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Wesley Tucker

Funny. I didn't mention anyone by name. Why would someone take such exception to a rather humorous characterture? Oh, and for the record, please understand I'm not "arguing" about the course. I never said anything about the course or any criticism or offered any brilliant insights from the comfort o...

Wesley Tucker

Isn't it amazing? I wasn't at The Gathering. Everyone who was there knows that by now. I know, though, pretty much what went down, who won what and what was accomplished and what needs work. Very simple. I also know Tway decided he didn't want to sit around in his hotel room Friday night waiting for...

Wesley Tucker

Alan, In reading your post, I just want to say something about my friend Tway and his efforts Friday night at the P&R. Although I wasn't there for various reasons, I know full well why decisions were made that were made. Although I agree with you entirely that usually head-to-head racing is more fun...

Wesley Tucker

I beg to differ! I beg to differ! You DQ'd me on a false start in Boston after I made a PERFECT start against PSR in one of our heats. It was so perfect I blitzed Eric and was halfway to the first cone before he was out of the box. But you and TK (blind, feeble old men that you are,) both said I DQ'...

Wesley Tucker

Well, John, if Tway Von Neumann can program all that into his little box, then I say good luck. It still sounds, though, awfully confusing and complicated just to start a race. Although I do like the idea of the .25 second allowance BEFORE the 4th beep. I'm tired of my PERFECT crow hop starts being ...

Wesley Tucker

What am I missing here? Ok, so the fourth beep sounds and a racer can stand in the box til he finishes his sandwich and then go across the tape? It seems this would really be confusing. Some guy in Lane One gets a great start, leaps out of the box and goes down the hill. Unfortunately, he's kind of ...

Wesley Tucker

Watch it, Claude. You start talking about missing an event because of rain and you'll incur the wrath of The South Florida Slalom God from his easy chair on high. Don't forget, YOU have to attend slalom events no matter what the weather in order to accede to his standard of what makes a supportive s...

Wesley Tucker

I think what our friend TK is trying to say is that Sandy won't give him any Beer Money. Would someone PLEASE bring a six pack to the Red Roof Friday so the guy can get at least one buzz on and not waste a whole weekend? As a friend, Terence, I'm always there to do whatever I can to make your life e...

Wesley Tucker

LBK,

Was this course downhill? How long was the push start? I'm not being critical, but I don't know if I could pump and keep up my speed on 12-foot centers on flat. That's a long way between wiggles! That's double, maybe even triple pump distance.

Wesley Tucker

Yeah, Rick, how about an update on this spot? Any bulldozers parked in the weeds? Empty soda cans denoting construction workers around during the day? Or are we going to get real lucky and the developer is going to go bankrupt and leave it all as is for a couple of years while the courts settle the ...

Wesley Tucker

It's 11:00 on the East Coast of Carolina and coming down in buckets. I have a funny feeling the Outlaw race in Maryland is gonna get called on account of not enough sun.

Anyone care to report where it's NOT raining this weekend? Anyone getting any face time with cones?

Wesley Tucker

Just for the record, let's go through the "West Virginia Checklist" before making the decision to race in the rain: 1. Someone be sure to bring 50 pounds of Kitty Litter to keep the street dry long enough to be able to put down the duct tape holding the timing strips. 2. Designate someone to spend t...

Wesley Tucker

I feel so special.

Wesley Tucker

Hmmm, oral sex and lobster, huh? So I guess it's fair to say the weather won't be much of an issue for this event?

Wesley Tucker

Well, I do not wnat to be too much of a downer for my DC friends. If what we had this morning, though, is what you'll have tomorrow, I'd be less worried about skateboard racing and more with making sure the mobile homes and small animals are tied down! We had 1-1/4" of rain between 7 and 11 AM with ...

Wesley Tucker

I'd like to be there, but I'd be less interested in slalom racing and park riding than eating lobster, per say. (Or even per se. It just depends.)

Wesley Tucker

Well, now that the shooting has stopped, I want to know just ONE THING:

Why didn't those human shields guard that museum? Hmmmmmmmm?

Wesley Tucker

Tway, Although I have not made it back up there since July, I believe the P&R is now considered a "day only" venue. Since Officer Do-Right ran us out at the last night race, I believe all events at the P&R have been daylight. Your idea sounds like fun, but there's no guarantee the local constabulary...

Wesley Tucker

God, I was hungry til I read that . . . bleeccchh! The Capital Cafe' on Main Street in Columbia sits right across from the State House. I don't know of anyone who ever ate there, but every one always commented on the fact that the CC had a "Brain Omelette" on the menu, I know that some of the Frats ...

Wesley Tucker

I finally got to skate out west this past fall, which also marked my first trip EVER out west. I will have to admit the climate out there is a lot different compare to what we "enjoy" in the south. Specifically, it's really dry out there. I skated pretty much all day Thursday at Cambria, all day Fri...

Wesley Tucker

A bit of history: Unlike F!, which started back before WWI with almost immediate factory support (Mercedes, Rolls Royce, etc,) NASCAR was indeed a poor man's racing endeavor. Little factory support, hardly any real sponsorship and a very limited popular appeal outside of a few location in the Southe...

Wesley Tucker

Since I'm moderating this ho down, I wanted to post one more topic before I call it a night. If everyone would take the time to reminisce a little and tell more or less "where you come from?" How did you get into slalom, did you do it with the rest of us when Gerald Ford was president, do you rememb...

Wesley Tucker

Just for the record, if anyone yells, "hey, Grandpa, what's for supper?" I'm gonna start kicking everybody's ass! It's one thing to revel in your heritage, it's another one entirely to perpetuate stereotypes for the ogling mob! Now, we got a thread going for Bar-B-Que and Fried Chicken. Someone wann...

Wesley Tucker

Since Binky asked about Bar-B-Que, I'll ask about my other indescibable delight: the search for the perfect fried chicken! Right now, I've got a tie between two places (not counting my own deep fried delicacies. My fried chicken in awesome people, no joke.) Anyway, there's a string of small, family ...

Wesley Tucker

"Hey, Stringbean, you get a letter from home?" "Sure did. Got it right here next to my heart . . heart, heart, heart!" (Then he'd always pull it out of his back pocket!) Hey, Chuck, don't sweat it. I hear these damned yankee doodles who moved to damned Dade County do their damnedest to convince the ...

Wesley Tucker

Pit cook pulled pork with a really good mustard sauce. Some dirty rice on the side, pole beans with a ham hock that's been slow cooked on the fire since last week, hush puppies with hot butter and a pitcher of iced tea tall enough to block out the sun! Oh, and spare me the hash. I know some might th...

Wesley Tucker

Hey, Vlad, I've been jawing in the DC forum since you started it and y'all made me a "DC Outlaw" at the race in July (I even got in the picture for CONCRETE WAVE.) You live in Virginia (where I was born on a chilly morn' all them years ago,) and so far have raced in Georgia and Mississippi. I don't ...

Wesley Tucker

Jeff Goad asked, "Anything under Canada?"

Let's put it this way: "Down South" is an attitude. Anyone who has it doesn't have to ask, anyone who doesn't will never understand.

Wesley Tucker

If you're so smart, why do you live in Boston? Hmmmm? Just one point: I noticed on your proposed East Coast Series schedule you forgot Rick Stanziale's Geergia State Championships. Last year his race was on August 31 and this year on the 30th. I have no reason to assume Rick wouldn't attempt another...

Wesley Tucker

My only fear is that 66 is here.

Wesley Tucker

This is the Down South forum. Those of you from San Diego looking for some local info, sorry, wrong South. Before things get carried away around here, let me lay down a few parameters that will make the Down South forum a little different: 1. We will on occasion discuss collegiate football. Now, you...

Wesley Tucker

And, of course, what started as a conversation about preferable slalom venues degenerates into Eric Groff just making a pathetic attempt to belittle me. Why? Because he didn't like my suggestions. Not that I said anything negative about California, not because I criticized any race promoters, just b...

Wesley Tucker

Yeah, my criteria. What I want to see in a race. What you said happens once a month in California but you were completely incapable of illustrating with any semblence of lucidity. Eric, you argue like a woman. Since you are completely incapable of saying, "I was wrong," you just try and change the s...

Wesley Tucker

So in so many words, not one race last year or this year had all three of my criteria. Sure, one race here had something good about it, one race there had something else, but not one that you mentioned had it all. Which of course is exactly what I said in the first place. And one other thing, Eric: ...

Wesley Tucker

Oh, one last thing on all this. Jack said that having a race in a big city metro area doesn't necessarily guarantee a big crowd. I agree. Where I would add something, though, is how having races in big cities allows for more PUBLICITY and PROMOTION. And not necessarily the kind that costs money. Rem...

Wesley Tucker

Jack Smith said, "All that from a guy who races in a bus station....just kidding." Hey, Jack, I did a head count that night at around 12:30 AM. We were still two hours from getting done. By my estimates of counting groups of 10 spectators, would you believe we had 300 drunks and half naked bar hoppi...

Wesley Tucker

No, you don't. You ride on mediocre surfaces in out of the way places on courses only Gary Cross could love. Sorry, Arab. I've seen what West Coasters consider a "primo" race site. Avila Beach was good hill ruined by a lousy course in the middle of nowhere with the only spectators being a few passer...

Wesley Tucker

Non-American racers at Morro Bay I recall: Paul Price Martin Drayton Michael Stride Claude Reigner Jani Soderhall Chris Eggers Several Swiss (I believe there were five who piled out of that van?) There were more, but I do not remember all the names. So out of @100 registered MALE entrants, about 10%...

Wesley Tucker

On 2003-04-18 23:39, John Gilmour wrote: Rick that sounds like a midwest + Mid Atlantic series. We do need a coastal East COAST series. I think John is reading too much into this. I said this once before and was only half-joking: East Coast is anywhere I can drive to in one day. Whether it's Boston...

Wesley Tucker

Getting back to the original intent of this thread, I do have a question about contest listings. Is it my imagination or did someone tell me that if you have a "pro" contest that involves cash prizes that NCDSA charges $100 to put up your contest on the calendar?

Wesley Tucker

One of my favorite pics from my trip to Morro Bay is this one I got of me with The Hut: http://members.aol.com/wtucker567/Meandhut.jpg John is still going strong and made it into the Round of Eight in the Giant Slalom and the round of 16 in the slalom at the Worlds. I still think it is totally cool ...

Wesley Tucker

Let's make this very simple for everyone: I am the DETERMINATOR of all that is or is not EAST COAST Slalom. If I can drive there in one day, it's EAST COAST. I can drive to Jackson in 11 hours: EAST COAST. I can drive to St. Louis in 19 hours: EAST COAST. I can drive to Chicago in 21 hours: EAST COA...

Wesley Tucker

Not to be a pain, but can everyone make the April 26th race in DC and then get up to Connecticut in time for Jar Jar's skate clinic on Sunday? I know several people volunteered to teach and skate at the school that day. It'll certainly make for a busy weekend of skating! (Parsons is really starting ...

Wesley Tucker

Ummmmm, Isn't August 23 'da Farm? And the following week is the Georgia State Championships. (See the "Grass Roots Racing" forum. Tway and 66 made announcements a couple of months ago.) Oh, and also La Costa is on the "tentative" FCR schedule for July 12. I don't see any reason why an East Coast and...

Wesley Tucker

I was trying to figure out why I wasn't in the picture of Bruce at Morro Bay on the SS.com home page. Then it dawned on me: I'm so far out ahead that I'm way out of frame!

Wesley Tucker

I've read all this stuff and let me put it in perspective. I live in the skateboard boondocks. What's more is I live in the Slalom Skateboarding wasteland: flat, minimal asphalt and NO ONE within 250 miles of me who races seriously. Strangely enough, slalom skateboarding has enjoyed a tremendous res...

Wesley Tucker

Just for the record, the streak continues! In 1978, Bobby Turner sold his first Summerski in South Carolina to . . . me. In 1984, Rick Howell sold his first Ick Stick in South Carolina to . . . me. And now in 2003, Chicken sold his first Pocket Pistol in South Carolina to . . . me. For the first tim...

Wesley Tucker

Ricky,

It's kind of funny that on February 6 you asked about whether or not PP was making boards. That's the day I mailed my check.

My Stealth got here yesterday. Yowza, yowza, yowza.

Wesley Tucker

You're right, Jack. No telling where I got my Turner facts. John's investment of over $3,000 of his own money in keeping the design alive probably pales in comparison to others efforts and intentions. I guess I should have said "ALMOST single handedly." And as far as the ABC points schedule, all I c...

Wesley Tucker

Jack Smith said, "What I would really like to see is for you to actually do something, bring your ideas to reality. You are fond of saying things like, "what we should do" and "what I what I would like to see". Let's see: John organized one of the first East Coast events with his race on Storrow Dri...

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