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FEMALE INLINE or LONGBOARD SKATERS NEEDED.... PLEASE READ
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On 8/9/2006
DANIEL FERNANDEZ
wrote in from
United States
(65.10.nnn.nnn)
This is a great oppurtunity for downhill FEMALE longboarders. My cousion Toni Gemayel, and I, Daniel Fernandez are planning a trans-continental downhill adventure looking for the best hills in the U.S. to skate down. In the process of this "search" the group will produce podcasts, videos, and pics all with our sponsors' names on it.
Yes, u read it right, we are in the process of obtaining sponsors. Right now we have Concrete Wave, a national longboarding magazine to feature us in a three page article. If you are intrested in coming, e-mail the team at: adventureskateteam@gmail.com.
SPACE IS LIMITED. HURRY on this offer. Tell all ur female friends about this. The trip is going to be held in the summer of '07.
GIRLS FROM CA or FL ONLY plz, thanks.
Take care ladies,
Adventure Skate Team
(Daniel Fernandez, Toni Gemayel, Diego Galindo)
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Speeds and shoes
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On 7/31/2006 CasualSkater
wrote in from
United States
(24.251.nnn.nnn)
As for shoes, I would recommend vans. I've been skating in vans for years on long and short boards, I find they last longer than most any other shoe. As for speeds, I've been clocked by a friend following in a car at 49mph, the ;speed limit on the street was only 25. I want to try the hill in Fountain Hills, Az where Gary Hardwick holds the downhill record at 62mph.
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THIRD AVENUE
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On 7/29/2006
paul steuri
wrote in from
United States
(24.10.nnn.nnn)
There is a speedometer that tells you how fast you are going as you aproach it on 3rd avenue in SLC, Utah, check it out its sweet, I've only gotten 27 but I can get faster, post how fast you've gotten.
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People to Skate With
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On 7/24/2006
Crystal
wrote in from
United States
(69.177.nnn.nnn)
Alright, so, I'm over here in Connecticut visiting my dad, and he taught me how to longboard. I'm looking to find some people to longboard with and help me learn more stuff with when I go back home to Oregon in late August. I love the sport, and I need to share the stoke with some locals. I live near Bend Oregon if anyone wants to hook up and take me around the area. Email me if you're interested.
xXSpread the Stoke!!Xx
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shoes 2 sk8 in
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On 7/20/2006 isabelle
wrote in from
United States
(209.66.nnn.nnn)
try OSIRIS, these hoes do hold up very well over hard wearing.
i skate only in OSIRIS 'cuz my feet deserve no less!!!!!
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MT TABOR VIDEO
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On 7/14/2006 anonymous
wrote in from
United States
(71.214.nnn.nnn)
check out my new longboarding video from mt. tabor! ignore my profile.
the url is http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoID=932365122&n=2
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drag
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On 7/14/2006 anonymous
wrote in from
United States
(71.214.nnn.nnn)
k does anyone know a good pair of shoes for longboarding? i mean, my shoes get worn out alot from dragging, and i am dragging alot less nowadays but there always is tha one hill i have ta go down which i just have to drag a little. i need some shoes that'll last me. you know any?
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I need some people to luge around Provo Ut
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On 7/5/2006
Lucky_sevens
wrote in from
United States
(67.137.nnn.nnn)
Hey everyone I have been riding longboards scence i was really young and started to build my own boards around 4 years ago. Latly I have wandered around Provo Ut and havent found many good hills. Latest and best I have hit was a couple days ago when I hit 65 mph but I still want to go bigger and faster. I am currently riding a regular pin tail flat board with lucky 7 (titanium) with the 70's flashbacks and Randal 180's with the bones hard bushings. I love the set up becasue it lets me be very versitial with what I ride. I really need some help getting faster and maby some local luge hills would be cool. But mostly I need someone who has the guts to do it with me. My friends are longboarders and I have built all of there boards but they dont dare to get much speed I dont know why but I guess there a little boaring lol. I am 16 and have a need for speed. Plz someone contact me with some info on maby some good riding spots and maby a friend as daring as me would be nice to. Well later all!!
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Random
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On 7/3/2006
Savannah
wrote in from
(71.76.nnn.nnn)
Hey guys, my dad is really big into slalom and downhill and he got me into it for a while. I took a break but now im wantin to get back into it.. Im the only chick around here into it all so it kinda sucks!! Im tryin to get some other ppl into slalom but ... there all into that whole popsicle board junk... well anyone from Wv holla at me...
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im getting better
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On 6/30/2006
Samuel Womack
wrote in from
United States
(68.171.nnn.nnn)
hey guys thanks for the stories, luckily the chip has gone back into place on its own, so i wont need any surgery, we lost our last allstar game, i couldn't play. but i have one tomorrow and w/ my elbow tapped and braced ill be able to play. basically i just got blessed, all the docs said itd be luike 5-6 weeks, and im bouncing back in just 3 weeks, lots of prayer :) well i hope you guys encounter the same blessing, ill be skating after allstars is over, if anyone lives around Santa Monica hit me up i have like 6 longboards. right now im going thougha series of injections in my elbow, to help restore and strengthen the tendons and ligaments, It s some amazing stuff, it fixed both my knees after injuries that other docs said required surgery, if you want some info on the treatment hit me up, this doctor is amazing! it sounds suspect (his clinic is in ensanada mexico) my mom is a harvard medical graduate, and was a practicing oncologist, and she has had her neck fixed after a car wreck and her back fixed after a fall, docs sadi she needed surgery, but now shes lifting weights and back in shape, better than ever, he also fixed my dads knees, after he had a bunch of knee surgeries that didnt work, and fixed his hipped after he tore some stuff, anbd now im gettting better after only one treatment. so you can call me anytime guys (its not some quack medicine or anything, he just does it in mexico to avoid all the legal issues and taxes, my mom says he knows the body better than anyone else, if she trusts herself with him, then its all good.) 310 467 1399 It really works
Peace,
Sam
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re injuries
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On 6/20/2006 Benjiman
wrote in from
United States
(69.235.nnn.nnn)
I have had simalir injuries. when i was 12, i broke my femur at the beach.spent 3 weeks in the hospital. at 13 i broke my coller bone playing hockey. on december 23rd i broke my wrist skating. broken bones suck
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injuries
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On 6/19/2006
Karl
wrote in from
United Kingdom
(88.134.nnn.nnn)
Hey
I'm nearly 19 now been skating for about 3 years. When I was 15 I was hit by a car skating 6 days after july 4th. Ruined my summer almost killed me, broke my tibia/fibia really badly. 3 surgeries and 9 days in the hospital.
But the upside to the story is how stoked I got after I got better. Inspiration for me came in a song, whilst sitting in a hospital bed my friend gave me The Clash's Album London Calling. 3rd to last track is a song which is the reason I ever picked up the board again.
"I'm Not Down Lyrics
(Strummer/Jones)
If it's true that a rich man leads a sad life
N' that's what they from day to day
Then what do all the poor do with their lives?
Have nothing to say on judgment day?
I've been beat up, I've been thrown
Out but I'm not down, I'm not down
I've been shown up, but I've grown up
And I'm not down, I'm not down
On my own I faced a gang of jeering in strange streets
When my nerves were pumping and I
Fought my fear in, I did not run
I was not done
And I have lived that kind of day
When none of your sorrows will go away
It goes down and down and hit the floor
Down and down and down some more
Depression
But I now there'll be some way
When I can swing everything back my way
Like skyscrapers rising up
Floor by floor, I'm not giving up
So you rock around and think that
You're the toughest
In the world, the whole wide world
But you're streets away from where
It gets the roughest
You ain't been there"
Ever since then having skating beat me made me want to get good at it in the worst way. And if you saw me race last year you know what I mean by worst way. Ever since 2003 I've been extremely comitted to skating, practicing and spreading the stoke. Just don't let it get you down.
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randal trucks
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On 6/19/2006 nic
wrote in from
United States
(208.57.nnn.nnn)
if you've ever noticed the stock bushing that come with randals are like 90a so i put in some doh doh's on both bottom bushings not the top ones and it turns waaaay loose so if you like carving....................
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Crashing... And Recovering
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On 6/18/2006
K-Rimes
wrote in from
Canada
(24.80.nnn.nnn)
Sam,
I'm 3 months post operation of a pretty terrible knee injury and I'm in the same boat as you. Serious damage to the tendons in my knee. I just started skating about 3 weeks ago and it's SICK. You'll be back on your board again, and sooner than you think and you'll soon respect every carve, hill, and ride you get to do when you return. Keep at it, do your physio, and have alot of fun.
K-Rimes
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no im not making it up
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On 6/17/2006
Samuel Womack
wrote in from
United States
(68.171.nnn.nnn)
im not making it up, but now it looks like itll be shorter cast time, but ill need a lot of phisical therapy, becasue apparently the fracture already fused back on,but i tore tome tendons and ligaments, so now my arm doesnt straiten all the way, so i have to wait a couple weeks for them to heal then i can start physical therapy.....yay.....right....
rip it up for me.
Peace
Sam
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no one to skate with
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On 6/16/2006 phoebe
wrote in from
United States
(24.128.nnn.nnn)
any one know about downhill competitions in the Boston area? i've been lookin for stuff for like 6 months. theres plenty of surf stuff to do around here but its gettin old. i'm like the only chic around here to.
later
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that sucks!!!!!!!!!
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On 6/12/2006 nic
wrote in from
United States
(208.57.nnn.nnn)
F*ck i feel sorry for you but are you making this up
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Fricking gay crash that ruines my summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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On 6/10/2006
Samuel Womack
wrote in from
United States
(68.171.nnn.nnn)
well, heres one, for you guys
yesteday at 3:30 I was bombing bicknel hill with a couple guys, and we were filming a video. so i bombed it like 6 times doin different stuff, i was riding my loaded pintail. So on like my 7th run, i bombed it as fast as i could and when i was getting toward the bottom I grabbed near the nose of the board with my left arm and streched out my right on the ground (with a sliding glove) and started thes crazy drift slide into the turn. I was going at least 25mph or around there. so as im sliding outward, back and around the "turn" I hit this crack thats about and inch and a half wide and so it stops my board and pitches me backwards. my arm that had been grabbing the board got pinned behind my back and i did a backwards somersault and hit my head really hard,(luckily i was wearing my helmet) and as i summersaulted my elbow dislocated witha loud pop, but when i popped up it wewnt into place again, but i had chipped a pretty good size piece off my elbow, so i left to skate home holding my elbow, i had forgot my phone and the bus was like a mile away, and my arm hurt like hell, so like randomly this little 11 year old kid who lives on my block saw me and and yelled out to me, so i told him i broke my arm and needed a ride, so i hopped in the czar and his babbysitter gave me a ride home, so yeah lucky i didnt have to skate home witha busted arm, so yeah then my mom took me to get xrays, and now im done with life for like six weeks. no working at the surf camp, no skating, no surfing, no bikeing, no throwing my little sister in the air, and the worst of it is, ive been batting .800 all season in baseball and made allstars and now i have to forfeit my spot, so yeah life sucks, but hey sh@% happens
Sam
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Skateboarding Lessons
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On 6/7/2006 Mark
wrote in from
United States
(67.123.nnn.nnn)
Looking for skateboarding lessons for my 12 yr old son in Marin County, California. Contact me at 415 336-5531
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Hey first longboard
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On 6/2/2006 tyler
wrote in from
United States
(131.191.nnn.nnn)
Hey man, just head to your local thrift store, find a good old wooden (no plastic garbage, that won't work) waterski, take all the binding crap off, and then get crafty with woodworking tools to fine tune the shape, and you have a longboard. Just use the nose as the tail since it turns up. It's a little narrow, but I still ride my first one I made at 40+ mph. Just be careful when drilling truck holes.
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hey
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On 5/31/2006 nic
wrote in from
United States
(208.57.nnn.nnn)
cool cause i think i see your car all the time at macowans i usually come in there with a blue vision deck so if you see me say something yah thats me at the spot no i did not try any cones but i thuoght about it on memorial day cause my chruch had a picnic at the soccer field and be and my friend were going to set up empty cans until he ate it it wasnt that bad i cant do the whole hill cause im not good at foot braking so......... and because i couldnt really carve because i but lotion on my bushings and it made them super soft and got wheel bite like crazy
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spot
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On 5/31/2006
Steve Collins
wrote in from
United States
(68.4.nnn.nnn)
Hey Nic, yeah I drive a red PT cruiser ...
I saw chalk marks at my favorite spot yesterday that said "Nic was here and bombed this" or something like that ... I take it that was you ... fast spot, eh? Did you get a chance to try some cones there?
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new company looking to sell boards
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On 5/23/2006 trevor
wrote in from
United States
(71.116.nnn.nnn)
hi i want to start a company and need to know what kind of boards you guys are looking to buy. email me at trevor_hinz@yahoo.com or just post a new entry
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thanks
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first long board
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On 5/19/2006 nic
wrote in from
United States
(208.57.nnn.nnn)
how did you kids get your first long board?
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Santa Barbara long boarders
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On 5/12/2006
Michael
wrote in from
United States
(68.6.nnn.nnn)
Hey guys we are running about 7 deep on our SB skate crew. anybody in Santa barbara feel like doing 45+ miles per hour on roads like tunnel rd. and bigger hit me up we all roll Landyachtz evo and DH's we skate all the time and we are all usually down for a session. we are big on parking garages as well with our sliding skills. HIT US UP GUYS IN THE SB AREA
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