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On 3/25/2021
Adam
wrote in from
United States
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Hi Bob, Thanks for checking in. All is well here in Norcal as the site presses on in its 25th year, a relic of the pre-social media era.
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A place for the dead and dying
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On 3/23/2021
BoBo
wrote in from
United States
(76.118.nnn.nnn)
It's been some years since I've been here. I used to post daily when slalom was big. I hope Arab, Chaput, Gilmour and all the rest are doing well. I'm doing fine despite the lockdowns and all that BS. You guys in Cali have it bad. Maybe it's time to leave?
Just thought I'd post something, anything. It's been a long time and this place is quiet.
Adam, I hope you are well too. Almost forgot ya.
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see dub
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On 9/27/2012
ianflemming
wrote in from
United States
(76.5.nnn.nnn)
CW editor doesn't know jacksh*t from 'good' writing to bad. He let the skatedads boss him around in the early days after he just renamed IL to CW, so fatdadz everywhere could feel safe showin their kids the mag. Brooke got into a biz that was breathing its last gasps when he started. Print advertising? You're kidding, right? Yeah, but you can't tell him that. There's always been periods of total horsesh*t in skateboarding. Hype. Hype sells ese. There wasn't any arena for a small minority of oldsters jumping back on their groove trains and trying to be relevant in skateboarding again. Thrasher sure as hell wasn't interested in the fatdads and their stories about the glory days of skating and boring the millenials to tears about it. Got so bad you'd see fatdads on their billion dollar skateboards barking like seals at any little six year old that dropped in on them ("Dude! Don't drop in on brah's, mannnn" ). So CW was a little mirror they could look in and see themselves. The problem is, they wanted it both ways. They wanted this kewl skatezine but also wanted to read the same boring stories over and over about how kewl they still were at 49 and went into heart failure in the early days of CW when some word like 'damn' showed up. And Brook cannot stand criticism, he ignored smaller vendors, he'd bait writers for stories and then not come through and even lose the work they'd done...he didn't have a clue what he was doing then. Karma's a b*tch and people, even old people, eventually grow up. Now, those who interpret 'grow up' as 'stop skating' - those were your diehard CW supporters. They couldn't tell a fruit bat from a bunghole and would swallow both if you said Alva had touched them LOL
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Dogtown
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On 8/9/2012
Dt Chick
wrote in from
United States
(69.228.nnn.nnn)
I came across a request for Copies of Concrete Wave Magazine Artilcle called Confessions of a Dogtown Girl Volume 3 #5 from 2005 that my sister Debbe Zenter (Romo)wrote about growing up in Dogtown. My sisters story was just basic history of our family in Santa Monica. Her story didn't detail the Dogbowl or Bay street @ night Parties at the Beach by Bicknell Hill and The Beach House part of the P.O.P. Amusement Park and the Backyard Parties with Bands like Suicidal Tendencies and all the Surf Flicks at Santa Monica Civic. We grew up in a good time and wouldn't trade it for anything. Wish they would have let her write more about our crazy fun times...Perhaps we will one day. Thanks~Dt Chick
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Hello I'm A New Visitor
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On 5/6/2012
Rich Monday
wrote in from
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I just wanted to say hi to all the guys and girls who make these great events happen. I am a NorCal resident and I would like to get involved in competition in my location of California. Can you contact me and instruct me on how one may begin his journey. Tell me a starting point and what ever else I may need to know. Thank you for the great and informative website here. Take care and God Bless! Rich
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Camp
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On 1/16/2012
Bjorn
wrote in from
Sweden
(83.251.nnn.nnn)
Hi
I am looking for a longboard vamp for the summer 2012
Can you help me or point me in the right direction. We live in Sweden and would like our son to go to Canada or US for a couple of weeks
Best regards
Bjorn
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Thanks for the site!
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On 1/16/2012
Doug
wrote in from
United States
(206.67.nnn.nnn)
I'd like to drop a little note of gratitude to the folks that run this site. It's really great having this window into the history of longboarding available to all of us! For the past few years, I've been on a quest to recreate some of the boards that the guys rode in the Gravity Games, and NCDSA has been incredibly helpful in nailing down the little details for my pet project.
Thanks Adam, and everybody else! I hope NCDSA can stay up for another 16 years!
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C'mon old guys - sign up
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On 11/4/2009 bob loftin
wrote in from
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Guys - seriously -- was it this dead before the change to the new system? Sign up! Adam has done a TON for longboarding, slalom, and downhill for the last 10 years. Y'all should give him some support in trying breath some fresh life into this thing.
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Web links
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On 9/7/2009 admin
wrote in from
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[quote="SamG":jlrdzw9h]Hi Adam, thought I'd found an alternative universe when this New Model NCDSA appeared. It's a little more formal than the old version, but should be good in the long term.Is it possible that web links on a posting can open up in a new window? Currently a link navigates away from NCDSA to the new address selected. Seems a shame to lead folks away from what seems to be a lot of good new work!Sam[/quote:jlrdzw9h]Thanks for the suggestion, Sam. I believe there's a setting for that and I'll try to find it and make the change.
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On 9/7/2009 samg
wrote in from
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Hi Adam, thought I'd found an alternative universe when this New Model NCDSA appeared. It's a little more formal than the old version, but should be good in the long term.Is it possible that web links on a posting can open up in a new window? Currently a link navigates away from NCDSA to the new address selected. Seems a shame to lead folks away from what seems to be a lot of good new work!Sam
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On 6/10/2009
oqwsb1elbc
wrote in from
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Hi! Ebanij vrot! r8s55flokm cwlohv5gta! http://www.planbooktravel.com.au/traveller/popov/reviews/assumed-files-of-marchment-and-mackay/ ; Chamber Of Commerce Denham Springs ; [url=http://www.planbooktravel.com.au/traveller/popov/reviews/motel-85-brisbane/]Australia Brisbane Dept Employment Police' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Click here for link ; Bye! =)
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On 2/25/2009
qzr8i8bsl5
wrote in from
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Hi! Ebanij vrot! b8tqlegkvs lnwwwau14v! http://www.viddler.com/explore/bennettlang
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On 2/25/2009
e8iyqe3383
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Hi! Ebanij vrot! nnncfz7ddg ne3h4a5t7x!
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Skateboarding + Rock'n Roll
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On 1/25/2009 Niklas
wrote in from
Germany
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Greetings from Germany! http://www.viva-la-niklas.de.tl
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Top Notch
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On 1/18/2009 Scott J. Swanson --LCB--
wrote in from
United States
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This is our second son in Iraq ending a second tour as an Infantry SGT. What a great American. http://www.defenselink.mil/dodcmsshare/homepagephoto/2006-11/hires_061120-F-1936B-067c.jpg
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Hero
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On 10/30/2008
Bill
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Ruma
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On 10/9/2008
Ruma
wrote in from
United States
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Some interestig... http://www.trys.0catch.com/joblowjo50/
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Rumus
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On 10/5/2008
Rumus
wrote in from
United States
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interesting site! visit it....
good site
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ncdsa
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On 10/3/2008 snoball
wrote in from
United States
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Adam, I know that there's a ton of time and patience involved in building any kind of forum. I tried it once and yeesh, I'd rather have ice picks driven into my eye sockets LOL It's a lot of work and many, many hours staring at a computer screen and noodling around on a keyboard when you know that no matter what you do, the peanut gallery is ready to fling their criticisms ( and yes, I sometimes occupy the peanut gallery myself lol ). I know that whatever you do will be one immense act of dedication, just as this site always has been and I hope you find whatever the coming attractions may be, gratifying to have created. I also hope you are well appreciated by the many skaters who have stuck around, those who have been given their own forums, and all of us who anxiously anticipate whatever is to come.
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A new ncdsa
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On 10/3/2008
Adam
wrote in from
United States
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snoball,
As I re-read this thread's recent past I see that another six months have slipped by on my vBulletin vows. But I have real progress to report: I've been using vBulletin on another (not skateboard-related) web site and I'm learning its vast feature set. This eliminates one hurdle from the conversion process.
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A new ncdsa
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On 10/3/2008 snoball
wrote in from
United States
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IMHO, it is chasing a chicken to go about 'filtering' or censoring people's OPINIONS in any way. For one, the importance or non-importance of anyone's point of view is subjective. For two, all arguments eventually die out. Don't like 'em? Don't read them. Just like your TV channel. Turn it or turn it off. But asking Adam to police everyone's words and thoughts is kinda juvenile.
What you find important I might not. And vice-versa. I don't think it's appropriate or realistic to expect others to adjust their opinions or manner of speaking( writing ) to my own. I kind of think if you're going to spend time filtering things, filtering images is more important than filtering out written thoughts.
That said, I do agree that a registration process is reasonable and it might be time to update the overal appearance and user interface of the site. Though, please, don't turn it into a blinking banner ad site if you can avoid it. Some sites are so grossly indulgent of that they're eye-crossing to look at.
Your site's been around a long time Adam and I hope it can kind of wake from a recent slumber and evolve into something better than your online competition out there. No offense, but I think the site got slightly 'stale' or stuffy in terms of overall 'vibe', and that's one reason that other site was able to draw off some of the crowd that used to be here. That you haven't stooped to some of their methods, though, speaks volumes about you, but maybe it's time to build a more relevant or newer version of the NCDSA site now??
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oldschool hardcore skating
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On 5/2/2008
john
wrote in from
United States
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anybody out there remember the aquaduct in hemet
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Spam
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On 4/3/2008 PSR
wrote in from
United States
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Don, what I do, just to alert Adam and readers, is 'Vote' on posts that are abusive. This alerts everyone, does the proactive thing, and kicks the Spammers in the modem...
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forum spam
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On 4/3/2008
Adam
wrote in from
United States
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Don,
You're actually only seeing the tip of the iceberg! Our server rejects hundreds per day and even forums that use logins are not immune to forum spam. I have, however, been considering migrating Ncdsa away from this homemade forum software to a commercial forum software platform like vBulletin. I went so far as to purchase vBulletin last year but have yet to find the time to install it and write the data conversion scripts necessary to get it running and support Ncdsa's existing functionality and advertising.
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