if there is a choice sundays r best 4 me --- ill prob b working every sat during the summer.  But hey ive already met up with a fair few people already so i shouldnt b too picky.   but a summer bockfest sounds good.

By the look of things mini local meets will have become common place. So there should be 2's, 3's,4's and moresomes to travel together. Not totally sure re hyde park. Its nice big open and central   but quite featureless. So not much to jump on/ovever etc.

go grrlz

depends  wot music u gonna use 4 ya next vid

that was athoul   

oo un i think  the 'happy bockers' pix  needs a 'private eye' style  bubble/balloon

sorta   'i didnt want um for christmas either'

erm sorry chavs can aaford Pk's--- think of all the money they make stealing mobile phones, ipods  and MY mountain bike grrrr

he was young he was innocent he needed the money   nuff said

Ive just started lerning front flip on tramp ( un week 2 on tramp so  pretty chuffed) so early days. Instructor ( i tolder her about the risers so she seems to b chucking out all the seat drop stuff out of the window -- so hint to peeps if going for tramp lessons  it will cut out bits u dont need) seems to go 4 the full long legs no tuck action.

For doing it 'real time' outdoors m looking at places with a 'drop' to give me more time/space to swing over. So the sk8 park looks good as it has spots that go from 41/2 - 2 foot drops . 1 good thing about being a postman im used to getting up early  so no probs 4 me getting there b4 any1 else so im not watched     \tho i might 'phone a friend' un tell um that if i dont phone them back in 5 min ---call an ambulance .

But seriously I dont know if i will ever get there ( im 42  im not sure my body can still bend enuff quickly enuff)  but im gonna really try and im havin fun trying already.

Thanks 4 starting this thread and sharing.

I guess the flip  is the '180' of bocking  cept for us it '360'!!!!!!!!!

does it 4 me .  tho not shore it should have started with mu dodgyest of pathetic efforts.  \but gotta go now timer went ping  so gotta get my braised chicken with garlic butter on to a plate  ttfn

I assumed you were getting your PA to log in and reply now

yeah  4got there is a sk8 park at baiter  and will turn a few heads of the people with foils and kites ( there is a big diff between the 2 and i gather kite users look down on foil users   sigh) next door.  They are the sort of people to be interested in risers --and the money/state of mind to actually buy. It has been noted that most of us have / have done or r interested in other extreme/extremely silly sports( I seem to recall Matt 1st saw risers when his climbing instructor was on some).

re pk.  Yep,  I think what is happening is as more people join, and it doesnt have to be many they suddenly notice  oo there is a guy 20 miles from me and anhother 20 behond him  we could meet. There is a guy in guilford another in slough just needs one in say reading and 1 in basingstoke and u have a group on the M3 corridor.

And dont forget Lukey and the south end mob and the east midlands peeps

there is a sk8 park in bmth  which is also in a park with a basket ball court/pitch  i cant rember.  if none of u can borrow  a ball ill volenteer to but 1  if u want.  its in the chav/ bad lands tho.

re logo  i gotta go visit my old work m8s v soon  un 1 of best m8s is a graphic designer  was gonna sweetly ask her if she could do somat.  if she said yes  my idea was  a green big clawed 'dino' foot on footplate un riser   kinda jumping in a dynamic way? see wot happens. OO un when is 1/2 term --- i like 1/2 terms  not so much bleedin traffic 1st thing in morning


ps  ive started an idea for another persons head of a meet in bristol in may ---4 the bockin olympics )

im sure eventually i will tire of bocking, i know the day will come ill look at them in the hall and think  'nah ill just walk to the pub'. I know it will happen, i also know it is a long way off.

 For many many years 'waveskiing' was my life ( its a cross between canoeing and surfing), technically i was never very good ( ie crap) but i loved it if surf was up i was on water. i ran competitions, judged was even  4 1 year a very bad national director of coaching  ( tho we did produce the worlds 1st wave ski coaching manual and i wrote my chapter whilst suffering from a surfing whiplash injury). But its not my life anymore  but wouldnt b without the memories and friends and times in the pub and the rest.

Un hay ive spnt wot , including travelling expences to london and  dorchester ( but not including my parking fine grr), £400. I reccon I got a good few years  left enjoying these things un will cost me £10-15 a month if i travel to meets ( xcluding overseas stuff) tops.

Enjoy bocking, when u see somat better on youtube  -- try it --but tel the rest of us about it too ---ooo un tell matt to set the website up

alternativly  just grt your teeth on the way home  and have your broken arm put in a plaster back in UK   hey u r a bocker  should b no big deal

think the teachers may have let you keep them on by the rule of 'divide and conquer'.  U so busy being pleased on your risers -- thats all u did was to  use your risers  and everyone around you was probably so amazed  they didnt think to do anything that their teachers would not like.

Teachers are reall people too ( you never know some  of them may even bock), my sister is 1 of them boring stern science teachers (ok she boring in real life) but even she thought it was really funny when 1 of her old headmasters had to exclude 1 of this own sons.  But oo going off subject ---- ill get locky 'doin things' to me

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you also managed to relate shakespear ( not always the easiest of subjects) to your real life in an  original and creative way. Teachers will be actually be really chuffed at that

and from u jono  thats praise indeed