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The Cult of the Longboard

In the hills above the picturesque beach city of Santa Barbara, California, a smooth asphalt road winds gradually downward between the tall eucalyptus and oaks like a lazy stream meandering toward the sea. The ocean below, of course, is the Pacific, so named by Magellan for it's generally tranquil nature. In 1971, Tom Sims, a surfer and art/geology major at U.C. Santa Barbara who occasionally betr ...

 

Skateboards Deck Technology

It’s gotten a lot harder to sell skateboards these days, unless of course your price is right. In recent years, the secret to making a decent skateboard has been difficult to keep, as many major manufacturers have relied on the same ingredients for the last twenty years. Now that seems to be changing.The boom era of the late 70s encouraged authentic and wannabe skateboard makers to e ...

 

Surfboard : Ding repair

I have been fixing up a few dings as a favour on my friends battered long board and though i'd take some pics and share the process with you guys if you ever get stuck.A board is made up of three layers1. Polyeurathane/EPS Foam core2. Fibreglass cloth3. Poly/Epoxy resin.Damage to any of these will result in water being drawn into the board and mak ...

 

Autopilot

No alarm, just awake. don't know why, what was I doing? What day is, wait... I'm late for something. Work? Is it a weekend? It's light out, holy s*** it's... 6:18 in the morning? Why am I awake, no time to think, back to sleep... rely on alarm. Alarm will save me, sleep is good.8:45amStupid god- ...

 

Camping

We’ve all had a trip or two which has either created chaos, or ultimately end in it. As I’m getting old, I feel it’s my responsibility to reminisce and share some stories, of what some of the older members of eryc used to be like when young.It was an awesome summers day, Toby, Will, Brum and I were pondering things to do, to help pass some time, as it ...

 

My stammer and m,me.

The number one question that I'm asked as a person who jitters out his words worse than an actor trying too hard to play the role of "that nervous but really clever guy who ends up saving the day but that's the twist so don't ruin it" is, "Does it bother you when people finish your w ...

 

I R Student - Part 3/3

This latest entry was dubbed "I R Not Student"... but that would have messed with the title... stuff. It is essentially the third, and last piece I'll write in relation to the perception of people I deem to be pathetic excuses of biological matter. I dig the whole "I'm angry at o ...

 

I R Student - Part 2/3

The following "angry f*****g rah rah" is a continuation of I R Student - Part 1/3, written 2 years on from the original piece. ...

 

I R Student - Part 1/3

This is the first part of a 3-parter, compiled over the many years of my days in university.This first part is during the first year, I wasn't even beginning to feel anger at this point.---------------------------------------It could just be this one area, and there are actually two Unive ...

 

Roll on bye.

I was still an eager skateboarder when one of my mini-dreams came true, I was to be living in an area just a minutes walk away from a skatepark, I felt for sure that this was the start of many good things, I used to think of how much better it'd be when I finally returned home, and the thought of skating an actual park whenever the hell I wanted to was actually thrilli ...