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r/ElectricSkateboarding•
matissiscool

Just had my first high speed bail.

Story

So story time I was on my wowgo 2s and ofc going full speed... and this fucking kid just runs in front of my board like legit 2 meters in front of me... This is the good part my dumbass decided to bail so I did luckily I fell in to grass but the kid in my opinion had it pretty good he got hit in the leg (mind you the board had slowed down quite a bit) Moral of the story don't go full speed in the city... Watch out for little kids. Wear a helmet.

Posted May 20, 2019, 10:28 AM UTC

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TheawoopBoosted•

ALWAYS cruise slowly past children and parents with strollers. Hitting and accidentally maiming or killing a child is a real fast way of getting eskates banned.

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matissiscoolOP•

Yeah... especially where I live I live in Latvia and I might be the only esk8er

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TheawoopBoosted•

Eyyy, not too far from me then, Norway here!

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matissiscoolOP•

25 euro to go to Norway

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SwagYoloJesusBB Stealth · Ownboard W1S x Vanguard•

I SMELL A LOVE STORY IN THE MAKING

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supwalrusDIY•

Why didn’t you mow through the kid?

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GreenConnoisseur•

You shouldnt definitely mow through. Kids can be repaired but china boards can be tough sometimes with their shitty support n stuff

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matissiscoolOP•

I'm 6'3 90kgs

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supwalrusDIY•

So kid was tryna take u out?

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matissiscoolOP•

Who knows? But im pretty sure the kid didn't see me. So you can understand I was skating past a school and there were sharp turns and a really nice straight..

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FauxvoiceTrampa•

Maybe take this as a lesson to not ride so fast in a school zone.

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jtinz•

You fucked up. Good thing you weren't driving a car.

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matissiscoolOP•

Yeah.

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Aarkh RangerX1, Meepo, E GTX•

I had a familiar thing happen with a kid on a bike. Very young kid. Small bike trail, he's moving off to the left towards his home who's calling for him. As I'm coming up on him, he just suddenly turns hard right right into my path. Luckily I was able to run off and both my board and myself missed the kid.

Now I slow way down around small children on bikes.

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bmwcrown•

Almost ran into a woman once, now I brake when I see people.

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djonesx•

I once had some little kid run out in front of me in Hyde Park London. The only thing I could do was bail and scoop him up Dirty Dancing style whilst running off the speed.

Must have been quite odd for his parents to turn around and see a grown man sprinting away with their child held aloft.

Maybe they should pay more attention to their spawn.

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