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BEST LOCATION for aucklanders
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On 5/25/2002 WEST RETRO RIPPER
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cruise to the north of auckland, for 3/4 of an hour, to WHANGAPAROA PENINSULA, go to GULF HARBOUR and find perfectly sealed roads, with not many cars and no houses, (by the golf courrse), its a haven of hills with the boys reaching 70km/hr
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Retro longboards.
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On 5/25/2002
tomas
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Retro longboards absolutely, rip, they are one of the newest nz longboarding companies with flex deck carvers from 1.0 to 1.5 metre boards, with a variety of colors, check them out on the web, at
www.retrolongboards.com its made by surfers for surfers,
and anyone with a retro in aucklnd, who is interested in starting a retro longboarding team conrtact, me
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More riders wanted for Longboarding Australia
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On 5/24/2002
Jeremy Rodgers
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EARLY SKATEBOARDS AUSTRALIA 2000
Looking for ridders on the Gold Coast, Queensland. Filming in the next two weeks (longboards and gerneral riding. Please contact 0409 576 900 or email.
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comps
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On 5/21/2002
kanufi
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Good info john,i tried fishing for numbers for a comp in sydney Aus and got 1 phone call and a few emails .I think the general public need to be educated more on longboarding in general.An ad in the local paper would,nt cost too much. From what i have found is most people find it good to watch,have a go and think that its way to dangerous and go back to being a spectator which is ok ,at least its generating intrest in the sport.Perseverance is the key,all must start off small before it becomes big.
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Starting comps.
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On 5/21/2002 John Gilmour
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Matt my advice to you is to advertise it. Get people to come. And them do another one about 3 months later and then another etc. It will take a while but if you are consistent you'll get the skaters you want. Most good competition circuits take about 2-3 annual events before they get good.
Our US scene took a while to get going. First tireless promoter IGSA's (International ZGravity Sports Association) Marcus Reitema held events that he grouped together in West LA College's campus.
By grouping a bunch of events he made it more interesting for spectators and participants Scott Peer who rana local ski club ran the slalom events with Marcus. He had buttboarding, gravity bikes, Inline GS, Shortboard Slalom GS and Longboard slalom GS and Tight slalom.
At first a few older skate pros- mostly ex freestylers showed and had a few races. It seemed no one even owned real cones.
Caraasco won an event. Beau brown won an event. There was a whole year of a series of races.
The next year it was much of the same. Chris chaput came out and started racing. I saw the racing out there and came out to race.
Then East Coast/West coast rivalry really seemed to add air to the fire. NCDSA started to pick up in numbers of posts and interest. Jack Smith threw the Morro Bay contest which had a huge turnout. A series of outlaw races followed and regiaonal racing began to pop up. We got a few manufacturers on their feet and making stuff- TLP hosts a race series with FCR, Comet, Turner and we are up and running.
My slalom courses in NYC and Boston were much of hte same. Small almost disappointing turnout for the whole first year. Better though, still small turnout the second- just slightly improved. Then an explosion of new faces.
Give it a try and don't get discouraged.
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hk
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On 5/21/2002
Matt Traver
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hrmmm... then what can we do... we can't have a 2 man race... we've gotta find something... maybe people willing to race on shortboards or something...
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Kimberly Funk
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On 5/20/2002 JG
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I have no contact info for her. Kimberly Funk went to Simmons College in Boston.
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kimberly funk
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On 5/19/2002
matt traver
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is kimberly funk still around? any way of contacting the person?
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HK
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On 5/17/2002 jg
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I only knew Kimberly Funk from HK.
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Hong Kong
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On 5/17/2002
matt traver
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excellent... u don't live round in hk do u gilmour? cuz i heard u won some race or somethin' in catalina.. anyway... i was thinking, i've got a few spots in mind... u know any in hk? know any other riders round in hk?
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Hong Kong nightclubs
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On 5/17/2002
john Gilmour
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I would be extremely interested in a Hong Kong Competition.
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HK Competition should be set up in shek o
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On 5/16/2002
matt traver
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any locals or anybody at all coming to hong kong... i wanna set up a comp around june 15th - june 30th for a day or so... there's quite a few spots to race... could advertise... put up flyers around.. i'm sure a tonne of shortboarders would be interested and come and watch... so,... if anybody is curious at all about this just e-mail me... if it's a post i might miss it so yeah. Peking Duck Surfboards (chinaskate.com) could come there and host it or something like that and promote their products.
Matt.
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The Gong
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On 5/6/2002
kanufi
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Just got back from the best sk8 i have ever had on a longboard it was south of sydney at a place called Mt kiera.Its about 3-4ks long and just constant bend after bend.Cars keept abusing us saying we where mad and do you want to die.Half way down an abulance passes to pick up a motor cyclist who took on a car and lost.We cruised past the mayhem and it was,nt a good vibe at all.We where all on Abec 11 wheels and there where no complaints at all in that department(these wheels are fark n hot)There is alot of places to sk8 in the area with less cars its just a matter of going out and searching for them.
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SNAKE-RUN IN BRAZIL
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On 5/2/2002
DIEGO KASPER
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DEFENETELY COMING TO BRAZIL IS A GOOD OPTION. THERE IS GOOD VIBRATION. FOR SKATEBOARDING THERE IS ALL KINDS OF ALTERNATIVES, SURFING IS ALSO A GREAT ADVETURE, NIGHT LIFE IS ONE OF THE BEST AROUND THE WORLD.
CHECK THIS AND SEE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE COURSE
OUR WEB www.skaters.com.br
the skatepark
www.skaters.com.br/img_m_p/index_pista.htm
I´ll have more info on the competition next week.
Diego Kasper
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Lookin 4 Riders
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On 5/1/2002
Tristan Lawson
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yo yo
my name is tristan and i live in malaysia.... i am looking for riders in the area.... HP#016-363-7221
peace
one love!
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brazil
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On 5/1/2002 kanufi
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Ive heard the chicks are some of the best lookers in the world as well and luv the nocternal activities.Ohh yeah.
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Brazil
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On 5/1/2002 h0dad
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In a couple of years h0dad's off to another country for waves and gradients. Was thinking about Indo or anywhere nice on the Indian ocean...but after lurking this site and hearing much Brazilian stoke, it would seem that Brazil is definitely an option. h0dad's going to start researching.
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The real snake-run
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On 5/1/2002
Diego Kasper
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WE ARE MAKING A RESEARCH ON HOW MANY RIDER FROM ASIA CAN RIDE CONCRETE WALLS AND HAVE SNAKE-RUN EXPERIENCES. WE ARE GOING TO MAKE A GREAT CSNAKE-RUN COMPETITION WITH PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THOSE RIDER THAT CAN AFFORD THE TICKET AND HAVE SNAKE-RUN RUN EXPERIENCE ARE WELCOME, ALL THE EXPENSES HERE IN BRAZIL ARE ON US.
SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK AND WE WILL GET BACK TO YOU WITH ALL THE INFO NEEDED.
DIEGO
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Dogtown
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On 4/21/2002 jimi
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It just makes you want to skate.
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Dogtown
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On 4/21/2002 h0dad
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Those guys on Dogtown went on and on and on and on and on about each other, the first this and the biggest that, but in all it was educational, and h0dad went out and tried to be Alva for a night afterward. It did inspire. Had a sad vibe about it; like a remeniscence about the prime days...the surf spot these guys had was f&^%in great. Jay Adams in jail made h0dad sad, but hey.
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chch
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On 4/21/2002
jimi
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hey hOdad, i am coming to chch for a few days at the start of june, was wondering if i could hook up with you or some of your mates for a ride or two?
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Underground
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On 4/20/2002 h0dad
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underground would be rad
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oz race
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On 4/20/2002 kanufi
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With the sky-rocketing price of pulic liability insurance in oz at the moment it will have to be underground unless we can get some corp $$$$ to fund a race.
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Australia in San Francisco
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On 4/12/2002
Paul Price
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Australia gets a mention in San Francisco!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/12/WB72355.DTL&type=news
and
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object.cgi?object=/chronicle/pictures/2002/04/12/mn_wbskate1.jpg&paper=chronicle&file=WB72355.DTL&directory=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/12&type=news
One day we will get some slalom racing in Oz organised!
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Guam Riding Picts
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On 4/11/2002
Bob Swartz
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goto
http://www.landluge.com/guam/
to see picts of riding luge in Guam. Mostly on Nimitz hill with Kim Aikens (local rock star of the electric boonie dogs)
bob
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