Tips to Prevent Serious Injuries to Avoid Long and Painful Hospital Stays

Whether you like or not, skateboarding is a painful sport to learn. You will eventually fall when you are learning and you will also get hurt a lot. Although wearing helmets and pads can help reduce the damage, you will still feel pain and get some bruises and scrapes from hitting the pavement.

This is why it is very important to know how to fall and get yourself back up and try again in the world of skateboarding.

The single most important thing that you should remember is that when you fall never catch yourself with your hands. It may take quite some time to get used to as it is your instinct to catch yourself, but it is still very important to learn not to do it.

Catching yourself with your hands whenever you experience falls is a great way to break your wrists. So, in case your skateboard goes flying off and you are falling, try to get your shoulder and your body to absorb the impact. These body parts can take a lot more punishment than your wrists and it will also minimize the risk of serious injuries.

When you fall, roll with the blow as much as you can. This will decrease the shock of the impact and also minimize injuries.

You may get some bruises on your body but you have to remember that bruises are much better than having a broken wrist. Even if you use wrist guards when you go skateboarding, it is important to teach yourself to not use them to catch yourself during falls. At some time in the near future, you will be skating with no wrist guards.

It hurts when you fall. So, what can you do about it? The best thing that you can do is get up if you can, walk around, and shake it off.

In skateboarding, broken bones are very common. If you think that you are hurt bad or you've broke a bone during a fall, it is important that you get it checked out by your doctor. You don't want the bones to heal wrong.

A lot of people who try out skateboarding get discouraged easily when they fall. If you love the sport of skateboarding, then you should expect to get hurt, especially if you are a beginner.