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Skateboarding Safety Tips
From the Consumer Product Safety Commission

Skateboarding safety tips from Publication Number 93 of the United States Consumer Products Safety Commission.

SAFETY TIPS FOR USING A SKATEBOARD
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission offers the following suggestions for safe skateboarding:

Never ride a skateboard in the street.
Don't take chances:
- Complicated tricks require careful practice and a specially designed area
- Only one person per skateboard
- Never grab onto a car, bus, truck or bicycle
Learning how to fall helps reduce your chances of being seriously injured:
- If you are losing your balance, crouch down on the skateboard so that you will not have so far to fall.
- In a fall, try to land on the fleshy parts ofyour body.
- If you fall, try to roll rather than absorb the force with your arms.
- Even though it may be difficult, during a fall try to relax your body, rather than stiffen.

Reprinted courtesy of the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission

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