Other Sports

[MadPSI]

My sporting history pretty much made me get a set of PRs.

4 years gymnastics, 15 years competitive springboard/platform diving.  A nasty back injury pretty much ended that years ago.

A year of therapy later and I was back to tip-top shape, but out of the diving scene.  I developed quite an affinity for automotive racing and I've been doing that ever since.

It's insane what a few laps in a race car can do to you.  It's quite a workout.

It'd be awesome to find anyone here that had a set of PRs.  I bought them last year and have been hopping around the back yard ever since.  I'm not a big fan of attention (which these things do nothing but attract), but I hope to find some others in time that'll make it easier to bock in public...

[Matt]

Hey MadPSI
Welcome to the site, and thanks for registering 

Had your background in gymnastics helped you on your Powerisers? Can you do any tricks?

I know what you mean about the attention...

Hopefully there'll be someone near by you
Matt

[Wizz]

Wow madpsi souds cool,
what sort of racing do you do? and what car?
id love to be good at gymnastics just poppin off random backflips nd stuff like that, just showin off basicly

[MadPSI]

Matt:
While my previous sporting endeavors make me feel more able of doing crazy flips and such, the sensible part of my brain makes me heasitant of trying them (I do flips all day long w/o 'Risers).  Once I do a flip for the first time, I'm sure I'll be flipping about constantly.  I'm not a big fan of bodily injury, so I'm taking it slowly.  If it were 5 years ago, I'd probably be jumping over cars already.   I'm still trying to get in touch with a local gymnasium with proper padding and such so I can try things without killing myself.  However, I'm very comfortable on them now, so it's only a matter of time before I start trying things in my back yard anyway.

Wizz:
I've dabbled in a few types of racing.  I did some Karting for a bit, then got into road racing with my Nissan 240sx, a bit of drifting with it also, then I got into drag racing with my GMC Syclone.  I caught the horsepower bug, so I bought another Syclone and am currently building it as a PSCA drag car (U.S. for Pacific Street Car Assoc.) that should have roughly 1500 horsepower when it's completed.  While that's getting built, I still race my other Syclone in SCCA-sanctioned track races.

It's very expensive to build a PSCA car, so it's taking me a long time to get it done (almost 3 years now).  Not to mention that I've spent a lot of time and money developing various Poweriser mods that I'm currently testing.  I have a bearing setup that seems to work well, but I have to make sure it is robust.  I have a lot of other ideas for them, and I'm working on them nonstop when I get free time away from the truck.

Sorry for the novel...

[Matt]

I'm not a big fan of bodily injury,

lol! who is?!

[Wizz]

Wow that sounds great! 1500hp thats pretty dam powerful
id love to b doing that...... actualy id love to b just driving

cool what mods have you done to your  . could you post sum pics so we can see them?

[dominion]

You're all the way out in the Desert!! lol

I wish I had someone on the east coast, specifically New York to bounce with.  It'd force me to do it even more, and more competitively.  It'd also be fun to interact with another 'riser as well.... Race, etc...

[MadPSI]

It'd be cool to establish a desert-bocker group here on the west coast.  I know there's a ton of people in California who bock, not to mention that the hub for Velocity Stilts is in Nevada.

It'd be cool to develop a serious west-coast bocking group that shares tips/tricks/etc...