Slalom Skateboarding in Australia
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Jonathan Harms
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by Jonathan Harms » Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:37 am
Geez, Daddow, I know you're a ripper, but put a helmet on already!
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Martin Drayton
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by Martin Drayton » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:51 am
Paul Price and I attended the "Bridge Day" race in West Virginia, USA run by Dave Gale in 2002. Like your race there was free-running water flowing down the road and people who fell were aquaplaning, it was crazy, Paul Dunne then cut divots out of his Avalons to try to get more grip!
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Rick Stanziale
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by Rick Stanziale » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:09 pm
steeper hill, plenty of complaining
yeah Daddow, that's just plain stupid to race skateboards in the rain without a helmet
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Colin Beck
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by Colin Beck » Thu Jun 26, 2008 3:26 pm
OK. so we're not the only ones crazy enough to have done this.
There wasn't really much complaint about the conditions. Two people put down qualifying times and then declined to race in the head-to-head, but otherwise everybody was happy to race, although for many (including myself) it took a fair bit of watching others, and many cautious practice runs, before coming to grips (err) with how much grip there was.
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Jonathan Harms
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by Jonathan Harms » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:34 pm
Hell, that's probably what next year's Slalom St. Louis will look like. We seem to get rained on just about every year.