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| Q&A: Michael Brooke - Publisher, Concrete Wave Magazine (7141 Posts)
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Some Don't "get it"
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On 9/1/2003 Pauliwog
wrote in from
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Hey! Every time I go practice slalom at our water-front walkway park (which is right by and on the way to the skatepark for a lot of skaters), it usually draws questions, comments, spectators, etc. What's so weird about the whole thing is interest comes mostly from NON-skaters and few longboarders and the very infrequent pre-teen skaters. In the year I've been there practicing at that spot maybe 3 teenagers with white rock wheels on popsickle sticks have ever tried the course. I've always got spare "loaner" boards with me and they get use from the wee little kids or the longboarders, but the teen popsickle stick culture by enlarge has virtually no interest and won't roll on my slalom decks more than 3 feet. It's like that whole culture has no interest in the feel, the visceral "groove", that whatever it is the rest of us like about carving and the feeling of pure riding. I greatly dig watching the techno stuff but there's something else other than that "carve" feeling going on because it's like trying to explain green to a blind person. In retrospect the same could be said about me, I've tried some of the techno stuff and gave it up long ago as it had no good "feel" to it to me, whatever it is that they dig about techno I don't get either, I say that with no condescension. A typical remark by the longboarders after trying running the cones on a longboard or one of my loaners is something like "That's cool, I'd like to try that again - How often are you here doing this?" , and it's usually followed by a statement like "I don't know man, I'm just not into techno, that whole scene isn't for me". Also at the skateparks it's like theres a "bowl-RIDING" crowd who digs carving, grinding, edge tricks, etc., and the "Fly-Out" crowd on the skinniest boards with their trucks WAY tight doing a lot of techno stuff, of course there's some overlap but not a whole lot. The separate coexistance is o.k. but it's strange. I always wonder is the mainstream paradigm of whats presented in the "other" magazines that has ruled this kids thought patterns or were they predisposed to it and that kind of skating culture and magazine paradigm (street techno emphasis) only feed the kids what they wanted. I remember in the 1980' ramps came to predominate the vert scene and a lot of skater friends of mine did airs and some egde tricks but never carved out anything or did slides on vert ramps and were basically clueless when the occasional kidney pool was discovered to be empty. I saw the same thing with backcountry telemark skiers and their slogan "free your heels and free your mind" vs the ride-the-lifts-up,-and-ride-the-hill-down downhill skiers. I find myself echoing that and saying "loosen those trucks and free your mind". I would just feel stuck, bored, doing the same thing. I totally dig parks, cruising on my longboard, pools, slalom, and some flatland freestyle when my back will let me (it never was my strong point but I liked it). I'm just always intrigued by the vast number of popsickle stick culture kids that skate right by with no interest and yet they ARE still skaters (maybe they just don't see me as a skater) vs the MANY, MANY nonskater pedestrians who stop to watch and show an interest (I'm surprized how at this location I've only had one person negatively respond to slaloming the walkway - but I'm in a "side" walkway off the main thorough fare). Anyhow, food for thought. Plus thanks much Mike B for sending my latest issue after I called, You rate up there with Mollica in my book (though maybe not as loud or over testosteroned!). By the way, I had a similar problem getting my Discover subscription for a while also and it was Corvallis, Oregon specific in the postal problem (not our post office, but in some coding(?) system. Skate Hard and Have Fun - Pauliwog.
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Skaterdater
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On 9/1/2003
Dave Carrasco
wrote in from
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Hello Michael,
I read an article in your concrete wave magazine entitled
Skaterdater.
Can you tell me how to get in touch with Gregg Carrol.
I think he use to be my boss at Silicon Valley Group.
Then he went to CROWN BOLT Company.
I believe he lives in Santa Barbara CA.
Thank You.
Brother of Brown Bomber and Cannonball.
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Texas Slalom
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On 9/1/2003
Eddy
wrote in from
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Texas bros you dudes are missing controlling a feather slide at 20 mph+ and pulling it off. Learning to pump a slalom board up a hill. Tweaking a board to dial in the perfect setup to bomb a hill. Making it through an arrythmia of cones on a tough course and all the cones are left standing. Going to contest and meeting some of the top slalom skaters in the country and learning from these guys. There is another world out there. Marcos and I are stoked to be slaloming,we are just trying to spread the word. Eddy Texas Outlaw.
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What you're missing....
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On 9/1/2003
michael brooke
wrote in from
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Eddy brings up great point....
how many times have you gone out to skate and found skaters who've never tried wheels with less than 100 durometer...
who've never had the pleasure of bombing down a hill..
who've never experienced carving...
who've never raced thru cones...
who've never tried to skate the bowl (at the local park)
who think ABEC 11 is a new bearing format...
anyone else want to add something on this
what are folks missing that you're experiencing...
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Texas Slalom
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On 9/1/2003
Eddy
wrote in from
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I just got back from The Georgia State Championships a great race. I placed 16th in the tight slalom. TEXAS skaters you do not know what you are missing slalom is the soul of skateboarding,when the surf was flat,surfers came out of the water and learned to pump their skateboards. The slalom influence must grow in the Lone Star State. Eddy Texas Outlaw.
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oo-oo that smell, can`t you smell that smell?
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On 8/31/2003
Brady
wrote in from
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a couple o whiffs...
My first flat with wife was in a duplex with another duplex across the way. Well across from us lived this old lady named Rose. Quite a character she was. Almost every afternoon, she`d be out there drinking a MD 20/20, and doing her jigsaw pussle on her front porch. Well, she took ill and ended up in the hospital with her liver failing. I got a call from another neighbor, stating she had visited Rose and that Rose was asking for me. I didn`t know this lady too well but I always managed to say hello and chit chat once in a while. So I go to the hospital and see her. She asks me to hold her hand. I did and she grabbed hard and her body tensed up for about 10 seconds and then she just relaxed and let go of my hand. She then began smiling. It took about 3 seconds more to realize why she was smiling as apparently she had let one go. Talk about the smell of death. I couldn`t get out of there dast enough....
I never figured out if she was smiling because she had got one on me or if the act gave her some relief?
I doubt anyone will be able to top off that one by jonnyx (did you really go through his pockets?), but here`s another one, skate related...
"My first pair of Vans"
Do any of you guys remember the Vans blue suede hi-tops? I got a pair and wore them clean through. Well, maybe not so clean. Anyhoos it was in the middle of the summer when I finally let them go. And not on my own accord. I was riding home with some friends from Skateboard USA in Hollywood and on I-95, when I decided to take my hot shoes off. The driver of the car veered into the middle grass divider and stopped the car. He got out and was looking under the car all over. I guess he thought he`d run over a skunk or something. When he got back in and realized it was my shoes, ge ordered me out,,,,with my shoes. He was gonna leave in the middle of I-95 unless I left my shoes behind. But these were my first pair of Vans? When he started to drive off,so I begrudgingly decided to let them go and heaved back. As I look back now, owning Vans hi-tops in suede was probably not a wise decision in south florida.
oo-oo that smell
can`t you smell that smell?
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dead guy
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On 8/30/2003 jonnyx
wrote in from
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yeah man the worst of it was he didnt even have any money in his pockets.
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gaaaaaaaaaaaaawd!
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On 8/30/2003
michael brooke
wrote in from
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ok
anyone out there top that "dead junkie under ramp" story?
doubt it!
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smell of death
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On 8/30/2003 jonnyx
wrote in from
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ive been trawling through whats left of my memory and i'm pretty certain the worst skate related odour i ever experienced has to be the one emanating from the dead junkie under the platform of the vert ramp at the rijksmuseum in amsterdam. now i've found stiffs before, its just one of those things when you live by the sea, but this guy had been there at least a week in the height of summer and whats worse is the dutch authorities refused to do anything about it for another three days, so we just carried on skating stench and all. im not sure about corroboration but i think Rune Glifberg and Nordien Qaatbi were there at the time. i havnt seen either of them for years but i tell you noone could forget that stink.
dead smackheads were not an unusual sight in amsterdam in the early 90s but this one was special and we got quite attached to him, its like he was OUR VERY OWN dead junkie if you know what i mean.
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Mississauga
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On 8/30/2003
Stillboardin
wrote in from
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Not to change the subject of anything, skate smells bring back some good memories too.
But, I'll be hitting the Mississauga park this next week, Tuesday night and Wednesday night. If any GTA skaters want to join me.
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awww shucks
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On 8/30/2003 jonnyx
wrote in from
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THANKS!
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Bad Bad Smells
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On 8/29/2003 Pauliwog
wrote in from
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Grotesque and yet entertaining
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new magazine...stink wave
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On 8/29/2003
michael brooke
wrote in from
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holy crap!
this is sick stuff
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stinky pads
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On 8/29/2003 jonnyx
wrote in from
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eh i once nearly broke a friend of mines neck by wafting a pro designed coccyx protector under his nose when he wasnt paying attention. it was after a long hot day skating vert, and though i knew it may traumatise him i had no idea it could lead to him being diagnosed with whiplash.
as a note to mike octanes post, i worked in ship repair (with darren rathbone no less) for a while and one task was cleaning black water (ie poo) tanks and grey water (ie sailor jizz) tanks and i can assure you all i found plenty of things way worse than tapeworm dammit. come to think of it, thats a stinky story all of its own, opening up a hatch and having to punch through 4 inches of lard to release the aroma of doom. you could actually feel it wringing out your lungs.
hope you all enjoyed that
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SCHTINKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!
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On 8/29/2003
Michael (Octane)
wrote in from
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This story can be confrimed by MArtin Drayton....he WAS NOT there but he's heard me tell it too many times over the years.
I can wittle it down to:
Ferry Crossing, ate bad meat. Diagnosed with Tapeworm. Given pill. Spent whole evening sitting on bog, pulling a soggy elastic band like animal form my rear. Asked by doctor if I had removed head. (I didnt think to examine every bit of the 3ft long beast)
Given 2nd pill. Sat on bog. Exploded internally and caused the water in bowl to leap from bowl and soak me. Nice Smell.
I'll add that Martin Drayton has his own smell story involving.....nope, I'll leave it up to him whether he wants to enter. And I was a witness to his story.
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on second thought...
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On 8/29/2003 michael brooke
wrote in from
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maybe it wasn't such a good idea to open things up that weren't skate related.
you deserve something....even if it was 21 years ago.
ok, anyone else care to top Mr. Moore
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#1 Stink Story of All Time
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On 8/29/2003
Mike Moore
wrote in from
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THIS IS A VERY GROSS STORY. IT HAS CERTAIN "ADULT" ELEMENTS. STOP READING NOW IF YOU WOULD BE OFFENDED BY SUCH.
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!!
When I was in high school I worked as a "gopher" for a doctor's office/pharmacy. I made deliveries, took out the trash, cleaned up, basically whatever was needed of me.
One day a very large woman came in complaining about bad pains in her "female" parts. The woman was taken back to an examining room. The doctor, probably 30+ years experience, and his nurse, also many years experience, go in and have her disrobe. Even with the door closed a very unpleasant odor began to waft down the hallway. They were in there a while and the smell got MUCH worse. We could hear some sort of pandemonium coming from the room.
The nurse came quickly out of the room, opening the door released more of the stink demon, and found me...instructing me to get a mop bucket and lysol. I do as I'm told. I wait outside the door for a while longer. An ambulance comes and takes the woman to the hospital. I'm "allowed" in to clean up.
The smell was worse than comprehensible.
The very large woman had mistakenly left a feminine hygeine product in since her cycle the month before. When the doctor discovered this and removed it...he threw up! This is what also caused the super spike in stink levels. The "Genie" was let out of it's bottle. It had caused some pretty serious internal issues with the woman.
Yours truly was responsible for mopping up the doctors puke and removal of the toxic tampon. These days a specialty biohazard removal team would probably have to be called in. In 1982 it was this, then pimple faced, skate punk. Awww memories...
Think I'll go have a fish taco.
IT IS ALL TRUE!!! What do I win?
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stinkfesta-palooza
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On 8/29/2003
michael
wrote in from
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ok
let's open it up to stinky stories...skate or none-skate related..
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Stink Rules
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On 8/29/2003
Mike Moore
wrote in from
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Does it have to be stinky pads? I've got a stink story that will beat all. But it is so truly horrible that I need to get permission. It's not skate related.
Your call. You WILL HURL, if I tell it.
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Texas Slalom
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On 8/29/2003
Marcos
wrote in from
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If there is anything that I could do to help set up the race I would be more than happy to. I live in Galveston and am not too far from you (Texaswise any way) I think that if you were to have the race some time during Christmas break you could count on some folks from Georgia and Mississipi coming they owe me on from thier races. and of course you could count on me and Eddy from Harlingen on being there.
On 8/28/2003 Stubbs wrote in from 66.137.xxx.xxx:
I have some hills in mind throughout the Dallas area. We would have to talk to the city about getting them closed off for a day but that is no problem. I prefer waiting until it's not 103 degrees to run this though. I'm sure there would be many guys from the Texas Poolsharks site that would want to get in on this as well as others. Of course out-of-staters would be more than welcome.
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something rotten in the state of pads
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On 8/29/2003
michael brooke
wrote in from
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Ok folks,
it's time for the world's stinkiest skate pad story...
best post gets Concrete Wave t-shirt...
here are the rules:
1) story must be true
2) points are given to level of "grossness" and stinkiness (this will be determined by me...)
3) at least one person who witnessed (or whiffed) the stinky pads must still be alive...unless the offending pads wiped out all innocent bystanders...
ok, let the stinkest stories commence...
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Smelly Pads Part II
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On 8/29/2003 Tony
wrote in from
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If you already disinfected them and they still smell like ammonia;the microbes in them has colonized and is "deep seeded". Time to replace those pads before an alien pops out.
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hmm?
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On 8/29/2003
snoball
wrote in from
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whatever happened to skateclub?
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game
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On 8/28/2003 Brady
wrote in from
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Sorry for posting a dead link. I just copied and pasted it from my favorites without making sure it was still active.
Anyhoos, it was the target shooting game with skaters and fruit-booters.
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Rank pads and website
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On 8/28/2003 Monti
wrote in from
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Pads have been cleaned and disinfected! And no, I don't own a cat, but the smell was similar. Mmmm...ammonia.
Anyway one of my favourite websites is skullskates.com. They have boards for many different tastes and a very cool online skateboard museum. Thanks to everyone for the pad-smell fact finding.
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