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On 12/5/1999 Lindsay
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Whoops, draankin' n' skatin is not actually my name, that would be sad.
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On 12/5/1999 Draankin' n' skatin
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I totally agree about drinking and skating. Although after a couple of beers
on Friday night i just get a bit amped sometimes and have to grab my skate and
hit that favourite carpark building...it's a weakness.
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On 12/3/1999
namon
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Yup, drinking is not to good when you mix it with things that require balance and a little skill and that involve speed. You usually get messed.
namon
bomb hills
not people
geezers for ever
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On 12/2/1999 brian
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me and aftermath made a list of things on how not to get killed. Drinking was definently one of the things to avoid.
maybe he'll post it for you guys.
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On 12/2/1999 brandie terrient
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one night my friends and i were drinking at the top of the big hiil i live on. so we were there for about an 2hours and i said that i have to go home to wack it.i had one 40oz of bud light and so i was drunk.so i started down the hill as fast i could and then i was close to my house at the bottom of the hill so i hit a rock and i flew a good 5 yard and went face first into the pavement. my face was so fucked up that i couldnt get a date to prom. so i went with my neighbor. the end i just want everone be safe
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On 12/1/1999
Lindsay
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I'm starting to get the rail grab Coleman slide thing working on
my 48" pin and I'm feeling good about that. So I practiced in
earnest last Friday night in a smooth tiled amphitheatre,
dropping down an incline, cutting in tight and leaning back and
and making urethane flakes. We get a lot of Japanese camera crews
shooting photos around our fair city for tourism promos...our man
gets all amped up, stops shooting the fountain or whatever and
sets up his tripod etc. and when he's ready I pump it up for
another run...only this time my 78 wheels stick (how bizzare) and
I get pitched right off into a bench, ah well, bit sore you know how it is.
Got some smaller wheels on that deck now, it's a bit looser now aye ;)
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On 11/29/1999
Cranker Sore
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Looking back, there is one crash that really knocked some sense into me. I had the opportunity to skate the powell peralta skate zone by myself. Kim Robinon set me up to do a film session and his last words were "wear a helmet" What did I do? I came down the roll in, travelled the distance of the floor, blew my backside turn out the top of the twelve foot transition, then had to back pedal. I should have balled up, but I tried to step it out and Slam!, whip lashed limp necked head cram onto concrete warehouse floor. I have not hed the film for at least five years, but I will never forget the intense mental clarity that has not left since that day. Wear your helmet, a simple head plant will not come close to feeling like a full throttle whipping head slam.
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On 11/29/1999
Adam
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Our logs show that "Cliff Colemon" was really Shae Rollin, aka L-Boy, aka Scott. The lot of them have been relegated to the banned list.
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On 11/29/1999
Cliff Coleman
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I just read the post by someone claiming to be "Cliff Colemon". Please don't confuse this as one of my posts, me being Cliff Coleman. I don't know if this is a joke or that maybe there is someone that has a name very similar to me, highly unlikely! If this is a joke it is not funny. Web Master, please keep your eyes open for this in the future.
Thanks,
The real Cliff Coleman
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On 11/29/1999 Cliff Colemon
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Once I was was going super fast like 11mph (yeah 11MPH!!) and I wanted to turn (I know it was dumb of me to do this at such high speeds but I did) and so i tried to grab the side of my board and I missed it! i fell flat on my side!! Moral of this story : Don't go over ten MPH unless you want to crash!!
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On 11/28/1999
Jeanne Schoenhofer
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Today is the one year anniversary of the death of my son Simon Cvetkovich. All his friends are driving now. Simon would be 16, had he not died last Nov 29th. We dedicated a beautiful ceramic mural created by 15 students at his high school, last tues. It was a big project, costing nearly $11,000 when all said and done. Birdhouse Project and Sole Technology contributed and that was so cool. Ezekiel sent 7 shirts which I will give to the male student artists as soon as I find something equally wonderful to give the females. I think they would like the shirts too. If you are ever in Wichita, Kansas, stop by Northeast High School to see it. The memorial courtyard is for all students who suffer an untimely death. There is imagery of a skateboarder along with a hockey player and Simon sitting in the center playing his violin, with cat at his feet. The border contains tab and lyrics of "Stairway to Heaven", because that was the piece we found on his guitar stand, that was what he was learning on his electric guitar. My favorite part is Simon and his sister swimming together. They did a lot of that and it is well depicted and meaningful to me, the mother. Please do not forget Simon as you move forward in awareness and safety in skateboarding.
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On 11/27/1999
skanky_dog
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On the subject of crap on the road:
I find that an hour or two a week with a broom on the turns on my favorite runs really helps reduce crashes. I live in the country and it seems that during the rainy season, the roads get washed over with dirt and rocks, so I've been having to put in a fair ammount of effort to remain crash-free.
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On 11/25/1999
Cliff Coleman
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Namon,
That "Backwards Nose Wheelie Thing", was a difficult and popular trick at the "First International Skateboard Championships" in Anahiem, CA, 5-22-65. The name of the trick is a "Heelie".
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On 11/25/1999 Jesse
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I was bombing this hill. It was raining a little but the ground was soked I went to slow down so I put my foot down. I didnt know that there was a rock where my foot was about to be. I hit the rock and I was gone. I flew into the wet grass and slid on my hip for about 20 ft. I did not get hurt at all but my hip is a little sore. I hate to skate in the rain.
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On 11/21/1999
drew
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I was skating the UCSC campus and had a minor crash. Rainy season sucks, but it does provide some interesting challenges skating. I was going down a real steep hill, and pulling colman slides because I had just gotten new wheels after flatspoting my old ones. These wheels are about 34 mm wide, compaired with the 40mm or so on my flatspotted bones bombers. So I was enjoying the increased sliding distance when my slide drifted onto a wet patch of pavement. I simply would not stop. The slide kept going for a long time untill I paniced and somehow set my butt and elbow down on the ground. Skinned my elbow, but not bad thanks to the wet pavement.
Moral of story, wear elbow pads when testing out new wheels for sliding potential, especialy when riding at night on wet pavement.
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On 11/21/1999 franky
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NEVER get towed by a car with an unsafe driver.
I leant my mate my pro41. He grabs onto some fat dude's Nissan and he drives off at 45mph. My mate got huge speed wobbles and fell off, cracked 2 ribs, ripped his £160 jacket and snapped the carbon fibre on my gullwing trucks!
Now i've got no freakin' skateboard!
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On 11/19/1999
Pee-Wee
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Yeah, Brian C. dude. I agree to avoid the wet asphalt. I bailed yet again due to wet concrete at my beloved UCSC campus. I just need to better control my power slides. Anyway, I was on a walking path that I thought was wide enough to bust a slide on. I started to slide but my direction was totally off and I went off the side onto a dirt hill into some bushes. It probably looked really funny for whoever saw me. Damn, now I gotta wash my dirty 'ol jeans.
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On 11/17/1999
Brian C
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Well the same kind of slick road crash happened to me last week also..but sorta a bit worse. Just when the
rain stopped I immediately grabbed my board and start carving it hard since it's been raining for a couple
weeks now and I'm getting really sick of it. The slope I was riding wasn't really anything steep but it's
very wet due to the rain. Just after I gained some speed and start making some really sharp turns the board
slided a bit when I was turning heel side, but it was quite manageable so I didn't think too much of it, and
then just as I was initiating my toe side turn, my wheels decided to get into full slide and it happened so
quick that before I even know what's going on I was thrown out of the board opposite in direction of where
the board is going, hit the ground with my left arm, left knee and lips. Took me five minutes just to get
back up and I can barely walk while my left arm was hurting badly. Should've worn pads and used my 78A wheels
instead of 84A, but I'd say avoiding boarding on wet surface is the safest bet.
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On 11/17/1999
Pee-Wee
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I just had a lame ass wipe out. I went to check my mail (I'm skating on the UCSC campus) and it had just rained this morning. However, it dried up a bit so I figure it's no prob to skate. So I'm going down a mellow hill and I turned too sharp. Since the ground was slick from the rain I had an unexpected powerslide. I held it for a second then the back wheels just went out on me. Fortunately, I didn't hit the ground too hard and not many people were watching. But one dude who was sympathetic said "it's a little slick, eh?" Yeah, dude. Just a little.
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On 11/17/1999
Sandy M
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This happened to me in the middle of a road trip I did thru the southwestern states with a couple of buddies of mine. Somebody had the bright idea to cut thru death valley in august. (goddamn it's hot there!) We got in to the valley at about 1 AM and were trying to push thru so we wouldn't have to camp in the sick heat (90 degrees in the middle of the night). the terrain looked really crazy: steep grade, sharp turns, and steep drops into a canyon full of sharp rocks. However, after driving for a while, we got down into the bottom of a fairly straight canyon, so there were no more sharp turns and no more steep drops. kewl! I had been "mentally skating" the road, discussing all the lines with my buddy Devinder, who is my skating partner and who was driving the van. I was getting really stoked to hit the pavement so when I saw a "6% grade - 5 miles" sign I decided that was IT! I suited up and dropped in on this nice slope.
Well, the pavement looked really nice from the van, but when I got out in front of it, away from the headlights, I could see that it was rippled all the way across the road at about a 45 degree angle to the center line. I didn't think it would be a problem, but when I got up to speed, I found that the ripples seriously decreased my ability to carve hard. I couldn't get the wheels to stick properly through a carve. So I wound up going about 35 down a hill in death valley in the middle of the night and I was unable to control my speed. (damn!) I carved back and forth for about 3 minutes, getting more and more worried that my five miles were almost up. I didn't know what to expect, and I was afraid there might be another one of those tight turns that I had seen so many of earlier.
So, when I saw a "right arrow" sign I figured it was time to get off. Having never mastered the coleman slide, I just crouched down, put down both of my gloves and tried to use them as brakes. (they were leather welder's gloves). I got some vicious speed wobbles and wound up dragging my unprotected right knee as well. Shortly after, I went into some kind of somersault and wound up in the sharp gravel and broken glass on the side of the road. The major causalty was about 6 square inches of skin off my knee, plus assorted scrapes elsewhere.
The morals of the story: Learn to coleman slide, and dont drop in on unfamiliar (and potentially dangerous) turf.
Skate safe
Sandy M
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On 11/17/1999 bug
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Oh yeah, and... rough roads are why I don't like flexible boards. Any bump or crack jerks you around. Stiff board bounces over the problem and your footing's secure. All those flexy decks were out in the 70's. I thought for a good reason they disappeared during the New School age. No stability. Hey, don't kill me, I'm only talking about my local riding conditions.
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On 11/17/1999 bug
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Tell me 'bout it! Where I live the roads are generally terrible anyway (Michigan) without the leaves, sticks, nuts, branches, you name it. It's pretty hard here just to find a smooth road to ride at all. My story? Just a few minor wrist ouches, because of sticks mainly, always when someone is watching. I skated in the 70's and got back into it this summer. I (almost) never skate faster than I can jump off, so you can guess I'm deep into carving turns- Old School.
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On 11/16/1999
Lindsay
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Copy that PreSchoolRider..my 48" deck helps heaps, one can take a
wide stance going over road crap. So easy to ride I tend to
relax a little too much sometimes know what I mean? ;-)
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On 11/16/1999 PreSchoolRider/Re,Lindsay
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Lindsay,to avoid the sudden wheel stopage on those expansion joints,try approaching the lip at an angle,not straight on,and put maybe 60% of your weight onto you back foot.(Newbie,Take Note!)Also keep your hands low and in front of you as you approach,then lift your hands up just as you roll over the bump.This helps unweight the wheels for a sec.,and may help you get over them with hanging up. Hey,Newbie,Sorry you had to take that lesson on the chin.Live and learn.Wear gloves or wrist guards,Always!Peace,and heal well!
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On 11/16/1999
Newbie Boarder
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Newbie Boarder mistake #1 - Never skate with your hands in the pouch pocket of your hoody sweatshirt. Did this 2 days ago. I was watching for cars approaching an intersection, and hit a man hole cover. With my hands in the pouch pocket, I had no way of protecting the face. Split my chin open...took 10 stitches to close it back up.
That's what I get for being too casual on the board.
Newbie Boarder (Can't you tell?) :)
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