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Message 9915 (8. Jul. 2009 14:24) (Tree)

claudine
First video lol
: : I totally agree its too small/cramped. I'm lucky I'm tiny otherwise there is no way.
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: That ramp might be good for going back and forth without turning around in order to learn frontside, to fakie, to frontside, to fakie, etc... Though it might even be too small to do that very well!
: Those transitions will come at you so fast on a ramp that small.

What is frontside?

I know its small but as I mentioned beforehand, I really dont have money for transportation now. I had to make cutbacks as it is already that are not healthy in order to skate a decent bowl 1 or so times a week. I have the option to NOT skate because my park isnt good enough or be very thankful for what I have and do the best I can. I actually AM very thankful for this park so I use it to the best of my ability. I consider myself lucky to have a park here at all as when I was a kid, there was no such thing around so I didnt skate period. I really never even rollerskated until about 2 years ago.
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claudine: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 02:57)
 I also have 2 uni vids but not uploaded yet. I'll do another thread later. But I have my mini ramp one up and since you guys were bugging me..... BTW, I am not used to the camera so I'm lucky I didnt fall on my face lol. I got nervous so figured I'll just tape myself until I get used to it. My leg has been hurting but was OK to skate a bit.

Please feel free to give me feedback or laugh or both. I know I look silly. I did a wimpy stall at 14 sec and really bad monkey plant at 22 sec. I usually always land them but got nervous lol. Next time. I'm sure at the bowls I'll do better on the monkey plant cause this ramp is so tiny, its really hard. I know I'm not pumping much but like I mentioned, still afraid a bit of flying over the coping.

OK, humor yourself, lol.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6zE4R8l-9I&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fmy%5Fvideos%5Fedit&feature=player_embedded
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Jay: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 05:27)
 : I also have 2 uni vids but not uploaded yet. I'll do another thread later. But I have my mini ramp one up and since you guys were bugging me..... BTW, I am not used to the camera so I'm lucky I didnt fall on my face lol. I got nervous so figured I'll just tape myself until I get used to it. My leg has been hurting but was OK to skate a bit.
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: Please feel free to give me feedback or laugh or both. I know I look silly. I did a wimpy stall at 14 sec and really bad monkey plant at 22 sec. I usually always land them but got nervous lol. Next time. I'm sure at the bowls I'll do better on the monkey plant cause this ramp is so tiny, its really hard. I know I'm not pumping much but like I mentioned, still afraid a bit of flying over the coping.
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: OK, humor yourself, lol.
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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6zE4R8l-9I&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fmy%5Fvideos%5Fedit&feature=player_embedded


YEAH Claudine!!!!! You Rock! That was outstanding. I LOVED the Monkeyplant. I can't do one on something that small. Unless it's a spine. The handplant combined with the 180 is too much for me on a mini like that.Happens too fast. You rocked it. I liked the wimpy stall too.
But, I still say, skate bigger stuff! That mini looked deathly small. No room AT ALL to try to fall well. But you looked plenty comfy.
Awesome stuff. Keep it coming. I'm about out the door right now to try my new sk8s 2.0. I've already hit my lame local park earlier this afternoon with sk8s as you saw them posted yesterday. Ive thrown some more plastic on them & I'm about to see if they work. Taking camera.Again. Filmed earlier. Could be amusing now that I'm trying some slides......
Can't wait for more videos of you skating. Keep Rollin on all 8!
PEACE! Jay
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claudine: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 05:52)
 : : I also have 2 uni vids but not uploaded yet. I'll do another thread later. But I have my mini ramp one up and since you guys were bugging me..... BTW, I am not used to the camera so I'm lucky I didnt fall on my face lol. I got nervous so figured I'll just tape myself until I get used to it. My leg has been hurting but was OK to skate a bit.
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: : Please feel free to give me feedback or laugh or both. I know I look silly. I did a wimpy stall at 14 sec and really bad monkey plant at 22 sec. I usually always land them but got nervous lol. Next time. I'm sure at the bowls I'll do better on the monkey plant cause this ramp is so tiny, its really hard. I know I'm not pumping much but like I mentioned, still afraid a bit of flying over the coping.
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: : OK, humor yourself, lol.
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: : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6zE4R8l-9I&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fmy%5Fvideos%5Fedit&feature=player_embedded
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: YEAH Claudine!!!!! You Rock! That was outstanding. I LOVED the Monkeyplant. I can't do one on something that small. Unless it's a spine. The handplant combined with the 180 is too much for me on a mini like that.Happens too fast. You rocked it. I liked the wimpy stall too.
: But, I still say, skate bigger stuff! That mini looked deathly small. No room AT ALL to try to fall well. But you looked plenty comfy.
: Awesome stuff. Keep it coming. I'm about out the door right now to try my new sk8s 2.0. I've already hit my lame local park earlier this afternoon with sk8s as you saw them posted yesterday. Ive thrown some more plastic on them & I'm about to see if they work. Taking camera.Again. Filmed earlier. Could be amusing now that I'm trying some slides......
: Can't wait for more videos of you skating. Keep Rollin on all 8!
: PEACE! Jay

Thanks Jay! I totally agree its too small/cramped. I'm lucky I'm tiny otherwise there is no way. I still feel clumsy on it which is why wasnt too eager to tape on it. And I'm comfy being IN the ramp right now so thats little room to roll. I hope I can figure out ways to get more money to drive to better places more often. Its a kiddie park. I'm happy I dont look too retarded. I get very nervous around the camera since I'm not used to it so I totally tripped on my feet at the end lol. My hamstring been strained a touch so thats why I didnt do too much and didnt kick more into the ramp on the monkey plant. I can do even grabs on that tiny thing. But I'm sure I'll look much better with more room.

Hopefully I can get better footage this weekend and will improve LOTS by end of summer. I rarely fall on that ramp actually. I need to get more speed on the stalls but its so easy to get over and go into splits if my feet arent together lol.

I hope your skates work out! I was so proud of myself when I made mine!! :-D Those look really good!!!!! Have fun!
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Bernhard: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 08:02)
 Awesome. It's really difficult to do that kind of stuff in such a small ramp. Respect! I'm jealous of you monkey plant. If I could do that, I could try to transfer it to a big ramp. It would be much easier to stall it in a big ramp.
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biffsk8er: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 08:09)
 : Please feel free to give me feedback or laugh or both.

You were pretty smooth! That ramp is SO tiny, you hardly have time to even think of what to do before you are already on the coping. You really need to skate a bigger ramp in order to really get an idea of how well you are doing.

Good job.
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biffsk8er: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 08:13)
 : I totally agree its too small/cramped. I'm lucky I'm tiny otherwise there is no way.

That ramp might be good for going back and forth without turning around in order to learn frontside, to fakie, to frontside, to fakie, etc... Though it might even be too small to do that very well!
Those transitions will come at you so fast on a ramp that small.
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claudine: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 14:24)
 : : I totally agree its too small/cramped. I'm lucky I'm tiny otherwise there is no way.
:
: That ramp might be good for going back and forth without turning around in order to learn frontside, to fakie, to frontside, to fakie, etc... Though it might even be too small to do that very well!
: Those transitions will come at you so fast on a ramp that small.

What is frontside?

I know its small but as I mentioned beforehand, I really dont have money for transportation now. I had to make cutbacks as it is already that are not healthy in order to skate a decent bowl 1 or so times a week. I have the option to NOT skate because my park isnt good enough or be very thankful for what I have and do the best I can. I actually AM very thankful for this park so I use it to the best of my ability. I consider myself lucky to have a park here at all as when I was a kid, there was no such thing around so I didnt skate period. I really never even rollerskated until about 2 years ago.
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claudine: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 14:37)
 : Awesome. It's really difficult to do that kind of stuff in such a small ramp. Respect! I'm jealous of you monkey plant. If I could do that, I could try to transfer it to a big ramp. It would be much easier to stall it in a big ramp.

I'm happy I got "something" down! Doing a handplant I figured was out of my ability cause of my accident. I didnt even think I would be doing anything skating wise for real until fall. So any sort of invert IS a real big deal for ME. I need to work on my shoulder some more now and get it stronger, but I do see me doing a decent handplant (for a woman lol) in the future!! I have to get a pic of that and post it on my wall as a huge accomplishment for what I went through.

I wonder, can I make a pic from a video? My camera is lousy on taking pics, delays 2 seconds.
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Bernhard: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 14:47)
 : I have to get a pic of that and post it on my wall as a huge accomplishment for what I went through.

That's something to aspire to. I do not have any decent picture of me skating. There is a proficient skate photographer who once took a pic of me which probably is decent, but he never showed it to me. :-((

: I wonder, can I make a pic from a video? My camera is lousy on taking pics, delays 2 seconds.

Yes you can! But quality-wise it will be even worse than the photos.
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biffsk8er: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 16:29)
 : I wonder, can I make a pic from a video? My camera is lousy on taking pics, delays 2 seconds.

**Sony Vegas is a video program that my son uses. It will allow you to take a "snap shot" out of a video. Then you could do a drawing of yourself as well!**
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biffsk8er: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 16:37)
 : What is frontside?

**Frontside is facing out 'toward the deck'. Backside is facing away from the deck 'into the bowl'. When doing a trick on the coping, if you approach the coping with your back aiming out of the halfpipe/bowl, then you are doing a backside trick. If you approach the coping with your back aiming into the halfpipe/bowl, then you are doing a frontside trick. (2 different ways of saying the same thing)**
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claudine: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 17:15)
 : : I wonder, can I make a pic from a video? My camera is lousy on taking pics, delays 2 seconds.
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: **Sony Vegas is a video program that my son uses. It will allow you to take a "snap shot" out of a video. Then you could do a drawing of yourself as well!**

OK, no fancy software on my computer. My editing software compresses the video so much its awful. Mac sucked on their first try on software and my computer is too low for the new versions. Maybe if I get a good one, someone could do it for me! Good to know, just really is important to me if I can do a decent one to have a pic for me to be proud of as my arm is still not near normal for functioning. Like change still falls out of my hand cause my thumb joint is elevated still lol.
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claudine: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 17:18)
 But a frontside what?

: : What is frontside?
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: **Frontside is facing out 'toward the deck'. Backside is facing away from the deck 'into the bowl'. When doing a trick on the coping, if you approach the coping with your back aiming out of the halfpipe/bowl, then you are doing a backside trick. If you approach the coping with your back aiming into the halfpipe/bowl, then you are doing a frontside trick. (2 different ways of saying the same thing)**
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biffsk8er: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 17:43)
 : Like change still falls out of my hand cause my thumb joint is elevated still lol.

You think that's funny....change still falls out of my hand since I lost my finger! heh heh. I occasionally drop M & M's too (my favorite are the peanut M & M's)! Old habits die hard. D'oh!
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biffsk8er: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 17:44)
 : But a frontside what?

Anything you do in a half pipe or bowl, while facing the deck as you approach it. Matters not.
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ireNe: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 17:49)
 : I also have 2 uni vids but not uploaded yet. I'll do another thread later. But I have my mini ramp one up and since you guys were bugging me..... BTW, I am not used to the camera so I'm lucky I didnt fall on my face lol. I got nervous so figured I'll just tape myself until I get used to it. My leg has been hurting but was OK to skate a bit.
:
: Please feel free to give me feedback or laugh or both. I know I look silly. I did a wimpy stall at 14 sec and really bad monkey plant at 22 sec. I usually always land them but got nervous lol. Next time. I'm sure at the bowls I'll do better on the monkey plant cause this ramp is so tiny, its really hard. I know I'm not pumping much but like I mentioned, still afraid a bit of flying over the coping.
:
: OK, humor yourself, lol.
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: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6zE4R8l-9I&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fmy%5Fvideos%5Fedit&feature=player_embedded

First off... KICK ASS. Second, good vid and Third, you made every trick on something that would kill me....Go Monkey!
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claudine: First video lol (8. Jul. 2009 23:12)
 : : : I also have 2 uni vids but not uploaded yet. I'll do another thread later. But I have my mini ramp one up and since you guys were bugging me..... BTW, I am not used to the camera so I'm lucky I didnt fall on my face lol. I got nervous so figured I'll just tape myself until I get used to it. My leg has been hurting but was OK to skate a bit.
: : :
: : : Please feel free to give me feedback or laugh or both. I know I look silly. I did a wimpy stall at 14 sec and really bad monkey plant at 22 sec. I usually always land them but got nervous lol. Next time. I'm sure at the bowls I'll do better on the monkey plant cause this ramp is so tiny, its really hard. I know I'm not pumping much but like I mentioned, still afraid a bit of flying over the coping.
: : :
: : : OK, humor yourself, lol.
: : :
: : : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6zE4R8l-9I&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fmy%5Fvideos%5Fedit&feature=player_embedded
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: : First off... KICK ASS. Second, good vid and Third, you made every trick on something that would kill me....Go Monkey!
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: Wow, thanx! I think YOU would kill this ramp lol. Or being a size of a 10 year old has benes in this situation lol? Its a totally clumsy ramp but wanted to tape something of my first steps to handplants. I might try the handplant this weekend if my leg is OK at the bowl. I'll bring my tripod just in case I do so I'm not out of the screen when I do one hahahaha.
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