klaatu <klaatu@alt-teens.org> wrote in message news:<9al520550cqqce3kf5gmds14bfbf8bgk9e@4ax.com>...
> >> >Nicole:
> >> > ... Barrel Racing really isn't that hard.
> >> >You should try it some time. Did you say you had a horse?
> >> >I can't remember.
>
> >> klaatu:
> >> don't have one.
> >> i'd like to, but haven't enough space to keep one right;
> >> it would be like tying a dog on a short leash.
> >> would love to try barrel-racing,
> >> even if i never get good enough for competition.
> >>
> >> surfing and snow-boarding also
> >> depend much on balance and timing,
> >> but i'm 200 miles from surf,
> >> and at least 600 from usable snow.
> >> <sigh>
> >>
> >> oh well, at least i've got a unicycle.
> >> <tries to imagine barrel-racing unicycles>
> >>
> >> hmmph !
> >> no good.
> >> maybe motorized unicycles would work . . . .
>
> >Nicole:
> >I work at a camp in the summer
> >and their are some guys who ride unicycles around the barrels
> >trying to be funny.
>
> klaatu:
> when one's beginning unicycling, turns are hard;
> seems like barrels would be good practice
> (and of course, a way to show off, if one's good)
>
> i'm not good enough yet to show off,
> so for me it'd be just practice.
>
> >Nicole:
> >I think it would be fun to snowboard
> >but have never got the chance to try it.
> >THey are building a fake slope where I live so maybe I can try it.
>
> klaatu:
> would love to try it.
> i hear sky-boarding is cool too.
>
> there was a guy who did some adverts on one,
> swooping all about in the air at 12,000 feet;
> figure-eights, tail-spins ...
> he was inventing new things all the time,
> but he hammered in, one day, so that's that.
>
> advantage of skyboarding;
> nobody leaves ruts,
> so everybody gets the same ride;
>
> disadvantage: too expensive,
> and one spends so much time getting there.
> it's not really much more dangerous than snow-boarding, tho.
>
> if they build a fake slope near you, and use fake snow,
> you have advantage of a good surface all the time.
> are they going to do it *soon*?
Hopefully they get it done soon but I haven't heard anything about it
lately so. Skyboarding sounds scary!!!!!
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