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  • littletommy

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    So you'd land in water...whats the worst that could happen?
    That’s pretty much how I had it figured, until one day when I was about 14-15, and the opportunity presented itself to ride a bmx bike off a rickety old boat dock into a pond.

    Pro tip: separate yourself from the bike before you hit the water!
     

    Lpherr

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    A friend and I were skateboarding up and down some large hills in MI.
    At the bottom of the hill, we would coast up the other side until we slowed enough to stop.
    Then there was the hike back up the hill to ride down again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
    I decided that to save time, and the additional walking, I would jump off the skateboard at the bottom of the hill.
    I quickly found what inertia was. I planted my feet, to quickly enter into a head over heals tumble and slide across the blacktop.
    After recomposing myself, we continued, but rode the hill up to a stop.
    We found out the following day, by my friends mom in her car following us, we were traveling at almost 40mph at the point I departed my skateboard. Those were the days.
     

    DoggyDaddy

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    A friend and I were skateboarding up and down some large hills in MI.
    At the bottom of the hill, we would coast up the other side until we slowed enough to stop.
    Then there was the hike back up the hill to ride down again. Wash, rinse, repeat.
    I decided that to save time, and the additional walking, I would jump off the skateboard at the bottom of the hill.
    I quickly found what inertia was. I planted my feet, to quickly enter into a head over heals tumble and slide across the blacktop.
    After recomposing myself, we continued, but rode the hill up to a stop.
    We found out the following day, by my friends mom in her car following us, we were traveling at almost 40mph at the point I departed my skateboard. Those were the days.
    You're supposed to flip the skateboard around at the top of the other side and ride it back down! :):
     

    BigRed

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    That’s pretty much how I had it figured, until one day when I was about 14-15, and the opportunity presented itself to ride a bmx bike off a rickety old boat dock into a pond.

    Pro tip: separate yourself from the bike before you hit the water!

    It's in that moment when you are in the air free of gravity you learn the lesson that every action has an equal reaction.
     

    Vodnik4

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    Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory is forever.

    At maybe 9 years of age, I tried to jump off a skateboard at the bottom of a hill like that, one foot stayed on the skateboard. Did an instant perfect split. Ouch.
    Honestly I would be pretty disappointed in my own kids if given a hill that awesome and a bike, they wouldn’t try to ride it.
     

    indyjohn

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    In my lifetime I am more apt to get struck by lightning than win the Powerball. Yet I still play every week and plan for what I will do with the winnings. You mother heifers will never see the likes of me again!
     

    jamil

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    That’s pretty much how I had it figured, until one day when I was about 14-15, and the opportunity presented itself to ride a bmx bike off a rickety old boat dock into a pond.

    Pro tip: separate yourself from the bike before you hit the water!
    You make it sound like you walked funny for awhile. :):
     
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