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Message 12528 (6. Jun. 2010 13:35) (Tree)

Sender:	Vertic_Al
Subject:	Introductions
Content:	I\'m just over the river from Arran View Larger Map There\'s a good sized concrete skatepark about 14 miles from my house called Evolution, so only takes me about 15mins to drive up there. If it\'s too busy there\'s also a good few mini metal parks which are good for practising. The only real problem is noone seems to ride quads over here anymore (it\'s all inlines now). Some kids at the skatepark were even confused when they saw mines as they\'d never seen quads before, and certainly never seen them ridden on ramps. Kinda makes you feel like an outcast, but I don\'t like inlines (Nearly every inliner seems to ask why I don\'t just get a set of blades, to which i always reply I just prefer the feel and style quad offers).
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Vertic_Al: Introductions (6. Jun. 2010 01:29)
	My name is Allan, i live in Ayrshire in Scotland. I did come here about 5 years ago when i first got into ramp riding on quads, after I\'d saw some pictures of Irene Ching (I\'d heard her name mentioned in a roller rink by some skaters so looked her up online). Had a break for a few years now as I\'ve had a daughter, but now she\'s at the age to start learning and enjoying coming to skateparks with me I\'ve strapped back on my skates and am starting to get back into it. Currently working on a new skate build which Biff has kindly been advising me on, hope to have it finished by next week. Also managed to find my old skate vid which I thought I\'d lost when my PC went mental. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOHjoVqPY2s Quadimodo Edit
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Vertic_Al: Introductions (6. Jun. 2010 13:35)
	I\'m just over the river from Arran View Larger Map There\'s a good sized concrete skatepark about 14 miles from my house called Evolution, so only takes me about 15mins to drive up there. If it\'s too busy there\'s also a good few mini metal parks which are good for practising. The only real problem is noone seems to ride quads over here anymore (it\'s all inlines now). Some kids at the skatepark were even confused when they saw mines as they\'d never seen quads before, and certainly never seen them ridden on ramps. Kinda makes you feel like an outcast, but I don\'t like inlines (Nearly every inliner seems to ask why I don\'t just get a set of blades, to which i always reply I just prefer the feel and style quad offers).
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Jay: Introductions (6. Jun. 2010 16:49)
	Hi Allen. Welcome (back) to the Forum! I liked your video, but the pic of you with your daughter on sk8s @ the sk8park, AWESOMENESS! I also especially liked the fact that hearing Irene's name @ a roller-rink is what got you into skating as she's a very special person to me & a very cool friend. She also happens to be this year's flier girl for my little rollerskating event I host here in Las Vegas annually: If you have the means to attend, by all means consider yourself officially invited. Although I know it's only 2 months hence & therefore prohibitively expensive, so my feelings won't be hurt if you can't make it. :) Also, I invite you (& EVERYBODY ELSE who frequents our beloved Forum here!) to join my, I'm sorry OUR online "world" I've recently created on Gravity. It's a place to discuss ALL things rollerskate. While NOT a substitute for the Forum, I think, with some help/content from you all, it has potential......for instance you can easily share threads onto your favorite social networking spaces (Biff, I know YOU don't have a MySpace or Facebook or Twitter, but most of us do! LOL!) Check it out here: http://www.gravity.com/rollerskate And, Allen, as to the bladers & groms who either hate or look at you with bewilderment @ the sk8parks: ignore 'em & just sk8 harder!. Everytime I go to the park I get that. So do most of us. I usually have to explain to kids that my sk8s aren't weird old rollerblades, they're rollersk8s! I've even had kids ask me how I thought of taping sk8board trucks onto my shoes! Just sk8 & enjoy. And, again, welcome to the Forum. PEACE Jay
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ireNe: Introductions (13. Jun. 2010 18:49)
	I like "Vertic Al", nice handle. Been off the internet grid here for a bit, just too many sites to keep up with and it's more time consuming than I can spare. Apologies to all. I'm soo stoked you're back on your rollers and that you have your daughter to train and skate with. She's adorable. Shocking to hear myself mentioned at a roller rink, I think I've skated rinks maybe twice in my life... I love being outdoors too much. I remember seeing Quadimodo years ago, so rad! Happy you've reconnected here on Bernard's fabulous forum, so near and dear to my heart, for uniting all of us rollers. Welcome back!!! (pic of my son 1989 Bronx, NY)
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biffsk8er: Introductions (14. Jun. 2010 22:49)
	Very cool story. : The convo they were having at the rink was actually about all kinds of quad skating, and your name came up when they were talking bout people who ride quads on ramps. : : Whats crazier is when i mentioned your name to my wife she says shes heard your name before too. Shes a Portsmouth native and when i showed her the vid of Jay Tubbs rockin the halfpipe at Southsea skatepark she thinks she remembers him hanging about with the bmxer Dennis Wingham. (She used to hang out at the skatepark as her brothers an avid bmxer, and she also rides quads, though just recreationally) Maybe that's where she heard your name. : : Small world eh?
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