Three times I've been to Cannock Chase now. Any more and I'll feel qualified to produce a 'Mountainboarders Guide to the Chase', or at very least a small pamphlet.....
That aside, here's that days write-up. If I get opportunity, I'll produce some maps as well, but only if I get a good opportunity or if someone asks for them in the meantime.
Monday 22 November 2010
Longboard-Sessions Safety Guide
http://longboard-sessions.co.uk/p/safety
A nice longboard safety guide from the people from longboard-sessions.co.uk website has recently surfaced, with good information and common sense that also crosses over into other board sports. All round, a good guide into surviving another day in environments where hard things come into contact with soft things and bad things happen....
All good advice here, reminding us that situational awareness for you and those around you is never a bad thing, and a system where everyone knows the rules before setting off makes total sense.
"Don't use 'go' - sounds like 'no'"
...personally, I quite like a good old 'left' or 'right' so at least people know which side I'll be hitting them from :-)
For everyone else who doesn't know longboard-sessions.co.uk, it's worth registering just to see if there are any other groups in the region as well as getting occasional heads-up reminders about any sessions taking place in the near vicinity. I'm sure the code could be simply applied to other social sports such as mountain boarding with a little bit of of time, unfortunately, the one thing I don't have loads of :-(
All good advice here, reminding us that situational awareness for you and those around you is never a bad thing, and a system where everyone knows the rules before setting off makes total sense.
"Don't use 'go' - sounds like 'no'"
...personally, I quite like a good old 'left' or 'right' so at least people know which side I'll be hitting them from :-)
For everyone else who doesn't know longboard-sessions.co.uk, it's worth registering just to see if there are any other groups in the region as well as getting occasional heads-up reminders about any sessions taking place in the near vicinity. I'm sure the code could be simply applied to other social sports such as mountain boarding with a little bit of of time, unfortunately, the one thing I don't have loads of :-(
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Monday 15 November 2010
The Monday Papers....
(....because Sundays are for riding)
ATBA International Series Dates (and new pricing structure)
http://www.atbauk.org/internationalseries.html
...contains information about each of this years four competitions, namely Hales Superbole, The Edge, Out To Grass and Ironsides Court Farm.
Interestingly, there's been a big old shake-up to the entry fees with the price per competition per discipline being £10/£20 for members/non members accordingly and if you haven't competed before, then your first comp is free.
Lets hope for better weather next year and a good turn out.
A rumour doing the rounds is the possibility of a downhill comp sometime early next year at a presently undisclosed location. Watch this space, and of course the ATBA space for details.
The Return to the Chase - Maps and Videos coming soon
It was early morning and it was cold, and the effects of maybe a couple too many beers the night before were taking effect, but Mark, Clayton, Phill and myself managed to arrive at the right location at the right time for a further expedition into the wonders that Cannock Chase had to hold.
No harm to state once again how much there is to do here with tracks to be found round every corner, and yet on this, my third visit to the chase, how much there is left to discover.
We bumped into an interesting chap with several piercing and 4 large dogs with weird eyes who told us about 'Telegraph Hill', the highest point of the Chase. Perhaps worth a look at for next time....
Anyway, big cheers to those that turned up; was a cracking session! Phill took some footage on his Flip video so hopefully that'll turn up soon. I'm also using a combination of google maps and bing maps to work out where we've covered this time round so a separate combined post will hopefully emerge soon.
New Russian Video: Breath In
Vdoh from Daria Sherlaimova on Vimeo.
...is worth a viewing. With this and Inshredible doing the rounds right now, there's some great boarding action for your viewing pleasure for those night off.
Thursday 11 November 2010
Using an ultrasonic cleaner to clean bearings?
Londonskaters.com seem to thing it's a good idea...
http://www.londonskaters.com/review-ultrasonic-cleaner-cleaning-skate-bearings.htm
but if you have to do it the old fashioned way, then they also have a guide...
http://www.londonskaters.com/article-speed-skate-bearing-cleaning.htm
But then maplin are doing some cleaners for £25, might be worth a punt?
hmmm.....
Inshredible!! by Tom Sharp
Part 1:
Part 2:
That's Friday night sorted. Even better if anyone can suggest any free mp4 to DVD conversion programmes??
INSHREDIBLE: Part 1 from Tom Sharp on Vimeo.
Part 2:
INSHREDIBLE: Part 2 from Tom Sharp on Vimeo.
That's Friday night sorted. Even better if anyone can suggest any free mp4 to DVD conversion programmes??
Tuesday 9 November 2010
Return to the Chase - The Return - Sunday 14th November
For the benefit of any readers that read this, but don't visit the Surfing Dirt forums, I'm trying to arrange a visit to the beautiful part of the world that is Cannock, just North of Birmingham this Sunday morning. More specifically we're looking at a carpark linked to here.
So far there is an interest from a handful of people, a few maybes and not so many flat no's. But if you can come along (and why not? it's probably an hours journey max from anywhere...!) then you're more than welcome.
To give you a bit of an idea of what to expect, there's a couple of write-ups here and here, and the previous forum discussions here and here.
The forum discussion is currently going on here. Don't like the way this plan is going? Then have your say!
In other business, not much has been posted because not much has been going on. Work is busy, which gets in the way, but beats being redundant. Hence the excitement regarding getting out this weekend. Been snowboarding quite a bit recently but putting it all into words is taking a bit of an effort.
Meanwhile, do you like reading the blog but hate typing in the notanothermiddlzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ?? There's a poll going on to the right of this post. Have a click, change what is happening.
Till next time, ride more, then tell us all about it. Or even better, invite us along - it might be fun!
So far there is an interest from a handful of people, a few maybes and not so many flat no's. But if you can come along (and why not? it's probably an hours journey max from anywhere...!) then you're more than welcome.
To give you a bit of an idea of what to expect, there's a couple of write-ups here and here, and the previous forum discussions here and here.
The forum discussion is currently going on here. Don't like the way this plan is going? Then have your say!
In other business, not much has been posted because not much has been going on. Work is busy, which gets in the way, but beats being redundant. Hence the excitement regarding getting out this weekend. Been snowboarding quite a bit recently but putting it all into words is taking a bit of an effort.
Meanwhile, do you like reading the blog but hate typing in the notanothermiddlzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ?? There's a poll going on to the right of this post. Have a click, change what is happening.
Till next time, ride more, then tell us all about it. Or even better, invite us along - it might be fun!
Monday 8 November 2010
Lush 2006 Barcelona DVD online
...well, parts 1 and 2 anyway. Part 3 coming soon apparently. Ahh, the joys of night riding!
Reminds me, must brush the cobwebs off the kilima and get riding at some point.
Reminds me, must brush the cobwebs off the kilima and get riding at some point.
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