r/nextfuckinglevel • u/atomicheart99 • 1d ago

Young skater learns valuable lesson. Never give up

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u/UnlikelyStorage6665 1d ago

Helmet

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u/4seriously 1d ago

Ya, I feel like that should be the lesson.

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u/Viaandrew 1d ago

That lesson is coming soon

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u/chubbyhighguy 1d ago

Maybe a little too late.

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u/gordonf23 1d ago

Alas, It's never a lesson that arrives on time.

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u/xXWaspXx 1d ago

a lesson is never late, Frodo baggins

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u/No_Lettuce_5593 21h ago

Yeah and after he won't remember anyways.

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u/observer_11_11 1d ago

He only in did the flip once and he got away with it.

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u/Commercial_Fox5549 1d ago edited 1d ago

He will learn it one day, but it will be the last thing he ever learns

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u/jscottman96 1d ago

Idk about the last thing but future thing will take a little extra effort with a steel plate on his skull

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u/Ok_Drag5089 1d ago

Came here to say that.

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u/valraven38 1d ago

Just one unlucky fall from hitting his head on that raised edge there.

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u/Literal_Concept 1d ago

That curb corner within falling area was ominous...

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u/WYenginerdWY 1d ago

I was cringing every time he came near it

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u/PingouinMalin 1d ago

Oh yes. A guy I know crashed on a bike with a helmet. He kept it : when you look at it, you know he'd be dead if he hadn't put it on that day.

That corner would be deadly or at least brain damaging.

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u/caketreesmoothie 23h ago

when I last came off my bike the only reason I'm alive is I was knocked into an unmoving car. stupidly wasn't wearing a helmet and if I'd hit the tarmac I would've died but luckily just walked away with a concussion. helmets are so vital

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u/PingouinMalin 23h ago

Yep. They crack so that your skull doesn't. Accidents can be super brutal. Today I would definitely use a helmet on a bike or, god forbid, a skateboard. When I was young, it seemed ridiculous.

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u/Grunergeist420 1d ago edited 1d ago

My mom was a teacher, and this new teacher came to teach at her school. Her and her husband were mid-20s, baby on the way, just getting started in life.

About halfway into the school year, the husband busted his head open skateboarding, not wearing a helmet. Non-verbal quadriplegic with basically no hope of recovery.

Lady’s now basically a public schoolteacher with a baby and quadriplegic to care for the foreseeable future.

Guy’s basically going to be locked in his body unable to support his wife or raise his child or even speak to them forever.

Wear a fucking helmet.

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u/ObserverWardXXL 1d ago

wearing a helmet is a lesson best learned from others, because once you experience the consequences it you might not be able to learn from it!

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u/bananarabbit 1d ago

Hopital

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u/BastianHS 1d ago

Hopital goes ok for this young man

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u/BlueRunSkier 1d ago

Call the amberlamps!

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u/lemonhops 1d ago

Man, that comment goes way back

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u/Adventurous-Dog420 1d ago

Kids, this is how you spell things when you don't wear a helmet.

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u/Icefox119 1d ago

Or if you're French

same difference really

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u/cynicalkane 1d ago

L'Hôpital's other rule: always wear a helmet

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u/Voyager87 1d ago

Absolute

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u/bebop11 1d ago

With that curb corner just right distance away to connect with his head. Oof.

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u/Clueby42 1d ago

If you're going inverted you

need

a helmet

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u/Hot-Celebration-8815 1d ago

I had a friend that was in to lots of x games type stuff: bikes, mountain and regular, wake boarding, etc… He was very athletic and talented. Little mistake doing a
Backflip and he’s paralyzed from the neck down and only semi cognizant.

Wear your helmets people!

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u/HBlight 1d ago

Would a helmet have stopped that?

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u/Hot-Celebration-8815 22h ago

The traumatic brain injury? It wouldn’t have hurt it.

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u/brynhh 1d ago

I’d argue the more experienced you are the more you should wear protective gear. As you’re going to be on more difficult and faster trails, doing more complex tricks etc. Far more chance of eating tree and concrete than someone going slow.

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u/P0pu1arBr0ws3r 1d ago

But seriously, content showing unsafe/high risk behavior without necessary precautions, is not next level, and should be banned from here.

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u/RabicanShiver 1d ago

Glad to see this is the first comment.

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u/base43 1d ago

Danzig

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u/UziWitDaHighTops 1d ago

I hope he shows his future ER nurse this video so he can get some props because that was fucking sick. Then, I hope the ER nurse shows him pictures of people who died from head injuries so he will start wearing a helmet.

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u/jungle4john 1d ago

Hell to the fuck yeah! The dad in me is screaming where is your helmet?!?!?!

Signed an old skater with permanent injuries. Brother to an even bigger skater who had a opportunity to go pro an lost it to an injury from not wearing safety gear while skating.

ETA: missing letter.

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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol 1d ago

Nah, I'm sure double flips from vert to flat in an area made entirely out of concrete with edges everywhere is perfectly safe

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u/engg_girl 1d ago

I thought the lesson was going to be "wear a helmet "

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u/DikSwingin1 1d ago

My GF who is a pediatric nurse has several vegetables in her hospital because of no helmet. E-bikes being the biggest but this is right there. Please ppl, get one!

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u/Bairdc82 1d ago

That back flip at the end what a boss

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u/Ok-Detective-2059 1d ago

Wasn't the same line. Watch the clouds

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u/Bairdc82 1d ago

Woah nice catch

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u/unburdened_swallow 1d ago

lmao he literally moves when it cuts. Hes not trying to hide that he didn't do it, just showing the vision cause he probably was like "F it Im not doing that again today"

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u/slagatronic 1d ago

Well. Like, what if all the energy used for the backflip made the clouds move?

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u/AngryLink57 1d ago

Only Chuck Norris could've moved the earths rotation with a backflip.

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u/Lyrkana 1d ago

The double frontflip(tamedog?) is awesome, wish they didn't tarnish the video of that by editing the line for the single backflip and again for the nollie heel

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u/LesserGargadon 1d ago

Weird zoom before the last trick too. Not a great nollie heal but he’s got skills

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u/FalcomanToTheRescue 1d ago

He tried to do the extra backflip all in one take. But it was too hard so he gave up

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u/Careful-Positive-710 1d ago

That takes away any enthusiasm I had for the first trick.

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u/PhotoguyJohn 1d ago

And the disappearing skaters in the background.

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u/SustainedSuspense 1d ago

There was a weird cut that makes me think he stitched together a couple clips

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u/TimGinger1 1d ago

Hell yeah man. Landing that first double was already sick and then the guy just wanted to show off. Lit af

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u/Saziol 1d ago

How the f do skaters not break their ankle every day

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u/DrWindupBird 1d ago

I skated for a few years in hs way back in the 90s and saw so many people get hurt. Still never occurred to me to wear a helmet though. Youth is wasted on the young.

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u/guessesurjobforfood 1d ago

Us humans can be genuinely stupid. I skated for a few years in the late 90s and didn't know anyone who used a helmet. Getting injured was like some weird badge of honor.

It reminds me of how much everyone despised using seat belts in cars too. Such simple things that could save us from an easily preventable death and people were just like "nah, I'm good."

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u/trimbandit 1d ago

I remember riding with 2 other friends in the open back of another friend's truck for 250 miles down highway 5 lol

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u/LeaveThatCatAlone 1d ago

Shit my dad had me doing that as a toddler. It was blast, but he wouldn't remember it today and would call me liar. 

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u/g0greyhound 1d ago

My grandmother, until the day she died, swore that it was more dangerous to be wearing a seatbelt during a wreck because her friend got bruised across the chest from one during an accident.

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u/Drewcifer88 1d ago

But those things aren’t cool bro. It’s only cool if I can get real hurt, ya know.

/S

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u/CoffeeInMyHand 1d ago

We do! 

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u/12InchCunt 1d ago

Are ligaments and shit more flexible as kids? I feel like I took some falls as a 14 year old that would kill me today, even though I just brushed it off back then lol

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u/Raythatstabbedsteve 1d ago

Yes, all the elasticity leaves your connective tissue as you slowly morph from lamb into mutton.

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u/12InchCunt 1d ago

Idk why that made me feel so uncomfortable haha

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u/Raythatstabbedsteve 1d ago

Let me just put this mint sauce down, then tell me why you feel uncomfortable?

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u/Attenburrowed 1d ago

You have more collagenized stiff connective tissue, less regenerative reservoir, and a more annoying base of inflammation as a boomer (25+). Older people are generally heavier with wack muscle mass to fat ratios compared to their scrappy youth. Hawk only recently gave up around 55 though so you can work around it. Older people also generally have more brain power and don't need to hit a sick vert to get friends, they're happy drinking alone at home watching netflix.

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u/12InchCunt 1d ago

Yea..big tree fall hard.

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u/SlickDillywick 1d ago

The fact that many are young, and young people are made of rubber and magic. By the time they’re old, they’ve learned how to bail.

When I returned to skating after 9 years I obliterated my clavicle trying to ollie up a curb. Strangely my ankles have remained injury free from skateboarding, but my torso and arms have been roughed up quite a bit

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u/luvgun00 1d ago

I passed out after my fingers were set into hanging finger traps and the doctor added weights to my bicep to pull my gooseneck of a forearm back into position.

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u/PurpleSailor 1d ago

You're actually on to something with that youth rubber and magic. When you're very young your bones are very much like cartilage in that they bend and twist very easily, usually without breaking. As you age your bones become more and more less flexible and brittle. Baby's bounce and oldsters shatter when it comes to bones. Even the simple act of falling while ice skating is so much different between the ages of 14 and 44. When it happens at that latter age it feels like getting hit by a truck.

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u/JrAdelberg 1d ago

I never seriously hurt my ankle skating when I was younger. Now that I'm almost 40, my ankle hurts so much it keeps me up most nights. Shit catches up with you sometimes.

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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 1d ago

My ankles are destroyed from skateboarding as a kid.

Cant play basketball without both ankles in a tensioner to this day

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u/Robbythedee 1d ago

I've been skating for ugh 37 years now, it's not the ankles that are bad its the wrists that cant hold up.

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u/jastubi 1d ago

Ankles strong, fking wrists made of glass.

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u/Great-Souled-Sam 1d ago

Damn straight, I use to have the bone bruises under my skin, where they’d be perfectly normal hands until I to my first slam of the day (even light ones) and my hands would immediately bloom into purple sausages lol. One of many recurring injuries. I skated for 12 years, I stopped about 8 years ago. I’m 31 now and thinking about getting back into it but I’m sticking to flat and just gonna get good with my tricks again for some fun cardio. I’m not interested pushing for risky clips anymore, gotta feed the fam.

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u/Jakefrmstatepharm 1d ago

No helmet with a concrete curb at perfect head splitting distance is certainly a choice

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u/TheRealGumb4ll98 1d ago

Not to mention trying to land on a skateboard which isn't secured to the floor in any way besides it's free floating wheels.

It is certainly one of the ways to die.

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u/Subject_Slice_7797 1d ago

🎶🎶 Dumb ways to die... so many dumb ways to die

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u/IntrepidHero42 1d ago

Am I wrong here, or was there a period of about 5 years where helmets finally came into "fashion", but then suddenly just disappeared again a few years ago?

I know several emergency doctors and nurses who say their new biggest intakes are kids not wearing helmets, surpassing motorcyclists on rainy days.

It's fucking nuts.

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u/Upset-Management-879 1d ago

Well the others go to the morgue

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u/Zac3d 1d ago

There's more pros wearing helmets than ever, but that's like 2 non vert skaters and the kids that aren't 18 yet that have to wear them in events.

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u/pauerplay 1d ago

the lesson wasn't to wear any safety gear...

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u/furynads 1d ago

I'm sat here thinking "he's nailed it like 20 times" then realised there's a skateboard.

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u/CapedCauliflower 1d ago

You're not alone.

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u/Lichevsky 1d ago

Learns?? He clearly more than skilled enough to know all about that already.

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u/koos_die_doos 1d ago

Yeah, if this is the first opportunity to learn to "never give up", he is ridiculously talented.

I bet he's been not giving up for a long time now.

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u/WolIilifo013491i1l 1d ago

Title is fuckin stupid, or it's comment farming 

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u/allisonann 1d ago

I was going to say, more like he's teaching that lesson.

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u/QualityQW2 1d ago

Right! My first thought was- cool video and crap title. Skaters learn this lesson very early on or they never have any skills. This guy isn’t learning a lesson..he’s putting into practice his skill and established work ethic.

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u/egstitt 1d ago

Yeah anyone that skates had to learn that lesson very quickly, or they wouldn't still be doing it

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u/K__Geedorah 1d ago

As a skater of 20 years, I hate these lame fucking titles. Lol

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u/mrtruthiness 1d ago

Not a skater ... and I agree.

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u/Skreamie 1d ago

I predict 80% of the comments will be about a helmet

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u/IntrepidHero42 1d ago

Good. Long may it continue.

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u/Bluelivesplatter 1d ago

Should be 100% this is just so unfathomably stupid.

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u/jenyto 1d ago

Wouldn't surprised if they did that on purpose for engagement bait.

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u/Biguitarnerd 1d ago

Stupid title. He already knew that lesson, and had that drive; that’s why he didn’t give up. Cool trick though.

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u/Dr_Pippin 1d ago

That’s a conveniently located concrete curb right next to his landing zone. I think the valuable less is going to be wear a f’ing helmet.

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u/Erislocker 1d ago

FUCKING HELMET!!!

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u/Electronic-Stick-161 1d ago

Bro he learned that lesson years before he got to this point. Dude is fantastic.

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u/Rich-Reason1146 1d ago

I feel like he probably learnt that lesson before be could do a double somersault

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u/Icy-Entrepreneur9002 1d ago

Pretty sure this is Ryan Bean and the real lesson is probably closer to know when to give up. Turns out constantly spinning and diving at 100 plus feet might not be good for your body.

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u/newherel 1d ago

Lmao shoutout Ryan bean

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u/TheyCallMeDoofus 1d ago

“Young Skater” - haha nice try Spider Man! You’ll soon be caught and face justice you wall crawling menace!

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u/puzzle_bison7384 1d ago

Don't die in your practice attempts?

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u/Cultural-Company282 1d ago

Now do it a second time.

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u/OneArmedSZA 1d ago

So many ways that could have gone wrong including, but not limited to, a torn taint

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u/MemoryTasty721 1d ago

Who else was screaming move the board to where you are landing! Closer to the edge

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u/A-WILD-PATBACK 1d ago

Weird camera cut before the backflip

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u/dczernic 1d ago

Awesome, but #nope

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u/dylankosher 1d ago

They’d be scraping me off the pavement after the first attempt😭

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u/GugieMonster 1d ago

His health insurance loves that lesson too; HELMET!

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u/dakotanorth8 1d ago

“Never give up”

Looks like it took a few hours.

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u/Zerophx 1d ago

What in the Rodney Mullen

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u/Wizznilliam 1d ago

When you say "valuable"... How much we talking? Enough to cover the doctor bills?

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u/Babakins 1d ago

Use a fucking helmet idiot

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 1d ago

Same persistence for the GF filming him.

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u/gamingonion 1d ago

I would definitely be wearing a helmet especially with that curb right there.

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u/shonuff373 1d ago

My knees, ankles and lower back are screaming

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u/zaphster 1d ago

Pretty sure the lesson "never give up" is learned a lot earlier than this trick for a skateboarder.

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u/Jtiago44 1d ago

He already learned that lesson to become a skater

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u/ronnie_reagans_ghost 1d ago

Dude can do a backflip on a board, pretty sure he already learned that lesson.

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u/Middleagesusername 1d ago

Not giving up is NFL? I knew all you regular level people were quiters.

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u/Burto72 1d ago

That's cool and all, but maybe wear a helmet.

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u/seasoup13 1d ago

good job and all but wear a f'ing helmet

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u/Sathsong89 1d ago

Missed the valuable lesson about gear

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u/WindpowerGuy 1d ago

A young skater that can already do THAT has learned this lesson years ago..

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u/baconmethod 1d ago

he learned to never give up long before this video

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u/still-waiting2233 1d ago

Doing this without a helmet will prevent him from being an old skater and attempt tricks

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u/Sergal_Pony 1d ago

Poor dude’s brain’s gotta be spinning after all that

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u/nglatzhofer1 1d ago

You learn that lesson the first day you start skateboarding. If you give up, you won’t learn to skateboard

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u/Mutabilitie 1d ago

Confirmed as AI in the other sub

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u/tenniskidaaron1 1d ago

Doing this without a helmet is incredibly stupid

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u/PositiveCoyote100 1d ago

Doing this without a helmet is absolutely idiotic.

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u/bradford68 1d ago

iIm glad he's out there trying. But he will learn at 40 that the knees and the back keep receipts.

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u/hakujo 1d ago

No helmet. Full yolo.

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u/redballooon 1d ago

Dozens of tries are behind almost every cool skating video.

Source: witnessed it once in the 90s

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u/AbsentAsh 1d ago

That’s amazing, but let’s edit out a few of those flips and get on with it.

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u/therealskr213 1d ago

Props to the cameraman with the patience of an angel.

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u/lmZen 1d ago

God damn. I got dizzy watching this

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u/Obvious-Fruit-506 1d ago

Jump cut before the backflip killed it for me

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u/RecordLonely 1d ago

I teach Jiu Jitsu and some of my best students are former skaters and I’m convinced it’s because they’re used to things being difficult to learn and the process being painful.

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u/spunion_28 1d ago

"Young skater" this video is several years old. He is not young at all

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u/Odd-Outcome450 1d ago

Might want a helmet and pads. If it’s good enough for tony hawk then it’s good enough for him

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u/bionic_cmdo 1d ago

I was already amazed on the first try.

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u/jdk92386 1d ago

I got dizzy watching that

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u/KennyKei94 1d ago

Thos kids a flipping beast. Gonna have the intelligence of one if he doesnt put a helmet on.

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u/Broad_Front7788 1d ago

Or maybe you should give up sometime.

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u/SquishTheWhale 1d ago

You're supposed to flip the board 

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u/DromedarySpitz 1d ago

know what would be cool? wearing safety gear.

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u/EvidenceElegant8379 1d ago

And that’s how he became a millionaire! Sorry, I don’t get what valuable lesson there was here. He did something a bunch of times until he happened to land exactly in the right spot. He’d probably have to do it 15 more times before he hit it again. What did he learn that he didn’t already know?

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u/SetoXlll 1d ago

He so close to that fucking curb and ending a vegetable it’s not even funny! Wear a helmet!

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u/ParadoxicalIrony99 1d ago

Showing 20 fails was completely unnecessary

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u/SkullOfOdin 1d ago

My ankles and knees are in pain for just watching this video.

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u/Greymalkyn76 1d ago

Landing it once is not an achievement. Landing it consistently is.

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u/CosmicDave 1d ago

Can someone reverse this video, pretty please?

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u/ReddsionThing 1d ago

Young acrobat, more like

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u/soranno 1d ago

Hopefully he'll learn a lesson when he nearly* cracks his head open riding with no helmet, and not that he actually cracks it open, but I'm not hopeful.

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u/Microdenergy 1d ago

Guess he didn’t learn the safety gear lesson yet, that’s surely coming.

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u/Jakeforry 1d ago

I want to fight whoever thought putting a random raised boarder of concrete was a good idea. Really good way for someone to go from a gravel rash face to a broken eye socket face.

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u/bigwilly311 1d ago

Takes forever to nail real complicated trick, proceeds to just casually launch a backflip in celebration

Respect

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u/1BedtimeZzz 1d ago

At which point did he learn to not give up?

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u/Inosethatguy 1d ago

This title is Fucking stupid

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u/ratcity243 1d ago

What the fuck is this title?

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u/mikeylarsenlives 1d ago

Bro I reach for something and my back hurts for a week and yet I'm somehow from the same species as this kid

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u/Shakespearoquai 1d ago

Now do it on rollerblades or inline skates aggressive skates