Results from our group questionnaire:
Sam looked at specific colour schemes he felt would appeal to the younger generation, i believe the colours selected would be highly effective i am going to develop these into some digital layout designs as shown on my design practise blog.
Selection of typefaces i felt would work effectively for simple communication
I felt that a bold sans serif typeface would work well having a high amount of readability and legibility
as the imagery is going to be highly visual i felt to even this out a simple readable typeface would be most effective.
Pads: When skating vert ramps, it is important to wear quality knee pads to slide out of missed tricks without injuring your knees. I would recommend getting properly fitting gear from a company that makes protective gear for skating. Pro-Tec is my sponsor for pads and their pads help me to skate as hard as I like. They come in different thicknesses for different types of skating. They even have knee pads to go under your jeans.
Just to show the protective gear that is used within skateboarding all over the word:
This is also useful imagery that will be recognisable throughout our target audience:
Equipment: Make sure you have good gear. Helmets that don't fit well or straps that are not buckled will not protect you sufficiently. Get good equipment (board, trucks, bearings, and wheels). Check out the nuts and bolts to make sure your ride is in good shape. We trust our boards to take us to greater heights, so we need to be responsible to take care of them. Wear shoes that are meant for skating. Companies like Ipath make shoes that not only protect your feet with added padding but also have gummy soles for gripping the board better.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/Skateboarding/articles/index.asp?article=safety&topic=0
I have looked into the popular style of skateboarding at this moment in time
the companies that are top sellers and who so many of the kids would love to be sponsored by - favourite teams and pros skate for them.
Primary Research:
I went to the works skatepark on Tuesday night which is skate night i felt the would be a good chance to get an awareness on how many people wear protection when skateboarding i found from my research that there is a much higher percentage of skaters that wear pads for ramp skating then there are for street skating, more people wore pads when skating ramps as the rick of serious injury is much higher.
The feedback and answers i received from my interviews:
What i have found from my interviews:
I found that the injuries sustained where in areas of the body where protective gear does not protect it seems to me that getting injured come with skate boarding, you are gonna get hurt as this is part of what skateboarding. From this decided that telling the skaters to do this and that with protection i should maybe give tips on avoiding falling off.
For example on rough surfaces bigger wheels should be used to avoid falling off or the board coming to an unexpected stop.
And for beginners or skaters that are still learning the basics maybe tighten the trucks for extra stability.
Questionnaire created by the group to get some information on health and safety/injury and just an overview on skateboarding locally and in the UK, The questionnaire was handed out at the local skatepark and was also posted on "SidewalkMagazine" Forum this is the biggest skateboard magazine in the uk. This was effective in giving us the range of audience we where hoping for people of all ages.
As a group we then went onto put a questionnaire asking skaters about how long they have been skating and if they take health and safety into consideration or not
Skateboarding injuries have increased with the rise in popularity of the sport, and the injury pattern can be expected to have changed with the devel- opment of both skateboard tricks and the materials used for skateboard construction.
INJUR Y MECHANISM Nine injury events occurred when the skate- board struck irregularities in the riding surface, whereas most patients (49) cited more unspe- cific causes such as loss of balance or “just fell oV” as the mechanism of the injury. Thirty eight patients reported the cause of injury as a loss of control when attempting a jump or a trick, and five were hit by an airborne skateboard. Eight patients reported a “sudden movement” and another eight their “foot getting stuck between the skateboard and the riding surface” as the mechanism of injury. One patient was injured while holding on to a moving car to increase the speed. No injuries involved any board failure or collisions with motor vehicles (table 2). In the two youngest age groups, loss of balance was the most com- mon mechanism of injury; the older adoles- cents mostly lost control during jumps and tricks. Hitting surface irregularities caused the highest proportion of AIS 2 injuries (56%, n = 5). Failing a jump or trick resulted in AIS 1 injuries in most cases.
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