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On 2/4/2002 r.mendino
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stone edge....the memories
click for pictures
look in the "skate photos" folder
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On 2/3/2002 *
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Wasting time pondering the future robs you of the present,
There are no regrets, just mistakes,
Say what you feel before it passes you by
And live each day like tomorrow you'll die.
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On 1/31/2002
Jakey p.
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Nice. Winter has always been good to me but this year its just been awfull. Rain and wind have just ripped the surf to shreds for weeks, and the tarmacs wet and filthy. I go to work in the dark and come home at dusk. Life has been pretty hard with no pleasure to offset the pain! Monday night the clouds cleared and by 10 pm the roads were dry. The moon was full, so i drove into Chard to find some solutions. The road to the resevoir runs around the town, with fields to your right. The tarmac is new, smooth with no catseyes, whitelines and flush draincovers. I parked at the top. I pushed of in silence and the board picked up speed quickly, faster than i expected, i crouch to absorb the wobble as the board settles into its rhythm. Drop a casual frontside turn to control my speed, it doesnt help so pressure on the opposite rail, the rear breaks away pointing back to the kerb, the road is wide enough to give me room to slide. I do these cutbacks, some from the tail, some from the nose all the way down and finish in a tight drift. Walking back up i just looked at the full moon through the trees. I stayed there for over an hour, sometimes carving tight, sometimes just flowing down with the moon on my shoulder. My hands were shaking when i walked to the car for the last time, more fom relief and peace than from adrenelin. I havn't felt that calm in a long time, and my mind felt really clear. Im still buzzing from it and praying for the rain to stop again. I have a very good feeling about this summer.
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On 1/31/2002
Speedy
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Reading a French play for drama class... taking a short break, (11:46-12:00), then heading up at midnight to work on a Joan of Arc paper. Room's crowded, well-lit and noisy. Oh well, I grab Dante's "Purgatorio", and head back to the dorm lounge. Read a canto. Look out the window. H'm, Jake and Nick are outside... Nick's got a longboard... I head out. We talk. I run up and grab the Sector... we trade... trade back, and Jake rips out of the driveway and into the parking lot.
For four minutes we shared soul, nothing but soul. The experience of riding through the night, all alone except for a fellow longboarder. One who knows what it's like to just cruise for the sake of cruising.
-Speedy
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On 1/29/2002
lexx
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He who controls the weather- be it a god or a guy in new york with a big machine- has been kind to me recently. It has rained every morning this week, and been bone dry by the time I get home, perfect for some evening carving.
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On 1/28/2002
jaybrands
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man, i hear ya cooper. the only thing better than a long effortless
ride down a winding hill is a long effortless ride down a winding hill
with another boarder. i go out and cruise sometimes by myself, but
it's so much sweeter when you get to the bottom to say, "Dude, let's do
that again" and not be talking to yourself.
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On 1/27/2002 jeremy cooper
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it is raining right now. i woke up at 1:30 in the afternoon today so my day was wasted. i tryed to go skating (shortboard) but it was too windy. then it started to rain, could the day get any worse for skating. i was skating around my garage earlier but it's not the same. i think i'm going to sign off in a few minutes a try to go skate (longboard) soon before it gets too late. i think that if i had someone cool to ride with all the time and that loved skating (longboarding) as much as i do, i would just strait longboard, no more shortboarding. i enjoy longboarding better and get more fulfillment from it, it's weird.
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On 1/27/2002 h0dad
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h0dad is one of those cheeky skaters who rides his pintail
crosstown through traffic (and does not condone this).
Today, biking to work he saw a thing that made him go whoa; a
a sexy young woman riding her slalom board up a main street the same
way h0dad does, like she owned it. Whoever this rebel is, shouts out
to her, she was styly wicked and wyley. Dont get too much of that
here.
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On 1/26/2002 bObO
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Tommorow's Surf Report for Missouri: 65-70 degrees, no rain,
smooth pavement, smiles on any skaters face.
--bObO--
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On 1/26/2002
Speedy
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Yeah, we all like summer. But you know what they say: "Love the one you're with!" Never hurts to praise the current season, makes everything so much nicer, funner, soul-full-er.
-Speedy
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On 1/26/2002 longboardbuddha
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what about snowballing and makin' snowmen (and wimmin)
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On 1/26/2002 Kareem
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this is my first post. Endless Summer is every surfers dream. No one like to put on wetsuit and freeze. depending on where your from, summer is best.
never have seen snow and i dont miss a thing.
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On 1/26/2002 Longboardbuddha
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Longboardbuddha bows down in respect to everybody who gathers good karma through winter riding in all weathers tis nothing but soul aerobics brothers and sisters.
Love
Mike
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On 1/25/2002
jaybrands
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hey i gotta agree with ya, longboardbuddha. there's nothin'
like a smooth ride to get things back in focus. i remember
going to my buddy's place after a brutal day and i was like,
"Dude we NEED to go ridin'" he was like, "Dude, it's pouring
out there!" "So...." he understood. we had one foot wakes behind
us as we towed through parking lots filled with water but we
went ridin'. and somewhere in the wakes i lost the brutal day i
just had.
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On 1/24/2002
Longboardbuddha
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Yo Speedy, like i've been saying on every skate forum since time, i cant sit in the house watching the tv when i have spots to skate even in the dead of winter. Airports, railway stations, underground car parks, shopping centers, the local cycle drome (last night)my foot rarely touched the ground even when the manager chased me around the oval. Even though i can respect meditation through channel flicking doesnt everybody feel the urge to skate even when we have storm force winds? There are spots where everybody can forget their problems for just ten minutes by skating a dry bit of ground.
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On 1/24/2002 h0dad
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...the hhhhhssssh is the stones on the bottom being sucked back,
while the rattle is the boulders tumbling in the rinse cycle
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On 1/24/2002 h0dad
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h0dad hearing you Speedy, winter is time for CELEBRATION. Soulful moment:
waking up in the van under the macrocarpa trees on a cold winter
morning, the air is crisp and still.
From over the rise comes
"hhhhsssshhhhhh.......BOOM..rattlera ttle......hhhsssshhhhh....BOOOM...."
...ru nning over the rise and there they are; ruler lines, the windless
night has been good to the swell and it's glassy.
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On 1/24/2002
jeremy cooper
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i just got back from school. i rode my board home, it was so fun. there is this certain stretch of sidewalk that is all downhill, it's great. probably about half way down the sidewalk a did a 180 piroutte and carved and knee dropped the rest of the way switch, it felt so good, will in my hair, the whole deal, very soulful.
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On 1/24/2002
kaspian
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I cannot say too much soulful about my winter thus far. But I got a nice phone call from my 16-year-old son in Arlington, Virginia, the other day.
Matt has been having a hard time with school lately. He has been glum and rather non-communicative the last few times we've spoken. Not a totally unexpected thing where a teenager is concerned, but still.
Anyway, Matt called to tell me he had been fooling around with some of the toys I gave him for Xmas -- a set of G&S Fibrestradas, Seismic trucks, a Bones skate tool and miscellaneous other stuff. I figure in winter, even if you can skate, you can play around with your quiver.
So Matt had been playing around with different setups for his Fluid Stinger, which he uses less for slalom than as for all-round "urban boarding" (minus the sky hooks). He said he had been kicking around the local streets and sidewalks and in this great park nearby with miles of smooth, curving, sloping asphalt paths.
He truly sounded happier than he has in weeks. While he was out, he ran into a friend (a newschooler) who gave the Stinger a whirl and could not BELIEVE how fast and quick-turning it was.
Matt said, "I didn't tell him the Stinger isn't fast compared to the boards in Maine."
(For the record, the fastest board in the family quiver, despite my efforts to overtake it, remains my younger son Tristan's Landyachtz Beavertail, with Tracker Aggros and 76mm Exkate Turbos.)
I wish I could skate. The winter has been too wet and sloppy for snowboarding, and too nasty for anything else. But I have a plan.
Anyway, that's as soulful as it gets around here lately.
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On 1/24/2002
Speedy
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WTF? Why's everyone talking about endless SUMMER? Granted, winter sucks for skating, but it's the best season for surfing, and the ONLY season for snowboarding! I challenge everyone not stuck in a college campus with no more thatn $.23 in their pockets to go out and catch a ride of some sort. White water, white asphalt or white powder. Then, post on here.
-Speedy
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On 1/24/2002
bObO
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Hello all, hey R.M., its funny that you mentioned the Sandals
I got "The Spirit of Surf" and "The Endless Summer" by them
for X-mas this year! Surf-rock at it's best, "Wingnut's Theme"
is a great track. Definate road-trip music. Speedy, you said
the acting in "In Gods Hands" sucked because they were surfers
not actors. Thats true, but compare them to "Point Break",
where the "actors" play surfers and they don't seem that bad!
Swayze and Reeves are kooks. Oh well, its raining and cold,
guess I'll go back to sleep, and dream of the endless summer.
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On 1/24/2002
jakeyp
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That documentary was called Ride The Wild Surf. Its pretty intense, and got a lot of people coming up to me wanting to talk about surfing. Watching it, its pretty easy to appreciate the skill shown, whether you surf or not i guess. The movie about Hamilton is called Laird and its fully worth getting as it has a lot more footage of the Millenium Wave in Teahupoo, tahiti. Now that is impressive watching that wave slab up outa nowhere and just exploding on the reef. Scares me silly! But we love soul, right? So i'm most impressed with how relaxed he is at Jaws, he has utmost faith in himself and knows exactly what each wave is going to do and positions himself accordingly. He's a god!!
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On 1/23/2002 Dave T
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Scabs I'm not sure if its the same documentary on Laird Hamilton as I saw it on British terrestrial T.V. But sounds similar. Yes they were being towed into the wave by jet ski and were surfing Jaws at Maui, Awsome. Search "Laird Hamilton" for some great pictures of big wave surfing.
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On 1/23/2002
Scabs
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I haven`t popped in here for a while and was reading about this big wave deal. Last weekend I saw this documentary on local TV PBS. Don`t know if it was the Laird one but these guys were dropping in on HUGE waves being pulled by jetskis. In the dialog they were talking about how great it was to not only have surfed these rare huge waves but also catch it on film. Is this the Laird film?
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On 1/22/2002
jeremy cooper
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in the new march 2002 issue of thrasher the is an independent trucks ad with lee dansig, it awesome. makes me want to go bomb some hills.
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