Seattle skateboarder who suffered traumatic brain injury urges Olympic skaters to wear helmets
KING 5 Seattle3 skaters recommend it · 3 mentions, 2024 to 2025
20K views · 5 years ago · Other
KING 5 Seattle news report from 2021 on Ryker, a skateboarder with a traumatic brain injury, who urges Olympic street skaters to wear helmets. Helmets were optional for adult competitors at Tokyo.
Why skaters like it
Gets posted in r/NewSkaters helmet threads, including when a parent asks how to convince a teenager to wear one. It is not gory, but it shows how a small head injury can change a life.
“… It’s not gory but a small bump to the head can ruin your life.”
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What skaters said on Reddit
I once completely busted my head open while ollieing from bank to bank. I don't even know what damage I did to my brain, but luckily I fully recovered. I thought it was "funny and cool" at the time (I was 16 and dumb). Later I saw videos like this and realised how lucky I had been: [VIDEO]
Does this help? Seattle skateboarder who suffered traumatic brain injury urges Olympic skaters to wear helmets [VIDEO]
Show him this [VIDEO]. It’s not gory but a small bump to the head can ruin your life.