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** dumbass newbie hurts himself (of course) alert ** Skated a little bit in my early teenage years (now 28); got the urge recently and borrowed a cruisey longboard to start. Had a great first day of pushing around a parking lot and some flat roads, and a great second day of lightly cruising flat roads and some slight inclines. Went down one road too fast for me and got a little wobbly (at what seemed like not very high speeds) and had to run it off before dying. Decided today (day #3) to practice footbreaking at increasing speeds. Started doing runs down this sidewalk (not from very high up! Like from where the first parked car is.) and turning right and footbraking before the building. On my 6th run or so I lost balance and fell on my knee and now I'm lying down icing it and writing this post! Of course I'm going to hurt myself - this is skating - but any tips on getting incrementally better at speeds while minimizing injury? I don't want to go any faster than I can reasonably brake (thus the braking practice), but thinking perhaps I should spend more time cruising on flat land (getting comfortable on the board) before trying to practice skillz like this.
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