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Message 1632 (29. Nov. 2005 22:58) (Tree)

paul forsythe
WOW!!!
: WOW is right.
:
: Your buddies have been waiting for this! It is great that you have been freed!
:
: Lee, you are a gift to everyone. To me you are a best friend and a hell of a skater. I can't wait to skate with you again.
:
: Sorry I gave you so much greif about the buckels! Had I known i would never have been so ruff with ya.
:
: Woodward was amazing, but right now this post by lee has given it bigger meaning to me than I ever would have thought. I am blown away. I don't think any of you know what a break through this is for him.
:
: I LOVE YOU little Bro.
:
: Fred Blood

hey i was wondering if this is the same fred blood that lived in Hermosa beach in the 70's next to the pier and skated for the runway skate park if so we used to hang out at hte skate rental place with duke and i beleave ray was th owner of the shop lots of fun in those days whatever happen to you lost all contact when i joined the service hope to here form you soon



Paul forsythe
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Lee e: WOW!!! (18. Oct. 2004 21:28)
 WOW!!!

Woodward was amazing!! The scene was incredible. We all had a magical unforgettable time – everyone skated great and everyone skated safe – no major injuries (except for Irene’s chin and a tequila hangover)

I will actually be writing about my experience during this four day meca of unbelievable skating in its entirety to be finished as soon as my two fingers can type it up.

For right now, let me try and in some small way, try and relate the emotional significance to you that this event evoked in just one of its participants.

My brother was handicapped at age 8 from a car accident. He was a quadriplegic from then on. He just suddenly passed away last July, he was forty years old. The entire time he was incarcerated in a body that was no longer physically responsive, he never once was angry, scared, jealous of those more physically fortunate, or complained or bemoaned about his physical limitations. Not once! He was never ever bitter that he would never know the full, physically rich lives we often take for granted.

He was such an inspiration to me. People always comment that I am always happy and cheerful. A large part of this cheeriness comes form realizing how fortunate I truly am. What could I possible be unhappy about when I consider my condition and fortunate circumstance vis-ŕ-vis my brother.

I always considered him a super person for his continually optimistic view of his condition and situation. He was a super man. Recently, Christopher Reeves, the former actor that became famous playing Super Man in movies and was suddenly paralyzed from the neck down due to a horse riding accident, passed away. He was like my brother, a quadriplegic wrongly confined to live the rest of their life in a wheel chair unable to move.

Christopher Reeves, like my brother, showed incredible courage and character by never giving up or giving in to self imposed pity and sadness. On the contrary, Christopher Reeves really did much more for the common good and became more publicly active since becoming paralyzed.

To remind me, and pay respect to these two incredible individuals, I bought a Super Man logo belt buckle and tee shirt, so if anyone commented on them, I could tell them this story.

Well, since my brother’s death, I have felt a supreme sense of loss, guilt and fundamental sadness. While he was alive I should have done more with him, I should have been a better brother, I should have…I should have… I should have…

My father from my earliest childhood memories till his passing seven years ago, has always preached, lectured and instilled in me that a man should be in complete control of his emotions. I have forever strived to live up to his ideal of a man in considerable control of his emotion state. To a fault perhaps. I was so in control of my emotions, especially because I had to be strong for the rest of family concerning my brother’s passing, that I almost became emotionless.

Since my brothers passing, I had not cried or truly expressed my grief once yet, yet my heart was inconsolably sad. Since his passing, I have had a indescribable feeling that my unnaturally rigid grip on my emotions had robbed my of even the ability to properly morn for my beloved brother.

When I came home from the Woodward gathering, I had such a menagerie of incredible wonderfully rich emotions swimming all around inside of me, consuming me.

That night, I put on the Super Man logo tee shirt to go out to dinner with my wife. As I was leaving, my mother mentioned the tee shirt. I very serenely started to tell her of the significance and meaning of why I was wearing the tee shirt. The same story I just imparted to you. Now, realize, some people at Woodward had already asked my about the Super Man belt bucked and I was able to calmly impart the significance of it to them without any extraordinary emotional outbursts.

Well, I started telling my mother the same story I just told to you and I completely rupture into uncontrollable tears. In front of my mother and wife, I cried and cried deep long unabashed sobbing tears of extremely repressed emotional anguish.

It felt so so good.

The Woodward experience gave such an incredible bounty of beautiful emotional memories that it actually gave me back the ability to let go of my emotions and truly feel pain, as well as joy, at there highest most beautiful exquisite purest form.

I am actually again shedding teas as I tell you this.

This is what happened to me at Woodward. Please forgive the long explanation.

Thank you everyone involved with this.

Special thanks to Bernard for creating this forum. Brian and Chris Edwards for coordinating and putting the wonderful event on, and all the other wonderfully great people that came and played with us.

Thank you, thank you, thank you,


lee



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Bernhard: WOW!!! (19. Oct. 2004 16:40)
 Hi Lee,

thank you very much for sharing your emotions about the Woodward experience. I also think that ir was a big experience for all of us (except that the tequila is strictly for the dentist. Luckily the numbness of my mouth region has finally worn off! ;-)).

To me, it was a lot more than just Woodward: My first trip to America, my second meeting with a cousin of my mother's (after 27 years), a trip to Joshua Tree National Park and the sheer hugeness of LA. The most important part of my trip was of course the Monsters of Roll event and I also want to thank Brian and Chris for organising this. I appreciate your effort very much! Also a thank you to everyone who has been there and thus contributed to the magic of a vertical roller skating community.

Alas, I did a stupid thing that never bedore happened to me: I exposed one of my films twice so that some otherwise great pictures have become almost unusable. :-(
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Fred Blood: WOW!!! (20. Oct. 2004 21:46)
 WOW is right.

Your buddies have been waiting for this! It is great that you have been freed!

Lee, you are a gift to everyone. To me you are a best friend and a hell of a skater. I can't wait to skate with you again.

Sorry I gave you so much greif about the buckels! Had I known i would never have been so ruff with ya.

Woodward was amazing, but right now this post by lee has given it bigger meaning to me than I ever would have thought. I am blown away. I don't think any of you know what a break through this is for him.

I LOVE YOU little Bro.

Fred Blood
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Lee e: Thanks. (20. Oct. 2004 21:51)
 Yes, it was really big. Bigger than your airs. Bigger than a 540 handplant.


Thanks fred.
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irene: Thanks, Lee (21. Oct. 2004 03:31)
 I wondered why you and Fred were spending so much bathroom time together. Ahhh...liberation..oh what a feeling!
I think Fred has that quality that makes you want to cry. Lee, you're my hero.
Jokes aside, much love was swirling around Woodward during these few days we spent together and certainly eternal bonds were formed.
Thanks to everyone who contributed and participated, and to everyone else, ya better get your arses there next year!
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m mann: WOW!!! (21. Oct. 2004 13:46)
 : WOW!!!
:
: Woodward was amazing!! The scene was incredible. We all had a magical unforgettable time – everyone skated great and everyone skated safe – no major injuries (except for Irene’s chin and a tequila hangover)
:
: I will actually be writing about my experience during this four day meca of unbelievable skating in its entirety to be finished as soon as my two fingers can type it up.
:
: For right now, let me try and in some small way, try and relate the emotional significance to you that this event evoked in just one of its participants.
:
: My brother was handicapped at age 8 from a car accident. He was a quadriplegic from then on. He just suddenly passed away last July, he was forty years old. The entire time he was incarcerated in a body that was no longer physically responsive, he never once was angry, scared, jealous of those more physically fortunate, or complained or bemoaned about his physical limitations. Not once! He was never ever bitter that he would never know the full, physically rich lives we often take for granted.
:
: He was such an inspiration to me. People always comment that I am always happy and cheerful. A large part of this cheeriness comes form realizing how fortunate I truly am. What could I possible be unhappy about when I consider my condition and fortunate circumstance vis-ŕ-vis my brother.
:
: I always considered him a super person for his continually optimistic view of his condition and situation. He was a super man. Recently, Christopher Reeves, the former actor that became famous playing Super Man in movies and was suddenly paralyzed from the neck down due to a horse riding accident, passed away. He was like my brother, a quadriplegic wrongly confined to live the rest of their life in a wheel chair unable to move.
:
: Christopher Reeves, like my brother, showed incredible courage and character by never giving up or giving in to self imposed pity and sadness. On the contrary, Christopher Reeves really did much more for the common good and became more publicly active since becoming paralyzed.
:
: To remind me, and pay respect to these two incredible individuals, I bought a Super Man logo belt buckle and tee shirt, so if anyone commented on them, I could tell them this story.
:
: Well, since my brother’s death, I have felt a supreme sense of loss, guilt and fundamental sadness. While he was alive I should have done more with him, I should have been a better brother, I should have…I should have… I should have…
:
: My father from my earliest childhood memories till his passing seven years ago, has always preached, lectured and instilled in me that a man should be in complete control of his emotions. I have forever strived to live up to his ideal of a man in considerable control of his emotion state. To a fault perhaps. I was so in control of my emotions, especially because I had to be strong for the rest of family concerning my brother’s passing, that I almost became emotionless.
:
: Since my brothers passing, I had not cried or truly expressed my grief once yet, yet my heart was inconsolably sad. Since his passing, I have had a indescribable feeling that my unnaturally rigid grip on my emotions had robbed my of even the ability to properly morn for my beloved brother.
:
: When I came home from the Woodward gathering, I had such a menagerie of incredible wonderfully rich emotions swimming all around inside of me, consuming me.
:
: That night, I put on the Super Man logo tee shirt to go out to dinner with my wife. As I was leaving, my mother mentioned the tee shirt. I very serenely started to tell her of the significance and meaning of why I was wearing the tee shirt. The same story I just imparted to you. Now, realize, some people at Woodward had already asked my about the Super Man belt bucked and I was able to calmly impart the significance of it to them without any extraordinary emotional outbursts.
:
: Well, I started telling my mother the same story I just told to you and I completely rupture into uncontrollable tears. In front of my mother and wife, I cried and cried deep long unabashed sobbing tears of extremely repressed emotional anguish.
:
: It felt so so good.
:
: The Woodward experience gave such an incredible bounty of beautiful emotional memories that it actually gave me back the ability to let go of my emotions and truly feel pain, as well as joy, at there highest most beautiful exquisite purest form.
:
: I am actually again shedding teas as I tell you this.
:
: This is what happened to me at Woodward. Please forgive the long explanation.
:
: Thank you everyone involved with this.
:
: Special thanks to Bernard for creating this forum. Brian and Chris Edwards for coordinating and putting the wonderful event on, and all the other wonderfully great people that came and played with us.
:
: Thank you, thank you, thank you,
:
:
: lee
: i hope you all will allow a reply from what i am told is referred to as a "skate betty".from the spectators point of view and as brians wife this was also a truly magical weekend for me.i had the oppotunity to spend some very nice time talking to each of you personally and watching you skate-how nice it was to finally watch someone other than brian do their thing.it gave me a new perspective on the sport and a chance to meet some wonderful people.the energy surrounding the event was palpable!
speaking as someone who knows what moves and motivates brian the weekend was a dream come true for him.as adults we often lose sight of capturing the feeling of a child christmas morning.thie weekend was a thousand christmases rolled into one for brian.i am so glad that i was able to be a part of this.i hope that some of your pictures captured the karma of the event because it was obviously about more than rollerskating,it was about people coming together and sharing.lee,your testimony proves this point beautifully-thankyou for sharing.
best of luck to all of you in your endeavors and thanks for sharing time with me.
martha
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lee e: WOW!!! (21. Oct. 2004 18:05)
 yes, it was better than a 1000 Christmases.

funny thing, the level of emotional conection and acceptance was beyond what I could have ever imagined.

Behind every great sole, is another sole helping them to be where there are.

thank u and thank brian.

(will try and include pic)
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paul forsythe : WOW!!! (29. Nov. 2005 22:58)
 : WOW is right.
:
: Your buddies have been waiting for this! It is great that you have been freed!
:
: Lee, you are a gift to everyone. To me you are a best friend and a hell of a skater. I can't wait to skate with you again.
:
: Sorry I gave you so much greif about the buckels! Had I known i would never have been so ruff with ya.
:
: Woodward was amazing, but right now this post by lee has given it bigger meaning to me than I ever would have thought. I am blown away. I don't think any of you know what a break through this is for him.
:
: I LOVE YOU little Bro.
:
: Fred Blood

hey i was wondering if this is the same fred blood that lived in Hermosa beach in the 70's next to the pier and skated for the runway skate park if so we used to hang out at hte skate rental place with duke and i beleave ray was th owner of the shop lots of fun in those days whatever happen to you lost all contact when i joined the service hope to here form you soon



Paul forsythe
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Bernhard: WOW!!! (30. Nov. 2005 10:54)
 : hey i was wondering if this is the same fred blood that lived in Hermosa beach in the 70's next to the pier and skated for the runway skate park if so we used to hang out at hte skate rental place with duke and i beleave ray was th owner of the shop lots of fun in those days whatever happen to you lost all contact when i joined the service hope to here form you soon

Hi Paul,

it surely is this same Fred Blood. But I fear nobody will see your reply to this quite old message. You should follow the link to the top of the forum and post a new message so that everybody checking in regularly will see you!

Anyway, a warm welcome by me!
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