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Demo today
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On 7/1/2005 Lenny-DHB
wrote in from
United States
(68.252.nnn.nnn)
We had a demo today to raise support for the local park. It was SUPPOSED to be 2 demos one at 12:00 and one at 2:00, but it was basically a free-for-all of HARD skating from 11:00-4:30! Marc F came down and stole the show with his slides, hand-stands and nose wheelies- not to mention killing the slalom course he and I set up! It was a great time and people were stoked. Just as he was leaving, the Flipside Shop Team (Athens, OH) arrived and killed it for an hour or so! Needless to say, though, several hours of hard skating in 90+ heat takes it out of a guy! After several quarts of water, I'm still about half-dead!
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DHB Pic
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On 6/30/2005 Lenny-DHB
wrote in from
United States
(68.252.nnn.nnn)
Great shot, bro!! Man! I'll be there next time for sure. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who rocks the pirate dew-rag when skating! Sunburn and sweat in the eye are the curses of the bald headed skater. LOL
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DHB Pic....Raffle 1 of 1 Board
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On 6/30/2005
North Carolina Longboarder- DownHill Billies
wrote in from
United States
(166.82.nnn.nnn)
By the way, the Raffle one of kind DHB Jam board is being held by RJ on the left of the picture. Brent did the graphics and they looked killer! Everyone was buying raffle tickets to win that thing! It has the date of the Jam painted on it.
Marion Karr
www.downhillbillies.org
"Fueling The Stoke One Hillbilly At A Time!"
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Brent's Six Wheeler
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On 6/30/2005
North Carolina Longboarder- DownHill Billies
wrote in from
United States
(166.82.nnn.nnn)
That thing is Sick! You can pull an infinite manual on it and still have 4 wheels on the ground...it's crazy. I road it down the street the first night I saw it and had a blast on it....
Thanks for the props there EBasil! Don't know where you are but if you ever get a chance to ride with a DHB it will be a blast!
Marion Karr
www.downhillbillies.org
"Fueling The Stoke One Hillbilly At A Time!"
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Great Pic!! DHB Sk8 Jam ** Six Wheeler?
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On 6/30/2005
Marc F.
wrote in from
United States
(205.188.nnn.nnn)
Great Pic!! Looks like all of you had a great time. I'm just wondering how the six wheeler rides. That thing looks crazy!!!!!
Marc F.
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DHB Group Shot
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On 6/30/2005 EBasil
wrote in from
United States
(63.206.nnn.nnn)
That's a great pic. It looks like a fun group of skating people.
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DownHill Billies Summer Jam Hobby Park
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On 6/30/2005
North Carolina Longboarder- DownHill Billies
wrote in from
United States
(166.82.nnn.nnn)
The DownHill Billies Summer Jam at Hobby Park Soap Box Derby Hill in Winston-Salem, NC this past weekend was a great success! Check out this awesome group shot!
Hope to see you all at a DHB event in the near future! All of the DHB's are just killer people to hang out with and skate! I am proud to be a part of this group!
Marion Karr
www.downhillbillies.org
"Fueling The Stoke One Hillbilly At A Time!"
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4th of July Weekend
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On 6/29/2005 Lenny-DHB
wrote in from
United States
(68.76.nnn.nnn)
Have fun John D.! It sounds like a blast.
I'll be logging in a LOT of longboard time this weekend. On Friday, we're having 2 demos to raise awareness/support for the local park. Of course I'll be cruising around on the longboards and we'll also be setting cones (to show the diversity of skateboarding). Then on Saturday, we're skating in the annual 4th of July parade for the same reasons.
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Taking the longboards....
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On 6/29/2005
John Dillon, Team Fun
wrote in from
United States
(151.200.nnn.nnn)
and the long route to Canada in a few hours...hoping to hit up some roundwall enroute to Claude's slalom race in Ottawa.....may everyine celebrate this upcoming holiday on a longboard!
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RJ Correction!
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On 6/27/2005
North Carolina Longboarder
wrote in from
United States
(166.82.nnn.nnn)
RJ> Sorry Dude! My bad! I misunderstood....! Thanks for your contribution! I will make sure not to make that mistake again.
Marion Karr
www.downhillbillies.org
"Fueling The Stoke One Hillbilly At A Time!"
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DownHill Billies Summer Skate Jam at Hobby Park (correction)
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On 6/27/2005
RJ
wrote in from
United States
(12.19.nnn.nnn)
The Jam was Great and everything that was said is right on, exept the swag from concrete wave was from myself. No offence Karr i usually don't go around correcting people, but i do beleive in giving credit where credit is due (which is what you where doing) Skate on Skaters!!!!!!
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Banked Slalom & Tree Tubes in WV
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On 6/27/2005
K-LEE
wrote in from
United States
(198.133.nnn.nnn)
Grass-roots Banked Slalom contests are the BEST!!! And tree tubes are awesome! I'm glad to see that people outside of New Mexico are feeling this vibe!
Here are some other pics from that ditch:
http://free.prohosting.com/moebius/treetubes.htm
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DownHill Billies Summer Skate Jam at Hobby Park
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On 6/27/2005
North Carolina Longboarder- DownHill Billies
wrote in from
United States
(166.82.nnn.nnn)
Saturday’s DownHill Billies Summer Skate Jam at the
Hobby Park Soap Box Derby Hill in Winston-Salem was
filled with STOKE to the MAX! I want to thank everyone
that participated, skated, helped with the fun raiser,
drop us some swag, or just were there in spirit! It
was an awesome day with and awesome group of people and
those you in your crew now that missed it you were
missed by us. For all of longboarders, slalom skaters,
street stylers who like to bomb, sliders, and what have
ya skaters, you will be blown up about skating after
you attend a DHB event!
MEGA PROPS AND A DHB THANKS:
Food Crew: Darren and Kerri, Lil’E and Shanda, JayBird
and Jil, Dex and Angie, and Darren Lil Shane Bandy
(who donated all of the hotdogs and fixins!)
Raffle Swag:
Brent Griffin- Donated/Painted 1st 1 of 1 DHB jam
Commemorative Longboard (won by our new Charlotte soon
to be Gainesville, Florida rider R.J.)
Dex Decker- Owner of DEX SKATEBOARDS for donation of
two sweet streetstyle boards (one of which was won by
Martha one of our new crew members)
Concrete Wave Magazine/ Michael Brooke (via contact
made my another Charlotte rider new to the DHB Heckle)-
assorted cool swag/tee shirts/books/mags.
Image Entertainment (Las Vegas, NV)/ Mark Jackson (one
of very first Charter long distance member)- DVD’s of
“Endless Summer” the surf classic!
Note: The raffle was a huge success! Thank you all for
your efforts to support the cause!
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER AWARD:
3rd. Heckle for killing the hill time and time again
until drawing first blood.
2nd. Greg from Greensboro….dude got sick speed wobbles
drafting on Jaybird in the head to head race and pulls
off one incredible great save by sliding on his knee
pads and wrist guards for more than 30ft!
1st. Gnarly John- While we were standing at the
parking lot about to leave for a the day a small
scrawny kid that skated up the hill on roller blades
all the way past the starting blocks and proceeded to
try to bomb the hill. We all try to get him to walk
down the grass instead which he did……until, as pointed
out by Mac T. ….he drops in over the rail in front of
the soap box starting blocks and parallels the hill
almost to the run out before eating it big. We
reached the bottom to him all he could say was “"It
don't hurt, I just can't understand why I can't stop
crying” and immediately proceeds to laughing. We hook
him up with a DHB shirt, a video, and some stickers for
being the GNARLIEST Dude on the hill that day! We got
to get that kid on a skateboard and wearing pads! He
could have been no more than 8 years old.
FASTEST MAN ON THE HILL: Mac T both on the speed
checked via GPS and in the head to head racing Mac T
smoked it up. On a day when every DHB was skating
there fastest Mac T. had his Landyachtz Evo dialed in
tight!
PODIUM FOR HEAD TO HEAD DOWNHILL RACE:
1st. Mac T
2nd. NCLB (Karr)
3rd. Jaybird
FASTEST SLALOM DUDE ON THE HILL: Ron Olson, drives all
the way up from Georgia for the day and proceeds to
kill the big fast as hell GS from top to bottom
starting at the starting gates run after run after run
after run for 3 hours and then drives back to Georgia
straight away to go to work! That is FREAKIN
DEDICATION!
KILLER HOME MADE CONTRAPTIONS:
SST broke the hill in big time (pun intended) on his
Crutch Longboard (yes, seriously a longboard built from
a real hospital crutch!)
Mac T: Broke out the Shaggy Mobile, a super fat, long,
homemade longboard completed with deep, heavy red shag
carpet, and a roman candle exhaust! Board was ridden
barefoot only!
Brent: Road the hill on the awesome 6 wheeler (4 tandem
in the back) two up front!
BEST SUPPORTERS:
All of the friends, families, children, and skate shop
owners, stray people from the Short Wave radio club, RC
flyers, and two dudes with cameras! It was awesome
walking up that hill from a run seeing all those
families with small children and other folks hanging
out and sharing the stoke for the DHB’s. That in and
of it self made all of the hard work that went into
Saturday’s event worth it.
YOUNG SKATERS:
Jake’s little sun riding tandem with him sitting down
the hill!
Jbird with one his daughters riding tandem as well!
Nathan, a young street boarder nephew to Brent and his
wife….He has the stoke for longboarding now for sure!
Look forward to seeing all of ya’ll and the next
session or jam!
Marion Karr
www.downhillbillies.org
“Fueling The Stoke One Hillbilly At A Time!”
Proud Member of the DownHill Billies
"Fueling the Stoke one Hillbilly at a Time!"
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Nice ditch and DHB
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On 6/26/2005
RJ
wrote in from
United States
(66.157.nnn.nnn)
Hey guys, that ditch looks killer. The Jam was awosome. I won the first ever DHB deck. I have mounted randel 150's and 70mm wheels on the best sho deck ever. I will not skate it nuch but i felt it had to be trucked (after all it is a skateboard) Cant wait to skat with everyone of you again. The gam produced speeds well over the 40mph mark and they where awosome!!
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Hill bombing!!
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On 6/26/2005 Lenny-DHB
wrote in from
United States
(68.250.nnn.nnn)
With the grapes of steele it'd take to bomb Hobby Hill like y'all did, if you fell the sparks'd cause a forest fire!!! Rock on!!
Glad the jam went well!
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you are not devo
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On 6/26/2005 ben jamin
wrote in from
United States
(66.190.nnn.nnn)
You are men! Kicking from the top of that soap box hill is insane on the thane! I knew you all would have a great time. I better get some proactice on some hill bombing if you start the prize money stuff. Getting my act together (that's been going on for thirty eight years) in WestByGodVirginia!
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THUMBS
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On 6/26/2005
D. HOLT
wrote in from
United States
(67.21.nnn.nnn)
HATE I MISSED THE DITCH NOT HAYE I MISSED.
DOWNHILLBILLIES TRUEBLOOD D.HOLT
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DHB JAM WAS GREAT BUT HAYE I MISSED THE DITCH
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On 6/26/2005
D. HOLT
wrote in from
United States
(67.21.nnn.nnn)
RIGHT ON!!! LENNY AND BEN, THE DITCH LOOKS GREAT!!! We missed you guys yesterday but everything went great. We raised some dough and left a trail of thane burned into huge super GS from the top of the hill. Then we bombed that hill kicking from the grass breaking the 40mph mark and then some. The raffle went really well. So we decided to do a five dollar entry fee , no kick , head to head race with single elimination and a wild card draw for the loser of each heat. Money pot got up to $50 with a $30 / $15 split to 1st and 2nd plce. EVAN won first & MARION took second. WE WERE ALL SCREAMING DOWN THAT HILL!! THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR EFFORTS AND SUPPORT.
LATER SKATERS D.HOLT
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WV Ditch session
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On 6/26/2005 Marc F.
wrote in from
United States
(205.188.nnn.nnn)
The pics look great!! Thumbs up to Ben for cleaning out this ditch. Ben discovered this ditch 20 yrs ago when we were on a road trip to Virginia Beach Trashmore Contest. I have some old vintage photos I will try to post later this week if I can find them. The session looks like too much fun and I will be there for the next one.
Marc F.
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WV Ditch Session
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On 6/25/2005 ben
wrote in from
United States
(66.190.nnn.nnn)
I know we missed out on Hobby Park but we had a great session at the ditch. Lenny, it was great to have you come down and those pictures are awesome, especially the two I did not take. We rode over two hours with no hassels. As I have said before, Lenny rules.
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Ditch Sesh
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On 6/25/2005 Lenny- DHB
wrote in from
United States
(68.250.nnn.nnn)
While many of our DHB family were down south and the Mrs. went shopping with my mother-in-law, Ben and I hooked up with some bros to make some mischief at the West Virginian Wallows. Here are some shots from the day.
Nick doing banked slalom
Ben doing Banked slalom
Me- FS carve
Ben, thanks a million for the invite and the sesh! It was a blast!
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Oh boy....
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On 6/24/2005
John Dillon, Team Fun
wrote in from
United States
(151.200.nnn.nnn)
Wait til I tell my hockey friends about this.....they are gonna be pissed that those dudes did that w/hockey sticks...in fact, they'll be pissed that those dudes did that to begin with...same w/my skate friends. All the hockey people I know wouldn't do anything like that...in fact, they support skateboarders and their causes even if they don't skateboard. I hate to hear about any senseless violence at all...hey, the gate to heaven will be locked when they try to get in, then the trapdoor to hell will open and swallow them whole! Treat others as you would like to be treated....I've only met cool downhill skaters...this certainly didn't get any press when it happened last year....are downhill skaters not worthy? They are awesome folks in my book!
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dang
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On 6/23/2005 flea - dhb
wrote in from
United States
(66.44.nnn.nnn)
dang ol' we's a havin' anothr one of dem danged ol' downhillbilly jams and dis time wes gonna do it like we always do it wes gonna get right n point right down dat danged ol' hill again and i's tellen sumden else too that u already no so anint' no reason too go no futhre dan i am right now.
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Wow!
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On 6/23/2005 MissouriMatt
wrote in from
United States
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There are some way funked up folks out there. I'm sorry to read about this. I hope the a$$hole$ get what they deserve. My thoughts and prayers for everyone involved. I'm glad that the event has continued.
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spel cehck
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On 6/21/2005 smitty
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Canada
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Oops:
PARTICIPATION
Sorry
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