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On 6/14/2002 longy
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thanks to all for all of your thoughts....some of my own and mats from lush (we had our ops on the same day)are that some folk are hurt much worse than ourselves and at least we were hurt doing something we love...and at least in my case something i will never stop doing...longboarders dont get old the decks just get longer...
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On 6/13/2002 kanufi
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Just read about Longy stacking it.That sort of thing happening freaks me out.Hope you get movement back into the elbow.Everyone take it easy on the road .Skate safe
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On 6/13/2002
Jakeyp
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Yeah, bad news longy! i too have fallen foul of injury. Just got back from Ireland for two weeks surfari so had to get out on board/bike. took both to Chard skatepark and busted my knee trying footplants over the spine. Its pretty painfull and goes click crunch when i bend it! A real pain cos its the gold coast ocean festival in devon in two weeks time. Hope i'll be fit to skate with all the boys who come down for it. And i hope i'll see some of you guys there. strength and honour.
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On 6/12/2002
Speedy
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Get Well, Longy! I hope to see you this summer, and it would be a real pitty if you couldn't skate!
As for all you agnostics, wondering if there really is a god... wouldn't it make more sense to go out and skate and enjoy the presence and/or absence of him/her/it without knowing for sure than to sit around in front of the cathode-ray and philosophize?
-Speedy
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On 6/12/2002 Mat (lush)
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...thoughts and prayers are with Longy who destroyed his elbow this weekend at Brands Hatch (see Europe section on this site).
Get well soon my friend.
Peace be with you.
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On 6/12/2002 Glen
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Science has yet to produce a single living form. They can change existing living matter but can't create even the "simplest" cell ( because a "simple" cell is many millions of times more complex that the most sophisticated aircraft, rocket or computers that we can build).
Gravity is just God holding the creation together.
Loose trucks and hard carves, flow with the gravity you can't fight it.
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On 6/12/2002
K-LEE
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Ah, yes, Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. Good one, h0dad. Does that imply that the Universe (i.e. God) will never understand itself completely as a closed system? The answer is no, because the Universe (God) is NOT a closed system. In order for a system or space to be closed, it must contain it's boundary points. There is no boundary to God, and therefore the system is open, and thereby constantly learning, growing, and evolving. We to, as open subsystems, must continue to grow, learn, and evolve, ad infinitum, to the highest potential, which is limitless. Knowing all this helps prevent speed wobbles, by the way.
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On 6/11/2002 h0dad
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OK, this is just a once-off, a trippy treat for you K-LEE, if you havent yet encountered it:-
"In 1931, the Czech-born mathematician Kurt Gödel demonstrated that within any given branch of mathematics, there would always be some propositions that couldn't be proven either true or false using the rules and axioms ... of that mathematical branch itself. You might be able to prove every conceivable statement about numbers within a system by going outside the system in order to come up with new rules an axioms, but by doing so you'll only create a larger system with its own unprovable statements. The implication is that all logical system of any complexity are, by definition, incomplete; each of them contains, at any given time, more true statements than it can possibly prove according to its own defining set of rules.
Gödel's Theorem has been used to argue that a computer can never be as smart as a human being because the extent of its knowledge is limited by a fixed set of axioms, whereas people can discover unexpected truths ... It plays a part in modern linguistic theories, which emphasize the power of language to come up with new ways to express ideas. And it has been taken to imply that you'll never entirely understand yourself, since your mind, like any other closed system, can only be sure of what it knows about itself by relying on what it knows about itself."
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On 6/11/2002
stevep
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swoop - love your pics here and on bomberonline...
i just put randal 180's on the 48" pintail after moving the 150's to my 40" kicktail. spent a week riding the kicktail and my slalom board - lots of fun, different flow, different headspace.
got the trucks mounted and took the board around the neighborhood just now (around midnight) - lots of construction and new pavement... oh my - that's a different board completely! i'm sure drivers had no problem seeing me by my huge s#@!-eating grin while kicking down street. i found a solid run of 9 downhill blocks with mostly new asphalt and no rocks. very light traffic, couples kissing against cars, hand dragging turns across 2 lanes, smell of rain in the air, snatches of rock songs running thru my head while crouched down in the turns....i ended up doing it 3 times. that was the most fun i have ever had on a skateboard and beats out several snowboard days as well. from what i hear from y'all - it gets better...oh my.
big trucks, big board and padding up (decided to wear knee pads for once) helped with the confidence and this forum helped with the knowledge.
cheers!
steve
(sorry this is a bit disjointed...still giddy from the ride)
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On 6/11/2002
swooper
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What an eye-opener, I put in the day's carpentry, bang bang saw saw etc. Then, since it's finally sunny after snowing since Saturday, went up to the hill for a run. Started climbing (at age 48, I need the exercise for real) and hoping for a ride. Well, nobody came up the hill, so after 3 miles I said "enough" and started riding down.
What great turns! Really pushing the wheels into the pavement through the arcs, feeling all my weight sticking the urethane to the asphalt. About 1/2-way down, coming around a curve, about 75 yards down the hill there's a BIG round brown hairy shape on the yellow lines, as big as me, a bear, and she's watching me skate. I make a couple more turns, just watching the bear continue on her(his?) way into the woods. I ride by and he's gone into the trees.
This just scrubbed my eyes clean and for a short time it was wonderful, carving arcs, enjoying the views and the swooping, no better way to be alive. It's fun to think maybe that bear never saw anyone making turns before, and was into it.
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On 6/11/2002
dex
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Ahh, gravity,
somewhat devine,
yet, in times of depravity,
still, just fine,
other forces still at work,
Like friction, drag and time,
work, I think I'll shirk,
And roll Mt Keira while the sun does shine.
Ciao all
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On 6/11/2002
K-LEE
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This mathematician figured that as science defines once force at a time analytically, it would take eternity to encompass all possible forces, and it's way behind schedule. So yes, many forces will always remain uncharted. Besides, they're trying to simplify things by unifying the forces into one super force, but I still think that if the universe was simple enough to describe with sets of equations and correlations in a book or series of books, then the universe would itself BE those books, for it takes the entire universe throughout the expanse of all time to describe itself. It's as compact and simple as it's gonna get. And that is why you must worship in humble awe, grasshopper. Now go shred.
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On 6/11/2002 h0dad
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Or perhaps never to be charted by science..science is incomplete, it rules (h0dad digs it fully), but's only a bunch of correlations.
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On 6/11/2002 lexx
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is that correct england? Ah well, it'll do.
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On 6/11/2002 lexx
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Get well soon longy, the power of zen compels u.
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On 6/11/2002 MissouriMatt
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Went to the sk8 park. God, it was fun, amen.
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On 6/11/2002
Speedy
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Mmmm, Longy, Chris, that sounds lovely to me! I think I'll have to get out a map and start staking a route pretty soon. Though I think it may be a not-so-bad idea to wait 'till after final exams for that one...
-a thoughtful Speedy
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On 6/11/2002
Chris (Lush)
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speedy man - we are thinking of hosting a "summer session" on the first weekend in August here in Sheffield with the 4mile hills of the Peak District just nearby ... :)
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On 6/11/2002
K-LEE
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Gravity IS one form of God's energy, but there are countless others. The friction you speak of would not exist without the electromagnetic force, the atoms in your urethane (and all other matter) wouldn't hold together without the strong and weak forces, and God engergy takes form in an infinite number of forces yet uncharted by science. Gravity just happens to be one of the funnest and coolest ones to worship. So, worhship on, my brother, just keep in mind that God is neither limited to nor by gravity, it is but a gift of his love.
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On 6/9/2002 lexx
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speedy, u'll do good to avoid Cardiff. No hills and no spair boards. And besides, its in Wales, and we all know that Wales doesn't really exist.;-)
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On 6/8/2002
longy
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i dare say mr speedy some hills and a few longboards will be found for thy sojourn to these humble shores of albion, chuck me an e mail about where you will be and what you will be doing.
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On 6/8/2002
Speedy
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Hello, everyone. Here's the dillio: I, Speedy, will be in England for about two weeks this summer, from about the first to the fourteenth of August. I'd love to meet some of you people, and perhaps do some hill bombing. I will not, however, have a longboard. At least this is my sneaking suspicion. Damn those airlines and this rules, damn them! (not to mention their habit of doing nasty things to expensive and/or precious items...) But yes. Anyone know of some nice hills, happen to have a spare longboard lieing around and not be to snotty to skate with a 20 year old yank? It would be much appreciated!
-Speedy
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On 6/8/2002 Mat
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longy...if you dont come to sheff i am gonna cry. sunday will be my last skate for a while as i am getting my shoulder wired back together on monday...so sunday night in sheffield is my party and i can cry if i want to....and i will if your not there!
rich and ross had better be around too...yes you notty boys...get youre asses to brands and then lets go ride the sheffield hills after!
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On 6/8/2002 longy
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..........and all becomes clear
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On 6/7/2002 h0dad
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Longy, your master is like a finger, pointing at the hill. Dont look at the finger!
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