Table 4

Proportion of successful tricks (1.0 would indicate every trick was successfully completed) and the mean (M) and standard deviation (SD) for fall severity scores (max=6.0), collapsed across ages (n=540)

ContrastsSuccess
M (SD)
Severity score
M (SD)
Features
Flat ground†0.38 (0.37)4.28 (0.74)
 Quarter pipe0.66 (0.37)*4.42 (0.81)
 Grind box0.30 (0.35)*4.44 (0.78)
 Ramp0.61 (0.40)*4.43 (0.80)
 Railing0.20 (0.33)*4.86 (0.57)*
 Stairs0.55 (0.45)4.49 (1.30)
Tricks
Jump‡0.63 (0.39)4.26 (0.88)
 Flip0.16 (0.29)*4.74 (0.54)*
 Lip0.65 (0.43)4.41 (.93)
 Turn0.85 (0.30)*3.76 (0.74)*
 Slide0.29 (0.37)*4.09 (0.92)
 Stall0.65 (0.42)4.53 (0.76)
 Other0.97 (0.46)*4.61 (.62)*
  • *Significant contrasts, determined via Wilcoxon signed-rank tests, are at p<0.05.

  • †Only the top six popular features were contrasted, with flat ground set as the standard.

  • ‡Tricks were collapsed into groupings for contrasts, with the jump group set as the standard.