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Wesley Tucker

You know, John, I've been thinking about this van donation of yours and I think I've got a solution: you could probably give it to any one of the deck manufacturers. After all, right now they are all non-profit (ahem.) P.S. Some guy name Paul Dunn is looking for you. Something about laying prostrate...

Wesley Tucker

Gary, Interesting concept. My only suggestion is that whoever develops this (I'm assuming you?) also is certain to have two dozen different kinds of tie-breakers. With racers competing for points but not against one another, there will be a very good chance of a points tie. As an example, let's say ...

Wesley Tucker

That's great. I haven't been on a list since my eligibility for Selective Service expired.

Wesley Tucker

Joe,

I don't know if you're aware of this, but probably by G3, Troy's adoption of John Gilmour should be finalized.

It's not that John needed a new family, he was just tired of his mail always chasing him around.

Tell Nick he's got 60 days to get ready for John "Troy Jr." Gilmour.

Wesley Tucker

Chris, I must have missed it. Ever since the announcement last week, I've made it a point to go beyond my normal "slalom-Mike Maysey" rounds on NCDSA. Just to keep up with whatever questions and answers might pop up, I've been reading trucks, wheels, bearings (I occasionally forget Turner had a bran...

Wesley Tucker

Turner Wheels has made available its new website. Turner SummerSki has also published a site for its product. Neither make mention of the TTC. Is it still available? Is there some sort of limbo where the truck is stuck between the two new companies? Or is it discontinued? At first I really thought a...

Wesley Tucker

Wesley Tucker

This is just so damned cool!

Is anyone else just so totally stoked about this they want to scream?

Adam, we need a BOARDS FORUM labelled SUMMER SKI. Those two words say it all!

Wesley Tucker

Here's an issue for all the purists. Recently, for reasons I won't go into now, I was concerned with the aspect of racing known as COURSE LENGTH. It got me to thinking about what is the length of a slalom race course? Well, the natural answer would be, "well, measure from the start line to the finis...

Wesley Tucker

Why not the "Standard Slalom Challenge?"
Not dorky, gay, confusing or misleading.

Wesley Tucker

Jack,

Replied to your message and covered copied it in an e-mail to "Old Skate Guy."

Wesley Tucker

Gary, I might be preaching to the choir here, but taking the route you've chosen for a dual circular course is easy to layout . . . almost. FIRST AND FOREMOST, go to Home Depot (or likewise) and go to the hardware department. For $19.95, you can buy walking distance meter that is similar to what is ...

Wesley Tucker

Gary, If I recall correctly, there's only three ways to hold a dual-course race around a curve as you show at Breckenridge: 1. Stagger the start line. Just as in track when the guy in the inside lane starts the farthest back, so would you have to compensate on a hill with a curve. This is the most e...

Wesley Tucker

You did 100 push-ups, Brian?
Which ones, the orange or lime flavored? :razz:

Wesley Tucker

I've been thinking about Henry's clinic and realized something this afternoon: does any know how to get in touch with Ilva? Maybe other than e-mail? It would be nice if the clinic showed this sport as something other than an activity for rotund old white guys and Henry. I know it sounds sexist, but ...

Wesley Tucker

Andy, You seem to be missing the point of this whole sport: Whether the course is good or not really doesn't matter. I'm going to Jackson and spend the weekend hanging out with a bunch of good old boys and have a good time. It's all about having fun. For me, laying out a course, diagramming and maki...

Wesley Tucker

Pat, I would only say one thing to your snow ski slalom comparison. From what I understand of the sport, there is a FINITE number of ski slopes that host a competitive race. As such, the racers involved in the sport are intimately familiar with the hill, the slope, the jumps, twist, turns , etc. Put...

Wesley Tucker

Henry, I'm very sorry if I mislead you. Don't forget, the week before your clinic is Ricky Byrd's race in Jackson, Mississippi. As of right now I'm really not certain that a 1400-mile round trip one weekend followed by a 2100-mile trip the following is feasible. Trust me, the body is willing, but th...

Wesley Tucker

Excellent choice! Of course, there's a licensing fee for that.

My attorneys will be in touch.

Wesley Tucker

By the way, John, while we're at it: You have a long, straight linoleum-floored hallway at MIT. Minimum obstacles and NO flaws in the surface. Where's your course design? I think everyone coming to M.I.T. should have an excellent idea of what you're going to lay down. Hmmmmm? :razz: P.S. Some of Par...

Wesley Tucker

John, I think, though, you might be forgetting the marvels of modern technology. I hate to sound like a broken record, but let me go back to the Folly Beach race course design. I DID NOT LAY THAT COURSE OUT ON THE STREET. What I did was get all the measurements, dimensions, flaws, pits, road reflect...

Wesley Tucker

Is Deerfield an all-male school or is there reason for me to consider driving up?

Wesley Tucker

Last year in the East were several events and all but ONE were scheduled as downill slalom races. The Folly Beach race was temporarily moved to an indoor facility because of rain. Also, the Georgia State Championships was also moved indoors for the same reason. Both races, though, were originally sc...

Wesley Tucker

Leo, I've got a fistful of foam-cored boards (you've seen 'em.) I also have a wood/fibreglas laminate Santa Cruz. You've seen it too. I still ride my H-bomb regularly. What I think is BEST for our sport and anyone wanting to get involved is to make sure there is always a DIVERSITY in the products fo...

Wesley Tucker

I've read this thread now for two days and am surprised at what almost appears to be a "prejudice of omission." Why in contemporary slalom skateboard discussion is FibreFlex consistently ignored? It's a great board that's constructed to exacting standards. Furthermore, it's not outragreously expensi...

Wesley Tucker

John, I couldn't agree more. Your suggestion, though, even adds more weight to my notion of teams/locals getting the course-setting rights. After all, I'm sure TLP doesn't have the time or resources to travel months in advance to every race venue. But, AH HA! the local guys are already there (well, ...

Wesley Tucker

Gary, My answer to your skepticism is "let's try it one year and see what happens?" Sure, teams could "rig" the courses and take advantage of their strengths, but that's one of the motivators in getting the course-setting rights. Now, if as the end of the year we see Ick and SSS won Elsinore, BLR wo...

Wesley Tucker

Andy, My screen shot shows: Race Organizers 16% Teams 28% Locals 10% Impartial Racing Organization 20% Other 36% Also, my SUGGESTION combines both the "Team" and "Local" aspects. How do I get "far and away" from those results? Because that's the way I choose to interpret it. I'm not the statistician...

Wesley Tucker

One other thing: I didn't forget about "Team Pocket Pistol." I just haven't heard there is such a thing. Whenever someone mentions Chicken or one of the guys who rides PP boards, it's usually associated with SSS.

And, of course, several "independents."

Wesley Tucker

In reading Gary's race course design poll results, it looks as though teams are far and away the leaders when it comes to course setting preferences. Although it may be a little tentative and certainly presumptive, I've looked at the proposed FCR Series schedule and think maybe a little regional/tea...

Wesley Tucker

Yeah, it's not like Henry has to be effeminate! :razz:

Wesley Tucker

Arab, since you are determined to get answers, here's something to consider. I don't know of anyone who walked away from Avila Beach and said, "man, that is a great course!" Even you have said that slalom should be about "speed and not running obstacle courses!" Well, the so-called giant slalom cour...

Wesley Tucker

Don't jump to conclusions, TK. He just said "25-30." Maybe he meant "KPH?" :razz:

Wesley Tucker

It's also obvious that one of the big difference between slalom skateboarding now and when it first got off the ground back in 2000 is . . . me. With my brilliant insight and wealth of experience, it's pretty much guaranteed that everything will go much smoother and with less controversey in 2003. J...

Wesley Tucker

Whadda 'ya mean you and Nick? Didn't you go to the world's WITHOUT him?

Hmmmmmm?

Wesley Tucker

No, but I do know all the words to Sgt. Barry Sadler's "The Ballad Of The Green Beret!"

Wesley Tucker

Gilmour said, "Slalom scenes popped up from time to time. Wesley Tucker competed in tons of slalom competitions which were not covered in the general skate media." John, Believe it or not, I've actually contacted some of my old slalom mates from the '70s. Some are alumni of my university, some I wen...

Wesley Tucker

"Oh, God!" Noah cries, "please, anything, just get me out of Jersey in January!!"

Wesley Tucker

I know what you people are thinking, but don't forget Vlad's Russian: he's talking about PAPRIKA!

Wesley Tucker

I once saw John doing 130 mph in his Mercedes . . . in my rear view mirror! :razz:

Wesley Tucker

Vlad, Just wanted to make sure before I corrected you :smile: I just went to NCDSA and double checked the rules and they have not changed, so things are the same as they were last year at the Cyber Slalom Challenge: THERE IS NO PUSH LIMIT! You can push from one end of the course to the other. Believ...

Wesley Tucker

Vlad,

What's the difference between "virtual slalom" and the NCDSA Cyber Slalom? Are you referring to some game you guys in DC play when you are snowed in or the real thing being ran this May at the Gathering?

Wesley Tucker

Well, Here's the scoop from an unimpeachable source: we're all correct! Seems Fusion was started by ex-Turner employee Jeff Alexander. Alexander worked for Turner as an airbrusher who painted boards part time. Somewhere along the line he decided he too could work with glass and foam and went out on ...

Wesley Tucker

Claude, Not to nit pick (moi? :smile: But the original question was about pumping ON THE FLAT. No hills, no grade, no gravity advantage. Flat out speed either as a top end burst or sustained velocity over a given distance. Now I read where you're talking about hitting 30 MPH on various hills in Cali...

Wesley Tucker

Well, Tommy Ryan is in Vegas. He might have an idea as he was heavily involved in the Turner operations in '78. Anyone wanna e-mail TR with a trivia question? The other thing about this whole episode is the notion that Bobby had enough "employees" to go out and go in competition against him. I alway...

Wesley Tucker

Well, a little more digging and guess what? Here's the FUSION SKATEBOARD ad. Even more noteworthy is the ad RAN IN THE SAME ISSUE as the California Skate and Glass ad. (Fusion is on Page 124, CGS on Page 142.) http://members.aol.com/wtucker567/FusionAd2.jpg Again, though, in looking at the two diffe...

Wesley Tucker

Hey, BP! Don't move here, dammit! Rain follows you EVERYWHERE! Wherever you showed up this year to race it rained! (Except Boston, and I don't know if y'all realized it or not, but it rained all day. It was just so hot it turned to steam before it made it to the ground!) Oh, for the record, yesterda...

Wesley Tucker

I used to know a Noah Heinle. Then he started talking about buying a house and getting married.

Haven't heard much from him since.

It's always sad to see the young ones go down so early when they still have so much potential!

P.S. How was Maui, you bum?

Wesley Tucker

For all the children out there who may have missed it the first time, this is the "infamous" California Glass and Skate ad from October 1978. (The Blackhart interview was in this issue as was some extensive coverage from the ARA Vail event.) http://members.aol.com/wtucker567/FusionAd.jpg First, it w...

Wesley Tucker

Glenn, I can maintain that speed . . . until I wake up! Again, though, I am wondering if you're wondering about a sprint speed, a sustained average speed or both? As far as your set up question, I would suggest a good medium-stiff flex board with an 18"-20" wheelbase, some decent medium to full trak...

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