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why do we skate?
Jan 21st
Skatemom Jess, 5-0 grind, in New York
You asked for it:
It keeps us healthy.
It keeps us feeling young.
The wind in our hair is a blast.
It’s fun to laugh at ourselves.
We’re proud, strong women.
We look cool when we do it.
We haven’t forgotten how to play.
We haven’t forgotten we need to play.
We love being with our friends.
It’s better than chocolate.
It’s more fun than sex … sometimes.
It gives us a chance to hang with our kids.
And our husbands and brothers.
Or just to get away.
It teaches us life’s lessons.
We smile on the way home.
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That’s why i decided to start skateboarding
Jan 19th
i watched shaun white win his gold medal on the halfpipe at the winter olympics in nagano. he looked like he was having so much fun! he was always laughing and joking around, even during the stiffest competition of his life.
i was 39, and i was tired. i had spent my whole life working 60-80 hours a week, volunteering in my off time, and raising a kid. i rarely laughed, and i yelled at my 6-year-old daughter more than i wanted to admit. i wanted to have more fun, and be silly like the Flying Tomato! i thought about learning to snowboard, but there’s no snow here. then i saw shaun do a mctwist on a skateboard, and that’s all it took! i wanted to know what it was like to fly in the air like that. i knew i’d have to work hard. i figured it would take about a year to learn to skate like shaun white.
one day, i asked my dad to take care of my daughter, and drove to the local skate shop. i parked the car and took a deep breath. i prepared myself for ridicule. i didn’t know anyone who skated, and i was sure there were no adult skaters in my area. i walked in and told the 17-year-old street skater behind the counter that i wanted to learn to skate ramps and bowls. i had no idea what to buy, i had never set foot on a skateboard. the store clerk stared at me for a good minute (or what seemed like it), and then went to work. he showed me different boards, trucks and wheels. he explained the virtues of each, and let me choose after narrowing the selection down to two or three. an hour later, i had a really nice first setup. he suggested that i buy a helmet and some pads, as well as some special shoes. i thought all of that might be unnecessary, but followed his advice anyway. the store owner rang me up. he said that i’ll fall a lot at first, and that most women prefer longboarding.supra skate shoes
Talking with American skiing legend Picabo Street about Olympic success, family and steroids
Jan 18th
Of course, downhill skiing icon Picabo Street is proud of the Olympic gold medal she won at the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan, but she also cherishes a piece of paper on which she learned to write her name in Japanese characters that week.
The souvenir not only reminds her of her radically different former life (Street is now living in Alabama, helping raise three young boys), but it also makes her proud to have managed herself well enough at the busy peak of her career that she could slow down and enjoy the ride. That experience underlies some of the advice she has passed on to her friend Lindsey Vonn, who could dominate the Vancouver Games next month.
“[I told her] don’t be so focused on winning that you forget to blow off some of the easy, accessible opportunities that allow you to remember the Games,” Street told the Daily News in a recent interview.
Vonn, 24, grew up idolizing Street, and sought her out as a mentor in 2002, when the two of them both competed at the Salt Lake Games. Now Vonn has become the most decorated female skier the U.S. has ever had; she dominates the World Cup circuit like Street never did, but still lacks an Olympic medal.
Street has fallen out of touch with Bode Miller, who she thinks could be poised for a huge comeback at Vancouver.
“I’ve got my fingers crossed for him. I’m forever an unconditional fan of his,” Street said of Miller, who in 2008 became a father himself.
After giving birth to her youngest son, Dax, last August, the 38-year-old Idaho native recently underwent the Essure permanent birth control procedure, and is promoting it in interviews like this one. The irreversible procedure blocks her fallopian tubes.
“I really want women to not have to have surgery and anesthesia,” she said. “That stuff is scary, and unnecessary. So I’m jumping up and down and saying, ‘Hey look what I found.’”
On Friday, the day after the interview, American Miller won a World Cup super combined in Wengen, Switzerland, his first in nearly two years.
DN: What is Lindsey Vonn going through with the Games just three weeks away?
PS: Hopefully what she’s doing is pretending like each race is the Olympics. Get in the habit of doing that, because that’s what you rely on when you get to the big show and everything starts to get so chaotic. It inevitably does. The best thing is to not try to hide from it. That’s not going to work. You’re going to end up spinning out and losing all the way around. So you find your control and your focus right there within it, and the let the rest of it happen, and you groove on it.
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Nov 30th
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Abercrombie’s touring trio with Marc Johnson and Peter Erskine is heard on Current Events, Getting There (with frequent guest Michael Brecker), and John Abercrombie/Marc Johnson/Peter Erskine. Critic Chuck Berg has described the group as: “solidified … to the point where its sixth-sense interactions create a singleness of vision associated only with Olympian ensembles such as the trios of pianists Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson”. On Current Events, released in 1988, John used guitar synthesizer for the first time on record. John Abercrombie/Marc Johnson/Peter Erskine, released in 1989, was recorded in Boston on April 21,laguna beach jeans, 1988 and documents this innovative trio live. Repertoire from their four-year association is presented, and standards often linked with Bill Evans are given resplendent treatment. John’s affinity for jazz standards complements his role as an active clinician and teacher. In listening-preparation for a Harvard lecture, where John surveyed the history of jazz guitar, he explained: “When I’m playing tunes like ‘Autumn Leaves’ or ‘Stella By Starlight’, as much as I’ve played those tunes over the years, I still enjoy playing them. And because I know them so well, I’m very free with them. I’m just as free with them as when I’m playing with no chords at all. That, to me, is free jazz”.
John Abercrombie possesses a unique voice as a jazz guitarist combining evolving technologies with a tradition well-represented by jazz standards. Further insight into music comes forth in a 1988 “Jazziz” interview: “Carrying the tradition of jazz guitar from Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt to the present day is a very important aspect of my music…I’d like people to perceive me as having a direct connection to the history of jazz guitar, while expanding some musical boundaries which may not always involve the guitar itself”. On the 1990 release Animato John collaborates with composer/synthesist Vince Mendoza and drummer Jon Christensen and presents eight original compositions.