has anyone ever died wakeskating

craphappy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 117 City: vicksburg

????????????

junglesmacks · Posted: Jul 14, 2008 10:49 am Post subject:

..and gone to heaven?

Yeah, it's happened to me a couple of times..

craphappy · Pop Shuvit Joined: 12 Jul 2008 Posts: 117 City: vicksburg

did it hurt Question

Slapdown · Kickflip Joined: 20 Apr 2005 Posts: 4240 City: Austin

Yeah a couple years ago there was a news story about some kid who drowned in very shallow water, being pulled by like a 4 wheeler or something like that in a roadside ditch.

kornhouse · Posted: Jul 14, 2008 11:29 am Post subject:

some kids have died from amoebas but that isn't directly relating to wakeskating. i know for sure that wakeboarders have died doing raleys and stuff. i'm sure someone has died wakeskating,or else they wouldn't need warning labels Smash

gnargnar · Guest

my love for wakeboarding died Sad

LFArmada · Backside 180 Joined: 05 May 2008 Posts: 631 City: tucson

brassmonkey · Posted: Jul 14, 2008 11:49 am Post subject:

Are you trying to decide if you are going to start wakeskating or something?

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Jul 14, 2008 3:32 pm Post subject:

Slapdown, wow really?! thats serious! damn.

fastgreens · Kickflip Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 3563 City: baytown

SwissArmyKnife · Pop Shuvit Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 152 City: PawPaw

i came close a few months ago...got bonked in the head with the skate, not wearing a life jacket, woke up tangled in weeds. scary stuff

WEAR A VEST!

Parker · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Oct 2007 Posts: 1731 City: Norman

i recall a story about a kid with no vest getting knocked out by his board and sinking

JB_CANSKATE · Posted: Jul 14, 2008 7:51 pm Post subject:

I remember a long time ago someone said that some guy broke his leg wakeskating then got an infection or something like that and died from it.

righteous · Backside 180 Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 679 City: orlando

kornhouse, warning labels dont start as soon as some one die's, there for lawsuits and good hearted shenanigans

col101 · Guest

cheapskate · Guest

col101, agreed

soy escuala · Backside 180 Joined: 16 Jan 2006 Posts: 2248

The kid who died ditchskating got sucked into a colvert and drowned.

The guy who broke his leg was actuall an older guy who split and broke his femur and died from internal bleeding at the hospitol.

And if you wanna know the truth, all wearing a comp vest does is give you confidence, if you get knocked out with one on, chances are you're going to die.

Cory kraut was a pro wakeboarder back in the day who got knocked out without a vest and drowned, there was an avid wakeboarder in louisiana who died not even a year ago on the river me and the bayou boys ride everyday, and guess what? He was wearing a vest! And he still sunk!

But hey, that's with anything... A lot of people die skating and riding bmx too, I almost died twice on a bike... I actually almost died a lot of times just living, doing normal things. That's all part of life.. Death doesn't ask.

gnargnar · Guest

i think they call it sarcasm,

i dont miss the rubbers

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10756 City: Jefferton

One guy who broke his femur was recovering but he ended up with a blood clot (thrombosis) that broke loose and that's what killed him. It might be the same story as above...but it happened in 2004 or so.