Skateboard slams and bails like the ones in this video are extremely entertaining to the morbidly inclined. For some strange reason, you just can't stop watching as clip after clip show massively painful crashes.

But it makes you wonder: what happens afterwards, after the slam?

Do these kids miraculously walk away from it all and just hit the next trick without batting an eye? Or, just maybe, do they sit there for minutes or hours in agony -- maimed, compound broken-boned, lacerated, slipped disk -- while their friends have to call an ambulance or their parents? What happens at the hospital? Resetting of bones, stinging wound flushes, stitches, back immobilization?

And who pays for the mayhem? Does insurance cover it? Parents well off enough?

How long will they be out of commission? How long before they can leave the bed or get out of the crutches or that confining back brace?

The more you think it through, the more you realize something: we want to, nay, we HAVE TO LIVE LIFE ON THE EDGE, live life with some risk, pushing the envelope of the possible. It's who we are. HOWEVER, at the end of the day, the risk equation is bad and the probability of serious injury so high that the only SENSIBLE PATH is to LESSEN THAT PROBABILITY of serious injury.

No, I'm not talking about stopping the pursuit. I'm talking about taking sensible precautions, like wearing a helmet or a back protector.

Slytech has applied motocross protection technology for the snow sports space and we have every confidence that those same snowboarders who also skate, will find use for their Slytech protection gear.

This is it folks. We got this one life (as far as we know). Push your limit, but lessen the probability of serious injury while you're at it. It's not only smart, but will keep you out there doing what you love for a much longer time.

Shred protected.

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