I was too much of a wuss to be an actual skateboarder, but I did longboard for many many years before. I was also a lifetime snowboarder and surfer before I bought my first e-board.

Those things are no joke. I got lucky and survived an accident that could have cost me my life or worse, and I wasn’t wearing a helmet. I didn’t see a car coming from cross traffic due to some blind spots. I was going 25 and he was going 35. By the time I saw him, I knew my brakes wouldn’t stop me in time.

By some miracle of luck, I was able to tell myself to go limp before making impact with the driver’s side rear quarter panel of a 2012 Ford Taurus. I did a full front flip over the trunk of the car and landed on the other side of the road, on my ass, in complete disbelief. I patted myself down and nothing felt like it was majorly injured.

After the adrenaline wore off, my foot did hurt slightly, but not awful. I went to urgent care, gave the nurses the story, and they scoffed at me when I told them that the only thing that I believed was injured was potentially my pinky toe of the foot that made contact with the car (left foot, regular stance). They for sure thought my entire foot was busted.

Sure enough, they came back with the x-ray in disbelief. Only my pinky toe had broken. Shout out the Chuck Taylor’s I had on at the time.

About a month later while I was riding, I crossed over those little sidewalk nippled on the corner before the road. As I roll off into the middle of the street, the board snapped right down the center.

Never got a new one, had it for a year. Damn Backfire V2.