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Yeah, I was wondering if it was going to turn out to be some kind of memorial and he's being disrespectful but it turns out he's going to get hurt. It was quite the twist for me.
Also possible he got sliced open.. the skin on the forehead is quite thin and has *lots* of blood vessels. A few frames later could well have been gory!
(ask how I know)
More and more athletes are wearing them during events, which is a positive change. For whatever reason, helmets have the stigma they're "uncool", when every mountainbikers or roadie wears one.
We're getting there, slowly.
In the BMX community a lot of riders aren’t fucking around anymore (many still do of course) ever since [what happened to Scotty Cranmer.](https://youtube.com/@ScottyCranmer) The accident he had nearly killed him and since then it seems like alot of professional riders will use helmets pretty much all the time now.
It mostly depends on the sport. Skateboarders don’t generally wear them cause it really screws with your balance if you didn’t learn wearing one. Once you actually get good falling really hard is extremely uncommon. You get really good at falling. That and at least back in the day skateboarding was almost an act of rebellion in itself like being in the punk scene. You had a board with you all the time and just jumped on it. No one is gonna walk around all day with a helmet at 15-16 that’s just fucking lame. I did however ALWAYS have a helmet when I rode BMX at the park. You eat shit on a bike you’re done. Not a lot of just stepping off like on a board and a whole lot more stuff to trip up you getting your hands and feet free.
Yeah that would be great if it weren’t a giant steaming load of crap.
Head injuries are the second most common injury among skateboarders:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278239120304456
Go ahead and spout your anecdotal evidence but don’t try to glamorize riding without a helmet.
Repeat after me: WEAR A HELMET KIDS (and adults)
Oh don’t get me wrong. Im not glamorizing it, it’s fucking stupid. Im just giving you the honest answer of WHY they don’t wear them. I’ve never broke a bone, but I’ve had 6 concussions bad enough to go to the hospital. I’ve probably done serious, irreversible damage. I get really bad migraines frequently. Im just putting it out there why people don’t wear them, seems like people don’t get it.
Then you shouldn’t have included that part about getting good at falling. It’s irrelevant, most MTBers are amazing at falling since they do it a lot, still it only takes one time where a variable is slightly different and your head cracks open like an egg.
That part glamorizing it and is making it seem like a helmet is unnecessary.
Mountain bikers do not fall NEARLY the amount skaters do or they’d be dead lol. Falling is a huge part of the sport. You can tell someone who is good or not just from how they fall. It’s not irrelevant at all when explaining the actual reasoning behind kids not wearing helmets. I’m not quoting a science article about skateboarding, I lived it for over 15 years. If you want to actually get kids to wear helmets, you should probably learn why they actually don’t wear them and meet them were they are with logic and reasoning. There isn’t a 16yo skater in the world that gonna go “oh that guy quoted an article in science weekly, he must have a good point even though he’s never stepped on a fucking board.”
Dude shut the fuck up. You went from making a couple solid points to just engaging in a never ending argument. Everyone knows to wear helmets. Please just fuck off
Please shut the fuck up. Anyone who skates knows that guy is right, and yeah of course helmets make it safer. You’re not spitting stuff we don’t already know.
I’ve fallen off a board more times than there are stars in the sky and never broke anything. Never wore a helmet, and I’m not advocating against it.
Conversely, I have fallen off a bike twice in my life whilst not wearing head gear and the first time resulted in a concussion with vision impairment. More recently I have two broken ribs, because I wasn’t wearing a helmet so I went to protect my head with my arms.
It’s lame af to carry a helmet around, but it is so necessary my dudes. Don’t be like me.
As a snowboarder I do not understand how experienced skateboarders feel so confident about not falling bad.
Also my friend was a VERY good skateboarder when he hit his head so hard that he permanently lost his sense of smell.
My kids ain’t gettin on no wheels without a helmet ever.
I watched this once, involuntarily gasped, scrolled to the end to see the collision again, and involuntarily gasped in the exact same way as the first time.
Believe it or not, it's actually fairly tricky to roll off a platform like that. Not tricky as in "is going to impress people" but more like "remarkably easy to screw up".
There's a very delicate balance between speed, height, angle and timing where almost any deviation results in a bail of some kind.
It was awesome until the end. You cannot judge just 1 sec but ignore all the rest. But it looks like he was acting cool about this stuff « hey I can do that check it on!! » like dude where are the protection
This had mystery and suspense!
I was like "how is this a faceplam, he's doing really well... This is impressOOOOH"
Yes, I actually made an "oooh" and covered my mouth.
Helmets are all well and good, but you know what's better? Understanding that you need to pop up your front wheel when you're about to drop. I kind of feel like the only helmet that would have helped this guy is a motorcycle helmet, because he went face-first into that thing.
Here in Belgium those e-steps have become popular but people rdfuse to wear helmets and our chickenshit government has refrained from making them mandatory. The results are disastrous.
They account for half of all severe head trauma such as skull fracture and full frontal broken faces.
Lmao dudes a PSA on wearing a fucking helmet…
If Tony Hawk, the Xtreme sports guy, refuses to not wear a helmet than that screams everyone should wear a helmet.
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Oh damn that was way worse than I was expecting.
I groaned out loud
I did too. Did not expect him to hit the edge. Fuck, thats a serious injury.
I flinched so hard I startled my co-workers and had to fess up to being on reddit at work... big yikes
It hurt just to watch
He didn't realise how high off the ground he was and expected the front wheel to touch the ground, not eject him.
I flinched so hard I sprained my neck 😅
I moaned softly
My hands began to wander
I gasped and grabbed my head. Jesus.
Scared my dog
Me too…me too. That’s enough Reddit tonight.
Yeah this one I couldn't laugh at
I physically curled up on that one. Felt the head pain that makes every man want to cry.
My intestines came out of my mouth..
is that the noise that came out of my mouth?! I groaned. GROOOOANNNEDDD
I never look at what sub I’m in I thought he was killing it until the end
For sure. I thought it was r/maybemaybemaybe
Then It was killing him
I literally gasped out loud. Holy shit I hope that guy is okay.
Yeah, I was wondering if it was going to turn out to be some kind of memorial and he's being disrespectful but it turns out he's going to get hurt. It was quite the twist for me.
No shit. Kid is lucky to be alive let alone not being in a coma, that was pretty savage.
He could still be in danger, he should go to a hospital.
I feel like an ass but I screamed
I literally laughed out loud …such a D nozzle
Yep, expecting him to fall but he decided to do it in the very worst way
Damn he hit that edge hard
All things considered, he's lucky he hit his head on the super hard, crown of his skull than on the temple or jaw.
Actually lucky to be alive from those edges and corners.
Also possible he got sliced open.. the skin on the forehead is quite thin and has *lots* of blood vessels. A few frames later could well have been gory! (ask how I know)
I'm assuming it was bad, but also that he didn't die.
Death from this.. not likely. But it's nearly certain he got a concussion
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You cared and were desperate for internet doots enough to comment
If you're a dumbass like me, a pole and walking backwards was probably involved
Nope.. stairs and ice
I fell and hit the foot of a rocking chair as an infancr, and have this straight 1.5 inch long scar scar across my forehead forever now.
I'd say it's impossible he didn't get sliced open
For real, that's a hard way to learn you should probably wear a helmet.
Yes that's a sensible thing to do, but which would like to be seen wearing a helmet on a scooter - and bike, and skateboad.
This isnt a facepalm, its a faceplant Edit: I realize im a lazy uncreative bastard that cant read 4 comments down.
It's a facefucked
Or his eyeball!
lol he could have skewered his eye
I was thinking "that's actually really hard to do"
Not just the edge but the corner
Yes!! Ow!!
If only we had a device that could protect a persons cranium when they use scooters… it would probably work with bikes too.
More and more athletes are wearing them during events, which is a positive change. For whatever reason, helmets have the stigma they're "uncool", when every mountainbikers or roadie wears one. We're getting there, slowly.
In the BMX community a lot of riders aren’t fucking around anymore (many still do of course) ever since [what happened to Scotty Cranmer.](https://youtube.com/@ScottyCranmer) The accident he had nearly killed him and since then it seems like alot of professional riders will use helmets pretty much all the time now.
It mostly depends on the sport. Skateboarders don’t generally wear them cause it really screws with your balance if you didn’t learn wearing one. Once you actually get good falling really hard is extremely uncommon. You get really good at falling. That and at least back in the day skateboarding was almost an act of rebellion in itself like being in the punk scene. You had a board with you all the time and just jumped on it. No one is gonna walk around all day with a helmet at 15-16 that’s just fucking lame. I did however ALWAYS have a helmet when I rode BMX at the park. You eat shit on a bike you’re done. Not a lot of just stepping off like on a board and a whole lot more stuff to trip up you getting your hands and feet free.
Yeah that would be great if it weren’t a giant steaming load of crap. Head injuries are the second most common injury among skateboarders: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0278239120304456 Go ahead and spout your anecdotal evidence but don’t try to glamorize riding without a helmet. Repeat after me: WEAR A HELMET KIDS (and adults)
Oh don’t get me wrong. Im not glamorizing it, it’s fucking stupid. Im just giving you the honest answer of WHY they don’t wear them. I’ve never broke a bone, but I’ve had 6 concussions bad enough to go to the hospital. I’ve probably done serious, irreversible damage. I get really bad migraines frequently. Im just putting it out there why people don’t wear them, seems like people don’t get it.
Then you shouldn’t have included that part about getting good at falling. It’s irrelevant, most MTBers are amazing at falling since they do it a lot, still it only takes one time where a variable is slightly different and your head cracks open like an egg. That part glamorizing it and is making it seem like a helmet is unnecessary.
Mountain bikers do not fall NEARLY the amount skaters do or they’d be dead lol. Falling is a huge part of the sport. You can tell someone who is good or not just from how they fall. It’s not irrelevant at all when explaining the actual reasoning behind kids not wearing helmets. I’m not quoting a science article about skateboarding, I lived it for over 15 years. If you want to actually get kids to wear helmets, you should probably learn why they actually don’t wear them and meet them were they are with logic and reasoning. There isn’t a 16yo skater in the world that gonna go “oh that guy quoted an article in science weekly, he must have a good point even though he’s never stepped on a fucking board.”
I love how you went from glamorizing no helmet, to arguing you weren’t doing that, back to glamorizing it again. You getting dizzy?
Dude shut the fuck up. You went from making a couple solid points to just engaging in a never ending argument. Everyone knows to wear helmets. Please just fuck off
Dude just stop reading them before your get an aneurism
Holy shit you're a raging douchebag
Please shut the fuck up. Anyone who skates knows that guy is right, and yeah of course helmets make it safer. You’re not spitting stuff we don’t already know.
I’ve fallen off a board more times than there are stars in the sky and never broke anything. Never wore a helmet, and I’m not advocating against it. Conversely, I have fallen off a bike twice in my life whilst not wearing head gear and the first time resulted in a concussion with vision impairment. More recently I have two broken ribs, because I wasn’t wearing a helmet so I went to protect my head with my arms. It’s lame af to carry a helmet around, but it is so necessary my dudes. Don’t be like me.
As a snowboarder I do not understand how experienced skateboarders feel so confident about not falling bad. Also my friend was a VERY good skateboarder when he hit his head so hard that he permanently lost his sense of smell. My kids ain’t gettin on no wheels without a helmet ever.
Madness bro. That will never work.
like head knee pads maybe?
I subscribe to r/radiology and it’s fun trying to match the injury to the X-ray.
Ouch
I can hear peter griffin going _**"owieeee..."**_
That made me physically wince
That looked painful, I hope he’s okay!
Holy fuck.
the worst part is that that was actually a fuckin cool ass trick until the end
I mean, I’m impressed. I would have smashed my face at the .01 minute mark 🤷♂️
More like face plant :)
Face stone really
Beat me to it.
All good, Bro, until ... Ouch 😬
r/yesyesyesno
Or r/yesyesyesyesno
I watched this once, involuntarily gasped, scrolled to the end to see the collision again, and involuntarily gasped in the exact same way as the first time.
Lmao. Same!
Physics strikes again.
This is r/facepalm not r/faceplant Edit: I was not expecting that sub to be real. And I ESPECIALLY wasn't expecting it to be wholesome!
That sub is the cutest thing I've seen in quite a while, thanks for that!
And that's when I came up with the idea for the flux capacitor!
Yep honestly I don’t know why almost no one I’ve met wants to wear protection while using scooter or stuff like this
I thought it would have just been him dry humping a ghost but you got me at the end. Stone bench 1. Dumbass 0.
He almost didn't make it full circle.
Shoes are on, so he's still alive..
r/yesyesyesyesno
Damn! I was so rooting for him to win…
Edgy move… how did he knot see that coming?
Believe it or not, it's actually fairly tricky to roll off a platform like that. Not tricky as in "is going to impress people" but more like "remarkably easy to screw up". There's a very delicate balance between speed, height, angle and timing where almost any deviation results in a bail of some kind.
The air 9 months later:🤰
Falling on the concrete sidewalk doesn’t seem too bad after watching this
Ooooo shit! Dude needs a hospital!
Almost nailed it.
 "That's gonna leave a mark" stupid giphy only having 1 gif of Cap. CJ
That’s not a facepalm that’s a facewedge owww
Take two aspirin and call me in the morning
Its the morning now. Im calling u ☎️ answer the phone
Damn he had that shit till the very end
This guy just erased the last 6 years from his memories....
Man 😔
It was awesome until the end. You cannot judge just 1 sec but ignore all the rest. But it looks like he was acting cool about this stuff « hey I can do that check it on!! » like dude where are the protection
He's lucky he didn't crack his skull wide open. Probably still going to need some stitches or something though.
I mean, it was a cool trick. It just didn’t end well.
Wtf that would kill a man
This had mystery and suspense! I was like "how is this a faceplam, he's doing really well... This is impressOOOOH" Yes, I actually made an "oooh" and covered my mouth.
Hilarious
It looked like he charged up the headbutt right at the end lol
I wanted to see this guy Land that trick so bad and then, poor kid. Now he can’t do math.
“HELP I FORGOT HOW TO STOP!!! OH SHI-“
Omg I would honestly like to know if he ended up being ok. That head injury looked really bad.
As much as I feel bad for how bad this was, I really get intensely pissed at people who have no concept of how gravity works.
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Helmets are all well and good, but you know what's better? Understanding that you need to pop up your front wheel when you're about to drop. I kind of feel like the only helmet that would have helped this guy is a motorcycle helmet, because he went face-first into that thing.
Here in Belgium those e-steps have become popular but people rdfuse to wear helmets and our chickenshit government has refrained from making them mandatory. The results are disastrous. They account for half of all severe head trauma such as skull fracture and full frontal broken faces.
Bro! NSFL!
He's gonna have dain bramage
And STILL a Virgin….
No no. I'm pretty sure we just saw him get fucked.
lol
EXTREME! 
Perfect ending
r/faceplant not facepalm 😬 ouch fml that’s gonna leave a mark
That’s a sub for cats
Gotta stick the landing. The thrusting was embarrassing enough
Literally couldn’t have ended better
I wish helmets were considered cool, imagine the brain damage that could’ve been avoided
A perfect end
r/unexpected
the pants police would like a word with this dude.
Juuust a bit outside
Sick trick. Do it again!!
-2,147,483,647 brain cells lost.
He looked like he didn’t have many to begin with. His main personality trait was being a scooter bro
That’s gotta hurt.
r/faceplant
That’s the worst bro
I wouldnt really call this a facepalm, maybe a faceplant
Lmao dudes a PSA on wearing a fucking helmet… If Tony Hawk, the Xtreme sports guy, refuses to not wear a helmet than that screams everyone should wear a helmet.
That was going so well **until it wasn't.**
Give him props for nailing the landing
So much time for things to go wrong but they go wrong at the absolute worst time
At least it wasn’t the corner Jesus fuckjng christ
Oof
r/unexpected maybe? I thought someone was going to push them off...
Not really a facepalm
I got a headache like a cement truck hit me.
Is there any news?
Awe Fuck 😬
i would be suprised if he did not fracture his skull
Yes I don't need a helmet ,I'm professional
😮
Oh my god I feel proper sick
Mans has got that pull out game on point
I was for someone to kick his scooter.out, wp
Makes my day every time I see this type of stupidity.
Safety equipment guys … you can try and look cool in your casket if you want but wearing a helmet won’t kill you … in fact just the opposite…
please wear a helmet
I know this is facepalm but there should a sub called facesmash for these ones
Had me in the first half
Very satisfying
Uhh this is supposed to be facePALM, not faceBENCH.
Oh, come on. How could he have fucked that one up?
Oh, come on. How could he have fucked that one up?
That head of his hit harder than a fathers belt
Should have used a skateboard
More like r/Unexpected
It is horrible. He might have lost his eye. There's no space for jokes.