My daughter did trampolining for a while. Fucking hell that’s a broken neck waiting to happen 
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That’s not cheesy at all. If I have the opportunity to skate with my kids at any point I’ll be hyped.
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Just introduce it. My lad fell off and went mental but daughter was rolling early on.
I’m finding it difficult now because I want her to come with me but she’s like ‘nah’, sitting on her tablet watching Pink Black videos haha
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I thinking of getting my eldest, who is 5, watching some of the skating in the Olympics. If he’s into it I’ll get him a set up. Didn’t Reynolds’ daughter do something similar, started ripping, got sponsored then drop it for something else?
Yeah, Stella I think her name is. Struggled with the transition from pads to no pads IIRC.
Yeah that’s it. She ripped. There’s a video with her and Kader but I can’t find it.
Don’t want to post Berries content but she had a Bangin about 6 years ago too.
IiRC she got flowed off Element for a while.
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Think it’s towards the end of the Reynolds epicly later’d. The three of them would drive around hitting parks and spots.
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Our children need to slam and learn. No helmets or pads.
Was in Australia skating with Rodney (and @Londonskater) when he broke his neck and was paralysed from the neck down. Also an ex of mine broke a vertebrae but was a bit luckier and didn’t get paralysed only a couple years ago.
Every time my kids go on a trampoline I have to grit my teeth and look away, but those fucking things are so popular now
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I hate overcrowded bouncy castles.
Daughter broke her ankle on one last november at a kids party. Yay!
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My middle lad snapped his arm on our garden trampoline 18 months ago. he was getting really brave, taught himself frontflips and stupidly he wanted to try and somesault over my back and was getting higher. I was getting achy so I got a cane and said flip over that and he kept saying higher higher, I didn’t really move it and he was flying over it and then one go he just underrotated and landed on his forearm and the noise it made haunts me now. He was brilliant with it to be honest but it WAS scary.
You think that you’re all “kids’ll be fine, chuck down stuff, they’ll learn” but when you do have them, your mind just changes. I got up to all sorts as a kid but i’d be shit scared of my kids doing the same.
This.
I’m petrified watching mine ride a bike.
When we were at secondary school we did trampolining and a friend of mine did that thing where you stop bouncing and your legs absorb the energy, and basically his knee crashed into his mouth. Smashed up all his front teeth and was spitting bits of teeth and blood out and had to get them all built back with that colour matched filling stuff.
My boy is dyspraxic to the point they said he’d probably never be able to ride a bike. Fair play to him, he persevered and nailed it but the amount of times he would suddenly twist the handle bars 90° and eat shit was frightening…
I had to take my eldest to A&E for the first time last week. Cut his head open at school. He was fine and is all good now but it definitely put the shits up me and I did reflect on how many times my parents took me to A &E, it’s a whole different kettle of fish when you’re the parent.
So imagine if you were Sky Brown’s parents after she stacked it on Hawk’s vert ramp. If it was me I’m not sure I’d still be urging her to compete.
You probably would if you were privy to her Nike contract
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Had a 12ft round trampoline without netting in the garden for about a year. Now that was a bit nerve wracking. Replaced that with a rectangular trampoline - as my daughter did trampolining with a club for a while she does front/backflips and all that mad stuff.
AA is defo Autistic, right? I think I’ve asked/confirmed it in another thread. That grip tape is something my lad would do
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Pretty sure he’s said it himself, yeah.
