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General: Have You Hard Or Soft Balls? (937 words)
by kenjohn - written on 23.04.04 (Very useful, 651 readings)
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~ ~ Golf balls these days are as varied and different as the various different types of golfers who use them. They have come a long way since the early days of golf, when the golf ball was a simple leather pouch filled with goose or duck feathers! ~ ~ The appliance of science has led to today?s modern golf balls being miniature technological miracles, that are practically aerodynamically perfect. Nowadays you can buy a golf ball that will travel in the air for massive distances. You can buy balls with lots of spin, or practically no spin. Hard balls or soft balls, and all sorts of in-between balls. Whatever your golf handicap, ...

weehhhh crch splat crunch..........neenaw.... (732 words)
by Anti-Santa - written on 10.06.01 (Very useful, 37 readings)
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Who wants loads 'o plaster casts and impressive scars? Oh yeah and s**t loads of fun! Skateboarding is one of my favourite things to do. A)Because my mum can't follow me down the street telling me to do my homework. B)Because it gives me an amzing sense of achievement when I do anything good (not very often then!). C)Because you can do it almost anywhere(on dry land). I started skating when I was about twelve. I'm still not very good, 'cos I usually stop for ages in the winter because I dont like cold(and skidding out on ice) and there aren't any indoor skateparks that I can get to without a train or ...

General: An introduction to Longboard Skateboarding (430 words)
by Nassos - written on 24.04.01 (Very useful, 327 readings)
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Everyone who will bother to click all the way here, hopefully agrees that skateboarding is great fun, a great way of keeping fit, and that nothing compares to the feeling of satisfaction you get when you learn to ollie for the first time. Great. I started skateboarding 7 months ago and after a number of embarassing and triumphant moments a managed to learn how to ollie in the first 4 months. Then I met some people who were skateboarding but their boards were considerably longer than the average trick deck. We became friend and I ended up developing an obsession with longboarding to the point that I bought my own. The main difference is ...