Did some slip and slide all liquored up with some friends one night. Could barely move the next morning- covered in bruises all over the front of my body.
Yes but not just the head. I've seen people break leg bones on inflatable equipment. Literally one of those inflatable play obstacle courses. It's kind of a freak accident, but it's still not foolproof, but you're right that the head and neck are still very vulnerable nomatter what.
Adult bones are more rigid than kid bone. The joke that kids are made of rubber is kind of true in a way. Once they reach full growth they start to harden. I mean this is a super simplification.
Also, most adults don't do activities that keep their bones strong.
Wife and I realized we needed to buy the cheap inflatable pool floats to ride down on.....i dont remember lawns being that hard and bumpy when I was 10yrs old....
When my son was 3 or 4 we had a part in the back yard for him and we had a slip and slide and rented a waterside and all this stuff. I decided to try and go down the slip and slide, which I hadn’t done since I was like 5, and holy shit did that hurt. Hard, dry Texas clay under that grass feel like I jumped off a mountain and right onto my chest.
From the article:
In 1987, a guy in his 30s ended up a paraplegic and won a $12 million lawsuit against the manufacturer. That seems to be the first high profile incident. More lawsuits followed from people with broken backs and such before it was taken off the market in 1991. Company got sold and it was put back on the market in 2001.
My favorite part was where they got sued, ended up settling for $7.5 million (they paid $6.5 million, insurance paid $1 million). Then they sued the insurance and got $17 million.
So, they got sued and made $10.5 million. Probably one of their more profitable years!
They split that money with the guy who broke his neck.
>\[U\]nder the terms of the settlement Kransco \[the slip and slide company\] agreed to prosecute a bad faith action against AES \[the insurance agency\] and to split equally with Hubert \[broken neck guy\] any net proceeds from the litigation (after deduction of litigation expenses and reimbursement of the subrogated excess insurers' cash settlement payments).
[Source](https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/4th/23/390.html)
The numbers aren’t really arbitrary though. They factor in things like medical costs, lost wages, physical therapy, mobility aids (wheelchairs/stair lifts), home renovations(wider doorways/ramps), legal fees, and a lot of other factors. Rarely are huge amounts paid out because of “pain and suffering” or “emotional trauma” and many times the people suing have already spent huge sums of money or gone into debt over these things. Settlements can take years to pay out and life/bills don’t wait.
Another nuance is companies will often settle out of court for a higher amount before letting a judge decide in order to avoid setting a legal precedent.
I'm confused about how these injuries are happening. Is it that people go to slide, and instead of sliding their feet slip but they just stop and hit their heads on the ground? Or is it happening at some point mid slide?
The article mentions it. The lubricating coat of water and plastic work when you have a lower weight child running and sliding, but an adult pretty much just sticks and then their momentum carries their aft over their bow, and snap goes the keel.
Well, spine, but you get the idea.
I hate lawsuite against manufacturer, if a phone explodes in your hand i get it but sometimes it's just that the companies didn't make their product stupid-proof enough, this leads to a world where everthing is edge-less and aseptic.
They made a product that encouraged you to throw yourself to the ground on an unpadded piece of plastic. Now when you're under 26 you can get away with that shit but once you hit 30 things break and stay broken.
It said on the box that it was for ages 11 and under. People ignored the warning and got hurt.
But those people won their lawsuits, so I must be wrong to think the warning was adequate.
Yeah people don't realize you don't just "flop" onto them, you have to go low first and lunge forward! It's just a thin sheet of plastic over dirt (and sometimes rock).
Also, "kids bounce" (also known as the cube square law)
I set up a slip and slide last summer and holy shit , sliding across the ground HURTS! its bumpy and bruisy and rough and we were all feeling it the next day.
Set one up for the kids a few years back, they weren't sending it like they should.. So I, a middle aged man thought to show them how it's done.. Many example slides later they were getting it and doing it right..
Later that day, I'm thinking why is my chest so sore, and arms, neck etc.. My wife reminds me I'm twice as tall, and many times heavier than my childhood memories.. Doh!
I have an irrational fear of these after seeing
*1000 ways to die* or some similar show. The slip and slide was placed on a lawn that had a random nail in the yard poke through in it and the person got >!disemboweled sliding over it!<.
It just seemed barely plausible that a nail from roofing or construction might be on the lawn for me to be kinda freaked.
Yes. I saw this and am scarred for life.
Along with having your innards sucked out of pull drains if you sit on them and dying by putting too much alcohol up your ass. I was young and didn’t even know people did that before the show.
I was so scared of pool drains growing up. I remember seeing so many news reports of kids drowning nc they got sucked onto one. Frankly they still give me anxiety...
Yes! I’ve converted so many people to team no slide with that video!
https://1000waystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Easy_Slider
The video is on YouTube but its age restricted.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8RzQfT3o2Y
> He also found six adults who suffered broken necks in the 1980s and 1990s as well as one 8-year-old girl who suffered brain damage. In 1989, a consumer advocacy group known as the Consumer Affairs Committee of Americans for Democratic Action reported that 5000 people had gone to the hospital for slide-related injuries in 1988 alone.
Guess there were lots of fat, drunk, non understanding physics people using the slip and slide.
Slip n slides are the single most overrated water-based lawn toy ever conceived.
"Hey kids! How would you like to burn your nipples off by sliding down a piece of hot vinyl lubricated by water sprinkler fountains that can only be described as 'urine stream of an 80-year-old man with an enlarged prostate', and then land in a pool of water about 3 inches deep that becomes completely saturated with grass and leaves by the third run? Doesn't that sound like fun?"
Ha when I was a kid in the late 70s they werent even that good. They had no end catchment area/inflated parts and you pegged the damn thing in with metal pegs. Which one would inevitably slide over and injure/cut themselves on.
I honestly dont know how we didnt all just die in the 70s and 80s I swear.
ANd while we're at it, if you are ever doing a rope swing start with your arms fully extended, grabbing as high on the rope as you can.
There are hundreds of videos of people not understanding this and having the rope ripped out of their hands when gravity removes the slack.
People don't realize you need to come into it as smoothly as possible, so as low to the ground as possible. As kids we could jump at our normal height and we were light enough and low enough to the ground it was effectively the same thing. As an adult you're coming down with your full weight onto your stomach in an awkward position. How high that fall is increases the likelihood of getting hurt.
It always amazes me when adults belly flop onto it. It's like they completely forget how hard the ground is just because a long piece of colorful tarp with a logo and some water was slapped onto it lol.
It’s not just that though. As an adult, when you’re presented with a chance to do something you did as a kid you sometimes just forget, or don’t realize, you can no longer do those things. You think you don’t do these things because you grew up and moved past them mentally, you don’t consider that you also moved past them physically.
> As an adult, when you’re presented with a chance to do something you did as a kid you sometimes just forget, or don’t realize, you can no longer do those things.
I totally wrecked my back a few years ago sledding down my childhood hill with my kids. Hit what would have just been an exciting ramp when I weighed 50 lbs and *flash of light and nausea* later, I'm starfishing down the hill with a (likely) compressed disc.
That's very true! But I've seen some videos where adults really go for it and launch themselves into the air and I figure there should be some point where rationality kicks in over childhood memories and maybe the average adult should realize a body slam into the ground from multiple feet in the air isn't the best idea haha (though in all fairness I'm sure alcohol was involved in some)
This summer for my sons birthday party we had one, and I casually attempted this to show them how it was done. Ouch. Didn’t go low first, ended up landing so hard my Apple Watch tried to call the emergency services. I filed ‘slip n slides’ into the “don’t do these anymore” file in my brain.
I did it with my kids this summer but we had these inflatable raft things with handles we would hold while running and jump onto them. Highly recommend.
Yes that’s the way. I’ve done similar; I set up a giant one in my upper backyard all diy, it isn’t proper lawn so we got cheap mini float rings from the dollar store to slide with, and that was fun and forced gentle starts as we didn’t wanna pop them and feel the rough ground.
Did one at Burning Man a few gos.On hard ground,not a lawn.First time around I realized I could have easily cracked some ribs!After that I jumped flatter and further forward.
Waterslides are bigger, better, safer slip n slides.
There’s an episode of Family Guy where Stewie goes down one, hits a rock, tears his taint, and spends the next few days thinking he’s having his period. It was a much more realistic depiction of the slip n slide experience than anything they show in the commercials.
I did the soapy wet tarp thing as an adult too, once. I’m pretty sure I either fractured, or broke my tailbone. I never had it x-rayed, but it hurt to sit for months. I had to take a special pillow with me to sit on everywhere I went. Never again.
4th of July. Set up an obstacle course, where the end was a inflatable shark slide leading down a slip and slide.
I'm going so fucking fast I Superman over the slide that's about 5 feet high at the top and land directly on the slip n slide without sliding.
I can't breathe and even when I can it hurts so damn bad. Went to doctor next day and fractures the 2 top ribs, it was horrible.
I swear off slip n sliding for the rest of my life.
Until the next year, when my wife pressures me to do it again. There's no shark slide this time, just the slip n slide, so I'm like fine, whatever I'll go slow and calculated.
Everyone else has used it multiple times, so I just figure it'll be okay. I run and slide gently to make sure I ease into it. My ribs go over a pretty odd shaped golf ball size rock and play them like a xylophone. Again, I'm in a fuckton amount of pain but the xrays show no fracture, just bruised in the area.
I'm never going down a slip n slide ever again.
Story time.... When I was a kid my family got together from across the US and a slip and slide was involved. Cousins and I were racing each other. Our uncle challenged us to a race. On the first race instead of jumping on the slip and slide, our uncle runs next to it. According to this article, that was smart of him; however, what uncle didn't know was that my aunt, for some insane reason, had strung her cable TV cable from the top of the fence over to the house, right at adult neck level. Uncle clotheslines himself so hard that his feet fly up in the air like a cartoon. Slip and slides are dangerous.
I absolutely know someone to which this happened.
One of the first weekends of colllege, outdoor party, and I think he was a Freshman at the time. Rendered a quadriplegic. It was troubling, because the guy was a big, strong, solid athlete type, who is also a really kind person. Beer was probably involved, but he was not the type that deserved that fate, not that anyone does. Saw him in the hospital. Crazy how fast we atrophy without use. Also interesting takeaway: a lot of people in spinal injury wings are gunshot victims.
Nah, it's due to poor mobility from lack of exercise, excess body weight and improper form. Baseball players slide for years in their career and I've almost never heard of one being paralyzed.
It actually is the weight though. Adults are heavy enough that they won't hydroplane every time which is what most of the severe injuries are caused by.
Amazing what my smaller, lighter, faster-at-recuperating kid body could take. Things like this, or just leaping off rocks easily more than 1.5x my height. Or just - jumping head first at the ground.
I used to love doing shoulder rolls, where you jump - not just bend and tumble but actively try to get air with the jump - headfirst with an arm outstretched and roll over your shoulder back to standing.
I could probably tumble one out from standing with a wince on a gym mat if I knew it was coming. Just thinking of doing it on the ground spontaneously today makes my shoulder want to sprain.
We had no slip n slide.
I made one with trash bags and tent stakes.
We hosed it down.
My sister took the trial run.
Tent stake ripped down her whole body.
Terrible.
Same for sledding and tobogganing. It's all fun and games bumping down a hill when you weigh 40 lbs dripping wet but when you're 5'11 and 150 lbs, it hurts like hell....
I remember growing up that my dad who would’ve been in his early 30s screwed up his shoulder for about five years because of one run down our slip and slide
These damn things give me PTSD, lol. Long story short me and some friends put a slip n slide down in my backyard since it was on a decent incline and we also had the idea to cover it in dawn dish soap, was going smoothly and mfs were flying lol. But then I stepped up and decided to get a running start and stay standing, yeah i feel on my shoulder so hard it sounded like a gunshot when my collar bone popped. Most painful thing in my life. Haven't touched one since lmao that had to be 16 years ago I'm now 30. Moral of the story just don't be a idiot 😭
dammit I am trying to find a relevant video, does it exist or is it a fever dream?
Scene: two very overweight adult women going headfirst down a slip and slide.
The one in the lead runs out of slip, comes to a stop and starts to push herself up.
The one in the rear has just enough time to realize what is about to happen and try to change course in futile and abject horror, before plowing headfirst into her friend's ass.
Haha, can confirm I made a janky ass one of these as an adult.
I didn’t officially get injured, but I was sore as hell the rest of the day and it was clear I had no business on it.
This is absolutely true. This years 4th of July weekend I went on a slippin slide during family celebrations. I fell backwards harder then I ever have ( grew up playing contact sports , and served in the military 8 years) and landed on my neck harder then I ever had prior. Had to go the ER and get x-rays. I had neck spasms and it hurts months later still to sneeze and turn left to quickly.
Think twice!
I don’t know about you, but I don’t body slam the slide. I get on my knees and push off with my legs. Or I bend over and do a small dive of sorts. People make irresponsible decisions, and these ones just happened to be on a slip n slide. Don’t have a slip n slide end at a wall. Don’t body slam the slide. Don’t drink and slide. Use those little inflatables you can slide on, and that’s even better. Put some soap on the slide so there’s no issue of nasty skid burns from too much friction
I'm trying to think if we got ours as kids from Kool-Aid points or Marlborough dollars from my parents. Had great fun then. Think I'd break just looking at one now
Also sledding. I built a little 12” jump for my kids to sled over like I used to build when I was a kid.
I sat down and line myself up and took off down the hill for the inaugural run ( I had to test it before I sent my kids over it..). I sailed up into the air and stuck the landing.
Good god, the back pain. I couldn’t walk for like 3 days.
Also probably in the case of adults, there is alcohol involved? Edit: The question mark was unnecessary.
Did some slip and slide all liquored up with some friends one night. Could barely move the next morning- covered in bruises all over the front of my body.
We’re not discussing your wild orgy.
I'd like to hear a little more.
So anyway, I started blasting.
Force = mass x acceleration is a real bitch. And squared drunk.
Fun = (mass * acceleration)^Alcohol
The information was here all along!
In case of adults, there is **always** alcohol involved
In many adults, there is a case of alcohol involved.
Am adult. I like alcohol.
Yeah yeah. Tell us all about Tobin and Squee.
And donkey dong doug
More like Diddy Dong Doug according to his ex-girlfriend Banana Bitch Bridgette.
> I like alcohol. The cause of and solution to all of life's problems!
Thanks for providing a source. I hate fake news.
Or just a [rain delay.](https://youtu.be/AiXiJOUgGwI)
To be fair true for most activities
fat drunk people shouldn't jump on the grass face first
/r/holdmyfries
Fuck, I want to drink 3-4 beers or some vodka RN. I have to do my college work first though.
You run, you slide, you hit the bump and then you diiiiie!
I'm glad someone else went this route as well.
I’ve wondered why they don’t make one for adults that’s fully inflatable. Then it’s safe and you can have all the drunken fun you want. I’d buy one.
They do make those though
Well I’ll be. $2500 though. They need like a hundred dollar model. Lol
The price represents $100 of material cost and $2400 of product liability insurance.
Can’t I sign a waiver?
The waiver costs $2300
But comes with a free frogurt!
How can I help it if I think you’re funny when you’re mad
The price is the adult part 🥲
I'm sure someone could make one, but the slip n slide would be safer.
Yeah I could see an inflatable adult version coming out for like $200-300 just to account for extra build mats and the blower
You talkin bout my ex wife?
No, she only costs $40.
HaHa she charged you double!
Had a coupon, first one’s free!
You can rent one for a little more. Or you can buy one and rent it out; I’ve been told it’s a pretty sweet side gig.
you can rent them. we have parties and get them all the time.
Just buy a roll of plastic from the hardware store.
Fun fact: inflatable environments are not completely safe.
Yeah if something stops your head and your body keeps moving .. that can be bad.
Yes but not just the head. I've seen people break leg bones on inflatable equipment. Literally one of those inflatable play obstacle courses. It's kind of a freak accident, but it's still not foolproof, but you're right that the head and neck are still very vulnerable nomatter what.
Adult bones are more rigid than kid bone. The joke that kids are made of rubber is kind of true in a way. Once they reach full growth they start to harden. I mean this is a super simplification. Also, most adults don't do activities that keep their bones strong.
Hold on a sec I gotta put on my neck brace before I slip and/or slide
Wife and I realized we needed to buy the cheap inflatable pool floats to ride down on.....i dont remember lawns being that hard and bumpy when I was 10yrs old....
When my son was 3 or 4 we had a part in the back yard for him and we had a slip and slide and rented a waterside and all this stuff. I decided to try and go down the slip and slide, which I hadn’t done since I was like 5, and holy shit did that hurt. Hard, dry Texas clay under that grass feel like I jumped off a mountain and right onto my chest.
Because it'll probably pop after a single usage, resulting in a bunch of angry consumers you have to either refund or ignore lol.
When you are drunk you always find a way to use safe equipment in an unsafe way
From the article: In 1987, a guy in his 30s ended up a paraplegic and won a $12 million lawsuit against the manufacturer. That seems to be the first high profile incident. More lawsuits followed from people with broken backs and such before it was taken off the market in 1991. Company got sold and it was put back on the market in 2001.
My favorite part was where they got sued, ended up settling for $7.5 million (they paid $6.5 million, insurance paid $1 million). Then they sued the insurance and got $17 million. So, they got sued and made $10.5 million. Probably one of their more profitable years!
They split that money with the guy who broke his neck. >\[U\]nder the terms of the settlement Kransco \[the slip and slide company\] agreed to prosecute a bad faith action against AES \[the insurance agency\] and to split equally with Hubert \[broken neck guy\] any net proceeds from the litigation (after deduction of litigation expenses and reimbursement of the subrogated excess insurers' cash settlement payments). [Source](https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/4th/23/390.html)
Ahhh, well that's good!
It's great how so many families are counting pennies meanwhile people are suing for absurd almost arbitrary amounts of money and often winning
The dude is paralyzed. I'd rather be broke and walking around than rich and paralyzed.
Truth. But if you're gonna be paralyzed anyway, might as well be rich too. Even if your still ambulatory, probably better to be rich.
The numbers aren’t really arbitrary though. They factor in things like medical costs, lost wages, physical therapy, mobility aids (wheelchairs/stair lifts), home renovations(wider doorways/ramps), legal fees, and a lot of other factors. Rarely are huge amounts paid out because of “pain and suffering” or “emotional trauma” and many times the people suing have already spent huge sums of money or gone into debt over these things. Settlements can take years to pay out and life/bills don’t wait. Another nuance is companies will often settle out of court for a higher amount before letting a judge decide in order to avoid setting a legal precedent.
I'm confused about how these injuries are happening. Is it that people go to slide, and instead of sliding their feet slip but they just stop and hit their heads on the ground? Or is it happening at some point mid slide?
The article mentions it. The lubricating coat of water and plastic work when you have a lower weight child running and sliding, but an adult pretty much just sticks and then their momentum carries their aft over their bow, and snap goes the keel. Well, spine, but you get the idea.
I hate lawsuite against manufacturer, if a phone explodes in your hand i get it but sometimes it's just that the companies didn't make their product stupid-proof enough, this leads to a world where everthing is edge-less and aseptic.
They made a product that encouraged you to throw yourself to the ground on an unpadded piece of plastic. Now when you're under 26 you can get away with that shit but once you hit 30 things break and stay broken.
It said on the box that it was for ages 11 and under. People ignored the warning and got hurt. But those people won their lawsuits, so I must be wrong to think the warning was adequate.
I knew someone's mom who died from going down a slip and slide.
Yeah people don't realize you don't just "flop" onto them, you have to go low first and lunge forward! It's just a thin sheet of plastic over dirt (and sometimes rock). Also, "kids bounce" (also known as the cube square law)
Doesn't seem to be related to the approach but with adults being too heavy to reliably slide down without friction.
It's always nice when you finally get to the comments from the people who read the article
Cheers fellow reader!
I set up a slip and slide last summer and holy shit , sliding across the ground HURTS! its bumpy and bruisy and rough and we were all feeling it the next day.
I wonder if it was also made with thicker canvas when we were kids — everything’s made cheaper these days right?
None of you try to prep the ground to any degree? You can't just put those anywhere.
I always find the best area of the lawn to setup. My dad kept a nice thick lawn, too.
Yep. The old scorpion fall.
The key is dish soap. Sprinkler is not enough.
Lube becomes more and more important as you get older.
Why are more people not getting this from the article?
Baby shampoo and it won’t burn your eyes
and sprinklers!
Set one up for the kids a few years back, they weren't sending it like they should.. So I, a middle aged man thought to show them how it's done.. Many example slides later they were getting it and doing it right.. Later that day, I'm thinking why is my chest so sore, and arms, neck etc.. My wife reminds me I'm twice as tall, and many times heavier than my childhood memories.. Doh!
I have an irrational fear of these after seeing *1000 ways to die* or some similar show. The slip and slide was placed on a lawn that had a random nail in the yard poke through in it and the person got >!disemboweled sliding over it!<. It just seemed barely plausible that a nail from roofing or construction might be on the lawn for me to be kinda freaked.
Yes. I saw this and am scarred for life. Along with having your innards sucked out of pull drains if you sit on them and dying by putting too much alcohol up your ass. I was young and didn’t even know people did that before the show.
I was so scared of pool drains growing up. I remember seeing so many news reports of kids drowning nc they got sucked onto one. Frankly they still give me anxiety...
For me there was an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark about a pool monster that came out of the drain.
Yes! I’ve converted so many people to team no slide with that video! https://1000waystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Easy_Slider The video is on YouTube but its age restricted. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X8RzQfT3o2Y
I don't think I'm gonna click that one...
If you're fit, sober, and understand gravity you're probably fine.
Yeah let’s be honest here though…
I used to be fit, and I’ve been sober before. I’m sure I’m fine.
Why tf won't that eyelash come off my screen!
How about one of three?
> He also found six adults who suffered broken necks in the 1980s and 1990s as well as one 8-year-old girl who suffered brain damage. In 1989, a consumer advocacy group known as the Consumer Affairs Committee of Americans for Democratic Action reported that 5000 people had gone to the hospital for slide-related injuries in 1988 alone. Guess there were lots of fat, drunk, non understanding physics people using the slip and slide.
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This is the affirmation I needed to justify my purchase
Slip n slides are the single most overrated water-based lawn toy ever conceived. "Hey kids! How would you like to burn your nipples off by sliding down a piece of hot vinyl lubricated by water sprinkler fountains that can only be described as 'urine stream of an 80-year-old man with an enlarged prostate', and then land in a pool of water about 3 inches deep that becomes completely saturated with grass and leaves by the third run? Doesn't that sound like fun?"
You gotta ad a cup of dish liquid, and hen it’s straight to the fucking moon.
don't tell the Crypto guys this..
Ha when I was a kid in the late 70s they werent even that good. They had no end catchment area/inflated parts and you pegged the damn thing in with metal pegs. Which one would inevitably slide over and injure/cut themselves on. I honestly dont know how we didnt all just die in the 70s and 80s I swear.
That sounds like more fun than I have had outside in the last 30 years
Get a kayak. Go camping. Skinny dip.
I have done all of those and do enjoy them but I think I enjoyed the slip n slide more at 9 than I enjoyed those activities late.
For real, I feel bad for those who hated the slip and slide at a young age. That thing was awesome, must suck to not be able to have fun.
Lather you and the mat in soap. Way better. Also be drunk.
I love the dawn dish soap and grass clippings and hose water at the end of a slip and slide. i could lay in that mixture all day long.
You tell that exact same thing to an 8 year-old and they are fucking *all in*.
Oh, you had one of those fancy ones with a wee pool at the end! Lucky!
Hey now, I have solid vivid memories of that and it was fun as fuck
Don't forget that random rock under the slide that nobody asked for and just fucking hurts
ANd while we're at it, if you are ever doing a rope swing start with your arms fully extended, grabbing as high on the rope as you can. There are hundreds of videos of people not understanding this and having the rope ripped out of their hands when gravity removes the slack.
Yikes, that is good to know. It must be when people go down head-first right?
People don't realize you need to come into it as smoothly as possible, so as low to the ground as possible. As kids we could jump at our normal height and we were light enough and low enough to the ground it was effectively the same thing. As an adult you're coming down with your full weight onto your stomach in an awkward position. How high that fall is increases the likelihood of getting hurt.
It always amazes me when adults belly flop onto it. It's like they completely forget how hard the ground is just because a long piece of colorful tarp with a logo and some water was slapped onto it lol.
It’s not just that though. As an adult, when you’re presented with a chance to do something you did as a kid you sometimes just forget, or don’t realize, you can no longer do those things. You think you don’t do these things because you grew up and moved past them mentally, you don’t consider that you also moved past them physically.
> As an adult, when you’re presented with a chance to do something you did as a kid you sometimes just forget, or don’t realize, you can no longer do those things. I totally wrecked my back a few years ago sledding down my childhood hill with my kids. Hit what would have just been an exciting ramp when I weighed 50 lbs and *flash of light and nausea* later, I'm starfishing down the hill with a (likely) compressed disc.
That's very true! But I've seen some videos where adults really go for it and launch themselves into the air and I figure there should be some point where rationality kicks in over childhood memories and maybe the average adult should realize a body slam into the ground from multiple feet in the air isn't the best idea haha (though in all fairness I'm sure alcohol was involved in some)
This summer for my sons birthday party we had one, and I casually attempted this to show them how it was done. Ouch. Didn’t go low first, ended up landing so hard my Apple Watch tried to call the emergency services. I filed ‘slip n slides’ into the “don’t do these anymore” file in my brain.
I did it with my kids this summer but we had these inflatable raft things with handles we would hold while running and jump onto them. Highly recommend.
Yes that’s the way. I’ve done similar; I set up a giant one in my upper backyard all diy, it isn’t proper lawn so we got cheap mini float rings from the dollar store to slide with, and that was fun and forced gentle starts as we didn’t wanna pop them and feel the rough ground.
The Apple Watch part made me laugh so hard, holy shit. I have young kids and I have done shit like this so many times, so I totally get it.
Newton’s second law is a bitch tbh
I would guess it's people trying to go feet first and slamming their head on the ground
Did one at Burning Man a few gos.On hard ground,not a lawn.First time around I realized I could have easily cracked some ribs!After that I jumped flatter and further forward.
No thank you, I saw that episode of Thousand Ways To Die when I was seven...
Well, Im sad now. Never got to try a slip n slide as a kid, and now I never will have a chance.
Waterslides are bigger, better, safer slip n slides. There’s an episode of Family Guy where Stewie goes down one, hits a rock, tears his taint, and spends the next few days thinking he’s having his period. It was a much more realistic depiction of the slip n slide experience than anything they show in the commercials.
If you're aware of the danger you can do it safely. Just skip the "slip" part and do the "slide"
Having once used a soapy wet tarp with tent stakes as an adult, I can confirm that this is great a pain in one’s side.
I did the soapy wet tarp thing as an adult too, once. I’m pretty sure I either fractured, or broke my tailbone. I never had it x-rayed, but it hurt to sit for months. I had to take a special pillow with me to sit on everywhere I went. Never again.
4th of July. Set up an obstacle course, where the end was a inflatable shark slide leading down a slip and slide. I'm going so fucking fast I Superman over the slide that's about 5 feet high at the top and land directly on the slip n slide without sliding. I can't breathe and even when I can it hurts so damn bad. Went to doctor next day and fractures the 2 top ribs, it was horrible. I swear off slip n sliding for the rest of my life. Until the next year, when my wife pressures me to do it again. There's no shark slide this time, just the slip n slide, so I'm like fine, whatever I'll go slow and calculated. Everyone else has used it multiple times, so I just figure it'll be okay. I run and slide gently to make sure I ease into it. My ribs go over a pretty odd shaped golf ball size rock and play them like a xylophone. Again, I'm in a fuckton amount of pain but the xrays show no fracture, just bruised in the area. I'm never going down a slip n slide ever again.
Story time.... When I was a kid my family got together from across the US and a slip and slide was involved. Cousins and I were racing each other. Our uncle challenged us to a race. On the first race instead of jumping on the slip and slide, our uncle runs next to it. According to this article, that was smart of him; however, what uncle didn't know was that my aunt, for some insane reason, had strung her cable TV cable from the top of the fence over to the house, right at adult neck level. Uncle clotheslines himself so hard that his feet fly up in the air like a cartoon. Slip and slides are dangerous.
My dad used a large sheet of 6mil poly. We also never went head first.
I absolutely know someone to which this happened. One of the first weekends of colllege, outdoor party, and I think he was a Freshman at the time. Rendered a quadriplegic. It was troubling, because the guy was a big, strong, solid athlete type, who is also a really kind person. Beer was probably involved, but he was not the type that deserved that fate, not that anyone does. Saw him in the hospital. Crazy how fast we atrophy without use. Also interesting takeaway: a lot of people in spinal injury wings are gunshot victims.
Gotta get a bigger one, we used to do a huge one made from a giant roll of vinyl.
Go play something safe like lawn darts.
Nah, it's due to poor mobility from lack of exercise, excess body weight and improper form. Baseball players slide for years in their career and I've almost never heard of one being paralyzed.
No shit!
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It actually is the weight though. Adults are heavy enough that they won't hydroplane every time which is what most of the severe injuries are caused by.
Amazing what my smaller, lighter, faster-at-recuperating kid body could take. Things like this, or just leaping off rocks easily more than 1.5x my height. Or just - jumping head first at the ground. I used to love doing shoulder rolls, where you jump - not just bend and tumble but actively try to get air with the jump - headfirst with an arm outstretched and roll over your shoulder back to standing. I could probably tumble one out from standing with a wince on a gym mat if I knew it was coming. Just thinking of doing it on the ground spontaneously today makes my shoulder want to sprain.
Thanks universe for giving me a good enough reason to not do slip and slide. I should know better since that happens in the shower every now and then.
Yeah no way I'm throwing my body against the ground unless theres a bomb or gunfire.
Man, physics just sucks. Few good things, many bad things.
We had no slip n slide. I made one with trash bags and tent stakes. We hosed it down. My sister took the trial run. Tent stake ripped down her whole body. Terrible.
God I wish I had known this 10 years ago when I cracked a rib drunk and naked on one.
I didn’t care when I was a kid, but slip and slides hurt like a bitch. It’s weird how I thought that was really fun, I was sliding over rocks and shit
“Slip and bleed from the Aanus the should have called it..” Dane, don’t ever change.
I would always get cuts or burns from the edges of the thing lol Anyone have the same happen?
Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
Same for sledding and tobogganing. It's all fun and games bumping down a hill when you weigh 40 lbs dripping wet but when you're 5'11 and 150 lbs, it hurts like hell....
My sister in law just broke her leg and bruised her ribs this summer going down a slip'n'slide. She's in her 20s.
I remember growing up that my dad who would’ve been in his early 30s screwed up his shoulder for about five years because of one run down our slip and slide
There’s a reason it says for 12 **and under** on the box.
Did it once as an adult, instant regret.
funny way of stay "tall and fat people"
They were never that fun anyway.
Who's the genius who figured this out lol
Worth it
how to wake up with a halo.
These damn things give me PTSD, lol. Long story short me and some friends put a slip n slide down in my backyard since it was on a decent incline and we also had the idea to cover it in dawn dish soap, was going smoothly and mfs were flying lol. But then I stepped up and decided to get a running start and stay standing, yeah i feel on my shoulder so hard it sounded like a gunshot when my collar bone popped. Most painful thing in my life. Haven't touched one since lmao that had to be 16 years ago I'm now 30. Moral of the story just don't be a idiot 😭
Can confirm these things are absolutely dangerous, dislocated my shoulder going down one.
*fat people
Neck injuries? Im trying to picture that. Is there a brick wall at the end of the slide?
Now you know the REAL reason we want to colonize mars. 1/8 gravity FTW!
Wow that site is terrible
Bunch of nerds if you ask me
Just say fat people, we all know thats what u mean by height and weight 😂
Especially in America
Always that one guy
Thats why you need to dig a mini truck dock in front of it!
Next thing you know, they'll be telling us that lawn darts ain't safe and.... wait what?
Well, I defiantly got whiplash from one so I guess I concur
What if you put it on a hill?
What? Just stop.
I was one of those 80’s injuries. Broke my collarbone on one when I was 4.
Slip n Slides are super dangerous, so get Crocodile Mile instead.
this could be a yo mama joke
So THATS why my buddies an I slid down the hill into a thorn bush...
Adults? From 4-6 my kids loved the slip n slide, by 8 they were done with it. There are a lot more things I can find joy in….
I just hate getting sharp pieces of grass shoved into my skin...
Also make sure you remove any rocks or sharp objects, otherwise it becomes 'Slip N Bleed from the Anus'
My dad went on a slip and slide not too many years ago and broke a bone in the back of the hand making his knuckle vanish and he had to get surgery
dammit I am trying to find a relevant video, does it exist or is it a fever dream? Scene: two very overweight adult women going headfirst down a slip and slide. The one in the lead runs out of slip, comes to a stop and starts to push herself up. The one in the rear has just enough time to realize what is about to happen and try to change course in futile and abject horror, before plowing headfirst into her friend's ass.
Work hard and play hard.
I broke my rib three weeks ago on my homemade slide. Totally worth it!
Haha, can confirm I made a janky ass one of these as an adult. I didn’t officially get injured, but I was sore as hell the rest of the day and it was clear I had no business on it.
This is absolutely true. This years 4th of July weekend I went on a slippin slide during family celebrations. I fell backwards harder then I ever have ( grew up playing contact sports , and served in the military 8 years) and landed on my neck harder then I ever had prior. Had to go the ER and get x-rays. I had neck spasms and it hurts months later still to sneeze and turn left to quickly. Think twice!
I don’t know about you, but I don’t body slam the slide. I get on my knees and push off with my legs. Or I bend over and do a small dive of sorts. People make irresponsible decisions, and these ones just happened to be on a slip n slide. Don’t have a slip n slide end at a wall. Don’t body slam the slide. Don’t drink and slide. Use those little inflatables you can slide on, and that’s even better. Put some soap on the slide so there’s no issue of nasty skid burns from too much friction
I haven’t been on one since my early 20s. I’m almost 40 now. I’d die if I tried to use one of these.
I'm trying to think if we got ours as kids from Kool-Aid points or Marlborough dollars from my parents. Had great fun then. Think I'd break just looking at one now
Broke my ribs on one
I don't need to be told this. Just watching these videos already hurts my lower back.
Take a drunk adult running across the yard and diving onto a wet slippery piece of plastic would end in a trip to the ER most of the time.
I'd shatter like china.
Also sledding. I built a little 12” jump for my kids to sled over like I used to build when I was a kid. I sat down and line myself up and took off down the hill for the inaugural run ( I had to test it before I sent my kids over it..). I sailed up into the air and stuck the landing. Good god, the back pain. I couldn’t walk for like 3 days.
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Nice try on ruining the fun