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Headwind sucks: Jack Smith and friends skate across America.

SO I WAS VISITING WOODWARD this summer and when I'm there I always adore to BS with the girls in the office. This one time I was talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's fancy of penalty"; "the preceptor gave him a talking to"
lecture, speech
rebuke, reprehension, reprove, criticism, reproval - an perform or wording of objection and censure; "he had to
..... Click the link for more message. Erica Mischler and out of the blue she says, "Josh, do you absence to skate across America?" Without hesitation I say "yes," alike to the course you would mention "duh." She had been forwarded an e-mail almost this dude that was going to make the trek, so she told me that I should obtain in touch with him. The guy was Jack Smith. After a few e-mails and call cries, I could acquaint that Jack was sketchy about letting me be portion of his four-man team. He explained to me how the cross-country trip was to medal his son, Jack Marshall
For other people named Jack Marshall, see Jack Marshall (disambiguation).

Sir John Ross Marshall, GBE, CH, (March 5, 1912 August 30, 1988), generally known as Jack Marshall, was a New Zealand politician. Smith,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who had recently passed away. And this was his way to raise money and awareness for the rare genetic ailment called Lowe Syndrome Lowe syndrome Oculocerebrorenal syndrome, see there that caused his son's death. Basically Jack didn't want me to be some irregular hesher that would opprobrium To refuse to accept or pay a draft or to disburse a promissory memorandum when duly presented. An instrument is dishonored when a needful or optional presentment is made and deserving approval or payout is refused, or cannot be acquired within the prescribed time, or in circumstance of bank accumulations,
..... Click the link for more information. the trip or his son in any way, which is altogether rational, right? Sure it is. But, luckily for me, Jack ended up knowing Reggie Barnes Reggie Barnes was a star fleeing back in the Canadian Football League.
Barnes graduated from the Delaware State University in 1988, where he rushed for 1336 yards in 1988 and 3282 during his academy vocation, and was not drafted by the NFL, but signed as a free proxy with the New , my antique employer at Eastern Skateboard Supply. So Jack called Reggie, Reggie gave me a agreeable reiterate, and that was that. I was on. So I flew out to the West Coast to encounter the crew in Newport, Oregon Newport is a metropolis in Lincoln County, Oregon, United States. It was merged in 1882, though the appoint dates back to the establishment of a post office in 1868. As of the 2000 census, the city had a aggregate population of nine,532, a growth of nearly 13% over its 1990 population.
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JACK SMITH IS A LEGEND. The guy is 46, built like a tank, has been skating since 1974, set world speed records meantime I was in diapers, and still skates about every day. He eats fast food every day of his life (and gets frustrated if you don't order among the first eight seconds at the counter), and but is still as healthy as a nag. He's been a big inspire on skateboarding. Do your homework, you'll see. Nick Krest is the friendliest dude you'll ever meet. He can talk to anyone about however whenever. Nick skated on this trip like a practice and forever had invariable times. At 38, Nick has his hand in the skateboarding manufacture, and he, too, still skates nearly every day. Scott Kam is 33 and I think we are somehow related. Like Jack and Nick, he's a lifelong skateboarder, owns Rootamental skateboards, likes to laugh and joke as much as I do and shares my juvenile sense of humor Noun 1. sense of humor - the feature of appreciating (and being competent to express) the humorous; "she didn't obliged my humor"; "you can't survive in the legion without a sense of humor"
sense of humour, humor, humour and irony.
Jack has made this cross-country skate double before, once in '76 and once in '84 (discuss your Guinness Book of Records, kiddies. It's in there). But this time we arranged to mince his final log by 5 days. The morning that we left began with Jack's ritual of touching the tails of our boards into the Pacific Ocean, then on to our exodus through the beautiful land of Oregon. To start with there were 8 in our crew. We had guest skaters, but one member of the four-man team had to be skating at all times in mandate to make it legit le·git
adj. Slang
Legitimate. . So the van we had following us served as a pass-the-torch relay. We likewise had to log in the mileage and time every time we started and ended a leg. That was a pain. Each leg started out as 3 miles, but on the second half of the trip we trimmed them down to two miles, unless you were skating through the mountains. Then it was a mile or a half of a mile, all depending on how soak it was.
The first day we had a mileage miscalculation mis·cal·cu·late
tr. & intr.v. mis·cal·cu·lat·ed, mis·cal·cu·lat·ing, mis·cal·cu·lates
To calculate or estimate incorrectly.
mis·cal , forcing us to skate an accessory 50 miles, to result in 200 miles getting covered that day. Dude, my right leg was putrid. I mean, we all pushed normal and switch just the same (usually I switched up every eight-to-10 pushes) but my right leg got rocked. For the next six days I had to limp on it whenever I waded. Even though it hurt when I skated, I could still push with it. The first few days also took a toll on Scott's heel. He got this gnarly (jargon) gnarly - /nar'lee/ Both dim and hairy. "Yow! - the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less characteristic usage in surfer slang. blister blister, puffy swelling of the external skin (epidermis) caused by blaze, friction, or irritants like poison ivy. A feedback of the body to defend deeper tissue, blisters generally contain serum, the liquid makeup of blood. that ended up seeing like a cavity someone made with a melon scooper just aboutmething. It was gross, but he never complained and never slacked up. Jack got a blister towards the end, and had to slit out the back of his shoe. Nick and me escaped the blister craze unscathed, although Nick did take a spill that drew blood, which made up for it.
Skating through Oregon is beautiful. Being all alone on a skateboard in the navel of nowhere is amazing a·maze
v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es
v.tr.
1. To influence with magnificent surprise; amaze. See Synonyms at surprise.
2. Obsolete To bewilder; embarrass.
v.intr. ; makes you think a lot. You begin to talk to yourself. You start talking to beasts, even singing. Sometimes I was so focused on the road in front of me that I had to snap myself out of the trance to achieve the loveliness surrounding me. When my legs would impair actually wrong I would count my pushes or make up anthems to try to drown the ache. I mean, pushing is 1 entity, but pushing up a mountain is a entire assorted patch of punkins. This voyage was my first period treading on a longboard A longboard generally designates a longer embark another in assorted .
* Longboard (surfing)
* Longboard (skateboard)
, and definitely the first time I've dropped a few thousand feet in elevation off of one push. I've never skated for over 6 miles going 30-to-40 mph down a hill, appealing that there wouldn't be any potholes I couldn't evade.
THERE WERE LOTS OF FIRSTS FOR ME. One night we resided in Unity, Oregon Unity is a city in Baker County, Oregon, United States. The population was 131 at the 2000 census. Geography
Unity is located at (44.447954, -118.191611)GR1. , one of the most beautiful places ever. Only a few hundred people live there. It was so small that the regional sheriff was "out of town for the week." That night one of the young girls came to me in a alarm while I was sitting appearance of our hostel room. "My boyfriend is going to come shoot you!" She said. "He got mad that I was talking to you earlier and wants to shoot you! He's tried to shoot somebody before! Please go inside and corner off your light!" So I waited, 'cause no one has ever pointed a gun at me. I thought it would make for a good fable, but he never even showed.
Before we left Oregon we kick 17 miles of the gnarliest road ever--rocks embedded in tar. You could pluck 'em out with your fingers. It was so gnar. You had to push going downhill. It was bad. Oh, I forgot--headwind. Headwind head·wind or head wind
n.
A air blowing directly opposition the way of one aircraft or warship.
headwind
Noun
a wind blowing directly against the course of an aircraft or ship
sucks. We combated so many headwind and there's nothing you can do but push harder and wish it stops. Sometimes the wind would almost blow you backwards if you stopped pushing.
We hit some dry desert-looking area in Idaho and got busted by the po-po for using movie cameras approximate a nuclear reactor. (Ps: We documented the whole trip and it's going to be a National Geographic Personal Adventure on TV. Keep your eyes peeled.) For the maximum part,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cops were amazingly chilly. Some would pull us over, and lad is it comic to get blue-lighted on a skateboard. But when we told them the deal, most were super rad and even radioed the recess of the cops in that shire effective them to depart us lonely. We had one or two A-hole cops; one that even made us drive the few remaining miles of "his county." But overall we were stoked stoked
adj. Slang
one. Exhilarated or excited.
two. Being or consciousness lofty or intoxicated, particularly from a drug. there were so many 5-0s ambitioning to aid us.
Wyoming was cool because of all the red and gray rocks. Oh yeah, now I understand why we gave the Indians the reservations in Wyoming--'cause there's NOTHING THERE, MAN. White male lost nothing in that deal. It's completely vacant, but it's rad to skate through. By Nebraska our crew had slimmed down to the four-man team. It was a lot easier that way. Sometimes people would give us money for the occasion as they drove by us or when we stopped in a town. And I'd like to note: it was always the poorest towns that gave us the most. There was a town in Nebraska called Marionville, a town "too difficult to die," that had only 100 people. We were remedied like royalty Adv. 1. like royalty - in a imperial manner; "they were royally treated"
like potentates, royally there. They opened their hearts and emptied their menial pockets. It was a modern day "widow's mite widows mite
meager womans contribution of all she had. [N.T.: Mark, 12: 4244; Luke 21:24]
See : Generosity ," and I've got a soft smudge for people like that.
One fun thing you can do skating across America is spook animals. Deer, foxes ... I think the raddest is to make a herd of a few hundred cattle streak across a pasture. You start smiling and, really, it makes you feel kind of powerful. One time I spooked this herd of antelope or something, and it was freaking freak·ing
adv. & adj. Slang
Used as an intensive: Traffic was a freaking dream.
[Alteration of frigging, present participle of frig.] extraordinary to look them shoot cross the plains. My preference My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love by Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. , though, is the time I spooked some ducks and they flew across the road before of me. The lowest duck smacked the windshield of a semi that was coming towards me and shot it up 30 yards just about like a punted football, landing only a few feet away from me. Shaking my head, I variety of giggled and didn't miss a blow. Another favorite: Once, these two horses ran probably two miles with me as I skated alongside their lea. It was sick 'cause it was super early and misty. The horses, the mist and the green lea made me feel as if I was in some illusion video. Trust me, you'da been ignited whether you were there, too.
OK, let me hint you in aboard something: the US is no flat for anyone extra than a rare mile here and there. Sure, in a car it might appear as flat as a pancake, yet when you are moving through it you notice every mushroom and fall of elevation. So stop musing that the "flatlands
For the neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, see Flatlands, Brooklyn.

Flatlands is a type of terrain similar to savanna and grassland. " must have been simple, because there are no flatlands! There are flatter-lands. But no flatlands. Iowa and Illinois are mellower than most, but we hit some big ol' mounds in Ohio and West Virginia West Virginia, E chief state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures
Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. , where the hills turned into mountains. Jack said the Appalachian Mountains Appalachian Mountains (ăpəlā`chən, chēən, lăch`), mountain system of E North America, extending in a roomy strap c.1,600 mi (two,570 km) SW from the Gaspé Peninsula in Quebec prov. were worse than the Rockies,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'cause it was up and down a bazillion times instead of straight up and straight down. But it all seemed the same to me, especially when just trying to hug the white line as near as possible so the speeding semi behind me wouldn't mail me flying down the side of the mountain. I had a few close calls. All of the crew got darted during our voyage but me. I did bail one time act about 30-or-35 mph but ran out of it. And let me tell you: that was goddamn god·damn also God·damn
interj.
Used to express extreme disappointment, inflame, or wonder.
n.
Damn.
tr. & intr.v. god·cursed, god·damn·ing, god·damns
To damn.
adj. macabre, dude. Big soft cycles on bumpy roads makes your board float eight inches both way occasionally. That's something I'm not accustom to. And if it starts fishtailing--and you're not used to longboards like me--then you would probably relinquish ship just like I did.
Imagine skating for 21-days straight, from 7:30 am 'til six-or-nine pm. All you do is push, push, push, and every second is rushing. The only time you stop is for a 45-minute lunch, and maybe a radio interview here and there. We even made newspaper journalists follow us so they didn't slow us down. It was amazing. I appreciated every bitter push on the infinite maze of asphalt and cement across America. I loved pushing through the greenery of Oregon, baking below the blazing sun of Wyoming, skating through the sea of corn in Iowa, dodging dump trucks on the razor-sharp mountain curves in West Virginia, and swimming through the humidity of the Southeast. I loved it all. I really did. It was amazing.
Twenty-one days behind leaving, we finally coiled up to the East Coast and sealed the handle along submerging the noses of our boards into the beauteous waters of the Atlantic Ocean Atlantic Ocean [Lat.,=of Atlas], second largest sea (c.31,800,000 sq mi/82,362,000 sq km; c.36,000,000 sq mi/93,240,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 sq km with marginal seas). Physical Geography
Extent and Seas
. Jack's task was not to damage the world record. Jack's task was to raise money for and awareness about Lowe Syndrome. Breaking his record was really just a dividend for him. But in actuality, I suspect the mission really isn't over.
To learn more about Lowe Syndrome and to help the mission's end draw nearer, Many, many thanks go out to justpushplay.com, Rolls Rolls skateboards, Independent, Etnies, Element, Tumyeto, Harbinger and Abec11 bearings for funding this trip, giving us product and production it always feasible. So who's down to skate from Canada to Mexico?

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