I'm with neither of them, because shit happens, but... seriously, that area looked wide open and the kid came straight at him. Couldn't either the skater or the guy with camera have, y'know, just looked in the direction they were moving at some point? If you're riding your skateboard in a public space and you've got your eyes locked on your feet because you totes want to stick that ollie (or whatever the fuck us crazy kids are calling it these days), accidents like this one are just waiting to happen.

Yeah, I'm with the skater, even if skating in that area was being careless, where the fuck was she in the first place?

I used my skateboard for my primary means of transportation while living in San Francisco-Once, a cop approached me (never had been for 2 years while on my daily commute) quite gruffly with obvious control issues telling me to get off the board now. I did, and he proceeded to rant about ordinances and threaten me with arrest. I reminded him that I had immediately complied and began walking away from him. He escalated his rant, I dropped the board, mounted and sailed away.

My only encounter with the po-po on a board happened to be with a dickhead. I run from dickheads, especially alphas with issues that have been given unlimited power to fuck me.

All that to say, these skaters were dicks and had it been my property, I'd have taken the kids board and cracked his deck on my property, then given it back....or perhaps I would have simply pummeled them with eggs, grease, water, etc. from a window.

Actually, fuck it, while I'm on this soapbox....

I'm usually pro-skater. I firmly believe that skater should be able to use parks, sidewalks etc, and cities actually need to start thinking about incorporating skating as a valid transport mechanism. It's cheap, carbon neutral, provides exercise and creates almost no congestion.

Most skaters I know are awesome people, but these little scumbags give them a bad name.

I doubt it, they're umping in a completely different way using completely different movements. I thinking maybe a rower, cyclist or speed skater. Huge leg muscles and no body fat.

It's a very impressive jump though, I doubt there would be many people able to do this.

The skater lighting himself on fire pretty much justifies the ironic sign at 1:10.

*related=http://videosift.com/video/Crazy-Ice-skater-takes-a-bath

Crazy Ice skater takes a bath has been added as a related post - related requested by kulpims.

More from an even ballsier downhill skater. Brazil's own Sergio Yuppie. He invented the layback slide: http://videosift.com/video/Sergio-Yuppie-World-s-greatest-downhill-skateboarder

How are we sure it wasn't the car behind the skater that set off the speed trap? I guess it doesn't really matter, because they were going the same speed...

A bunch of actors/dancers/ice skaters with a video camera. What's the chance that this was staged?

How could you forget Skate or Die Hard? John McClane must go undercover to infiltrate a group of young skater punks before their out-of-control loitering and handrail grinding brings [insert popular American city] to its knees.

Ah, very nice. Thanks for the insight!
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That's because the search engine recognizes that each is a different tense of the same verb. You can also search "skater saving" and it will match.

Skater is semantically related to, but a wholly different noun than skate.


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But why does "saves" work? The title only contains "saved"
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>> ^luxury_pie:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Skater-Saved-By-Backpack
Very weird: "backpack skate" reveals nothing "backpack saves" reveals the original. @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://lucky760.videosift.com" title="member since May 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color:#0044ff">lucky760 what's up?


To our search engine, "skate" does not match "skater" and "skate" by itself is not used in the post. If you search "backpack skater" it comes up.

That's because the search engine recognizes that each is a different tense of the same verb. You can also search "skater saving" and it will match.

Skater is semantically related to, but a wholly different noun than skate.


In reply to this comment by luxury_pie:
But why does "saves" work? The title only contains "saved"
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
>> ^luxury_pie:

dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Skater-Saved-By-Backpack
Very weird: "backpack skate" reveals nothing "backpack saves" reveals the original. @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://lucky760.videosift.com" title="member since May 2nd, 2006" class="profilelink"><strong style="color:#0044ff">lucky760 what's up?


To our search engine, "skate" does not match "skater" and "skate" by itself is not used in the post. If you search "backpack skater" it comes up.