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does a 180 ft wreck dive in the Bahamas count ? complete with reef sharks and a cargo ship that sat with its bow in 190 foot of water and its stern hanging over the shelf to the deep blue ?
reef sharks circled the dive line as we waited for our decompression stop ....im sure we looked like chum.......

no pics -- sorry --
 
You guys should check out the Great Lakes Surfing Association. I've seen guys surfing Lake Superior in January and February around Duluth. I tried surfing some years ago at Huntington Beach, but with my bad hips I can't snap up off the board. Makes it impossible.
 
I surfed as a youngan off Pompano and Cocoa Beach -- havent even tried in over 3 decades--- I dont "snap up" much of anything anymore 'cept cheap gear acquisitions, BBQ sammiches and Guinness ;)

I used to--
ride BMX
ride motocross
skateboard (what now is extreme down hill -- then we just called it fun)
snow skied
surf
water ski
played football baseball basketball tennis and Hockey
fitness trained (even got my Personal Trainer Cert.)
hunted
went scuba diving almost every weekend
deep sea fished

now I flip guitars (somewhat extreme in these pawn shops and opium den scavenges)
and have 2 herniated discs--a tilted sacrum--arthritis-- carpal tunnel---and aggressive skin cancer--

from spending the majority of the first 40 years of my life OUTSIDE and DOING SOMETHING

Im over "extreme anything" at this juncture --- (except Guinness and the aforementioned sammiches --- or good Cajun food./....)
 
I dug my very first skateboard out of the attic. I got this at a K-Mart in 1973 when I was 13. There were no "real" skateboard shops in Ohio at the time
and if you didn't mail order the choices were slim...

It's a Makaha and all original. I didn't rife it hard back then. It was more of a way to get around and maybe some spin tricks and such...

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Sp8ctre said:
I dug my very first skateboard out of the attic. I got this at a K-Mart in 1973 when I was 13. There were no "real" skateboard shops in Ohio at the time
and if you didn't mail order the choices were slim...

It's a Makaha and all original. I didn't rife it hard back then. It was more of a way to get around and maybe some spin tricks and such...

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I had something similar to that as well, and one that was black with a metal deck, and a fiberglass deck that said power flex on the bottom.
The others where made of wood by me.
Couldn’t do many tricks but I sure did ride the piss out of them.
Cheers
 
Mitch Pearrow SJMP said:
I had something similar to that as well, and one that was black with a metal deck, and a fiberglass deck that said power flex on the bottom.
The others where made of wood by me.
Couldn’t do many tricks but I sure did ride the piss out of them.
Cheers
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Cool! I wasn't much of a trickster myself. I rode before the Ollie was invented and have never tried to learn one!

I also had a red aluminium board about a year after that Makaha and then I started making my own in wood shop!
 
Mine was an all wood GT LIGHTNING I picked up in Pompano Florida -- circa 1981 ish
all wood clearcoated with ROCK SALE in the top for grip (and flesh rip when you wiped out!!!!

the thing was cursed---- I broke my wrist on it (I was about 13 I believe) Im on the right ------ 3 days later my neighbor Mervin said --- HA! dummy Ill show you how to ride --- BROKE HIS LEG on it ---
we made the local paper with the title "SKATEBOARD CLAIMS 2!"
and this pic
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