skateboarding and running

Guess I should respond to this. Yes it can't hurt unless you fall.

Hey yeah bro. I love to skateboard it takes my mind off of running.

I hate skateboarders

Do skateboarders kick (?) with just one leg or do they sometimes alternate?

The vast majority push with the same leg almost exclusively. Even those who do alternate, have one stance, either \"regular\" or \"goofy\" which feels more comfortable and therefore takes precedence. It is someone akin to being right or left handed...everyone can use both hands, but one comes more naturally and works better.

skating will ruin your back, hip alignment and ankles.

every time u ollie, you're going up and smashing down. this all puts impact through your hips, spine and knees etc etc. i used to skate all the time, i f***ed up my ankle so bad i couldnt run for two months once.. be careful. but then again i was a street skater which meant lots of stairs an grinds, flat ground tricks.. if you're a park skater (less impact tricks) you shouldnt have as many troubles. also depends on your bio mechanics and if you've already got problems or not, because skating will only make it worse.

and you WILL fall... It happens!

If you're using a long board to get around town then maybe it's impact free, other than that you're just loopy to think like that (have you seen skating shoes? they are all padding). Although you'd have to be careful to watch for muscle imbalances as everyone has already stated to some degree, it would be a good way to strengthen your core with all that balancing and twisting with the tricks.

As a side note skating shoes feel so very good on my feet when they are sore.

impact free? please tell me how doing a switch trey flip down a 15 set is impact free? yeah start skating as cross training... then when you sprain an ankle, break an arm, or shred your knee, tell me how your run when the following day... idiot...

I skateboarded from 7th grade to 10th grade, I have never ever been injured. I had shin splints once, but at that point I had been done skateboarding for 5-6 years.

It helps. My right calf is also ridiculously strong from pushing off the ground.

if you want to be any good at either skating or running, eventually you will have to choose one or the other.

skating will bang you up. even if you are a pussy and can only do small tricks. you will fall and you will hurt your lower half in some way. training hard is a huge investment. the spills you will take trying to improve your skateboarding, will have an impact on your ability to stay healthy for running.

I skateboarding used to be my passion and running was just something I liked. Over time, running became more important to me and I decided to give up skateboarding for fear I would hurt myself. Doing 360 flips down stairs, jumping gaps and grinding rails is just too dangerous. If you're doing many flip tricks, the board is going to be whacking your shins a lot. If you're doing hard grinds, you're going to be falling a lot, sometimes on the rail. Jumping down stairs is self explanatory.

I've skateboarded here and there since I quit. I just do simple things like kickflips and boardslides. My board just broke though and I don't really feel like spending $100 on something I barely ever use.

There's really no point in adding skateboarding to running. Skateboarding is boring and dumb unless you're reasonably good at it (can land >90% of kickflips), but taking a serious approach to it will greatly increase your chance for injury. One last thing: DON'T EVER RIDE ONE OF THOSE GAY LONG BOARDS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPY8NOJ7ODY

Reid Coolsaet was a skateboarder before he was a runner.

There's video of him somewhere skateboarding a mile around an asphalt track in 3:49.

Here it is:

http://www.trackie.ca/content/interviews/interview.php?id=40

Logical answer is this. If youre trying to. Use skateboarding to transition to running, what i would do is get a longboard and simply cruise long distances. No tricks necessary. Be mindful of body posture and leg usage. Skate one day dominant foot and the next day switch sides so you dont get any imbalances. Or you can learn to long distance push, kick with one leg a few times thwn switch to do some on the other.

Julia Stamps fell off of her skateboard which resulted in two compound fractures and never competed competitively again.

Probably, you are amazed seeing skateboarders cruising on the sloping roads or in skate parks?

Depends what kind of skating. If you’re goal is to be hitting the streets and doing rails and stairs and so on then you will fall and you will end up wrecking your ankles and make knee or something at some point. It’s inevitable.

if your going to the local park and pumping around the tranny then once you learn the basics you’ll be fine. Start on the small stuff. Probably still fall a bit but its easier to build up to new things slowly without killing yourself then say saying you’re going to 50-50 a rail and then sacking yourself.

It depends on your age, frankly.

The most important skill in skateboarding is learning HOW TO FALL properly. This is significantly easier when you’re young (under, say, 15) as you have a body that can bounce back from hard slams repeatedly thus giving you more practice falling without significant risk. When you’re older, those slams grind you down more quickly, reducing your skating one and subsequently your ability to practice falling in real world scenarios. You can practice bailing off your board by skating into some grass off of the sidewalk to practice the tuck and roll needed to reduce injury. Wear padding. Doesn’t matter if Joey they 9 year old can do a laser flip down 6 stairs without a helmet, you’re not him. Also, understand no amount of practice will prevent all injuries in skateboarding - Tony Hawk broke his femur this year. I would say, avoid skating if you want to be a good runner, the risk reward just isn’t there.