Wishin' TJ_Tigger a Happy One

[rhosk]

Small birthday card for ya.

Happy Birthday!

[yosik]

From me too.
Yossi

[Corey]

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[TJ_Tigger]

Thank you all. It has been a very good birthday weekend. And it was a milestone birthday. Big 30 for me. Everyone tells me I am an old man now but with my two boys, I still feel like a kid at heart.


Tigg

[Corey]

30's cool. Far from old. 95, now *that's* old. 30's peanuts. A good year to seriously take up skateboarding I think. But don't take my word on that, I might be wrong. Consult with your boys, and whatever they decide...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[TJ_Tigger]

Kind of funny you mention skateboarding, because now both of my boys have skateboards and I probably ride them more than they do at this point. They are still learning to keep their balance and figuring out how to move and turn. I used to ride a skateboard all the time, primary means of getting to and from school, oh so long ago, but I can still ollie. Not very well but the board catches some air.

:-)

[Corey]

Yay!!! If you can ollie you ain't doing too bad old man. I ollied two boards finally this week! Small victories...

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[TJ_Tigger]

cool I don't plan on trying to ollie over anything but air for a while, but the kids think it is cool. They aren't old enough yet to think I am too uncool.

[Corey]

In their minds you are gettiing about 3 feet of air. No matter how you slice it, a dad who can ollie is never a bad thing.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Worm]

Alright, I hope I'm not the only one who had to google to find out what an "ollie" is.

This is a cool link that explains the science behind it. I found it interesting anyway

Skateboard Sciences

[Bruce]

Tigg! Happy 30th buddy!

[Corey]

Ooo I remember that site Worm, they also have a webcast of that guy trying to explain it while a bunch of kids skate around the place:

http://www.exploratorium.edu/skateboarding/webcast.html

It's amazing how hard it is to master the ollie. I think it's one of those things you never do master, it's always improving until the day you stop skating. I'm amazed at how much I retained over the winter, I got on my skate last week and it felt like I had never taken a day off. So I suspect ollies are like riding a bike, once you learn you never forget.

The big breakthrough is once you can ollie curbs. I'm still very careful doing that though, you can really get sprawled out clapping your back truck onto the curb if you don't get the right distance. Concrete belly flops are *no* fun. I bet by next year though I'll be doing 180 ollies over curbs, in my sleep, without so much as a flick of my toe, and both hands tied behind my back, and a disinterested yawn on my face.

The amazing thing is how it all comes to you over time, and things which once seems gravitationally impossible now become routine. I think that's the appeal. Man vs. board vs. concrete vs. security guard. Hemingway would have loved it.

Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software

[Stefan_M]

Hi Tigger, happy birthday!

[Adam]

Happy Birthday tigg, Best wishes from all of us here at the IR.

Adam

[Intrigued]

Happy 'B' day.

Thank you for all the help you give us here in the forums.

You're a M.V.P.