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Blog 32.0
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On 6/5/2005
PD
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Yesterday was a game of shinty at the Scottish Society picnic.
Today was a round of golf in the "Kilted Nine" golf tourney.
Cross-Training for slalom? Maybe. All I know is I'm sore and tired.
Tomorrow we finish mounting up the TS board and hopefully take 'er out for a spin.
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Blog 31.3
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On 6/4/2005
PD
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Carried out to it's fullest extent, no drilling ceremony is complete without calling upon the spirits, and focusing on the inner peace necessary to complete the task (especially when in you're in a shop packed with buzzing saws, thumping joiners, screaming planers, and a barking dog).
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Blog 31.2
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On 6/4/2005
PD
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You've heard it before: the infamous board-drilling ceremony for all my decks. This time, it was actually cought on digi... Let's see, we've got the candles, the incense, the high-torque drill, and my old Gull-Wing baseplate that I use for every drilling function. I always start by positioning the rear truck, then drill it (while chanting, of course). Then I move up to the front and "eyeball" where the front truck "wants" to be. Eventually, it tells me where it wants to live. So then I mark and drill it right there. This little wiggler ended up just a shade over 19" hole-to-hole.
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Blog 31.1
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On 6/4/2005
PD
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Here's the top of the Flagellate before the grip-tape went on. I think I'm still going to put a little wedge over the rear end and sand it down into a hollow concave for my rear foot.
The board is L-I-G-H-T !!! Weighing in at about 28 ounces. (Must be the helium-injected foam I wrangled away from my buddy at Lockheed...)
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Blog 31.0
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On 6/4/2005
PD
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Always after me lucky charms!!!
Here's the current "new school" ("New School, Old School... f#@! School" -- oLsOn)quiver as produced in the last three weeks. I think I'm over the molding frenzy for awhile. This "tri-fecta" should keep my covered for anything that the Hood River course-setters can offer up. 'Sides, I can't make any more boards: We've run out of that cool Future-Ella graphic!
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asym slalom decks
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On 6/4/2005 ur13
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Funny thing about asym slalom decks. I built this deck in Nov. 2003. It is Asymetrical in every way. The shape outline (including rails), the tail (and nose kicks), the rails (more "board" under my front heel than front toe) and the channels I carve into my Oak decks to control flex (even flat 3/4" Oak twists). The original idea was to remove as much weight as I could from an Oak deck (Oak is heavy, but nothing matches it for dampening), so I chopped off what I didn't need based on my stance. I also was toying with asym layups (shape and layup) for Roe at the time, though we never made any.
I actually prefer the symetrical sister board I made to this one. Eitherway I thought you might like to see this one PD.
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asy
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On 6/3/2005
cfav
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United States
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thats a beautiful tail.we have been discussing some sort of asymetrical design here in chicago also,but could not completely wrap my mind around it.i see your board and i think"THATS IT!".great job,cf
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Blog 30.0
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On 6/3/2005
PD
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Yeah Baby!!!
The little asymmetric is alive and doing well after her birth this afternoon. Code named "Flagellate," it is truly a different board from my way of thinking. What Bill and I did was have me stand on a centerline, and he just raced his pencil around where I was standing in a TS - style foot positioning. Then I came up with the idea that "where your foot isn't, doesn't matter" concep. But we tempered that with the necessary board stiffness paramaters, and so basically, just chopped off the non-used part of the tail.
It's 30.5 X 8.16 - and the hole-to-hole at this point is 19". Will try to ride it tomorrow.
Gotta go -- off to see Lords of Dogtown!
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flexibility for stiff old guys.
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On 6/2/2005 gumby
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The getting in shape stuff sounds like a young man's regimen.
maybe some of that sissy-but-effective pilates (just the matt stuff)
would be better than the situps and weights?
seems to work for me. but I'm no pd.
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Blog 29.0
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On 6/2/2005
PD
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Neck seems to be getting better...
Went out to Cambria to mold-up the TS board. This thing will be quite interesting. It's an asymmetric design, with the nose pretty standard -- kind of a cut-away afair -- but the tail looks like the rear end of a Paramecium. You might have to consult your biology texts on that -- and that might seem a little confusing, but if all goes well, it should be posted up tomorrow night. Boothby was laughing the whole time I was sketching it out.
Skated Cambria hill for about 45 minutes, then talked story for a bit.
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Blog 28.0
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On 6/2/2005
PD
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Exercise bike for 30.
Squats - not much, but a few.
Pipe Band.
Skate tomorrow...
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Blog 27.0
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On 6/2/2005
PD
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nada.
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Blog 26.0
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On 5/30/2005
PD
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Bike 35
Squats 40
BBQ 1.0
Beer 4.0
Can confirm that the hole-to-hole on the semi is 21.5"
Shorter wheelbase soon...
Read "Built to Grind" cover-to-cover today. What an insane compendium...
--PD
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Blog 25.2
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On 5/29/2005
PD
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How do you feel after a hard day of practice, while your frickin' neck is killing you and it's soooo windy that you can't even pump down hill???
You feel like a Grumpy Old Man
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Blog 25.1
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On 5/29/2005
PD
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The upper crust. I originally traced this thing out with a Turner cut-away style nose, but I ended up fulling it out... I figured with the narrow-ness of it the nose-coning thing was not a problem. What IS a problem is for me to figure out what way to ride it. I'm sort of crossed between a Charlie Ransom thing and a Ritchie Carrasco thing. mixed in with the remnants of "The Gull." Great board. Maurus Strobel would LOVE it. Check the "Mojo-Strip" on the bottom... that extra 20 bucks can pay big dividends...
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Blog 25.0
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On 5/29/2005
PD
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Here she is -- code named "Semi" -- it's a 33 X 8.16 project with the same graphics as The "IT" -- Code named "Intergalactic Traveler" which is done up with the Future-ella graphic. Okay -- that's saying a lot.
Bottom line: this thing will do a whole lot... including 5.5' o.c. cones -- and that's with a 21.5" hole-to-hole. The key is in the narrows...
Rode it today in a theoretical Hood River course that I set at Cambria. Windy day meant a serious pump into it. Had to work hard to make the 5.5's at the bottom. Will probably need to make one more ride for the tighter stuff.
Can the Wounded Gull still fly???
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Blog 24.0
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On 5/29/2005
PD
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Another late one last night -- not from anything fun, but I managed to do some damge to my neck yesterday morning while pushing up some weight. Damn, what a bitch. Farther down the clock, I was chopping logs in the lot next door to my house. So I guess I kind of got a little work in.
Skating today -- if I can keep my neck from allowing my huge head from swivelling off...
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Blog 23.0
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On 5/28/2005
PD
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Shoulda posted this last night, but couldn't muster. Popped out and shaped the semi-wiggle stick last night -- then went and skated it while Boothby looked on and timed. She ended up 33 X 8.16 and is kind a "Euro" shape according to Jack. No photos yet, should have some Sunday night.
The skate workout includes pumping as hard as I can down the course, then skating and running back up the hill. The object is to break a serious sweat. No leisurely sessions, here.
The new board was eventually coerced through 6-foot centers with about 4 inches of offset. It was a little challenging, but I found that if I skated it "Levine style," the tights were more makeable. That means parking my back foot just over the rear truck and my front foot just behind the front truck. I know a lot of people skate slalom that way, but for me, that technique is totally new. The "Wounded Gull" is now skting more like the "Barker Baby-Tosser..."
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Blog 22.0
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On 5/26/2005
PD
wrote in from
United States
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Today's plan included a trip to Cambria for another molding sesh with Boothby. The fruits of our labor are now cooking under at least 1 atmosphere behind a wall of industrial kludge down in the "rough" section of Cambrilot.
This new board will be somewhere around 33 X 8.5 (hopefully narrower) and will take up the slack that the big mama, recently displayed, can't quite pull off. We'll pop it out tomorrow... This one got a different resin mix, and I'm curious to see how the two boards will hold up over time.
Then Bill and I went skating. Some "up and comers" were skating the hallowed Cambria hill, so I jumped in and turned the sesh into a mini camp for the youngsters. Half-hour later, all three of 'em have shaved about 1 - 2 seconds off a 22 second course. Yeah, I'm not only warm and fuzzy -- I smell good, too.
In the meantime, I get home to find a little care package from the Khiro folks. Nice, clean organized packaging surrounding some very impressive goods. Thanks Hack and Khiro Bob for the flow. From what I've seen in that box, there is some REAL attention to detail in there.
Here's a shot of my last surf boat, "Joey." This little dude got me tons of waves and made some good cash, while I was at the helm performing "Near-shore ocean studies." In fact, it's been said that 'lil Joey made more money per foot (he was only 10 1/2 feet) than ANY research boat on the Pacific coast! Good times. I sold it to a guy from Ventura that flies for Delta airlines. He's stoked. Look for Joey at a remote surf break near you!
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Blog 21.0
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On 5/25/2005
PD
wrote in from
United States
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After an intense day yesterday -- and because I'm an old fart -- I pretty much took today off. I did go out to my garage and essentially started to internalize what my next board will look like. This board will be more of a "do-all" deck that won't be as long as the big GS stick I made last week. Something like 33'' X 8.5 or thereabouts -- maybe narrower...
Should be laying it up in Cambria by tomorrow afternoon.
Then a little skate sesh and I'm good.
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Blog 20.0
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On 5/24/2005
PD
wrote in from
United States
(24.176.nnn.nnn)
Got on that exercise bike today for 45 minutes -- then pumped out some more of my slalom-squats. Basically, these are squats you do with a barbell while standing in your normal riding position. When I skated yesterday, I figured out right away that there's two kinds of training. And nothing beats actually SKATING to keep your legs up. Since I'm such a dork, and since I live pretty far these days from any good hills, I have to figure out a new way to make it happen. My skate-squats I'm doin' with 55 pounds on my shoulders... and yesterday, I was cooked after one long ride down the GS hill.
Today I also took a look at the 2003 World's DVD that Kenny and friends made. What a great piece of work. Kenny blows my mind. To make all those vids and skate like a giant just schools my ass. What was great to see was people riding the Hybrid course I set for the Saturday runs. That was a damn good course -- I wouldn't want to skate it! Nasty!!!
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KHIRO RISERS & BUSHINGS
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On 5/24/2005
HACKETT - BLACK LEATHER RACING
wrote in from
United States
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PD-
Please send me your address so I can send you the new
KHIRO RAIL RISERS KIT & a KHIRO BIG BAD BUSHING KIT!
I think you will dig 'um!
Check 'um out here on the KHIRO site!
Click here for link
WAY cleaner than the stacked risers you have on that deck
right now...
Best,
HACKMAN - BLR
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Future-ella!
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On 5/24/2005
HACKETT - BLACK LEATHER RACING
wrote in from
United States
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Nice job PD.
She looks saaaa-weeeet!
What's the whell base on that baby? Looks a little long to me...
But then, WTF do I know?
Getting ready for Indian School Outlaw Ditch Race all this week...
Ready to take some Nigerians DOWN!
HACK-BLR
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Blog 19.2
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On 5/23/2005
PD
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United States
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An afternoon at Cambria... Nice threads, huh? The PVD I bought a couple of years ago is bolted astern. It had a little dust on it.
Today's plan was to see if I could ride some the the "known' courses at the hill. We started with an open kinda-thing, then a narrower wiggler, then a straight 6-foot, 60 cone test-bed course. Future-Ella made 'em all, but I probably would have opted for something different for the tight. I wanted to see how Mollica and Chicken pull that kinda stuff off on a board that big. To tell ya truth, I would have normally ridden my Turner cutaway on the last run, but I have to investigate alternatives...
Today was the first day I ran cones since Breckenridge in '03... Can the poor boy still go home?
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Blog 19.1
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On 5/23/2005
PD
wrote in from
United States
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Here's kind of a side-angle shot that Boothby took on top of his overly-macho Texas-style ride. You can see the potential in those rails and that beautiful arc. Take note of the home-made, resin-rich foot pad sittin' out there on the back porch.
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