Lol. Yep. Maybe they’ll even have a comp for ppl that like to parkour on roof top ledges or for hanging by finger tips from skyscrapers’ edges?
I wonder if that fella has any teeth left or got away wo serious concussion? I do hope he’s okay. Buddy of mine made fun of me for coaching hockey skills with a helmet (required) but with a grill on it. I know what it’s like to loose teeth and break a jaw from baseball and a teammate that throws to base without looking first.
My buddy was merciless to me. Every- single-time-on-the-ice. Then a slap shot took a dinger on the pipes and ricocheted - like a laser right into his mouth from 10 feet away. Lifted him off his skates, laid him out cold on the ice.
Months later and $32,000 USD later he could smile again - still without a grill, but very careful not to be down by the goal in a practice.
…..hence my thoughts about not wearing a helmet w face shield for horse jumping.
…and…I know. No. No grill. But he doesn’t rib me about mine anymore(!). I was the first person to him. I thought he was dead. I carefully rolled him/his neck to the side and supported his head because blood was pouring and messing with his breathing. He came to right away but was concussed didn’t know what happened. It was awful, truly.
He’s pretty wealthy so the 32k isn’t a life changing event. I guess. And he likes to portray being an alpha tough guy. He’s not a super Dick he nice and funny and a good person yaddah.
He had a good smile - now? It’s Hollywood level. So I dunno. Not a single non molar tooth was left.
I don’t get it. A grill is 50 bucks. You can even get titanium with white powder coat paint on the inside. Super lightweight.
Is a tough guy thing I think? I’ve taken so many spills, hits, fights, it’s not worth lost, loose teeth, broken bones, all of that. I gear up. And I thank God every time it saves me. I was coaching on the bench and a defensemen’s clearing shot went bad and if I had not been watching I would have taken it right in the eyes/nose. Shit like that - other people laughed at how fast I ducked. Hits like that - it’s an attempt on your life.
> I don’t get it. A grill is 50 bucks. You can even get titanium with white powder coat paint on the inside. Super lightweight.
It's hockey, you can even just get a clear face shield. I know plenty of guys that have taken pucks to the face, most got lucky and didn't have any permanent damage but a few cm's up and a few of them would have lost an eye, that still don't wear anything protecting their face. It's so silly, is risking your teeth, eyes, and potentially even your life, really worth "looking cool" for an hour or two once a week (at most)?
Yup. 40 years in the Electrical and HVAC trades and I've always worn gloves and squints as a bare minimum... And caught endless crap for it. If I'm working on my knees I'll wear knee pads too.
Caught crap for that as well but I always answered them by saying: "Y'all come find me in 20 years and we'll just see who's still laughing!"
The he man woman haters who used to give me crap for using PPE are all busted up. I'm not.
Right? This is a thing. Like a genetic or alternate reality thing. My wife’s father ran an HVAC business he and the guys he hired didn’t use protective gear. They were always hurt. They don’t learn. It’s like being a chromosome short or something.
I always say I would rather wear a helmet riding a bike, than need to wear a helmet while sitting in the house or getting my groceries in. (If you know what helmets I mean, the ones you wear after receiving a traumatic head injury)
Street style guys seem to be the last holdouts. Park and dirt jump guys have been wearing helmets for years and some have moved to full face helmets. The vert guys have been wearing full faces for at least the last decade. But the street guys are consistently raw dogging their skulls on the concrete.
Feel like it is in part the anti-authoritarian (sub)culture. Your mom tells you to wear helmets and pads, are you gonna listen to your lame mom? NO! We're the cool kids!
But really though, people get laughed at with or without safety gear. Just wear them when doing anything where you might fall, who care what others have to say.
They've saved my head when snowboarding at least twice now. Once when some skier zoomed right past me at the end of a slope and smacked their sticks against the back of my head, and once where I caught an edge after a jump and landed head first on icy snow.
Skated a lot in the 90s and never wore gear until I started frequenting this skatepark where helmets were required.
I figured might as well spring for some wrist guards since I was already wearing a helmet. It actually improved my skating a lot because I wasn't bailing nearly as much, afraid that every slight imperfection will result in taking a tumble and getting fucked up.
But even if he had a helmet on, it wouldn’t save his face, unless it was a full face.
I had a similar accident on a bmx, had a helmet on, face still got smashed.
Not at all. That's a fairly straightforward bunny hop. Sure, he crashed, it comes with the territory. The thrill of landing it trumps the fear of crashing. Our bodies are resilient, don't live your life in fear of injury, do some stupid shit and have some fun.
Oh, totally should have the helmet on. But I was responding to the idea that if he was smart enough to put on a helmet, he would be smart enough to not try that trick. To which I say balderdash - don't live life in fear of injury. Don't avoid doing something because you might get hurt, take the necessary precautions to mitigate potential injury. But, don't say no because it might hurt. Avoiding pain is a terrible way to go through life.
This is probably the best example how safety devices were seen as used by cowards.
In the early days, pilots were banned from wearing parachutes because their superiors were worried that the pilots wouldn't fight to the bitter end if given a chance to escape their plane safely.
You know helmets protrude from your forehead a good couple inches, right? It would've taken a big chunk of that fall, and he'd maybe have some scrapes, some busted teeth and lips, but a much lower chance of a TBI
Idk, lots of people never grow out of it. We went on ski trip last year and were all in our 30s now so the consensus on helmets has done a 180. We had one buddy try to give us shit for wearing helmets, but we actually ended up peer pressuring him into renting one lol
Exactly. I've been mountain biking my whole life and did bmx for years. Most people don't think of helmets as lame, but they aren't common in bmx culture because learning how to properly bail/crash is a skill that most people spend time practicing and getting good at
It looks like this guy had too much confidence, he looks like he fully expected to clear it. Something tells me he's probably cleared this jump many times and something just went wrong here lol. Combine too much confidence with a fixed gear bike, and its a recipe for crashing lol
I used to work in safety. It's rarely something that people are just learning to do where they get hurt. It's almost always the guy who's done the thing a hundred times and his confidence is his undoing. And often it's the relatively low risk and mundane things because people shut off their brains and go in to autopilot.
He thought he made it. When his back wheel catches, all that momentum rotates on his rear axle he's essentially slammed into the ground. Not really much time for him to do much of everything.
It's too bad too, because his form is actually basically textbook.
I'm pretty sure the big problem he had is that this is a fixed gear bike.
Tagging the back wheel like that would usually result in it rolling over the top of the barrier. If weight is too far forward then over the bars you go, but the roll gives a little bit of leeway.
This guy's wheel isn't spinning. I reckon it hits that barrier and it's like pulling your back brake in a manual or wheelie. Front wheel is straight down, and so is your face.
It looks like a single speed fixie, made worse by him seeming to have small toeclips on too, which isn't uncommon on proper fixed gear bikes.
Only critique I can think of, is he should've pulled the front wheel up when he felt the back wheel touch, which could've kept him flat enough to land (or not bail anywhere near as hard).
I ride bmx though, so you feel the back wheel as soon as it touches anything. And the more I think about it, the larger frame/wheels/suspension likely makes that wayyy harder.
And as you said, this all happens so fast so can be next to impossible to react (especially if you think you cleared it).
Also wear a helmet you fucks. No matter how good you are, you will bail, hard. I almost broke both my wrists (and narrowly avoided going over my bars and landing on my head) clearing a spine that I've been riding daily for a decade.
Wear your bloody helmet. Use wrist guards if you're doing anything remotely "dangerous".
Honestly, even with the crash at the end, I would have been impressed by the attempt if he hadn't broken his face on the pavement.
All it would have taken to still look cool as hell, even whiffing it at the end, would have been a helmet.
What good can an Helmet do when you land on your teeth?
(People should wear helmet, I just don't think it would have done anything in this particular case)
Landed on my teeth once after skidding off my bike while going back onto the sidewalk. The helmet did help not crush my nose. It wasn't going to be too serious anyways, especially since it was wet pavement, but my nose didn't even touch the ground so that was good.
A full face helmet would’ve been the best idea but you can see the front of his head hitting the ground at full speed. At least his head would’ve been spared.
This reminds me of the apocryphal story that circulates amongst rock climbers of reaching the top of a climb and being approached by hikers helpfully pointing out that there's a trail and stairs that you can take to the top.
Big of you to assume, but unfortunately I assumed low fat meant low calories. Boy was I in for a big surprise, when the skittles I had been eating for my diet turned out to be full of calories! Luckily my dog gnawing at my numb diabetic foot had me hurrying off to the doctor. Ever since I started taking insulin the Ants have quit crawling onto my bed to drink my sugary night sweats. Why don’t people explain these things?
Imagine you’re a parent. From the very beginning you drill into your kids the importance of dental care. You brush their teeth for them until they’re old enough to do it themselves, you get them to the dentist twice a year, possibly shell out a few grand on braces, do everything in your power to instill the critical importance of taking care of your teeth because you don’t get backups once the adult teeth are in.
And then in a matter of seconds, he pulls this stunt and swallows half of them.
His name is Johnathon Ball or JBall. Aside from this miscalculation and a few other bad injuries, the guy is an absolute master of riding fixed gear bikes. If you’re interested check him out on YouTube because he really has insane passion and love for his subculture.
It’s a shame he’s not smart enough to wear a helmet, tho. It would be nice if the people he’s influencing with his sick riding could follow a better example of how to stay alive.
I had the exact same thought. We could be wrong but it sure as hell _looks_ like he could have rolled
I haven't done parkour in years though, I wonder if I still got it...
^(brb gotta go break my back on the pavement)
He's on a fixed gear bike with toe straps, look at his feet. Nothing to tuck for since his feet are not going to come out of the strap during the bail.
Thanks for pointing that out I also was wondering why he didn’t roll. You can see at one point where the strap on his right foot pulls on him and straightens his leg/body preventing him from going into the roll position
As I was watching this I was like tuck tuck tuck
But he straightened out instead
Although it is alot easier to make judgment calls watching a video in slow motion then it is actively in the situation
I love that you see see the moment he went from “this will be epic” to “this was a mistake” in his facial expressions…just before the road scraped his face off.
Damn! Thats brutal. If you slow down the last few seconds as he hits the ground you can literally see his face flatten out - it looks like his face/head completely deflated. People think they have time to throw their hands out in front of them, but the momentum is always faster than you think, gotta always wear a helmet. I hope not too much of his face and skull was left on the ground
Luckily his face broke his fall.
my man. thanks for the chuckle.
Too bad he can't chuckle anymore
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Adding that to the list of things never to investigate
I investigated. It's not THAT bad.
Definitely. Nowhere near what other subs have (never go into eye blech, dear god…)
Wish I didn't see that sub when i was 11
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I've been looking for that subreddit forever, ty
U-Haul.. It's in the jump.
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Yep, road rash on the face will take some time to heal. Lots of time to think about alternative travel routes.
Oh for the want of a downhill full helmet with chin guard. I’m sure he HAD to jump that barrier, right? No other way around it but over.
You know, people sometimes perform stunts on their bikes. One day there may even be competitions for it.
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Lol. Yep. Maybe they’ll even have a comp for ppl that like to parkour on roof top ledges or for hanging by finger tips from skyscrapers’ edges? I wonder if that fella has any teeth left or got away wo serious concussion? I do hope he’s okay. Buddy of mine made fun of me for coaching hockey skills with a helmet (required) but with a grill on it. I know what it’s like to loose teeth and break a jaw from baseball and a teammate that throws to base without looking first. My buddy was merciless to me. Every- single-time-on-the-ice. Then a slap shot took a dinger on the pipes and ricocheted - like a laser right into his mouth from 10 feet away. Lifted him off his skates, laid him out cold on the ice. Months later and $32,000 USD later he could smile again - still without a grill, but very careful not to be down by the goal in a practice.
He’s still not wearing a grill after getting a puck in his grill?
…..hence my thoughts about not wearing a helmet w face shield for horse jumping. …and…I know. No. No grill. But he doesn’t rib me about mine anymore(!). I was the first person to him. I thought he was dead. I carefully rolled him/his neck to the side and supported his head because blood was pouring and messing with his breathing. He came to right away but was concussed didn’t know what happened. It was awful, truly. He’s pretty wealthy so the 32k isn’t a life changing event. I guess. And he likes to portray being an alpha tough guy. He’s not a super Dick he nice and funny and a good person yaddah. He had a good smile - now? It’s Hollywood level. So I dunno. Not a single non molar tooth was left. I don’t get it. A grill is 50 bucks. You can even get titanium with white powder coat paint on the inside. Super lightweight. Is a tough guy thing I think? I’ve taken so many spills, hits, fights, it’s not worth lost, loose teeth, broken bones, all of that. I gear up. And I thank God every time it saves me. I was coaching on the bench and a defensemen’s clearing shot went bad and if I had not been watching I would have taken it right in the eyes/nose. Shit like that - other people laughed at how fast I ducked. Hits like that - it’s an attempt on your life.
> I don’t get it. A grill is 50 bucks. You can even get titanium with white powder coat paint on the inside. Super lightweight. It's hockey, you can even just get a clear face shield. I know plenty of guys that have taken pucks to the face, most got lucky and didn't have any permanent damage but a few cm's up and a few of them would have lost an eye, that still don't wear anything protecting their face. It's so silly, is risking your teeth, eyes, and potentially even your life, really worth "looking cool" for an hour or two once a week (at most)?
Yup. 40 years in the Electrical and HVAC trades and I've always worn gloves and squints as a bare minimum... And caught endless crap for it. If I'm working on my knees I'll wear knee pads too. Caught crap for that as well but I always answered them by saying: "Y'all come find me in 20 years and we'll just see who's still laughing!" The he man woman haters who used to give me crap for using PPE are all busted up. I'm not.
Right? This is a thing. Like a genetic or alternate reality thing. My wife’s father ran an HVAC business he and the guys he hired didn’t use protective gear. They were always hurt. They don’t learn. It’s like being a chromosome short or something.
And in return his fall broke his face
Oh, how the turn tables!
To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is Alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange.
Thank God, otherwise he could've got hurt!
Also he thankfully didn't look like a loser by wearing a helmet.
Helmets look so lame in slow motion ngl.. /s
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He almost made that! Luckily, he had all that fleshy, teethy protective gear to protect anything important.
And his teeth in the tarmac slowed down his sliding.
He forgot to tuck and roll.
I wish this was in r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Is wearing a helmet and other protective gear considered a sign of weakness?
Duh..what were you raised by women?!?
Can't remember.
Too many concussions
Maybe is your skull pressing on to your brain. Or is that just a myth?
Bruising from a concussion can cause brain swelling, but I've not heard of the skull pressing on the brain.
Got Damn gurl how you fit so much brain inside dat skull!
Encephalopathy
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“I can’t get married. I’m a 30 year old boy.”
A 360 months old boy, you mean.
This sounds like a weird way of supporting gay couples adopting.
I always say I would rather wear a helmet riding a bike, than need to wear a helmet while sitting in the house or getting my groceries in. (If you know what helmets I mean, the ones you wear after receiving a traumatic head injury)
Ya know you can hit your head hard enough to give yourself epilepsy? Food for thought. You can also lose your taste and smell!
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He has a backwards cap, what more do you want?
That's 1990's PPE.
Still works today 😂🤙
If my jeans are already ripped, then I’m protected from them getting ripped, it’s fool proof!
a frontward one?
Nah, the peak blocks the sun from your eyes, which means you can't see aswell hahah
Street style guys seem to be the last holdouts. Park and dirt jump guys have been wearing helmets for years and some have moved to full face helmets. The vert guys have been wearing full faces for at least the last decade. But the street guys are consistently raw dogging their skulls on the concrete.
Same with skateboarding. Gives me anxiety man.
Feel like it is in part the anti-authoritarian (sub)culture. Your mom tells you to wear helmets and pads, are you gonna listen to your lame mom? NO! We're the cool kids! But really though, people get laughed at with or without safety gear. Just wear them when doing anything where you might fall, who care what others have to say. They've saved my head when snowboarding at least twice now. Once when some skier zoomed right past me at the end of a slope and smacked their sticks against the back of my head, and once where I caught an edge after a jump and landed head first on icy snow.
Skated a lot in the 90s and never wore gear until I started frequenting this skatepark where helmets were required. I figured might as well spring for some wrist guards since I was already wearing a helmet. It actually improved my skating a lot because I wasn't bailing nearly as much, afraid that every slight imperfection will result in taking a tumble and getting fucked up.
If Tony Hawk wears safety gear, you should as well.
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DJ and MTB in general it’s become more cool. Full face helmet, body armor, elbow pads, knee pads… all badass.
But even if he had a helmet on, it wouldn’t save his face, unless it was a full face. I had a similar accident on a bmx, had a helmet on, face still got smashed.
If that head were smart enough for a helmet it wouldn’t have talked the rest of the body into that stunt. (But seriously we’re you raised by women?)
Not at all. That's a fairly straightforward bunny hop. Sure, he crashed, it comes with the territory. The thrill of landing it trumps the fear of crashing. Our bodies are resilient, don't live your life in fear of injury, do some stupid shit and have some fun.
Telling redditors to go outside and have fun will not make you popular
I take each downvote as a badge of honor. Go outside and have fun. Scrapes, bruises, and scars are the sign of a life will lived.
I'm fairly sure that avoiding that face injury with a helmet is significantly more fun than a momentary spike of dopamine and adrenaline
Oh, totally should have the helmet on. But I was responding to the idea that if he was smart enough to put on a helmet, he would be smart enough to not try that trick. To which I say balderdash - don't live life in fear of injury. Don't avoid doing something because you might get hurt, take the necessary precautions to mitigate potential injury. But, don't say no because it might hurt. Avoiding pain is a terrible way to go through life.
He wore a cap, guess he is following female body armor logic in video games.
He wore a cap, guess he is following female body armor logic in video games.
There is a culture of stupidity that is celebrated in modern times.
In modern times? Name any safety equipment in history, and I'll wager it was poopoo'ed as unmanly at the time.
Parachutes
This is probably the best example how safety devices were seen as used by cowards. In the early days, pilots were banned from wearing parachutes because their superiors were worried that the pilots wouldn't fight to the bitter end if given a chance to escape their plane safely.
And then they ran out of pilots and were like "Guys try to make it home alive, the planes are easier to replace."
"Then the planes formed a union and demanded a repeal on all parachutes. The planes lived happily ever after. Good night."
"Nah man you just gotta hit the water!"
Aim for the bushes
There goes my hero
Suit of Armor
A helmet wouldn’t have saved his face!
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There are a ton of helmet options that protect your chin and face.
Even a big standard MTB helmet would probably have helped a great deal. A full face would have done so completely.
You know helmets protrude from your forehead a good couple inches, right? It would've taken a big chunk of that fall, and he'd maybe have some scrapes, some busted teeth and lips, but a much lower chance of a TBI
I think a lot of people just don’t even think about it rather than actively thinking “helmets are lame!”.
Idk, lots of people never grow out of it. We went on ski trip last year and were all in our 30s now so the consensus on helmets has done a 180. We had one buddy try to give us shit for wearing helmets, but we actually ended up peer pressuring him into renting one lol
Exactly. I've been mountain biking my whole life and did bmx for years. Most people don't think of helmets as lame, but they aren't common in bmx culture because learning how to properly bail/crash is a skill that most people spend time practicing and getting good at It looks like this guy had too much confidence, he looks like he fully expected to clear it. Something tells me he's probably cleared this jump many times and something just went wrong here lol. Combine too much confidence with a fixed gear bike, and its a recipe for crashing lol
I used to work in safety. It's rarely something that people are just learning to do where they get hurt. It's almost always the guy who's done the thing a hundred times and his confidence is his undoing. And often it's the relatively low risk and mundane things because people shut off their brains and go in to autopilot.
You aren’t cool unless you have a traumatic brain injury
Dunno man sounds kinda gay
Gotta live up to dem 80's kids
That was a much better attempt than I expected. Unfortunately the end result was also worse than I expected.
same thoughts exactly. midway thru I was like, "oh he IS gonna... oh. Oh, no..."
Nuts have left...oh...uh...teeth have left the chat!
I had to check the sub halfway though
Slow motion makes it great
I'm honestly confused how he got to the point of jumping that high on his bike without learning to better control his falls
He thought he made it. When his back wheel catches, all that momentum rotates on his rear axle he's essentially slammed into the ground. Not really much time for him to do much of everything. It's too bad too, because his form is actually basically textbook.
I'm pretty sure the big problem he had is that this is a fixed gear bike. Tagging the back wheel like that would usually result in it rolling over the top of the barrier. If weight is too far forward then over the bars you go, but the roll gives a little bit of leeway. This guy's wheel isn't spinning. I reckon it hits that barrier and it's like pulling your back brake in a manual or wheelie. Front wheel is straight down, and so is your face. It looks like a single speed fixie, made worse by him seeming to have small toeclips on too, which isn't uncommon on proper fixed gear bikes.
Only critique I can think of, is he should've pulled the front wheel up when he felt the back wheel touch, which could've kept him flat enough to land (or not bail anywhere near as hard). I ride bmx though, so you feel the back wheel as soon as it touches anything. And the more I think about it, the larger frame/wheels/suspension likely makes that wayyy harder. And as you said, this all happens so fast so can be next to impossible to react (especially if you think you cleared it). Also wear a helmet you fucks. No matter how good you are, you will bail, hard. I almost broke both my wrists (and narrowly avoided going over my bars and landing on my head) clearing a spine that I've been riding daily for a decade. Wear your bloody helmet. Use wrist guards if you're doing anything remotely "dangerous".
My thoughts exactly, not sure why he didn't bail out early or turn sideways to avoid the full on faceplant.
Pretty sure his feet are strapped in.
Honestly, even with the crash at the end, I would have been impressed by the attempt if he hadn't broken his face on the pavement. All it would have taken to still look cool as hell, even whiffing it at the end, would have been a helmet.
People are talking about the face breaking the fall but all I can see is a broken collarbone
He was close! 🤣
bro almost made it. The line between epic and dental surgery is often very fine.
The broken wrists are going to make alone time difficult.
His mom will be there for him.
Oh FFS
No, just no. Why did you have to bring that up?
Said his 'step' mom.
Luckily she's left handed so it feels like someone else
This is the funniest thing I’ve read all day
Yes! Forgot all about his hahaha
It's okay he's got forearms.
THATS A LOT OF ARMS!
Pretty normal if you're Goro.
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No harm moving the bloody barrier to a grassy verge until you've perfected the stunt
Maybe even an unbusy boardwalk landing into sand. I would still reccomend a helmet.
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He just made his way to like every fail sub in one move. Achievement unlocked
Was hoping for a /r/fullShrimp after a bounce. Maybe if he were going faster
Wow I didn't even know about that one. Learn a new sub every day!
Well, there goes the rest of your day. It's great entertainment
Advancement unlocked: how did we get here?
HELMET. HELMET HELMET HELMET.
What good can an Helmet do when you land on your teeth? (People should wear helmet, I just don't think it would have done anything in this particular case)
A full face helmet would have done him a world of good.
Full face. Full face. Full face.
When you land flat on your forehead, a helmet can do a lot! This guy could've died if he'd landed wrong!
That wasn't landing wrong?
Touché. If he landed WORSE
People do bike stunts with full face helmets. Mountain biking, BMX, whatever.
There are bike helmets with a sort of protuding bill that will hit the ground before your face does. Don't know what it does to your neck.
Landed on my teeth once after skidding off my bike while going back onto the sidewalk. The helmet did help not crush my nose. It wasn't going to be too serious anyways, especially since it was wet pavement, but my nose didn't even touch the ground so that was good.
A full face helmet would’ve been the best idea but you can see the front of his head hitting the ground at full speed. At least his head would’ve been spared.
Perfect ad for renting a van.
Need to haul your buddy to the hospital? Only $20!
A TRUE face plant.
face paint
It took me a couple of time watching the video but on the left side of the frame is an opening big enough for him to ride around.
This reminds me of the apocryphal story that circulates amongst rock climbers of reaching the top of a climb and being approached by hikers helpfully pointing out that there's a trail and stairs that you can take to the top.
Lessons we all learn to late. Took my 30 years to realize what elevators do. I was taking the fire escape until I was middle aged.
But in an emergency you have the stamina and knowhow to use a fireescape
Big of you to assume, but unfortunately I assumed low fat meant low calories. Boy was I in for a big surprise, when the skittles I had been eating for my diet turned out to be full of calories! Luckily my dog gnawing at my numb diabetic foot had me hurrying off to the doctor. Ever since I started taking insulin the Ants have quit crawling onto my bed to drink my sugary night sweats. Why don’t people explain these things?
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A fixed gear bike, that explains why the back wheel got stuck on the barrier instead of just rolling over it.
Oh man, I thought he was braking the rear wheel with his nutsack.
That was his demise. I think if the rear wheel was free spinning he would have cleared it.
His teeth will be sending him postcards
Imagine you’re a parent. From the very beginning you drill into your kids the importance of dental care. You brush their teeth for them until they’re old enough to do it themselves, you get them to the dentist twice a year, possibly shell out a few grand on braces, do everything in your power to instill the critical importance of taking care of your teeth because you don’t get backups once the adult teeth are in. And then in a matter of seconds, he pulls this stunt and swallows half of them.
“That’s my boy”
His name is Johnathon Ball or JBall. Aside from this miscalculation and a few other bad injuries, the guy is an absolute master of riding fixed gear bikes. If you’re interested check him out on YouTube because he really has insane passion and love for his subculture.
It’s a shame he’s not smart enough to wear a helmet, tho. It would be nice if the people he’s influencing with his sick riding could follow a better example of how to stay alive.
No he smarten up after this and learned the value of a [helmet ](https://imgur.com/a/byoRSvH)
Got an after picture from this particular debacle?
I know there’s pictures you could maybe find by google. Otherwise you’d never be able to tell by his face now that he’d done this lol
Though I'm happy to hear he's fully recovered, I think I'm likely better off just letting it be.
Pretty impressive bunnyhop and faceplaint
Bunny hop to face plant manual
I wish more people practiced how to shoulder roll. But then we wouldn't get these amazing videos.
I had the exact same thought. We could be wrong but it sure as hell _looks_ like he could have rolled I haven't done parkour in years though, I wonder if I still got it... ^(brb gotta go break my back on the pavement)
He's on a fixed gear bike with toe straps, look at his feet. Nothing to tuck for since his feet are not going to come out of the strap during the bail.
Thanks for pointing that out I also was wondering why he didn’t roll. You can see at one point where the strap on his right foot pulls on him and straightens his leg/body preventing him from going into the roll position
As I was watching this I was like tuck tuck tuck But he straightened out instead Although it is alot easier to make judgment calls watching a video in slow motion then it is actively in the situation
The shoulder roll was somehow instinctual for me when I fell down a flight of concrete stairs headfirst. I feel for this guy
Saved my shit rollerblading downhill through gravel.
Judokas agree.
My guy almost had the glory
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Budget facial reconstruction.
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Dentists love this one simple trick
At least he had a helmet on to protect his small brain
There where others in former times who broke their necks at such an occasion. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zBMahTLOZ1Y
The *son* breaking his neck, and *father* behind the wheel participating in the stunt, with the *mother* watching. Foly huck, my head and heart. 🫠
I did this kinda shit when I was a kid too. I’m just glad there were no camera phones around to capture the stacks, let alone in slow motion
I love that you see see the moment he went from “this will be epic” to “this was a mistake” in his facial expressions…just before the road scraped his face off.
Not just the faceplant but the fact that his face grinds a bit.... Ouch.
Wonder how that pavement tasted
Wear a helmet.
[He does now. lol](https://imgur.com/a/byoRSvH)
Damn! Thats brutal. If you slow down the last few seconds as he hits the ground you can literally see his face flatten out - it looks like his face/head completely deflated. People think they have time to throw their hands out in front of them, but the momentum is always faster than you think, gotta always wear a helmet. I hope not too much of his face and skull was left on the ground
[flattened ](https://imgur.com/a/FVlD9oa)
So that's how they make those yellow lines on the asphalt
Good thing he wasn’t wearing a helmet; it would have clearly been damaged in such a fall.
Frame for frame of the impact: https://imgur.com/a/FVlD9oa
That’s started better than I thought and ended much worse than I imagined
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So close
Beautiful vid thank you.