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On 9/6/2001
MAXinMaine
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When I started riding 30 years ago there were practically no other boards, let alone riders in Maine. Consequently there were no parks or other modern influences. What there was, was kiing in the winter. There are many sweet hills that can be linked up in different routes around here. These were my summer ski areas. I'm still at it (with much nicer axes!!!) & I guess my cruising around is what yoou-all are calling "soulcarving"?...Anyhow...sure is nice to work the gravity...Aloha...MAXinMaine
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On 8/31/2001 grinch
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"Warning soulcarving is addictive...once you start you just can't stop! I find myself hitting local hills at night to avoid traffic and bringing my board everywhere in hopes of finding another hill..."
that's the truth.
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On 8/31/2001 Repairman Cam
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Sam-2 possibilitys for inexpensive carving. Check www.bigdaddyusa.com Ibuilt up my longboard from one of their decks. Also Dick's Sporting Goods still has some Mongoose Longboards for around 50 beans.(At least the one in Burlington NJ does...nice decks but a little too much flex for me)
Warning soulcarving is addictive...once you start you just can't stop! I find myself hitting local hills at night to avoid traffic and bringing my board everywhere in hopes of finding another hill...
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On 8/30/2001 lindsay
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Christmas day is the day I treasure. The streets are almost completely
empty, like some plague wiped everybody out. Highway overpasses can be
ridden. I made sure that I had the last two xmas days free.
And they were nectar.
Sam, if you get a pintail, dont get it stock: they come stock
with grovelly 149mm pivot trucks - get the deck and 10"
indys (or 180 randals) separately.
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On 8/30/2001
Sam
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Hey guys. I want to soul carve! I have been "carving" on my knackered shortboard and get a rush from it on a good hill. I don't have a longboard and don't have all that much money to spend - can you advise on completes? Is a Sector9 Pintail a good way to start?
Great to read your posts,
Sam
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On 8/30/2001 loneskater
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To Jake, hang in there buddy. i moved to El Paso from San Diego in 95, it was a bad year. However, if they pave it, we will ride it. look at yourself as an ambassador in a strange land. look for ditches, Texas has big paved ditched. I found an 8 foot dream ditch with a gentle downhill in El Paso of all places. at least now you can order gear off the net, in 95' it was hard to get stuff. you have this site and others to keep in touch. don't quit skating, look around somewhere there will be a rideable hill, you may have to travel for it, good luck.
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On 8/29/2001 Mark
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So... the new skatepark is always crowded and flooded with flailing one-hitting carpet crawlers. I've got a bum right knee, possible blown miniscus, and I gotta skate.
To the Hills! Longboard held like longbow, seeking prey in the evening light. The quarry found, the shaft of the arrow lets fly. Flight, brief freedom to the soul. The medium of flow is wind, asphalt, wood, and urethane. Total. Mass. Retain.
Gizmo truck bring heat relief; wooden shaft of light bring magic glow to earth soul. Ethereal oneness for one bright shining moment in the setting sun. We go round and round and round....until it returns to carry us home.
No drugs, no stimulants, just the easy tasty feel of falling through the sky into the cloud of earth.
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On 8/29/2001
grinch
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hey speedy,
there's a group in davis that is trying to get started, look for the davis longboard association, or something along those lines. small group last time i checked, but when you stoke even a small fire, the heat can really get turned up! also, i've got friends up that way, so if i ever head up, i'll try to hit some rides up with ya.
soul? five lanes wide, buttery smooth, steep, full moon, gentle breeze, and no traffic. that's my night tonight.
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On 8/29/2001 ...Jake...
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Thank you to all who post true soul. Moving to houston wasn't my idea and not a very good one anyway. No hills, crap roads, bad drivers, it's a longboarders worst nightmare. Coming from san diego and being used to the smooth road and smoother ride makes me feel sad that I have to leave it. My dreams keep me going your posts keep me going. Keep me hoping that one day I'll look out side and my favorite hill in san diego will be outside sloping down nice and smooth waiting. I hope I can return to that hill one day and carve it once more. Let's all keep this dream alive.
...Jake...
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On 8/29/2001
Speedy
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Oh, the soul, the soul! This soon-to-be-college-kid is stoked and ready to go! I just wish Fresno had better hills... I want to thank all of you for re-inspiring me every time I read this! A few points... I'm looking for soulcarvers in Davis. Anyone up for riding with a nineteen-year-old guy? Please e-mail at AnselmDragon@yahoo.com. Random fact (Brought to mind by the cop posts earlyer this month): My ex-boss was the kid of a cop, and she clued me in to something wonderful: When cops are sitting in parking lots, they're NOT watching the road! They're writing reports, about to get off, and are usualy ready to overlook anything less then a homocide if they possibly can get away with it. Good to know!:)
Have fun, and keep slow carving!
-Speedy
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On 8/29/2001 Craig
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I am with you on the missioning back up hills thing grinch. But...I try flag down every car that drives past me in the process. I normally get lifts from people who are stoked about me bombing the hill. To me that, with the inclusion of a lot of walking, makes a cool, soulful skate, with more runs than if i just walk.
I hope i never get to old to walk up a hill!!!
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On 8/25/2001 grinch
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c-money, only once have i been given a ride back up a hill when i was out carving on my own. sure, if there are enough of us, and not enough boards, we'll use a car, or if it's a really long ride, but for the most part, i walk up every time. the best was this one time almost a year ago....on my lunch break, feeding the addiction at the best hill around here, and this older guy in a big blue caddy pulls up and says to hop in. i said i was only going to the top and he said "i know what you're doing.....i think it's great!" hey, that could have meant the difference in time to make one more ride.
hugh, i'll know what you're talking about, but not today. and believe me, i'll want rides from time to time, like i wish i could be levitated above the waves, carried out over the break, and dropped in position to catch a wave, but that's not gonna happen either. carrying a heavy big board back up a hill or trying to paddle out in four to five foot overhead waves isn't a fair comparason. surfing is so hard when everything it encompasses is brought into sight. the actual movements once you're balanced and riding a wave aren't that complicated, and that's where many of the similarities between surfing and skating start to show, but all in all, skating is safer and easier. not to discredit it anyway, but it is. well, i'm still stoked from my new toy, i got tired of wanting and waiting for the right price on a carveboard, and tired of waiting for the right surf conditions, so i'm gonna go play with my new toy, and get stoked as a mutha!
it' doesn't take balls to walk up a hill, but to brave the big waves......
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On 8/24/2001 C-Money
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Hugh-R and Grinch, two thumbs up on the ride comment. When I first got back into skateboarding (via longboarding) two years ago, I had just received my G&S Fibreflex Pintail and was attending a meeting in Laguna. All the other marketing geeks were on the golf course, but this marketing geek had a board to ride on the hills of Laguna for his afternoon of "free time." Rode for 3 hours, got rides from no less than 5 different people. Guys alone, Guys with kids, two women, all of them a real pleasure to talk to for the 10 minute journey. Spoke highly of southern cal. and the surf/skate old-school culture where people appreciate the finer things, like carving hills, and are willing to give a lift to a stranger who just wants to enjoy it!
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On 8/23/2001
MissouriMatt
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Soulcarving is getting what you needed from the ride. Sometimes you've got a head cluttered with life and you just want to make some space, there's a speed you hit on the board that wipes the slate clean. Once you clean it out you can get some real carving in, where you think of nothing but the flow. The clutter is still there, but you've flowed so far beyound it that it doesn't matter anymore. And when you're done with the ride, you still feel that way. I've got a lot of boards for finding that spot, but I sure like the 44" Freeride Crosstown with Torsion trucks, 70's and bones. I think I'll stop my little accounting project and go for a ride now. That will be a debit to the asset account skatetime receivable and a credit to the income account skatetime created.
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On 8/22/2001
hugh r
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Hey Grinch! Us old guys really enjoy the soulful feeling of getting a bud to drive us back up the hill! You'll know what I mean in another 10 years young man!
But I do have a bunch of respect for the walkers... you have indeed earned the right carve/bomb that hill! :) HR
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On 8/19/2001 grinch
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getting rides to the tops of hills is like getting towed into the surf. sure, it's still skating and surfing, but it's only half of the deal. you earn the ride down by walking up. you earn the ride of a wave by paddling out on your own. that's not final carved in stone bare bones minimum end all truth, but that's the way i see it for the most part.
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On 8/19/2001
CloudBreak
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hows this for soul? Breakin out the old skool shorty...use to ride it when i was 6. piece a shit trucks and bearing...the "veical of destruction" (bart simpson board) is back 10 years later...and it still rips, old skool style.
Ride hard
Ean
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On 8/19/2001 "Q-tip'
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Well, for me soul carving is a nocturnal thing. But the best part next to the carving is the walk back up. On the clear nights with the stars out and sometimes the moon i get all sorts of poems in my mind. Poems of life and how it is for everone, poems dedicated to the one i love (besides my board) and even songs. But the thoughts don't last long as they fade away in my memory to be lost forever. But the walk is peaceful and calming and something no one can understand but me.
the walk is half of the carving experience ...
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On 8/19/2001
the "Boardman"
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SOUL?
- watching the kids in the neighborhood do their "tricks" in the street then breaking out the old school photo's to give 'em their roots.
- riding your fave old board to the mailbox, store, just up and down the street and crank turns and BE STOKED.
- going to the local skatepark and not givig a damn what the toothpick riders say. just go and do what feels good.
- MORE SOUL? build it yourself, to how you like it. I have always loved watching someone show up on a peice of shit and rip.
WHAT OTHERS THINK OF ME IS ONE OF MY F%&#ING BUSINESS!
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On 8/17/2001 Repairman Cam
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Soulcarving...It's what drags a 42 year old man out in the dead of night to go hill hunting (and traffic avoiding...)It's what makes that same man through caution to the wind and ride in the dark. It's what making me pack my longboard on vacation to Rehobeth Beach and spend half my lunch hour huffing uphill only to ride back down. Short little carves again and again, picking up just a little more skill each time. It's what made me pick up a skateboard after a mere 33 years of inactivity. It's the feel of the pavement vibrating up through the board into your feet...It's the snap of a well executed move, when you say to yourself "yeah! thats more like it!" It's, well, soulful!
PS I quote from a longbard site online(sorry I can't remember which one)
best heard phrase "That looks like a good way to break your neck..."
Best Response "Hell, it's the best way!"
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On 8/15/2001
Fabrice
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Soul carving is about being alive and enjoying your board on any circomstance, place or company you have to ride.
soulcarving is about being true to your self.
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On 8/15/2001 loneskater
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Soulcarving: there is no absolute definition. To me, it is you and your buddies on a summer evening and a hill. it is you alone in the moonlight for a night run. it is a bowl with no attitudes. Soulcarving comes from the heart, from the root of our sport, surfing. you and the line you leave behind on the face of the wave or hill. it is the style of a bottom turn from Nat Young to Rory Russel to Greg Weaver to Cheyne Horan to you and your own interpretation. I can tell you what it is not, it is not judges or spectators. it is not contests, or equipment or clothing. Soulcarving is not judgemental. it is sharing your experiance of riding with the next generation. it is fun and something you don't quit doing with age. Enjoy! skating since 1969.
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On 8/15/2001 ......
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What is soulcarving? iv never hear of such a thing in my life.
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On 8/14/2001
Fabrice
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Talking about soul?
Hang in there riders! Join me in Montreal for some cool rides. For now, all the boarders that i have seen are clows that just want to show off. Want to know where to meet the real soul riders? E-Mail me.
Cant wait to ride with you guys in Montreal.
Stay stoked!
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On 8/14/2001
Fabrice
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Talking about soul?
Montreal se meurt. Les boarders n'ont pas de couilles. C'est un festival de clown. Une parade qui tue l'ame du longboard. J'espere que les vrais soul riders se joindront a moi pour une ride entre VRAI. E-Mail Me!!! Je vous dirai le point de rencontre.
Stay stoked!
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