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On 6/29/2001 Anthony
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well i am on vacation and due to certain curcumstances i was unable to take my board with me. i have been without it for a week now. i never thought that i could have feelings for an inanimate object but right now i am missing it so much. it is not just the fun that it brings into my life but also, as people have been talking about on this forum, the peace of mind that it brings me. the clarity that is achieved after a session is unmatched by anything other than maybe a surfing session. oh well my life will go on and i will be with my board soon enough.
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On 6/28/2001
Jeffs
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With apologies to Foghat, got to do this: Soul ride, take it easy. Soul ride, take it easy. Well, you know what kind of ride I'm talking about. ( I won't apologize to the Stones.)
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On 6/27/2001 Speedy
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Too true, too true! People allways say that something truly amazing was "unreal". I say "bulls***!" Of course it was real! Otherwise it wouldn't be so amazing! (Matrix, anyone?) *is happily listening to "Hey, Jude" and planing a night-time excursion over the UCD campus*
-Speedy
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On 6/27/2001
Mad Hack
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It's funny how the word reality is always attached to the negative in life. I, too, think CRAP is a better word for that aspect in our lives. I'll go one step further to say that as we get older we move further and further away from reality; the reality I felt when I was reminded of that intense all over sensory experience of carving under the trees in autimn; the reality sent running along my veins by the pictures of Hugh's sister (I, too, had a five year old sister who still talks about me teaching her to ride--memories that had escaped _me_); the absolute unadulterated glee with which I greeted my new wheels in the mail the other day (like getting the old SkateBoarder out of the mailbox, or the slides back from kodak). Remember that we don't carve _with_ soul, we actually carve out a soul for ourselves, every turn a part of the thing we call existence, the only reality that matters.
If the boss asks why you're late just tell him to get real...
MH
ps. SimFucious--nice words...
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On 6/27/2001
psYch0Lloyd
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Oh, and there is one situation where my time machine always tends to let me down...
...every time I take it to work I never seem to get there on time.
Why is that?
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On 6/27/2001
psYch0Lloyd
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Don't know what you refer to as a skateboard but my time machine has four wheels two trucks and the human interface is a three dimensional platform.
Seems like with every use the world around me changes whilest I don't age as much. Theory has it that a person on a moving object would not be as affected by time as one who is stationary. I'm not sure if it's true but people always say that I don't seem to reflect my true age.
Sometimes when I swerve a lot time/space seems to bend and increased speed is the outcome. This the magic some may refer to as the pump.
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On 6/26/2001
Speedy
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*laughs* Yeah, irony is my best friend (well, one of them...). To me, forcing the board to do just what I want isn't the ideal: It's knowing the board so well, that all I have to do is hint, ask quietly, and it will respond just the way I wish. No force- just politeness.
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On 6/26/2001
ur13
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Speaking of the "whoosh" urethane makes on pavement...
You know when you are really cranking say a toeside carve around. You hear the wheels making their "whoosh" noise and then you hear a little bit of a "phhhfffuuzz" noise (sound effects are hard to translate)...you know your wheels just let go oh so quickly and you are sliding just a bit .... with your skill rein the board back in and downweight the wheels to grip. The shear control of you over your body making the board do what you want...
That is one of those pure moments I decribed earlier. Those of which keep us coming back to the board day after day to do it all over again.
_ur13
_mail@ur13.net
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On 6/26/2001
SimFucious
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As I begin the journey down the asphalt wave,i prepare
myself for what lies ahead. Breathing deeply, hands shaking,
I begin to creep down the hill. The creep turns to a crawl,
the crawl to a cruise, and the cruise to a carve. as i fly,
the wind tries to hold me back, but can't. The only thing
that can control me,is me. I feel free. I feel pieces of
soul being left behind on the hill. I have left my imprint
on the hill. The barefoot carver lives again.
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On 6/26/2001
Hizzout
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Speedy - Pretty ironic that you prefer carving over speed, with an alias like "speedy" ;)
But I agree completely. There are a few hills around my place where speeds can get into the mid 30's or low 40's...but instead of barreling straight down these hills, I carve them....making wide arching carves, crouching down to do a drop-knee turn, listening to the "whoosh" sound in each turn, and feeling the wheels stick under your feet...all the while looking stylin' and never without a smile on your face.
"Oh baby thats-a what I like!"
Keep Carvin'
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On 6/25/2001
Speedy
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Y'know, Folks, for me it's much more important to just cruise then go fast. I don't even like it. Yeah, sure, at times everyone needs to bomb a hill... but in general I find I get much more enjoyment out of standing up, carving long, lazy turns, admiring the scenery, and getting distance, not speed. My favorite place only gets you up to a fast jog. Though you get almost a quarter of a mile straight roll. Then it gets hairy. Steep, gravel, sharp turns, bad pavement, potholes. But that first straightaway... heavenly. If you need speed, get fast. If you hate it, then don't do it. I like distance. Soul is soul is soul. Who you worship doesn't matter- it's how much you do. -Speedy
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On 6/25/2001 coll
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hey every1 thanx for all the advice and stories in response to my posts
the jerseygurl coll
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On 6/25/2001
Jeffs
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PSR, Kaspian, UR13, just like to say, amen! Been dealing with my own personal hell for about 10 years. That's not what this post is about, though. Finally got a seasons pass this year and last and made it into the double digits on the ski slopes after way to many years of not being able to go. Took my ancient Newfie (he's 12) on a skateboard camping trip ( the first one of my life at the youthful age of 41!) and had a blast! (So did he.) I'd forgotten the sheer joy of skating sand covered mountain roads, trying to pressure the turns on the clean parts and "unweighting" on the greasy stuff. I some times forget that just because I'm not doing 40mph+ it doesn't make it any less meaningful or fullfiing. The real turning point for me came when I just decide to have FUN and let everything else take care of itself. None of my problems are solved, but they seem way less important. Thank God for skateboarding!
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On 6/25/2001
CloudBreak
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LoL, got a funny story about me and some friends...outta all my friends, im pretty much the only hardcore longboarder, using the surf style and bombin hills. i get zero respect from my kick flipping friends. so one night resently, my friend made some comment on how longboarders have no balls and skills...so..being the dumb ass that i am made him a bet. i went to the top of this big ass hill, and said "keep up"....granted the hill isnt insane, but u can get a good 35-40. but liek i said im a dumbass, and forgot hes never gone anywhere never that speed. so i push off...hes following for a lil while, i look back and i see him fly into a bush on the side of the road. i couldnt help but laugh...no balls huh? whos the one that bailed
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On 6/25/2001
ur13
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All...
The only way to solve problems in one's life is to accept them, stop avoiding reality and deal with them. Some people turn to drinking, drugs, gambling, sex...whatever...things to avoid reality and make themselves feel in control of their lives. Some people do the same with skateboard, snowboards, surfing..whatever...
I skate/snowboard for the clarity of the moment. The simplicity of railing a turn on snow, seeing the pavement blur by or finally making all the cones on a slalom course. I am not using it to avoid reality, there are still problems and things I disagree with, they still exist while I am on my board(s) too. But I have a focus on my board(s), a focus on that moment, enjoying that moment for what it is.
I agree with you PSR about you being richer than a millionaire. You are in many ways because you realize why you love what you do and don't feel anyone owes you anything because it was YOU who choose to live the way you do. You enjoy you life. You have a focus that few ever achieve on anything..be it on snow (that I have seen you ride) or skate or your family. You live for the purity of those moments. Due to the way you enjoy them that purity is earned.
I see to many people day after day who hate their lives, hate thier jobs, hate their wives/husbands, hate their suburban house with 2 car garage and feel they never had a chance to live the way they wanted to. They in turn drown their lives in drinking or drugs or any number of things. They never accept the fact that it was they who put themselves there and they who can change it.
They never accept reality. That is the problem.
I think is varying degrees we are telling the same feelings here and getting mixed in the way language is used to tell said feeling.
Nothing is an escape from reality. But many things can be a focus on the purity of the moment.
_ur13
_mail@ur13.net
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On 6/25/2001
AChris
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??? What did I do?
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On 6/25/2001
kaspian
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Pre-School Rider, my fellow New Englander, speaks the truth. I'm a chronically broke writer living in a Maine coastal village full of wealthy retirees and 2nd-home summer folks. But unlike them, I am out on the local roads every day, coasting down hills, feeling the ocean breeze in my face, goofing around with my beautiful children. I've got more great boards in my quiver than my neighbors have got BMW's, and probably enjoy them a lot more.
I didn't wait till I was 65 to move here, and I don't have to toil for 10 months of the year down in Jersey or Delaware, earning the right to spend July and August in Maine.
My favorite season for skating here is autumn, when the weather is beautiful, the roads are almost empty, the village is half-deserted, and I'm in great shape from a summer spent largely outdoors. I zoom down Sea Street past locked-up trophy homes and I feel like shouting, "I OWN this fricking town."
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On 6/24/2001 Pre-School Rider
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After reading the following posts from Jersey Gurl,Craig,Ur 13,and A Chris,I've got to say this;You can't use this experience to SOLVE your woes. You can only use the flowing feel of longboarding to give the SOLACE required to deal with the CRAP that permeates one's life. I'm very lucky in life;I have no future finacially,am in debt up to my bunger,have nothing stored away for my future,my family's future,or any retirment(heck,I'm so broke,I Can't retire!)plans,BUT,I can and do Skate when things get tight. I spend absurd amounts of time riding on snow(as a snowboard instructor)and I skate to cross train for that. In this,I'm far richer than the millionaires I teach on the snow! I count my moments on ANY board as time that is blessed by powers that're beyond me. Why? Because I see folk that have NEVER had the feeling of being in total control of the moment that Longboarding a hill can bring,I see those people on a Professional Level(I mean they Pay! Me..)that are seeking some way to dial in to the hill in the way they can see I do. You can't do that unless you leave your EGO behind,and accept that the HILL rules...Play by it's rules,do the riding with enough soul,accept the SOLACE of providing for your own fate a millisecond at a time,and you can leave your daily CRAP behind you,somewhere out on the road,or hill... Just RIDE!!
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On 6/24/2001
Speedy
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Wow... I haven't here in a while, but I'm glad I came back. I allways come back. I'm one of those people who live away from hills and good pavement, so I only ride a few good hills a year. Yet I keep my board. And I love it. Nothing like flying, folks, nothing like flying. It's allways an inspiration to come here. Thanks for doing what you all do. Love to all -Speedy
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On 6/23/2001
psYch0Lloyd
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jerseygurl: Tough words but they do ring true. BTW, check out my latest post in the slalom forum.
You might take the girl out of jersey but you can't take the jersey off the gurl...
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On 6/23/2001 craig peterson
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I agree with you Jerseygurl. But don't underestimate longboarding's ability to help put people into the frame of mind that changes insurmountable problems into welcome challenges.
I was feeling so much like an elastic band that's been wound into a gruesome little rubbery knot that when my first-ever longboard arrived from solidskate I didn't even want to open the box. I did of course. But, almost sick with stress (thesis, writer's block, impending deadline) the joy of the moment of first beholding my new stick was lost on me. And driving out to a deserted road where I had long planned to try my board for the first time, I even felt regret over my decision to buy it.
Forcing my self to focus on the moment, I pushed off on my inaugural ride. The momentum generated by the first push-off carried me--or I should say the bitter-brained, furrow-browed, shrivel-hearted thing I had recently become--far past the point where I would have thought (recalling the days of my 27" G&S Fibreflex, abandoned almost two decades ago) it necessary to foot myself some more forward momentum. That first, improbably long flight beguiled my mind with the magic of longboarding. It felt as though a spell had been lifted, or as though I had become dispossessed of an evil spirit. Worry sloughed off my mind. I was surprised to feel myself smiling. I tried some little wriggly slalom type turns. Woah! Snap!Snap! I actually gasped. Then laughed at having gasped. No one heard me laugh. Except me of course. I was back.
Longboarding: a short trip from grue to groove.
craig
PS. The reason that impelled me even to try out the board the day I got it was due to the many stories people have posted here of their own experiences of the stress-relieving magic of soul carving. I thought there might be a chance it would work for me. It did. Thanks, everybody.
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On 6/23/2001 jerseygurl
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longboarding doesn't fix all ur problems though...doesn't make everythin all better
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On 6/22/2001
psYch0Lloyd
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Yeah Coll, I've always thought of women as the greatest motivation to skate; and now that I'm married, it really has saved me money on couples counseling. One good turn deserves another...
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On 6/22/2001
CloudBreak
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coll, i know exactly wut u mean...;)
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On 6/21/2001 Coll
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Anyone else understand this feeling i'm talkin about...how when after u get in a fight with someone, or are upset about something, u go out and skate, at nite when its cool and quiet, its so relaxing. By the time you get back everything seems 100 times better no matter how bad it was b4.My best friend introduced me to longboarding a few months ago...i can't thank him enough, i've found somethin new i luv to do!- thanx babe- luv ya 4ever always and then some.
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