one time i was skating fast, a little rock was blocking one wheel so that what i was standing on got broke away backwards and i was in free fall and my other leg was too far back. i was falling forwards without me being able to quickly get a leg in front so that i could try to catch myself. doomed to slam to the ground at a high speed basically.
time slowed down. i had no plan on what to do in such situation so the situation was generous and gave me time to make decision. for comparison: if life was a 60fps video, i was down to about 1 frame per second. it was so slow that i could see the frames change pixels as the next frame was being constructed. i was hyper-aware, overclocked, in survival mode. i wasn't afraid. for one or two frames i was fascinated by how slow everything was but i quickly stopped wasting time and wondered what the best thing i could possibly do would be. i had the idea to fling my arms forward and then roll my whole body fowards like a wheel as to keep the momentum alive and me too. basically become sonic the hedgehog at the precise moment i am hitting the ground so that i can roll forwards until the friction of my jacket, pants and shoes has dissipated the momentum.
this was the best plan. i could not think of another option. i remember having enough time to feel optimistic about it, i believed it could work. "ok i am ready now" is what i thought as my head made me experience time a bit faster again to bring the important moment closer.
luckily it worked. exactly as i had hoped, becoming sonic saved my life. i instantly got up and checked myself if i had any scratches or head injury. there was only one scratch in my shoe but nothing in my hands, jacket or pants.
this was a life lesson how important it is not to be afraid for me because if i would not have believed that it is possible to save myself from everything, if i would have been afraid, frozen in fear and not tried to come up with a plan to survive, i would have hurt myself badly.
there usually is a way to prevent any given catastrophe that is presenting itself.
some people "fall wrong". they tend to tense up in the worst possible way at the worst time. tensing up seems to make falls 10 times worse. some people are such unconscious machines, they let themselves be driven by autopilot and autopilots always try to negotiate with gravity, thinking they can just refuse gravity by tensing.
heheh this is an old picture i made for another imageboard about skating has the nice vanlife on it, also produce ailse, my favorite aisle. it's true though
when the women see someone move their body all complicated in public, they wanna stalk. there is often annoying smartphonewomen at the skateparks unfortunately, secretly filming the skaters and posting it to their nasty groups in the normie internet.