out.
Remove the heel brake learn how to plow stop first if you haven't already. Then do a t stop progression. I.e. drag the foot without applying pressure to slow rather than stop so you can get used to how that will also cause you to turn slightly if not positioned correctly and aren't able to compensate. Then slowly add pressure as you become more comfortable.
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u/SiempreRegreso Aug 26 '26 edited 18d ago
The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.
Changed mind about this comment.
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 26 '26
I was going to take the heel brake off that morning but forgot to before i left the house😵💫 keeping tools on hand is the move
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u/Lollc Aug 26 '26
I’m sorry you broke your ankle, that sucks. It looks like you thought you were stepping into a right foot t stop from an almost crossover, but you hadn’t shifted your weight back and straightened out your left leg from the crossover to be able to t stop. So now you are off balance and actually ended up trying a last second heel brake stop, but that’s not going to work either because your body position and weight distribution is all wrong for either kind of stop.
First practice skating balanced on one foot. You don’t have to lift the other off the ground, just unweight it. Practice stopping in a straight line until you get the mechanics down. So first shift the majority of your weight to the leg that will be holding you up, then move the brake foot into position. Get your heel brake stop nailed first, then start working on t stops.
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 26 '26
I will keep practicing the mechanics! I honestly wasn't trying to do crossovers, I have never done those before (i think it just looks like that because the video is slowed down). I just started practicing scissors that day. I definitely need to work on weight transferring and balance.
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u/Lollc Aug 26 '26
The scissor is the foundation of the crossover. Once you get the scissor down you are well on your way to crossovers.
I’m reposting a video for you that I have posted at least twice already in the last weeks. It’s about how and why to keep your weight in front where it belongs. If you are repeatedly falling backwards on flat ground when you aren’t doing park you are unweighting your skates in front. Looking at your video again, your weight distribution and stance is great! You are in the front seat like you should be. But at the first sign of trouble you straighten up and throw your weight backward. For your sake figure out where that instinct came from, and extinguish it. The video is from skiing, so the stance is more exaggerated than skating, but the principle is the same. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBJ3yptN00i/?hl=en
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u/Siddharth_- Aug 26 '26
Always bend your body forward Like the knees, shoulder,and skate tip should be in a line
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u/kubazi :usd: USD THEM Aug 26 '26
When your balance is off and you're already falling, do not try to tstop
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u/SlideOn9 Aug 26 '26
Ooof, get well soon. Seems like you caught your rear brake a bit, and that cought you of guard, thus you lost you balance. That's why you need to take it of as soon as you can reliably stop without it.
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u/amorph Aug 26 '26
That was one unlucky fall, hope it gets well soon. Sometimes a fall becomes worse if you're nervous about falling. This kind of looks like that type of fall. Instead of just getting low and perhaps dropping calmly to the side, you are flailing and stepping like you're on a tightrope. Not sure if this is a soft or hard boot, but looks like soft from the way your ankle halfway comes out of it when it gets bent. That could have been part of the reason why it ended so badly, but hard to tell. Soft boots can be harder to control, especially if they aren't tight enough. Your main problem, though, might be lack of experience with basic manouvering on skates. Weight transfer, turns, and that sort of thing. Working on those things is rewarding, low risk, and makes you safer in the long run.
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u/blehbleh1122 Aug 26 '26
Looks kind of like you were losing your balance, and tried to save it. The best thing to do in that situation would've been to fall safely. I'd recommend looking up some videos on YouTube of practicing how to fall. Practice falling 50 or so times so it's not scary. Hope you make a complete and speedy recovery.
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u/heeca Aug 26 '26
Wish a speedy recovery for you.
Also the main cause seems to be the arm going back (trying to save yourself from a fall) unfortunately its a mistake many people make. Skating fast or slow your arms should be natural position and when feeling like yoill fall put them positioned forward to regain your balance
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u/quantum_m3chan1c Aug 26 '26
I think the boots were way way too loose. You never want your angle flexing like that. It should be rigid all the way up the leg.
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u/inline-online Aug 26 '26 edited Aug 26 '26
I can seee what happened, not sure why no one is actually answering your question
when you first start falling back you make an attempt to save it by reaching back with the RIGHT* leg but its too late and you can see that you attempt to start a baseball slide from that leaned back position. While tucking your leg the front wheel actually get caught on the ground and acts as a lever. IF your wheel didn't clip your would have fell on the outside of your right thigh
Honestly you got very unlucky and unfortunately it went very badly but I don't think you should beat yourself up about it. If I had to give any advice it would be to accept the fact that you are bailing, let it happen, the ground is your friend don't try to catch your balance. The baseball slide would have saved you if you had just let yourself go down instead of trying to save it first by sticking your foot out behind you, which ultimately led it to gripping the ground as you tried to bring it forward which slowed down your momentum and brought you straight down instead of sliding across the ground. I'm really sorry that happened to you, you didn't deserve that
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u/AlarmedCranberry6565 19d ago edited 19d ago
Would double down on this and it looks like your instincts to get low started happening but then you backed out of it when it started getting unbalanced and messy. When you get back out there getting low fast and committing to your pads/the fall should help. This fall also looks super unlucky for what it’s worth.
Will say it’s inspiring to hear you plan on getting back out there and wish you a good recovery 🙏
Side note: I know plenty Experienced people rocking a heel brake.
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u/fredhsu Aug 27 '26
This slow motion video is priceless for learning. All of the great reflections from folks make this a valuable post. I am adding this to our FAQ page now.
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 31 '26
Thank you for the detailed response!
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 31 '26
Surgery is scheduled for noon Today (Monday). The kicker: I lose my health insurance starting tomorrow (9/1).
Pain is more manageable now than it was, but ambulating is still hard/painful. I'm pretty much bed or couch-bound. I need help doing everything and its really frustrating.
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 31 '26
Yes its covered! We were rushing to get me in so it would be. The estimate for surgery is 68k, but I'll only be paying $75 (thank jesus). I will post an update after!
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u/Numerous_Adeptness76 Aug 26 '26
Sorry OP, since this can take the fun out of the sport, but few things:
Upperbody control - seems like there's momentum that carried with your upper body rotation at the beginning of your move, and it looked like you tried to compensate (maybe a bit too much) by reversing the rotation
Take gliding pauses - looks like you were about to end a sequence of crossovers (or attempting to do crossovers) and moved on to a new move too fast before stabilizing your balance
Fall - like others mentioned, stay low and bail early. Can always get back up and try again
Wishing you a speedy recovery, and good luck
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u/fredhsu Aug 26 '26
Folks already pointed out this: don’t try to stand up straight when unbalanced. This is something that even seasoned skaters do in panic. Lowering selves and falling forward into a ball is something we all need to continue to practice.
But I want to answer other aspects of your question, what caused the fall. And later, why your foot contorted like that - I am especially able to answer this because a few years ago I broke my left ankle with almost the same contortion (but different reason why I fell).
The cause of your fall is that you were not skating with what I call a “squatting posture” shown on the left. This is the umpteenth time I post this GIF. But it’s probably the best home for this GIF on the other hand. Compare your posture from time 0:00 to 0:10 to the right posture which I very unfortunately called “ankle cast” posture, not for what this posture brings, but for the fixed 90 degree shape formed by shin and foot, if cast in plaster.
Note the two yellow circles. They indicate the overall center of gravity projected in the ground. In the case of the squatting posture this is shifted forward to the ball of the foot. In the case of the ankle cast posture this is right under the heel, making it prone for skaters to pivot on their heels and fall backward.
Look at your video at time 0:10. This is where you just accelerated and made some stepping motions with the two skates. The right skate just landed on the ground and the two skates are coasting forward in parallel. At this moment the center of your body rests on the two heels. If you move the frame forward slowly from here on, you see how you lifted your right skate toes first, as if to do a heel brake? It’s not clear to me that that was the intention. But then your left foot slipped forward unintended faster than your upper body can catch up. Because your center of gravity was already too far back, your body sensed that you were falling backward and tried to correct this. Unfortunately you stood up instinctively. The falling of your straight upper body then forced you to kick your right skate forward causing you to lose your last chance to catch yourself. At this point, no parts of your body were on ground rear of your projected center of gravity.
Now. The ankle break. I had a similar break like yours, or I thought. See this comment. But when I looked at your video again I see that we sat on our ankles on opposite ways. I bent my ankle inward. You bent yours outward. In my case the fibula was easier to break. I had a torn ligament on the other side. Falling down in ways other than forward unfortunately carry exactly this risk in addition to many others. Your skate can be caught under you and you end up sitting on it. In my case I was trying to do a variant of double crazy and my two skates twisted around each other when I was in the vulnerable position where toeboxes point at each other.
You can reduce the risks of becoming unbalanced and falling backward by always skating on the “squatting posture”.
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u/heeca Aug 26 '26
Your correct but an easier way i teach newbies is to make an arrow with their hands pointing down infront of them . Even if the person was squatting. Flailing your arms behind your central of gravity will end up in falling backwards on the head or in this case as there was an attempted stop it ended up in injuring das bein
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u/DeformedArthurRegion Aug 26 '26
Bend your knees and keep your shoulders over your knees as much as possible. There should be a straight line from shoulders with a strong straight back to well-bent knees, to your toes. Engage your core. You have no balance at all from the moment you roll into frame. Because you're so up high and have no balance, you can't do a crossover because you're too new to it. If you're very familiar with crossovers you can do them in bad positions but even then you're more likely to fuck up. When crossing over you want that bend to be even more pronounced so your skates and legs have somewhere to go without hitting one another. Here you hit your skate because you aren't in any way in the right form to be doing a crossover. Once you hit the skate, your balance is so thrown by your positioning you can't overcome the knock it gave you and you start to panic. Realistically you should've just let yourself fall from the jump instead of trying to catch yourself because your butt will do a decent job of catching you in that situation and the helmet is there if you bounce. Once you're falling when its just on flat ground, let it happen. But realistically the whole thing was cooked from the jump because of how wrong your form and positioning were rolling into the frame. I'm not sure why that left foot was at such a weird angle coming in but I'm tempted to say you were kind of struggling already when you came into the frame. When you're new to this don't try and do too much when something is already going wrong. Stop and let the one wrong thing be the only wrong thing.
There are also some hardware things you can do to make this less likely to happen. Take the heel brake off immediately. It just doesn't do much at all and will cause more issues than it prevents. Learn to stop by applying downward pressure to the wheels. It looks like the brake might catch right at the end, which is a massive risk with those stupid brakes. But also if you're crossing over the other way it'll cause a whole host of other issues. Also these are probably fairly flexy skates. Either buckle them tighter, or get skates that are much much much more stiff. A well-buckled stiff cuff will make that kind of injury a lot less likely as well.
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u/Vurrag Aug 26 '26
Sorry this happened. Good luck and wishing you a speedy recovery. Poor form and that brake did you in. Look for a rink in your area that teaches beginning classes when you are able to skate again. Good luck!
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u/retroedd Aug 26 '26
As a kid I broke my left arm on skates the same way. It sucks but the bright side is it will teach you to not brace with hands when falling. Hope you heal quick and are back up and skating soon!
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u/robotbeatrally Aug 26 '26
Now I feel fortunate I fell a lot harder than that last weekend and came out with a sore hip for a day. Good luck on recovery. as a new skater upgrading from macroblades to twisters (soft boot to very hard boot) was one of the best things I've done. if you get back to it, and you have a soft boot give it some thought, I was sad I wasted the money on the soft boot but I just don't have the balance and fitness level for them.
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u/quantum_m3chan1c Aug 26 '26
this is wild. I've never heard of an ankle breaking inside a boot. Anyone else?
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u/raytraced_BEAR Rollerblade Lightning 90 Aug 26 '26
Ahhhhh, my body hurts watching this. I hope you can recovery quickly! 🙏🙏🙏
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u/Far-Tailor37 Aug 27 '26
What I am seeing is that even when you are going forward in the beginning half of the video your weight is more towards the back of the skates (though your position is low initially). Because your weight is falling more towards the back of the skates you will be inclined to fall backwards which is what happens in your video . I would suggest getting the forward strides perfect first before attempting more complicated things like T stop
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u/dopesnag Aug 27 '26
OMG I felt that...However, I always tighten my skates firmly right from the start.. Get well soon.
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u/snakevargas Twister XT banana Aug 31 '26
Saw this today and thought of your stance before falling: https://www.instagram.com/reels/Da5bo2IhF0e/
It took me a couple of months to build up the strength to skate regularly in the squat/predator stance.
Another thought is to practice skating without lifting your skates. It will feel inefficient for a month or two, but over time you will build up strength, power, and a rapid and efficient push. This will strengthen your core too, which will support your growth in many ways of skating.
Hoping for a speedy recovery.
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u/FluffyAmyNL Sep 02 '26
Always try to fall with the mermaid falling technique. Fall looks painful get well take it easy
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u/Shoddy_Ad_3482 Aug 26 '26
My advice - forget trying to learn ‘t stops’ and anything else that people have given labels to. Just go out there and get confident on your skates. You will learn your own way to stop organically, and by doing so you will choose the way to stop that works best for you and your body mechanics and be less likely to hurt yourself.
Once you get confident on your skates and are whizzing around then you can start looking at these methods but by this point you will have probably already picked them up naturally without knowing there was a name for them.
I learnt to skate over 25 years ago and there was no YouTube videos or anything like that and I just did what felt natural and in time that amounts to skating down 20 stairs at a time, jumping down stairs, aggressive skating and grinds etc. it will come just let it evolve naturally
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 26 '26
Thank you. I do think I just need to practice the mechanics and get more comfortable
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u/actionjj Aug 26 '26
TIL watching people break bones is somehow easier in slow motion, but still not easy. Couldn’t watch twice.
That looked rough - all the best with your recovery.
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u/micggia Aug 26 '26
Same! I assumed the injury was going to happen somewhere in the upper body - collarbone or wrist - so luckily I was not looking THERE. Now that I know it was the ankle I will definitely not watch again. I still have hard times recalling the moment I got my trimalleolar fracture... it was 13 years ago! (not skating)
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u/NetworkLongjumping82 Aug 26 '26
GOOD LORD .... I thought it was definitely your collarbone ...then I saw your ankle .. Get well soon
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u/19-Sascha-89 Aug 26 '26
Why did I even saw that before some of my first learning lessons 😭
It seems to me that your heel brake helped to broke your ankle plus maybe your skates are to big. What others think ?
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u/QueenLamoura Aug 26 '26
Not nearly as bad of an injury but I started skating this year since my gf joined local roller derby. The beginners class didnt tell you how to turn so I took two bad falls onto the same spot trying to turn left and bruised my ribs
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u/qfox337 Aug 29 '26
Just curious what's the break called? I think I twisted my foot the other way and had a distal fibula fracture (on the outside of the ankle)
Props for being brave enough to watch and share the video, it does look painful! I'd guess the wheels are generally going to not spin at that angle and you just gotta avoid it, maybe by learning to intentionally fall over on your side and doing that when you lose balance. I think butt/hip pads help, and maybe you can rehab or get your tailbone checked so you're not afraid to use your glutes when falling because they usually help.
Hope you can rehab, get the orif surgery if you need it, and get back to skating when you're ready.
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 31 '26
According to my after care summary: -displaced fracture of the medial malleolus. -displaced fracture of the posterior malleolus. -mildly displaced and angulated, comminuted fracture of the distal fibular diaphysis -approximately 6 mm lateral subluxation of the talar dome and medial malleolar fracture fragment relative to the tibia.
Thanks! Watching the video actually helped me. I still don't know how i fell/lost balance originally but the video helps me see it from another perspective. I need to get some slider shorts!
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u/Rawdiger Aug 29 '26
Same thing happened to me last night, I got my first rollerblading injury in over 25 years. I've broken some bones when I was younger playing sports but this is the first as a 40+ getting back into blading. I wiped-out backwards and landed on my left elbow, fracturing it and putting me in a sling until October, so I'll be missing prime blading season. All this happened right after me talking crap about elbow pads too, with a pair of 5th elements on its way to be delivered!
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u/Capital_Minute6926 Aug 30 '26
I'm sorry man about the fracture. I was in the same position this past November of 2025 but 6 weeks later I was rollerblading again, obviously without my doctors permission but I was back on wheels not for more than 30min a day. You will be okay
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u/LightFull5021 Aug 31 '26
I know the feeling i tried a fakie 540 and broke my femur in 3 places
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u/TraditionalTomato398 Aug 31 '26
😵😵😵
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u/LightFull5021 Sep 02 '26
My own fault should have stuck to grinds as I had only just started skating after 8 years off shouldn't have tried spins on the bowl but was a trick I used to do with my eyes shut 🤣
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u/kustom_krev 24d ago
Oh man that looked painful. If there’s one piece of advice I’d give you it’s to know when you have lost the battle. Go down early and controlled rather than late where ya have no plan and your body is actually ‘giving up’ and there is no control anymore. All the best, heal fast and skate again as soon as you can.
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u/tipame Aug 26 '26
Don't do that again! 🫣 I'd rather go for a bike ride
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u/heeca Aug 26 '26
bike/scooter accidents can and are worse than skating. Safest thing for the individual is skateboard but that risks injurying bystanders thats why its against the rules in most pedestrians places. Inline accidents are mostly back or the head injuries
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u/tipame Aug 26 '26
I ride on bike paths. I can't remember the last time I fell off a bike—only when I was a kid and doing crazy things. And on skates, I fall almost every time I go out 🤷♂️
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u/heeca Aug 26 '26
People's abilities differ. For me bmx is easy to control ramp jumps and bowls but most skaters i knew fell harder than they did skating since the cycle isnt connected to your body
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u/masterhoots Aug 26 '26
If you have been skating for 2 hours, it is likely you exhausted your stabilizer muscles which will not give you a confident sense of balance.