Snapped my humerus in two about 2 years ago now. The confidence comes back, be patient with yourself and keep the fire burning. Be religious about physical therapy, bring it home with you. And don’t be an idiot and prematurely skate and go breaking it in half a second time like I did, hah!

I had a bad anxiety experience yesterday trying to skate, I think I'm going to slowly make the sessions longer.

Feel better man :)

broke my elbow a year ago. did hurt for a whole year. same pain level as on the day after surgery (only 1-3/10 NRS but pretty consistently) for 12 months. I still feel it every day. but hey, people can live with that stuff. sure, it is no fun. but who cares. I live. I skate. with time, you'll find a way.

BRO YOU AMAZING THANK GOD YOU RECOVERED

You will inspire more people than you know.

Hey Zack! Starting to get into some more DIY and wondering if you could make a video, short, or even reply/comment on some of your most useful tools or what you would recommend beginners who are just starting to get into DIY start with (I.e. a power drill, a hammer, a measuring tape, a finishing trowel, etc.) For instance, if we were to open your ideal "toolbox" when you were just starting out DIY stuff for both cement and wood, what would it include, and when and what for would you use each tool for? Thanks so much, man!! Love your videos!

Stay strong man... Had to face serious health issues myself and know what it is to be bed/couch bound and how destructive it is on the body... Take good care of yourself

Glad you're getting around, that's no joke man! PMA.

Try 14 years .. after knee surgery I was F…ed. I started skating about a month ago and it’s been the hardest thing I have ever done. I had to re learn skating almost. I can’t even drop in and I used to Ollie garbage cans and skate anything. Now I’m aiming low these days. Honestly I’m just happy to carve the bowl and ride transitions.. it seriously feels so good to just carve the bowls and do small Ollie’s over the hips. Nothing crazy. No kickflips or any flip for that matter lol. I will say it took time ,I couldn’t even roll in off a curb it was serious but I kept on and it’s all coming back now. I skated since 14 and now I’m 50 and feeling great. Skateboarding has saved my life again ! My mood has improved I feel physically better .

@@michaeljohn8905 I feel you

"no skate = depression" if that's true then skating is a mental illness to be avoided at all costs.

nah you just didn't get his point @@jimbeam-ru1my

no skate = find a replacement

I am 49 and took up surfing. I started skating in '88 and quit in '96 or so.... I started missing those days but realize i'm getting a little old so i went looking into surfing. It's not as easy as it looks but we have the ballance which comes easy and that's a BIG help. I've been in the water only a few times but already surfing waves so it is a really awesome transition and it feels like the brother or sister of skateboarding. And it's FAR less painful ! But there's more fear that comes into play.

Haha, truth

Damn hope your feeling better! I was out a total of 6 months this past year, Tore my PCL out for 3 months healed up started feeling good again on the board and within a month tore my MCL and down for another 3 months… Back on the board again now and easing into things gonna keep this knee brace on for a while injuries suck especially knee injuries!

Much love! Stoked you're back in the yard scratching!

im in a similar boat. fractured my ulna head (elbow) 2 weeks ago. i was going pretty fast in a bowl and hit a pebble. the direction i was going etc i dont know if there was anything i could have done to land better, but in the past i have been bad at falling. and this happened from catching the fall with my arm straight-ish. i think before i go back to skating im going to practice rolling into the grass and falling off the skateboard and rolling out of it. i need to practice that parkour shoulder roll thing. i dont want this injury to happen again. ive been out of work 2 weeks and now im back and the work load has piled up and im only able to get a quarter done i used to. plus only having one arm has sucked. plus i had already booked annual leave over christmas. just bought a trailer, got a towbar installed on my car, and finished rebuilding my dirtbike. so i have been waiting for that moment all year. longer really. so i better be healed by then, lol. im pretty sure i will be though. p.s - when skateparks have wood chips/ bark/ pebbles in them for decoration i get angry. especially now it has led to my current injury. i hope the council knows how many skaters they injure when they decorate skateparks with these things.

​@@socks2441 I wish you a speedy recovery! There is never a good time to get injured. It will take some time for the fracture to fully heal and may require physio but you will be back to normal eventually. I've been told that full recovery may take a year. I do hate when skateparks are surrounded by wood chips (as in my local skatepark), they always end up on a surface and are super annoying and dangerous. Pebbles are the worst especially if they end up in the bowl!

I think my wrist healed in about 6 months..but to really fuse takes about 15 years..broke in 2006 (roughly)

Thanks homie - slowly, but surely building confidence.

i broke that bone from a skating injury too no fun :(

same, scaphoid is one of the worst bones in your body to break. Its a bugger to heal. I was in a cast for 3 months.

Gnarly! Ya, injuries are hard to self diagnose

LOL same! 8 weeks in a cast for what seemed like a "small" fracture @@cooganbeggs4942

Yessir

You got it!

@@ZackDowdy thanks brother🙏