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On 10/11/2000 jetlabels
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Soulcarving is definitely not about where you might be going, but how you're getting there. Zig zagging down a hill not to get to the bottom, but to make it last as long as possible. And with soulcarving comes the infinite sadness of KNOWING that one hill you would love to bomb if there just wasn't some much #!*@^%! traffic!
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On 10/11/2000
cory
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Longboarding was introduced to me 3 years ago. It has changed the way I act, the way I think and the way I feel. My soul has forever been changed.
I tend to get seperated from nature at work in the hi-rise buildings after 9 hours. The first thing I do is grab my board and carve a nice hill a few times. After I ride my board, I feel like I am again part of nature. I LOVE LONGBORDING-
Bomb Hills Not People
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On 10/10/2000
Chris Chaput
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Skating and driving can be hazardous to your health. After carving up the long and winding road up at Barrett Junction on a speedboard, buttboard, streetluge and inline skates, your mind starts to wander off into a series of replays of each turn and which line to take. Without realizing what I was doing, I started to drive faster and kind of lean into the turns while driving home. The problem is that these are poorly lit mountain roads and I was in a motorhome. Not the kind of soulcarve I had in mind.
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On 10/10/2000
Kaylee
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Yes, my brain works like that!! I always stare out of the car or bus I am riding in imagining that I am skating at the same speed along the sidewalk or parking lots next to me and what kind of gaps/stairs I would clear/grind if I was Mark Gonzales on speed. Funny how the exact same sidewalk doesn't seem nearly as skateable when you actually are cruizing down it for real.
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On 10/10/2000 Paul d.
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Does anybody elses brain work like this? As your driving along the country side, as a passenger, and envision that you are racing along side the car on a dirtbike , going up and down in and out of gulleys, fields,trees, etc. (try it next time) Anyway, in the Great white north, this country side gets covered in snow and when the wind whips it into snow drifts it looks like (if you can imagine) the most beautiful snake run you can think out. So I imagine (still at 36) it's concrete and I'm skating along (at sick speeds). Now that's carvin' ... if you can imagine.
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On 10/10/2000 Paul D.
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I remember my first board. It was my brothers steel wheeled skateboard. I learned to ride by lying down on it, on my stomach and pushing w/ my hands.This is actually how I figured out ,without realizing what I was doing,how to turn. Before that I never stood on it. This is how I taught my 5 year old to really ride. Last summer he could stay on and roll about 20 ft. Then this summer I had him try riding around on his butt and steer by leaning. Once he had that he could ride standing up so easyly. Unfortunately,(for my ego) he's not really interested in it. That's okay (I have to tell myself) he's only five (besides I've got two more kids to brainwash, he he he).
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On 10/10/2000 Gary
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Catamaraning with my 13 year old son down a parking lot carving and slinging each other. Another version of soul
carving.
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On 10/9/2000
Chris Chaput
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Thank you Roger for taking me back to my first skating experience. At 13, Tim and Jason were cool guys, I had terminal nerd syndrome. They had skateboards with clay wheels, I had one black rollerskate with metal wheels on my right foot. They had a great stance, I had a good push. I actually put my push foot (left) on top of the skate near the toes/nose and bombed hills with them at Seaside Elementary School across the street from my house. My parents wouldn't buy me a board but when I saved up $7.42 ($1.75 per wheel plus 6% sales tax in LA county) I went straight to E.T. Surfboards in Hermosa Beach and bought some Cadillac wheels. Homemade boards in woodshop and borrowed trucks, carefully dropping in all those loose bearings and spinning the wheels in front of a stopwatch. We could now make the 90 degree right turn at the bottom of the hill after starting all the way at the top. That was my first soulcarve in 1974.
Roger is carrying the torch today. He is showing up, carving down, and enjoying the ride. He'll help you set up camp, drive you up and down the road and do it with a smile, asking nothing in return. He is one of several new acquaintances in skate related activities, and definitely a Soul Man.
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On 10/9/2000
hugh r
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Roger,
Your story makes me remember the first time I attempted to ride a skateboard. I don't know how we got it but it was a very small wood deck with the slipperiest (?) clay wheels I have ever seen. We spent hours falling off of that thing!
My dad made my first real deck. I worked and saved all summer to get a set of chicago trucks and cadillac wheels. My first carves were up and down the drive ways on my street. With the magic wheels we could make the sidewalk turn at the corner. Those were good days.
Then came the orange kryptonics... smoothest wheel ever (I know the past is not always what its rememberd as) I'll never forget what those babies did to the drive ways!
For so many years skating was my life. School was something I did between sessions. Work was something I did to buy the gas to search and ride.
Sometimes when I ride the streets near my house I remember back to the early days and how we tried to skate just the way we saw the guys in the movies surf. That was the begining of carving for me. I lived too far from the beach. I didn't have the skills to skate like Shreddie or those guys... but I could carve like I was surfing. Didn't matter if I looked silly... I loved (and still love) every minute of it.
While skating is no longer my life, it is an important part of it... HR
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On 10/9/2000
roger
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Remember your very first time standing on a skateboard, just trying to keep balance and not falling off? Then after a couple of attempts starting to get the hang of the balance thing and realizing that unlike a shopping cart you can steer these things! I'll never forget the feeling of my first controlled slow turn. I remember that parking lot in Tahoe, I remember that Blacknight with clay wheels, and I remember my cousin chanting "my turn, my turn", and brother saying "its my board"... Just a bunch of little kids having fun with a toy, learning how to turn, doing our first carves.
It is a shame to see little groms trying to learn to ollie before they can stay on the board for more than a few yards. They are trying to be like the big kids. I doubt that they remember the first time they say a skateboard. We had no idea what we where doing. We never had seen a skateboard before, was not even sure what they where called, and at first had no idea that they could turn. My older brother was pretty sure you can stand on them as well as sit on them - he was right!
That's the way we did it, and damn it, we liked it that way!
Roger
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On 10/9/2000 Paul d.
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Well I just got in (have to sleep sometime), carvin' around on my latest vert lam creation(R-II's and power paws). It's nice when the weather is less then perfect because there is almost no one around. The pathes and the streets are clear.I like carvin' around at night knowing my family is sleeping tight , cause if they're content so am I (they are my only concern in life). It seems to help me skate better.
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On 10/9/2000
Mike
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Man, this is an awesome website. I like this forum the best. Soul carving is what longboarding is about. Just getting all of the neighborhood kids and ripping down the hill at the top of the street. It's the only thing to do when there's no surf.
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On 10/8/2000
JP
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Living in Paris, too far from the sea to go surfing or Windsurfing every day. Carving is the only thing that makes me feel good after a long day of work. Boy don't I could do this all the time...
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On 10/8/2000 Jamie Blair
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Carving is simply the most relaxing and uplifting thing i know.When i was seven my father got me a Makaha plastic board,which after a few months of a rollingskate DIYer,was quite simply heaven.It was quick,smooth and a bucket load of fun.I'm nearly thirty now and the buzz is still the same although the board has grown.I look forward to teaching my daughter the joy to be found in cruising down a hill,gently carving your way to the bottom.Scotland has some of the worlds best hills with good roads on most,one day i will have tried them all.Cheerio.
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On 10/8/2000 Chris
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Yeah, carving with style is the best. Technical tricks just don't feel the same as one's with soul.
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On 10/7/2000
Kaylee
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Soulcarving is what skateboarding was meant to be when the skate gods gifted us with the wheeled board. It's what all skateboarding seemed like to me when I first started as a kid. Back then, any skateboard was a smooth downhil carver first and foremost. The fact that tricks were possible came second, next to pure skating. I feel kinda bad for kids starting nowdays who look at a skateboard and think Tony Hawk Hardflip 900. Maybe the fact that Tech Deck is issuing Sector 9, Dreggs, and MBS replicas will change all that. Regardless, I'm collecting them ALL!!
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On 10/7/2000
Brian
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After school I get home grab my board and just ride
It is the only whay I can clear my mind relive the stress
whether I am pissed of and bomb a hill or just go fill it out longboarding, It's how I keep my sanity
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On 10/5/2000
dankdude
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Every day I pray for another. Another brother,another sister ,another paving crew . Frictionless and never ending ,no class ,mountain pass , real fast . It's all about being with your people, being all one equal ,one big fat ride . Keep it real...long .{forever...}
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On 10/5/2000
mohawk mike
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I live in the Texas hill country so it's all downhill here, so to me soulriding is finding a long barely sloping hill that I can just carve back and forth and for 5 minutes it's just great, then I walk back to the top of the hill and ride back down, ahhhh.
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On 10/5/2000
Jimmy Flindt
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I like this section on your site, thats what I am all about.
It all started by soulcarving, then technology tookover.
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On 10/3/2000
david
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i agree with the people that soulcarving is to skate just because to skate. even though there are no ollies or fancy tricks its just as fun, yeah bombing a hill is good if you want a big rush, but when i'm carving it up in the sunset district, looking out at the ocean on pavment thats oh so smooooooth, theres nothing more relaxing
in the world
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On 10/3/2000 Paul D.
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Very cool forum. Some great words and ideas and feelings come from the soul.It's nice to hear such cool attitude.To me soul riding could be summed up by what happened the other night at Pine Beach Park: As I was carving back and forth along the water (moon sparkling on the water).This 80 something year old gentlemen was walking toward me and as we passed he had a big smile on his face and said "...nice'n easy ,eh...". I smiled back and just said "Oh yahh."
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On 10/3/2000 waxfoot
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DT - you hitting the new housing developments in Mililani? Never made it out there myself - too busy getting wet. You ever make it over to the big island? There's some pretty sweet hills over here as well. Some, of course, a bit bigger than my current ability....
waxfoot
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On 10/3/2000
DT
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My first soul ride was when i was living in Hawaii. My roomate and i were in Mililani riding Freeride Senorita Love Joy (the best carving board) on b-52, grease bearings, and freeride wheels.
It was raining that night in Sunset where i lived, our local hills were rained out, so we took a chance and drove out to Mililani and scored! If you have ever ridden in Hawaii than you know how smooth and perfect the roads can get, we were STOKED! We skated for hours, and i had the largest smile plastered to my face like a fool. I became a soul carve junkie, skating everynight afterward! the end.
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On 10/2/2000 craig
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AAAAH...
I just read all the posts here...their so poetic.
But it's obvious why.
I just feel like shelving my leathers, shelving my exkates, kicking the aerodynamic tuck, screwing the low CG board, and taking my girlfriend to a chilled hill to teach her to carve.
The only board i got to do this on is 38" flexdex. But it does the trick more than nothing. I also use old red kryptos. I don't know how i'm going to go study now, it's a still warm monday evening in Cape Town, and there's no one on the roads, my boards next to my desk....
I don't think i should read this forum until the end of term. This is what day (wet?) dreamimg is all about.
Who needs porn?
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