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Message 2486 (27. Mar. 2007 08:49) (Tree)

Bernhard
bernhard@adinfinitum.de
Thanks to Bernhard
Hi Chris,

nice to meet you here! It's unbelievable what kind of people show up at this place. Nice to hear your story, too. I wish I had started skating at the same age as you. Instead I was almost 10 years older.

Do you still ride your skates?

Bernhard
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Robert Chase: Thanks to Bernhard (11. Mar. 2007 17:55)
 Thank you bro! Your site is awesome and reading all of the forums and seeing all of the pics makes me very happy. I wish that I could have skated with all of you in my prime. I have always been the lone quad skater and skated with boarders. I did skate with other quad skaters many years ago in competition, but I was 12 years old and never really got to experience it the way I would now. I did get to see Fred Blood skate, but I was very young. I had a few friends that I skated with, but moved to Texas. My only role model was Paul Votava. He was so agressive and amazing. There was a guy named Jamie Ide out of Pipeline Skatepark that was the best skater I ever saw in person. I see from this site that there are and were better skaters, but I never had the opportunity to skate with them. I recently started skating again and it was awesome until I broke my elbow. After six weeks, I am still in a lot of pain and can't use my arm at all. I am hoping to get back into skating soon, but am scared to get hurt because I have to pay the bills. Getting older sucks!I hope to skate with some of the people on this site soon. It is very hard to progress, when you are the only quad skater and just trying new tricks that you have never seen. Anyway, Thanks Bernhard for having an awesome site.
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Bernhard: Thanks to Bernhard (11. Mar. 2007 22:49)
 Robert, you make me blush.

This site is what it is because all of you who contribute tp it. I would never have thought that it would become what it is now when I did my very first web page on how to build a vertical roller skate back in 1999. I had some spare web space and it was the best thing I could think of. As far as I could see there wasn't anything like that on the web and the other stuff I could possible write something about had already adequately been covered. I knew of no other roller skater still skating and I thought that maybe someone would be interested in building such a pair of skates. Little did I suspect that I would attract people like Brian Wainwright, who found this site and contacted me. He also encouraged me to start this forum (I has already used the software for another site, Sk8Mag.de). One of the first persons to stop by was Rollergirl of Canada. The strange thing was, that this site attracted mainly people who had once been (or still are) roller skating. The community grew and some people aren't feeling that isolated any more. It's the biggest reward you can get from operating such a web site! And the creative ideas of the people on this forum let to further improvements of the site: I think it was Brian, who wanted to be able to attach pictures to a posting. Irene wanted to be able to retrieve those pics from the depth of the forum. This let to the image browser. Some people started posting YouTube links. This let to the video browser. A lot of work behind the scene had to be done, to keep the spammers at bay. They are relatively quiet at the moment, but one never knows ...

I am curious how this site will develop further and I hope that the world-wide community of vertical roller skaters will continue to prosper.

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chris bethel: Thanks to Bernhard (27. Mar. 2007 03:20)
 :nice job bro,, i got into the skate scene from vegas in 78. There were about 12-14 true skateboarders and 4-5 quad skaters,,i did get the chance to shate with fred bllod and tony hawk in the same year.
i skated with them at Big-o, in the late 70's. i also saw jamie ide rip the full pipe and combi pools atpipeline shortly after the 1980 gold cup finals wich caballero won,and chris miller slammed in the sqare pool.. vegas has a few parks but non like the 80's..
soon after i learned the backflip at teh del marskateranch, being 13 was the best.....
keep grinding andstay above the coping
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Bernhard: Thanks to Bernhard (27. Mar. 2007 08:49)
 Hi Chris,

nice to meet you here! It's unbelievable what kind of people show up at this place. Nice to hear your story, too. I wish I had started skating at the same age as you. Instead I was almost 10 years older.

Do you still ride your skates?

Bernhard
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Robert Chase: Thanks to Bernhard (30. Mar. 2007 03:04)
 : :nice job bro,, i got into the skate scene from vegas in 78. There were about 12-14 true skateboarders and 4-5 quad skaters,,i did get the chance to shate with fred bllod and tony hawk in the same year.
: i skated with them at Big-o, in the late 70's. i also saw jamie ide rip the full pipe and combi pools atpipeline shortly after the 1980 gold cup finals wich caballero won,and chris miller slammed in the sqare pool.. vegas has a few parks but non like the 80's..
: soon after i learned the backflip at teh del marskateranch, being 13 was the best.....
: keep grinding andstay above the coping

Wow, I had to read that a few times to know it was not me. The only difference is that I did not start skating in Vegas. Did you ever skate in A.S.P.O.? Jamie Ide ripped so hard. I saw Fred Blood skate at Marina Del Rey and he gave me some wheels at Skatercross when I was a youngster. I am curious who the quad skaters were that you skated with? I think I got into skating around 1981? I was on the Skatercross team and skated a lot of the A.S.P.O. events and then it turned into CASL.

Robert
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