How does a skateboard prevent damage when jumping off a high ledge but without it, you’d probably hurt something?
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It does still hurt. You will notice skateboarders will use their quadriceps and knees to absorb the vertical kinetic energy built up by the fall as well as the wheels and board as a very small bit of cushion, and they don’t trip because the horizontal momentum is mostly maintained in the landing.
This is coming from an engineer who used to skate a lot, but I’m really not 100% positive if my intuition on this is correct. I’m sure someone will come in and roast me on this lol.
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