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For me skateboarding is fascinating. They weren't around when I was a kid and they frighten the crap out of me although I did land kite with a mountain board before taking to the water.
Check out this video if you haven't already seen it. This guy has achieved stuff no ordinary mortal would contemplate and has used skateboarding as the extreme expression of the resilience of the human experience when the spirit remains.
That will stuff his back up eventually.
All the impact of landing is straight onto his spine, rather than taken up by bending the knees.
Wow, that was an awesome video :). I watched it twice. I loved the music too. Whose the band/song ?
(pweedas, I didn't red thumb you).
I'm gunna watch it again 
The master of negativity is at it again
Love your work Pweedle
You really are an inspiring entity
NOT
BTW, awesome clip Japie. When you can make the most of wot you got, why not use it,
and in his situation he's got a lot less than most of us and he's using it to his best
Good on him
P:S You're a tool pweedle
With any type of solo sport, somebody wrote the book on moves. .. This guy (and the older guy in middle of the clip) are writing the book, because nobody has used a skate board with no legs. That's what's special about the video I reckon.
I'm just starting to pull off duck gybes now. Starting windsurfing at 37 (I'm 43 now), these duck gybes were bloody hard. It took me a year to get them (it it was mostly a mental blockage, with lots of busting feet in straps and face planting on the sail)... and they are ****house. It will take me another season to get them looking pretty. .. but I didn't invent the move. Somebody else did (Robby Naish ?). I wouldn't have even contemplated them if I hadn't seen them, let alone trying to figure out how to do one with a missing arm etc. .. so I hand it to the young bloke and the old bloke in the video.
Pweedas is right, but skateboarders probably end up with stuffed knees and as they get older, they probably change their style to less destructive moves. .. and then one day you give it away. My day will come for windsurfing too.
The song artists are Simon a Garthfunkel aren't they ?. Nice tune. Never heard it before. I don't like these singers, but that song was good.
Sorry about that then.
Usually I'm criticised for too many words.
In the above instance I just said the thing that really hit me when I watched it.
Having had a number of long stretches with a back so bad, all I could do was lie around the house for six months, I'm now really attuned to anything which will cause a re-occurrence. In that vid I saw exactly that.
For those who have never experienced what a really bad back can do to you, you're very lucky.
My advice is to try and keep it that way.
Great vid - I worry about him jamming his fingers more than anything.
First thing I thought of when I saw the thread title:
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Gee,.. Is that the 'Heavy weather' forum I see approaching at a rapid rate??
How can such a benign topic end up in mud slinging and red thumbs? 
Really he is doing it the easy way, flipping board with his hands rather than his feet.
I think that the most remarkable thing about this vid is his resilience. He took some heavy falls, and scrapes, and just got back on the board. That is mental toughness that I admire...
Thanks for posting the video Japie..
