Michael Strides new avatar

[Chris Chaput]

An interesting word from A Word A Day (AWAD) came into my inbox today:

avatar (AV-uh-tahr) noun

1. A manifestation of a deity in Hinduism.

2. An embodiment of a concept.

3. A representation of a person or thing in computers, networks, etc.

[From avatar (descent, as of a god from heaven to the earth), from ava-
(away) + tarati (he crosses).]

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[Wes Eastridge]

One shouldn’t blame CC. It was the front truck. I had the wrong type of washer under the bushing, causing the truck to enter the realm of wheelbitenes. I did it to all of the boards that I planned to leave on the sidelines for unsuspecting moochers.

CC, I’ll remove the incriminating photo when the topic we last discussed over email comes to light.

[Chris Chaput]

This is big secret so don't tell anyone. I use slider gloves for tight slalom so that I feel safe and secure, even at really high speeds. The other day I topped 16mph! Try THAT with your silly little wrist guards and tell me you're not shaking in your boots!

[Guest]

Seeing how it was WesE's board, I blame the wheels. Howard?

I think it is WesE's sock drawer, not the wheels...or maybe it is the tounge? No wait it has to be the slider gloves. No real studly english slalomer would use slider gloves...come on now. That only makes "proper" form that much easier. Sorta like training wheels, no?

(this coming from someone who also makes his own boards...but doesn't use slider gloves)

:-P

[Chris Chaput]

Seeing how it was WesE's board, I blame the wheels. Howard?

[Vlad Popov]

Wes, it's no British style at all! Not even close! Don't you wish you were as brave as the English slalomers? Full body slams? No knee slides? I'm getting there!

[Wes Eastridge]

It could end at any moment...


From Hugh's site:
http://www.hugh308.com/g3_day2_set2

[Chris Chaput]

There are times in your life when everything all comes together. The style, the course, the board, the stance, the wheels. The expression on your face says it all - Damn I love tight slalom!

[Guest]

hahahahahahaha....

[Michael Stride]

Dear Vlad,
I have finally been able to choose an Avatar and I thought you should look and learn from it.



It hasn't been retouched at all, and like yours displays a super stretched extended style, which you seem to enjoy. However I have been able to perfect this to an almost 'over horizontal' stance, and the trick I use is to point my whole body down the fall line to the finish, head first.
I find this particular style works best if you leave your own course and enter your opponents.
My countryman Si Levene also has used this style, with the added skill of sending his board 90 degrees to the right at speed, but has made the mistake of hitting the 3 last cones of a course and using his shoulder to trigger the timing line, as seen in his Pocket Pistol ad in Concrete Wave. My method involves lying motionless until everyone thinks your dead, then slowly getting up uninjured. Si's method involves going home with broken ribs.
Should you ever need tips on falling at speed, I'm yer man!

PS, whats that language thats come up on the posting box page, is it Russian? That made me laugh. I wondered where all my vowels had gone.