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Wesley Tucker

Glenn, At the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1987, I pumped my Turner to a top end speed of 244 MPH. Of course, this is unverified. Seems someone forgot to take off the lens cover! :razz: P.S. Seriously, the age-old question: are you referring to a sustained average speed or a top speed in a sprint? There...

Wesley Tucker

Hey, Everyone,

Hans said I got a capable brain. So why don't the rest of you troglodytes stick your opinions where they'll do some good? :razz:

Wesley Tucker

Hans, It's interesting that you use the word "parameters." In another life when the world was young, I was really into synthesizers and MIDI technology. What I always found so fabulous about the guys who developed synthesizers is how they were able to successfully "catagorize" each element of a part...

Wesley Tucker

Hans (and maybe JG, too,) This is one of the reasons why I think we as skaters should get away from the "course labels" altogether. With the possible exception of GIANT SLALOM, where I think it's pretty self evident and big board and big wheels are sufficient, all this "tight-hybrid-slalom" stuff is...

Wesley Tucker

Hey, Henry!

I wonder if you had announced you'd taken a job with SOPRANOS WASTE MANAGEMENT if these guys would still be jonesin' for free stuff?

Congrats on the new gig. How long before we see a "Bad H" Signature Osiris model?

Wesley Tucker

On 2003-01-16 21:04, Hans Koraeus wrote: So now then if you set up a straight slalom course on the flat and another exact copy of it in a hill. Some will say that the one in the hill suddenly becomes Tight slalom. I don't agree. It doesn't change anything. The cones doesn't get tighter because it's...

Wesley Tucker

Simon, it's 8:33 here on the East Coast. Aren't you in Europe? Ain't it around 1:30 in the morning over there? Why ain't you in bed?

Wesley Tucker

Y'all do know Turner cones are on sale for $1.00 apiece? (Minimum of 50 cones, 25 red, 25 white.) That's how I could finally afford my 100.

Wesley Tucker

[quote] Turner would be my last choice after I cried for weeks and was put on Prozac for months when they got rid of my favorite US slalomer in the most impolite and cruel manner. [quote] Vlad, I don't understand this. I never worked for Turner. How could they fire me? :razz: [quote] Some people rid...

Wesley Tucker

Jack, I agree with you. I don't think I was ever confused. I was just completely in the dark as to how the hand wringing made anyone a faster racer?

I still really don't know.

Wesley Tucker

Hans, I would say my answer would be "D" with ONE CHANGE: "D. You don't do your best. The other win but you know that if you would have done your best you (would) COULD have won." I would never finish a race and look back and say, "if only I'd been more on my game I WOULD have won!" The reason is si...

Wesley Tucker

I guess y'all missed my point, which I can understand because sometimes when I go on a tirade I tend to get incoherent. I wasn't trying to ask whether or not sandbagging or some other performance issue was important. My question is "why should I as a racer concern myself one way or the other with wh...

Wesley Tucker

I keep reading all these issues regarding things like sandbagging, criddling, being open instead of pro, etc. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sure does sound like racers spending a whole lot of time worrying about what other racers are doing. If a competitor spends all his time improving his own p...

Wesley Tucker

Mike, Would you also suggest the BOTTOM TEN in the Pro Ranks move to the Open Class? Also, I don't want to get too pedantic, but I have to say I don't like the idea that going from Pro to Open is moving "Up" or "Down." Being an "Open" racer should not and does not qualify as being "lower" or "less."...

Wesley Tucker

Hans.

Yeah. It was easily fixed, though, by adding one cone to start. No big deal.

Never forget the golden rule: EVERYBODY needs a good copyeditor (even if it's designing courses!)

Wesley Tucker

When you consider the circumstances under which the link to my diargram got posted on NCDSA earlier this week, I have to say I'm really humbled at the way y'all seem to appreciate my course presentation. Although I'm savvy enough to know y'all aren't necessarily giving grand ovations for the course ...

Wesley Tucker

Y'all mean like this?

Wesley Tucker

I just want everyone to know I'd vote on this thing, but I'm waiting for ILVA to sign up and send in her pic. Trust me, I don't care how fast she's going, how slow, where she is relation to the cone, turning left or right or just standing there smiling at the camera, her pic will be infinitely super...

Wesley Tucker

One other thing: there's a BIG difference between RUNNING for the money and WINNING money. If a skater decides to try and qualify as a pro, that doesn't necessarily automatically make him a pro. It's the CASH that matters. So someone (like ME) makes the decision to attempt to qualify as a pro doesn'...

Wesley Tucker

My only issue with all this is whether or not you can go back and forth. I said this last spring and I'll repeat it here: once you take money, no matter the denomination, you're a PRO. Sure, you might kick yourself later because you find yourself in contests later in life where the competition is bl...

Wesley Tucker

On 2003-01-10 12:23, matthew wilson wrote: You guys are my heroes! Now there is no doubt a young man of diminuitive aspirations! :razz: Y'all have fun tomorrow. I think I'm going to take my new supply of Turner cones and try this 100-cone thing. Should be a decent way to spend a winter's afternoon.

Wesley Tucker

"KEY?" Key to what, a Trebant?
Sure, it runs, but what are the odds of ever seeing one at Pebble Beach?

(Now, THAT was sophisticated!)

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Wesley Tucker

BRUCE BREWINGTON? YOU GOTTA' BE KIDDIN' ME?

I've seen little baby ducks stuck in an oil slick with more style!

Geez. :razz:

[ This Message was edited by: Wesley Tucker on 2003-01-09 08:05 ]

Wesley Tucker

Henry, I've only met you once (at 'da Farm?) and you seem like a very good guy. In reading your post here, though, I think I can pretty well discern your state of mind. No, I'm not a Psychiatrist, but I watch Dr. Melfi on the SOPRANOS every time it's re-run! At the age of 18, it would appear you are...

Wesley Tucker

Oh, and one other thing about doing a course design: it's really a LOT of fun! Sitting in front of the computer with a simple drawing program, laying out your street, transcribing your landmarks, then getting down to the nitty gritty of placing your cones. It's like the thrill that comes with pickin...

Wesley Tucker

On 2003-01-06 16:37, Jack Smith wrote: There is no way to set a course ahead of time in Morro Bay. We were on shaky ground at Avila as the hotel owner threatened to sue us for lost business, had to keep a low profile before the event. Jack, Well, I can only speak from my experiences, so here goes: ...

Wesley Tucker

John, you said, "but then that would send a STRONG signal to a promoter and certainly it would be an incentive to post a course as soon as possible so it could be altered Once or perhaps twice (should reaction of hte racers be very negative) but not near the start of the race----" This is also an in...

Wesley Tucker

Hans, I GOT the right equipment to wiggle!
Whenever I pull it out, women point and yell, "ICK! . . . ooh, and it's all 'cut away' too!"

(Nothing like a little gentile humor to spice up a languid afternoon I always say!)

Wesley Tucker

Over in the "Tight Slalom" forum Gilmour raised a point near and dear to my heart. He said in a discussion regarding course descriptions and definitions, "The alternative is to do what Tucker did and post a course and stick with it . . . . . . So perhaps this has all boiled down to expectations and ...

Wesley Tucker

And what's wrong with "wiggle per second?" Are y'all too proud to admit where 'ya came from? Don't forget, "cones per second" completely disregards the talents and attack of the successful DOUBLE PUMPER. Maybe one guy is wiggling 4 times a second, but right next to him is someone smokin' him at an d...

Wesley Tucker

I really think y'all are hung up way too much on DISTANCES and not enough on RELATIVE SPEED. A 6-foot course on flat IS NOT tight. I do it first thing everytime I practice. Big deal. An 8-foot course, though, on a 15% grade is EXTREMELY tight. Again, it's the not the cone spacing that makes a course...

Wesley Tucker

Just for the record, this is cut and pasted directly from the NCDSA Contest Registration sign up sheet for the 2002 FCR World Slalom Championships: *********************** 2002 FCR World Slalom Championships 100 Registered Contestants. Contest Date and Time: Friday, October 11, 2002 00:00 Entry: Op...

Wesley Tucker

Henry,

Send $100 CASH and a self-addressed stamped evelope to:

Wesley Tucker
121 Wendy Way
Summerville, South Carolina 29485

Please allow 4-6 weeks for me to spend your Ben Franklin while I figure out a clever way to get away with this scam!

Wesley Tucker

Well, now I got a hundred cones.
And, no, you can't have any.
Behave yourself, though, and maybe I'll let you ride around mine!

Wesley Tucker

Gilmour ingested toxic fumes while still at an early developmental age?
Hmmmm . . . you know, this explains quite a bit :razz:

Wesley Tucker

Chuck, why don't you just get a bottle of Evian and mark the course with drops of blood?

(OH! It never ends!)

Wesley Tucker

1. To get over this friggin' shoulder problem 2. To advance beyond the Round of Eight 3. To have the financial means to make at least as many races as I did in 2002 4. BUY NEW DECKS! 5. Maybe make a Stink Hill race before the end of the summer. 6. Oh, and I'm gonna beat John Gilmour. But you already...

Wesley Tucker

Simon, Did you ever ride a Fusion? The story I always heard is they were gushy, soft and broke easily. Of course, the flipside is that I heard this from fanatical Turner disciples. Bobby told me on the phone in 1981 that Fusion imitated his design but cut corners, specifically in the density of the ...

Wesley Tucker

And you will lose.

Wesley Tucker

I have no doubt of that, Noah. What I do remember is that when I stood in the gate and looked down at the hill in a true parallel stance, I couldn't get a good "feel" for anything. I abandoned the parallel stance early on just trying to get off that stinkin' ramp. To be honest, the first time I clim...

Wesley Tucker

Well, obviously someone didn't read what I wrote when I came home from Morro Bay. (But Noah's excused. Getting married tends to distract people from the REALLY important issues in life!) I rode a surf stance trying to qualify against Atilla in the pro ranks. To put it simply, I couldn't get my feet ...

Wesley Tucker

I win! I win! I win! What better way to be a World Champion than be in a two-man only event and one of the guys gets disqualified? I love this country! P.S. By the way, Bruce, are you sure you got my home address correct? My Christmas presents still haven't arrived. [ This Message was ...

Wesley Tucker

Saw the tight slalom races from Morro Bay today . . . twice! All I can say is the racing was hotter, the locale was sweet and the overall half hour gets a B+ in my book (you know why it didn't get an "A": what was all the gibberish with the band and more pool skating? Maybe someone paid for it, but ...

Wesley Tucker

Well, it looked good and the venue was incomparable. Once again, though, I have to repeat the same criticism I had after La Costa: why am I watching video of a pool skater who sings in a rock band instead of the finals from the other divisions? Don't get me wrong. I met Duane (briefly,) and he's a c...

Wesley Tucker

I know he lost some Avalon 86s in Boston.
He'll never see those bad boys again!

Wesley Tucker

Have I run 100-cone courses this year? No. Have I run 100-cone courses? Absolutely. Y'all remember my pics of my Exit 46 hill? Between 1984-1987, I rode that hill at least once a month. I set courses of various steepness of between 80 to 120 cones. Spacing varied anywhere between 6 to 12 feet. I eve...

Wesley Tucker

I'm in the mood for being argumentative (me? when?) Here's a neat little conundrum that relates to another issue that also got a lot of airplay with the DC Crew. Remember when Vlad suggested a 100-cone challenge? Sure you do. It wasn't that long ago. Well, my contribution to the event was the sugges...

Wesley Tucker

I shouldn't have said that.
I've seen Olga Korbut lately on the news.
Vlad is aging A LOT better than she is!

Wesley Tucker

I never assumed your real name is "Vlad." I always knew from the first time I saw you you're really Olga Korbut trying your hand at a new sport! :razz:

Wesley Tucker

I've noticed that WesE can't post on this website without Vlad insisting he provide his real name to the Webmaster.

Yet for some unknown reason, Komrade Popov just assumes Mrs. Maxwell named her bundle of joy "Slappy."

Americans. Ain't we a hoot?

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