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So have you ever hurt yourself doing something like?
So this summer i fell and messed myself up skateboarding sprained my ankle and tore my acl and had to get surgery... and now im good but whenever im skating again i dont have that feeling i use to have, seems like im more scared now to do crazy shit!

How have you over came this feeling?

See that feeling? That one that says "No, don't do that, it will result in pain!" That feeling is common sense. Don't ignore it, embrace it.

If your really determined to hurt yourself, though, you need to gradually get over your fear. Slowly do more and more tricks, increase the risk factor of your tricks and work yourself back up to where you once were.

Once while changing a light bulb I got electrocuted, now I refrain from changing them. I'll just get my mum to do it.

did you get like a affro after?

after not eating for like, 24 hours I fainted and landed right on my face. result: open chin, broken tooth and a face full of blood. I got three stitches and a fake tooth now.

I will eat more next time.

used to race.. ^^ car acceident farked up my self and my wallet.. stoped racing ^^

Used to be able to do backflips into pools, but this one time, i did it too far from the ledge and ended up hitting my ribs on the ledge of the pool. I didn't break anything, but i've been hesitant on doing backflips ever since.

I broke my two front teeth in half when i was 12 while roller blading, this summer i flipped a 4 wheeler and dove off of it, was a little sore but that was it.

traumatic experiences leave scars. If you want to get over it, keep doing it until you are used to it again. When I got in a really bad car wreck, car totaled, it took me almost 6 months before I was comfortable driving again.

I had someones teeth in my cheek after trying to head a ball with football.
And I got a cat in my face. I still love cats though.

I've almost had all the things mentioned in this thread happen, short of falling on my face.. lol

When I was first learning how to do back flips, I had a mental block that just wouldn't let me do them, but once I pushed that limit and my body realized I wasn't gonna hurt myself, it became much easier.(+ a big enough ramp and anything is possible)This was when I used to ride bikes in my younger days. Once, I wrecked pretty badly doing one and it was like I had to recondition myself to do them all over again, and it was all mental.(same for doing back flips on your feet)

I will warn you, skating with a bad ACL is probably one of the worst things you can do for your knee, maybe even worse than tennis or football. All it takes is one mess up and your knee could blow out. Depending on what they've done so far, you could end up with bolts in your knee.

On another note--- I was in a rollover accident because my co-worker was trying to get home during hurricane weather, so he could play WoW... We were on a bridge with speed limit of 45 and he was doing 75 in 15feet visibility...