Time seems to slow down when your about to die. Once your skateboard wheels leave the concrete, and you screw up the trick you are already falling. Time seems to slow down. It only takes a few seconds to hit the ground, but it feels like half and hour.
In chapter 7 of The Gun Seller Thomas Lang is riding a Kawasaki along Victoria Embankment in London, "it was after midnight and there wasn't much traffic on embankment. The road was dry and the ZZR needed a gallop, so I eased open the throttle in third gear and replayed some lines of Captain Kirk to Mr. Chekhov in my head as the universe rearranged itself round my back wheel."(97-98) The same thing happens to me when I drop in on the vert pipe, a 15 foot fall. Things fly by and stream back to the tail of my board. Everything is going fine until I olly. My feet leave the board and I hope they find it again. At first time slows a little, as I realized I was going to crash, it only slows about a hour. Thomas Lang gets it right, "Time is a funny thing." He describes a split second motorcycle crash in two pages. His description reminds me of falling on my skateboard.
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