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Skating & Injuries

As a Streetboarder you have to handle injuries from time to time. In the past three years, i collected serveral. Started with a broken hand, ripped verses to a broken tailbone, a double-broken sacral bone, a light disc prolapse and at last i broke my right wrist and got some titan plates in it. It never was recklessness, i just bought misfortune in a family-pack.

Now, after the operation on my hand, i can't move it, as i could before - it's nearly stiff. Well, and if you sit around the whole day with nothing to do except standing the pain, you start to think about a lot of things. Is it worthy to destroy your body for the fun of streetboarding? Skating, especially streetboarding means a lot to me. I really don't know what sport i could do, if there wouldn't be any streetboard. In my opinion it is the best way to blow your stress away. I like the way how you are concentrated while skating. No space for anything in my head, execpt the next trick. The fun you have with your friends while filming or taking pictures is just a nice addition.

As i said, after all these injuries i think about quitting. While my heart is still skating, my head tells me that i have to quit. I don't want it, but on the other hand i dont want to be a cripple in a few years.

If the rehab gets the stiffness away from my wrist, i think i will give another try. True to the motto: "You only live once". But what would you do?