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On 2/9/2000
Matt from Gettysburg
wrote in from
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Hey To All!
Sorry for anyone that had to endure my entry yesterday.
You have witnessed first hand what a last period high school
study hall can produce. What a state of boredom! It was
deleted, and rightly so, so perhaps you were spared, though
I was not, of my embarrassment. So sorry again to any that I
offended.
Lateron
~Normal Matt
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On 2/8/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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Pennsylvania is a big place but years ago friends of my family had a summer house at "Gold Key Lake",somewhere in the poe-can-nose. The hill right in front was huge and freshly paved they had maps of the development with those topographic lines on it and the hill was continuously ridable from somthing like 1200 to 300 ft, mellow at the top,through a couple of right angle lefts and rights, but at its best right in front and below the house we were staying at,my Banzai got some serious wobbles the first year my oak boards were better the next year but this hill was way out of my league at the time, this was long ago and I still need a rematch,I gotta look it up it was a quiet road at the time.
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On 2/7/2000
matt
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hey whats up if theres anyone who longboards in pa and knows somewhere i can bomb a few goood
hills you could e-mail me and we'll ride so do that
cool keep-skatein
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On 2/4/2000
Luke
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Hizzout: I hear that! I just set up my 4th complete and it's getting hard to squeeze in enough quality time with each. Today's commute to work was my first on: 34" Blockhead Stretch (old school) with indys and tall 92as; some close calls due to unfamiliar turning, weight, and unfortunately that slimey anti-freeze stuff Denver throws down. Hope you enjoyed the Slurpee!
hang loose
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On 2/3/2000
Hizzout
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If you have more than one board (I have 2, a S9 Cosmic 2, and a G&S 44 inch Pintail) ride all of them...OFTEN! I've been sticking to my pintail for about a month now. I decide for a short ride to the 7 Eleven I'll take my Cosmic. I'm cruising along fine, when I decide to try a couple of deep carves. Well, my pintail has torsion trucks, while my S9 has looser pivot trucks. I pull one deep carve and "superman" fly from the board. I was so used to the stiffer turning radius on my bigger board that I went a little too deep into the turn.
Just minor scratches and bumps but now I realize either:
A. ride my S9 more often
or
B. tighten the pivot trucks
Keep Carvin' Barneys....
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On 2/2/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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everything?
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On 2/1/2000 Lindsay
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So there!
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On 2/1/2000
Carlo Medina
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New Girl,
40 as in 40MPH
Skate On!
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On 2/1/2000 newgirl
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Herbn
YOU'RE 40 ?????????? Well now, that explains everything. Haha.
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On 2/1/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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Yeah that works,but if your riding aluminators or just want to save your wheels,carving out may be a better choice,How fast are you going when you wobble? whats the pavement like? ect?, a fortyfive mph slide is one thing to talk about I'm sure its possible ,I've done them verified at 40 but if your not ready ,carving out may be a safer more instantanious way out.
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On 2/1/2000
DT
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Got Wobbles?
Slide to safety, looks cool and fun to boot
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On 1/31/2000 Herbn
wrote in from
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Stopping wobbles is kind of like treating a disease, catch them early and convert them into carves, I've done this a couple of times and by catching them early, I mean real early like on the first twitches ,you may feel like a coward (a little) but it beats feeling like chopmeat.
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On 1/30/2000
Lindsay
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I have a handsome big red welt on my bum. Rained on Saturday but I
found a covered car park with POLISHED ASPHALT, with pillars
all over the place. Loosened off the trucks and got busy
with the best slalom I've ever done, leaning right over,
such grippiness. Leaned a little too far though and received
a pillar's edge. Walking a little funny now.
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On 1/30/2000 A New Guy
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Haha, the Regents. Who are they really (besides the people we write our checks too)?
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On 1/30/2000
Sluggo
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To the guy from UCSD: three words, man...stop, drop, and roll. Ha, just kidding. Stopping wobbles is kinda like saying "I was buried up to my neck at the beach and the tide was coming in. How do I stop the tide?" You see, it's not a matter of stopping the tide, it's how long you can hold your breath. Sometimes you can ride out the wobbles by hanging on for dear life and sometimes they get so bad there's just nothing you can do but prepare for a close encounter with your Mother Earth.
From one UC student to the other. Man, I just HATE those damn Regents!
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On 1/29/2000
rob k
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first thing is to bend your knees and get low. another thing that works, but looks kinda goofy is to put your arms out. it helps stablize the board. thats about as much as i know.
later,
rob
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On 1/29/2000 A New Guy
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Well, it happenned yesterday, and I was totally unprepared for it.
I was at school (UCSD, if you care), and I was in a rush to get to a physics quiz. There was this big hill that I don't usually go down because it's kinda steep, but I had gone down part of the way before without any problems, so I thought I could go down more of it without issue. So, with my randal II's a little loose (first mistake) I was going down the sidewalk (second mistake) in my normal stance (third mistake) when part way down the hill I got the wobbles (I don't know how fast I was going, it wasn't too fast, but faster than I had gone before). The wobbles started small, but quickly magnified into quick, slalom type turns. I bent my knees and tried to hold on as long as I could, but I was kicked off my cosmic 1, my left knee hit first, I then roll on my hip, my left elbow, and then on my back, and ended up sliding on my backpack down the hill for a short distance. I guy jogging up the other sidewalk saw me and came over to see if I was alright. He said that the same thing has happenned to him, great, a fellow skater! So I got up, had a nice hole in my pants and a big scrape on my need, and I went to my quiz. Kinda annoys me now that if I had been wearing pads, I would have gotten up without a scratch.
My question is, what can you do when the wobbles start (as opposed to stopping before they start by having a good stance and tightening your trucks).
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On 1/29/2000 Herbn
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Crashing is good for you,well maybe not at downhill speeds with no pads,but a good solid body plant or dive every now and again,definitely keeps you in touch with your limits and proper falling techniques. Alot of people think crashing is embarrassing and avoid it,they get better and better at avoiding it in their twenties,thirtes,forties ect. then one day they can't avoid it and bang they have some debilitating injury,from something they should have been able to roll away from, and laugh about.
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On 1/28/2000
Steve
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Aww yee. The Spankster is still around. A while back I tried pointing out the meatheads, but it just didn't feel right. Come on, give us one for old time's sake!
steve
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On 1/28/2000 Spanky Malone
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Yeah Eggman, the spankster is still riding wild and feeling frisky! Sorry bro, I have been kind of lame on spanking all these crashers, been busy selling stuff on ebay, building a shop, doing a little art work, and skating when I can. I gotta tell ya, I dig the direction the sport is going, lots of sick events, great products coming out, youngsters joining our ranks, International Longboarder Magazine is certainly THE BOMB! Good job to the brothers at that rag. Longboarding and downhilling are certainly here to stay, and thats okay. Keep the wheel side down Eggman, and that goes for the rest of you meatheads out there! Thanks for asking about the ol' Spankster, good to know that I was missed!
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On 1/26/2000
Kid Slug
wrote in from
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I was cruising down a skinny path at my college and I wanted to try a slide. Bad idea. The board was too long and the path was too skinny. Long story short: the wheels didn't break and I ended up making a very sharp turn into some bushes and down a little dirt hill.
On a side note, Tide does NOT get out all stains. I'm in the process of filing a false advertisement claim. If I win I'll donate all the money to NCDSA...or maybe not.
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On 1/26/2000
Keith Fellmy
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THAT'S BETTER
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On 1/26/2000
Terrible Leon
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Adam, speedemon, Fellmy, Bug, and all...
Thank you for your kindness, everyone. Adam, I'm sure I didn't mean to send quite so much emotion your way...I know you meant well by what you said, and I was wrong to react to your post with such haste. I regret having done so. As always, I have the utmost respect for all who make ncdsa what it is. I do look forward to 'boarding again - It'll happen in good time. I'll always crave the satisfaction of a good ride..when I was smoooth, pushing and kneading the pavement like a sore muscle.
Leon
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On 1/25/2000
Keith Fellmy
wrote in from
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Yes we all have had accidents. Some make us look like total idiots (even when we're still standing they think we're idoits) some get us hurt. THen our parents think i'm an idiot. Okay after the last wreck MY OWN KID thinks i'm an idiot. Oh God and I have another on the way. SHEEEEIIIITTTT. As long as we learn from those accidents then we are on our way to being better skaters, lugers, downhillers, etc. Did I see my name in someone else's post. Am I starting to rub off on some of you. I hope. I know most of you guys out there are young. Well I'm not that young anymore (34 to be exact) and maybe I can get one person to think about "it" before they make a downhill run that is way over their heads (AKA-ability) or not in the best interest of the public at large. THen I have done my part. I've been there-I have the scars to prove it. If my comments save some scars and pain (and possible embarassment) then i'm happy. Meanwhile happy lucky Californians-Indiana just got more snow. YUK!!!!! I miss seeing girls in shorts and lugeing. IN THAT ORDER!!!!!
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On 1/25/2000 oldskoolpunx
wrote in from
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heheh!
i konw what you mean hizzout! anytime i try to stand on a short board
i always think i can stand with my legs apart like on a long
board and do the splits as i miss the board!!
heheh!
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