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Yosemite
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On 12/24/2005
Mac
wrote in from
United States
(207.200.nnn.nnn)
how steep is the decline? Is that the tunnle that when you come out you have the view of El Cap and 1/2 dome?
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Garage session with the MILE HIGH ROLLERS
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On 12/22/2005
Mac in Denver
wrote in from
United States
(65.221.nnn.nnn)
6:00 Friday at our usual garage. Anyone need directions please e-mail me
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Hey Pat from SF
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On 12/21/2005
Mac
wrote in from
United States
(65.221.nnn.nnn)
There is a good longboarding scene here in denver and some good "hills" We post all our sessions on The Silverfish forum under the Events and sessions section. All usually are under the heading of Mile High Rollers...
Email me and I will fill you in we are allways up for fo;ks to join our group. Welcome to the Mile high city!
Mac
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Always Summer on the Inside
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On 12/17/2005
Norski
wrote in from
United States
(66.81.nnn.nnn)
Chainsmoker,
The Wawona Tunnel is a highway tunnel, 4,230 feet (1.3km) in length, bored through rock and completed in 1933, through which Highway 41 enters Yosemite Valley. I attend a conference every year in the valley right around Thanksgiving. When I started boarding again, five years ago, I decide to make a Tunnel Running tradition! This mother is lit up like daylight 24/7. This year it was bone dry! Some years when there's been a lot of snow, the top and bottom get some water tracked in from vehicles. I always wait till 10pm or later for the assault, so there's hardly any traffic. Usually two or three runs, thats about all this oldtimers legs can take. This was the first year for a bust, at the end of the second run, there were Park Police waiting at the bottom. They didn't quite know what to say when this 50 year old skateboarder asked them what laws had been broken (bikes and pedestrians are allowed to pass through)! Our offense, was that we used both lanes in our decent - obstructing traffic. I respectfully informed them that there was NO traffic, and that we had to use both lanes to safely check our speed. They saw the obvious smiles of joy on our faces from running the nearly mile long tube, and were a little envious I think! After checking our DMV and rap sheets, we were released with just warnings. It pays to be polite and respectful, we were also fitted with saftey gear (helmet and full pads). Next year we run later I guess!! If anyone is headed for Yosemite, don't forget to take part of your quiver. It's a great ride anytime of the year!
L8r SK8rs'...Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas
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Hey Denver
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On 12/16/2005 scottbomb
wrote in from
United States
(64.174.nnn.nnn)
Denver - I used to live out there and took a hiatus from skating at the time. Since many of us longboarders have come together in the Sacramento area and then next best thing is scoping out the parking garages in town. Late nights seem to be best. Some are incredible with endless bombing sessions down 10 stories and an easy elevator ride up. Just get ready to jam from the fakin bakins ;-)
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know skateboading
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On 12/15/2005
chainsmoker
wrote in from
United States
(72.20.nnn.nnn)
it's official, with the second significant snow fall comes the arrival of winter. sure, you can ride a snowboard or even sled down a freshly powdered hill, but it just isn't the same thing. i long for the smell of hot tar on a new back road, or the burnt stench of sparks from a frontside slappy. the sound that can only be heard at midnight caused by 78a wheels gripping worn out macadam is but a fading memory that will rejuvenated as soon as the icy dust has melted away. the private ramp facility is also no more and the indoor winter sessions that kept the stoke alive have come to a close. there is a light at the end of the full pipe though. sooner than later i hope to be meandering through concrete buildings and ripping up asphalt alley ways with my plywood dagger and causing a silent destruction that would be greatly envied by the ninjas. only three more months til spring. keep the fire burnin' and maybe we can melt this sucker.....................ride on
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Working late, 10 mins to go
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On 12/14/2005 Andy
wrote in from
United Kingdom
(193.129.nnn.nnn)
I can always find inspiration on this board. Im working late, with no work to do, browsing the longboard chat. And here it is. I read through this board and i always get a slight chill though my skin, cause I can almost feel how it is to skate. Im making plans. I've got half a cheese sandwhich in my bag i can eat for energy, so i won't have the problem of having no food in my cupboard when i get home. Forget sitting down on the sofa with my housemates. Its DRY outside. The air is crisp. I can picture my venue.
Im going out to this massive wide and long carpark situated in the middle of a big hill. It's out of town so theres no police worry, it's empty and lit.
Im gonna drive out there are rip that hill to peices, then im gonna carve it up and let every worry and every frustration flow out of my through those red power paws as they tear across the tarmac on my home made beauty. Im sure my face will be cold. but that will add to the feeling. Making something beautiful out of the surrounding cold hard world.
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Chewtoy's Post
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On 12/14/2005 Kendall
wrote in from
United Kingdom
(195.12.nnn.nnn)
I'm with you dude, I started longboarding last year after years of shortboarding, I haven't looked back since. Sliding, carving and cruising are a great way to chill. I'm 34 and reckon longboarding is prolonging my life. Take them into bowls and you open up another avenue.
Keep at it dude.
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Denver
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On 12/13/2005 pat
wrote in from
United States
(207.93.nnn.nnn)
i'm from san francisco and have been longboarding/skateboarding for quite a while now. now i go to school in Denver and i cannot find any hills that challenge me at all or are very much fun. if anyone knows any, please let me know. thanks
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Stoke me till I'm sore
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On 12/13/2005
chewtoy
wrote in from
United Kingdom
(62.252.nnn.nnn)
About 7 or 8 months back I decided to get back into skating after about a 15 year break. I dug out a shortboard that I bought about 4 years back but never really used and started skating to the station when commuting to work. It was fun in a way, but the constant pushing due to the low roll distance of tiny park wheels would probably have led me to hang the board up again after a couple of months.
Fortunately a work colleague of mine was a weekend longboarder. He spotted me rolling down the hill to the station one evening and told me that he had a deck I should try. A couple of days later he presented me with a Fibreflex 44" kicktail deck with R180s and Krypto Classics. The second I stood on the board I felt the stoke; and that was how I got hooked.
Unfortunately a couple of months he moved on to a different job and took the deck with him. It only took me a matter of days to have a new deck ordered (a flat 46" pintail that's too spongy for my weight; but that doesn't matter when I'm rolling). Since then there's been no looking back and with the addition of some Holey trucks and 78A Gumballs I am starting and finishing every day on a high. No matter how much financial or stress related issues may get me down during the day, the Stoke of carving Egham hill, or pumping across the station car park lifts everything away.
I'm now 30, and counting the days to Christmas more eagerly than my 4 year old son, because I know that my wife has bought me 2 boards - a 58" soul cruiser and a 38" sliding deck - and I can't wait to unwrap them and take them for a blast.
Not really sure what the point of this post is other than to say that I'm new to longboarding and I feel priviledged to have found my way here :)
Russell - Feeling the stoke to my core every day.
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post again
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On 12/13/2005 MissouriMatt
wrote in from
United States
(128.206.nnn.nnn)
I wanted post 1964. It's the year I was born. I set up in the nursery at the hospital and started eye-balling the wheels on the gurnies.
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stoke
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On 12/13/2005 MissouriMatt
wrote in from
United States
(128.206.nnn.nnn)
Ghooste is right about the soul. Ride for the love of the ride.
It seems like years back when I first started checking out NCDSA there was much talk of stoke on the Soulriding forum. Maybe all the islands of stoke were just discovering the universal nature of the longboard rush and there were lots of sk8ers eager to express it with short stories, poems etc. I miss the pure expression of stoke, whatever it is. I miss reading about one riders few of the pavement as they drag a hand and set up for the next carve, or a peom about a night ride, or an afternoon of carving it up on a snow covered street, or too much speed to be barefoot but getting away with it. Is there a new wave of riders discovering the stoke? NCDSA has become of less interest to me. Mostly cuz I've got my gear figured out and 25 soulriding posts takes you back 6 months. It's all about the frikken STOKE!
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Soul is
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On 12/5/2005 Ghooste
wrote in from
United Kingdom
(193.113.nnn.nnn)
Soul is skating with your bretherin and sharing the stoke
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the book sounds good
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On 11/26/2005
chainsmoker
wrote in from
United States
(24.115.nnn.nnn)
the book sounds like a good idea. are there any deadlines? format? b/w? color? would there be a photo section or would they be incorporated within. i remember years ago someone was going to try to do a book of skaters and their artwork, i don't think it ever happened. skaters and their artwork is all the rage nowadays but skating expressed through written words is often left to whiny kids writing letters to magazines or the biographies of x-games vert champions. it would be good to hear the tales of the everyday guy or girl who has been doing this forever not as a pro but as a worker, parent, spouse, artist, etc. i would be more than stoked to contribute to this project and read the final product. thumbs up on this idea.
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Short Stories needed for "Lives on Board" book
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On 11/25/2005
Jack Smith
wrote in from
United States
(66.82.nnn.nnn)
I've been thinking about this for a few years and have finally decided to actually do it.
I'm going to self-publish a book titled "Lives on Board". It will be a collection of short stories and photographs expressing the influence that skateboarding has had on our lives.
You are invited to submit your stories and photographs. Please send them via email to:jack@justpushplay.com
Formats:
Stori es in Microsft Word
Photos - 300dpi in either .jpg or.tif
Thanks, and I look forward to seeing your stories and photos.
All the best,
Jack Smith
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AZ
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On 11/22/2005
curtis
wrote in from
United States
(24.121.nnn.nnn)
just a heads up for anyone down for a beautiful carve road. Snowbowl rd. flagstaff AZ, 7.5 miles long and drops 2,000ft vertical. Ie been riding under the full moon just cruising with my best friends, last ride we stopped halfway because when the trees opened up the view was so incredible with the moon lighting up the land below. i had this feeling inside of me that only longboarders can ever understand. This is my favorite feeling i have ever felt.
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flying
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On 11/20/2005 bobby
wrote in from
United States
(24.189.nnn.nnn)
Me and my friend...middle of november...cruising through the backroads of southampton NY next to a golf course. Newly paved, just flying. We approach a hill. It towers above us...We're so stoked. Skating as fast as we can up the road, crisp fall air stings our face. At the top of the hill we have a great view of the highway 100 yards down the road, and the golfcourse stretched out infront of us. The only sound is the wind rattling through the trees. Leaf's scratch along the pavement. No cops, no parents, no school, no people...nothing except us, the hill, my board, and the wind. No cars today, no traffic watsoever. I pump as fast as i can, the wind makes my eyes tear. With each pump I accel faster, it's amazing. I enter a dreamstate. I don't know what's happenin, jus a long stretch of blacktop speckled with leaves. I'm flying, faster than anything. I tuck down low and i'm just carving my brains out. I'm flying 30 mph. No cars to worry me. I've entered nirvana. This is what i want to do for the rest of my life it seams, this is what brings me back for more. I'm flying faster now, carving from one side of the road to the other, between each lane i cruise. I weave through the leaves, as if they were slalom cones. I then tuck down real low, my arms behind me, my head pushing out beyond the tip of my 40". I reach the end of the hill...i cruise to a stop and turn around to see my friend just bombing his heart out. He's flying. He reaches me and we high five. We're so stoked.
This is what keeps me coming back for more everyday after school.
this was one of my greatest sessions
RIDE ON!!
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soul searcher
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On 11/8/2005
chainsmoker
wrote in from
United States
(72.20.nnn.nnn)
a brand new month and a brand new set of wheels. another nighttime melee. the 1/2 moon provides the only light and as i hang ten i look down and see nothing but the toe caps of my worn out all-stars. i could convince myself that i'm flying. i come to the top of a semi-steep slope and i dive down into the unknown where my fears flee and i begin to become myself as the trees whiz by in an un-familiar blur and the only tears on my face are caused by the 30 mph force of north central PA air upon my drying contact lenses. i exist and i exist alone at the present moment. somewhat of a time warp, a break in the continuum. it is here that my spirit leaves my body and celebrates it's escape. the body keeps rolling as if it were engaged in its natural locomotive state. zigging, zagging, cut back quick and then slow like a renegade electron bouncing around the nucleus as the atom just "is." when my spirit has had enough and the body needs nourishment they once again join together like hesitant lovers and a calming buzz fills my skull. my pulse can seen in my eyes, my thoughts can be heard by passers by. as my respiration once again becomes "normal" i return to this zone of normality, mediocrity, and the mundane.
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Soul posts
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On 11/3/2005 MissouriMatt
wrote in from
United States
(128.206.nnn.nnn)
Always nice to read some good soul posts. Thanks for the smell of gum trees, hands on the pavement and cold air in the lungs.
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Quitting Smoking
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On 11/2/2005 betty
wrote in from
United States
(72.149.nnn.nnn)
It feels like...
the first cold front of fall...
getting up early to let the dogs run...
grabbing the longboard to cruise around the block...
and icycles forming in my lungs...
as I skate in thirty degrees...
uphill both ways...
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its fun to play in the road
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On 11/1/2005 the finklestein s#@!kid off to military school
wrote in from
United States
(216.9.nnn.nnn)
lay yer hand, float and glide
makes you all feel good inside...
them good vibes they'll never fail
when you keep wheels side down and never bail!!
skate on my bros..
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Soul baby
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On 11/1/2005 Mungo
wrote in from
Australia
(203.220.nnn.nnn)
Soul is surfing the Carols Cutting at twighlight on a friday night and its still 30c. Smell of gum trees and the strains of John Butler Trio from my mates car. I love Australia.
Have fun guys.
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Soulsliding
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On 10/17/2005 AenGhooste
wrote in from
United Kingdom
(193.113.nnn.nnn)
Yeah pumping is just carving like a fish and rotating the torso to add motion to each carve, you rotate the torso so that your lead hand is moving in the same direction as your board as you cut back intowards the center line of your travel.
Yesterday we hit the slopes for some autumnal slipperieness and had a flash bulb moment of soul that etched the fabric of my memory. We were sliding thru the leaves at the edge of the road, getting the back end thru the leaves an pulling manuals.
We piled up the leaves into a heap about 2-3ft tall and took the hill at full speed, there were alot of kids watching so I hit my tuck as I hummed toward em. As I approached the pile I got the wobb's but it was as I placed my hands down so luckily they just confirmed the need to commit to the slide. I layed back and popped the nose, tweaked the tail out and hit the leaves like a freight train nailing a dense forest at the end of the line.
Snap shot point-of-view, the image of my board with its nose in the air at my feet leaving trails of leaves in its wake, small eddies swirling at the edge of those spaces between leaves.
Then I was ripped back to the now with the need to finish the move the other side =)
Lovely.
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messed up
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On 10/4/2005 tom t
wrote in from
Canada
(66.241.nnn.nnn)
I think many people posting on this site are inexperienced riders...we all gotta start somewhere...but getting messed up is no good, and believe me, it can happen even at very low speeds. Keep your 360 vision on all the time and don't skate in traffic...the risks are not worth it. Get up extra early or go out extra late, when there's fewer cars...and wear pads!!
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cars
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On 9/27/2005 mike
wrote in from
United States
(68.184.nnn.nnn)
cars aint to bad till you lose control and fall while your going 30 thats what happened to me i got messed up
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