Tag: skateboarding

As Robert Thompkins climbed to the top of Green Valley Falls in September 2005, he had no idea that in a few short moments he would never walk again. He made the decision to jump off a cliff into the water below, never knowing how incredibly shallow it was. As he hit the rocks beneath the surface, he severed his spinal cord from the T12 to the L3 vertebrae. He was 25.

// Spinal cord injury isn't stopping one skater BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - A car crash last summer left 19-year-old Blake Simpson with a spinal injury and...