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On 12/16/2000 Herbn
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I love standing at the top of a large hill before the first run,and loking way down over cliffs to the river way off in the distance and thinking;"only one push away".
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On 12/16/2000
Hoov
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caaaarve... caaarve...caarve...carve...crv... oh shit guess I'm bombing from here... how good does it feel when you're still standing at the bottom of the hill?
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On 12/14/2000
Nye Martin
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I gotta tell ya, i'm 44 years old, married to a beautiful 29 year old girl, we have a 3 year old son, I work at a Harley dealership, I have a mortgage, bills to pay, the whole nine yards........but I still skate. I skate a 97 Powell 'Vato Rat' vert board on street and ramps and a Madrid Downhill board for cruisin the local parks. I've even got an old Schmitt yard stick that I break out occasionally. There's nothing like just rolling...it's the most amazing sensation ever. Next time your cruisin', look down at your feet,your standing still and the world's just rolling by underneath you....cool.!!
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On 12/14/2000
Nye Martin
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I gotta tell ya, i'm 44 years old, married to a beautiful 29 year old girl, we have a 3 year old son, I work at a Harley dealership, I have a mortgage, bills to pay, the whole nine yards........but I still skate. I skate a 97 Powell 'Vato Rat' vert board on street and ramps and a Madrid Downhill board for cruisin the local parks. I've even got an old Schmitt yard stick that I break out occasionally. There's nothing like just rolling...it's the most amazing sensation ever. Your standing still and the world's rolling by underneath you....cool.!!
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On 12/14/2000
hugh r
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Munich or Munchen... sorry... HR
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On 12/14/2000
hugh r
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Skating around the top of the Olympic Sky Needle... Muncich, Germany, 1977... HR
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On 12/14/2000
Leo
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cruise a very very looong road, carve it all around, feeling the breeze on your face, hearing nothing but your wheels murmuring, and feeling free for a few moments until you realizaed that the road its ending and then.....go up and do it all over again
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On 12/14/2000 roger
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skating in the fozen foods isle
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On 12/14/2000 corners
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Leaving an hour early to go ANY WHERE just so you can skate.
skate boarding since you were a baby
breaking into school so you can skate the halls
skating with friends as the sun sets on a summer evening with no worries in your head
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On 12/12/2000 the insider
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carving up empty pools with your bros all day , then crack open a few brews and talk story , and if you can still stand go for a night ride with only the moon as your guide
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On 12/4/2000
shane thomas
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It is good to see there are so many of us who recognize the true roots of skateboarding. I have been dabbling with downhill skating since 1995 and have enjoyed a ton of runs at places in Richmond Va, Delaware, PA and North Carolina. Mach speed is fun but soulcarving is where it's at. Keep the drive alive and cruise with a grin.
-jammin the sector 9, kapu, flexdex or Gravity in Southern Virginia.. Shane T.
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On 12/3/2000
david
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is their a better feeling than carving down a hill, grabbing the rail, pulling against the hill, your wheels on the verge of sliding out, struggling for a grip on the buttery smooth road. you don't skate down the hill, you flow down it. The sound of the board, flowing with you, back and forth, back and forth.
Is their a better feeling in the world?
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On 12/3/2000
Claudio Rivera
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Hello fellow scaters.I remember it like it was yesterday.When I was channel surfing one day I happened to be watching ESPN and saw that it was doing the X games.I watch it for a while,then something miracoulas happened I think it was a sign telling me do this do this it was skateboarding.I was so shocked that something like this excisted.I got up cleaned the whole house and got paid enough to buy a board (it wasn't that expensive like it is now).I went and bought one got on one and loved it ever since.
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On 11/30/2000
Marty North
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Greetings brothers and sisters! I can so clearly remember the first time I ever SAW a skateboard.........1962, summer holidays, 12 years old, I went to visit a buddy. I haven't seen him in over thirty years, but I can still see him now, standing in his driveway, holding a short, skinny little red board with steel roller skate wheels. It was called a "Red Devil" and it had a little devil on it holding a pitchfork.
"What have you got there?" I asked.
"A sidewalk surfboard!" He replied.
I said something like......"WHAT???"
"Here, I'll show you," he replied and walked out to the sidewalk which ran on medium downhill slope toward the downtown area of the small town in which we lived.
I can still see him putting is right, running shoe foot on the board goofy style and he pushed off with his left foot which he then put on the board close to the back sort of sideways. My mouth dropped open in utter amazement as I watched him weave down the sidewalk looking for all the world like a surfer. I ran after him trying to keep up........(he was moving!) and when he got to the bottom of the hill, he sort of spun around in a tight circle (the board was very short).
I couldn't believe it. I arrived at his side panting and all out of breath, excited.
"CAN I GIVE IT A TRY???" I asked.
"SURE.......let's go back up!"
The first time I stepped onto the board a feeling came into me......a thrill! I knew that I could do it and sure enough, I just naturally put my right foot forward and pushed off with my left. I skated for a little way but began to go crooked because I didn't know how to steer. But a couple more tries sent me carving down the sidewalk just as good as my buddy.
People can laugh me off the planet, I don't give a rats ass. I loved that feeling then, and I STILL love it now at 50 years old! The other day I saw a kid with a skateboard in a parking lot. He was flipping the board with his feet trying to make it flip 360 I guess. I asked him if I could have a ride. Heh heh, he gave me a look like, "Okay, old timer go ahead and kill yourself if you like." But his face to amazement as I pushed off WITH COWBOY BOOTS and started carving some turns just like I had never left off skateboarding. I ended up by pulling a wheelie and spinning 180.
"HOLY CRAP!!! Did they have skateboards when you were a kid?"
"Yes, they sure did, son.........we called it SIDEWALK SURFIN! Ever hear of "Jan and Dean?" :-)
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On 11/26/2000
grinch
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yep, the same old story, get ready. it's been eight years since i was into skating. my how it changed, backside is frontside, decks all look the same (well, shortboards), and tech is the in thing. then i got a longboard and have a new outlook on life. there is something so much more to it than doing all those flippity-do-show-off-tech tricks. now don't get me wrong, i like to go and session ledges, banks, gaps, and stairs with my shortboard frineds, but getting out there on my longboard and carving the shit out of a hill or anything else is just the shit. that fluid feeling while you're sliding the back end around, then getting set up to go back down the hill some more, and ripping another phat carve after another. like most people here know, there are competitive sides to longboarding, but i don't see or hear as much about that as i hear about just getting out there and doing your thing and looking like yourself doing it. so i stay up late and hit the hills after the cars are all in their garages or whatever, and freeze my ass of and love it the whole time. three hour lunches consisting of about two plus hours of hill bombing, and sleep lost like a child before christmass thinking about a hill someone just told me about, or wanting to rip the new wheels, setup, or trucks. an addiction for the better, nothing else matters, and i dread the worst for my sanity now as the rainy season draws ever so near, what will i do?
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On 11/26/2000
davdy
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nice to see this stuff. Me and my buddies thought we were all alone out here in so san fran. I bought my first deck 1 year ago and it was on! The hills that used to scare the hell out of me are too lame to ride and i look at hills instead of scenery when i drive. What an incredible thing it is to carve the shit out of some dark residential street at one in the morning, lose sleep and still be happy, but tired at work in the morning! Bye the way, for you big boys(200+) its tough to set up a good board to carve wit' but keep tryin till you get it right. I bought a 44" surfone and then a flexdex wingnut(TOO flexy!) before i baught a sector nine pintail w\randal trucks. Thank god for mr.randal! If you are in the bay area and want to bomb to nice runs drop me a line.
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On 11/26/2000 Winston T.Grant
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Whaasuuup!!!Reading the posts on THIS PARTICULAR
forum always gives me that "same old feeling",the last two from DHX-de and the other people reminded me of how we used to say goodbye to the street once it began to get too cold to ride(For us,that meant SNOW AND ICE,usually,cause we all skied ,too).
It would always begin the same way:Ira Joe Fisher,the local weather guy at KHQ, would say something about "ski conditions being perfect at 49",which would set off a chorus of cheers that you could actually HEAR if you went to the front door and stuck your head out,and then there would come that little jingle,'Let's go Skiing,WHEE!'that they would always play,then they would announce the playdate for the newest Warren Miller movie,just prior to running TWO of them back to back:IF all those super-slo-mo powder carves weren't ENOUGH for you,and the bump runs didn't have you screaming "DID YOU SEE THAT SHIT!! OH MY GOD!!"at the screen,eventually our parents would request that we all" kindly take our LOUD ASSES OUTSIDE,PLEASE",where,jacked on visuals,discussion would rapidly turn to action,and we'd be headed to one of the widest streets we could find(Wide suburban streets are BEST for throwing simulated jet turns and deep layback carves),and here's a tip:Immediately after a pumpin'ski flick has just been aired,conditions are PERFECT for CHARGING ANY STREET,because the public is NOW ON YOUR SIDE!! We liked it best right around 38 degrees or so,because you could test drive your new ski jackets'aero properties,you could practice slalom and be totally in the groove,due to the previous hours'imprinting,and steep streets didn't seem NEARLY as intimidating after watching top racers and freestylists RIP the Alps,Chile or Cortina D'Ampezzo for an hour or so.We would try to stay out for as long as possible,waiting for near-dark,and when the streetlights came on,and you could see your breath,things got really fast as the street got cold,the runs tended to get longer and faster until eventually ice patches moved in and we had to shut down,just about the time that little sparkle in the streetlights announced "Snow".
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On 11/26/2000
DHX-DE
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oh goodness, skating in the frigid cold down a baby-smooth road, having maybe one, two cars pass you all night, teeth chattering, all the way til morning. skating ANYTHING YOU WANT because no cars are anywhere at 4 am, what a beauteous thing.
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On 11/24/2000 brian-DE
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nothing better than skating hardcore all night long, then taking some easy runs while that big orange sun comes over the horizon.
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On 11/24/2000
ryan
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There really is truely nothing better than chillin on the streets on your longboard. It is the greatest feeling, it is where you leave your troubles behind. It's right up there with surfing in the rain.
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On 11/23/2000 WINSTON T.GRANT
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To all:Welcome to the party,we don't do nothin' but RIDE and talk about RIDIN"ROUN"HEAH!!(sorry,I've got a LOT of tryptophan in my system today and and one of my favorite movies is on,BUCKAROO BANZAI..a true masterpiece of 80's techno-crosspollination)
Which is REALLY what we do..like it or not,you are now in on the coolest game in town,and we should begin acting like it(Everyman his own AMG) And all you 'legends"and X-PROS,write in,we all want to hear how you're doing(and IF you're still doing it..)Just a few months back,I remember posting here for the first time and how EXCITED I got..just like the first time I walked into a skateshop..I STILL FEEL THAT WAY..just like all those weekends when I would hook up with my crew and go hit hills until the lights in the parking lots would come on,and THEN go BLAST AIR off the entrance ramps until exhaustion claimed us all,and laughing and jubilant,we'd pile into cars and head home.
THANKS FOR THIS PLACE,FELLAS
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
WINSTON
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On 11/23/2000
Brian
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Lots of people live for the dawn patrol when surfing so I was wondering how many people dawn patrol on their longskate.
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On 11/21/2000
roger
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Peter,
Waste of 27cm, yikes! I don't know much, but don't think that will work for my idea of carving (with hardboots). Not very many powder days down here in SoCal. Thanks though
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On 11/21/2000 cheshirepus
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Hey there my long lost brothers and sisters, I've been searching all over for you... This is my first time here, and I must say that I have found my place. Me, I carve a solid 46" flat board with a nice tail. (Looks exactly like and old school freestyle board stretched out a bit). It's simple, but I ride it about 10 times better than my Sector 9. I hope you can all find a place for me, 'cuz I'd like to share my stories about carvin' up the San Diego streets with you, maybe link link No. Cal and So. Cal a little...
I'd like to think I'm advanced, but just checking out this site, I have a lot to learn...
Max Speed: 37mph...
Keep on Livin'
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On 11/20/2000
Peter
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Roger! For snow longboards you gotta check out the Pumpkin Hang Ten series at http://www.snow-skate.com . Those boards are extremely wide (nose: 32cm; waist: 27cm) and very light for their length. Also you can choose out of 25 graphics for your board. It kicks ass! I love riding my Hang Ten 177. There's nothing better...
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