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I’m always working to incorporate longboard surfing movements into my skating. To be somewhat ready once the right wave comes my way. I guess. After starting to figure out a tail first drop-in (or take-off) carving into the subsequent 180 on a bank or transition, I now start to work on drop-knee turns. The proper hard one, which is a cross-stance. It’s about as hard as a switch foot kick-turn. So, being a good 21st century skater, I searched for tips on the internet and this site is basically all that comes up. But it’s great putting it all into perspective, surfing and history wise!

Drop Knee Tribute | Background information on the drop knee turn

Sector 9 Shred Thane: California Slashing With Levi Hawken

Surf Rock alla Turca

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White Settlers Buried the Truth About the Midwest’s Mysterious Mound Cities

scott foss, mellows ditch, hawaii @ ozzieausband

New waves: make a break for the ‘crown jewel’ of India’s surf scene in Tamil Nadu

The million-dollar mouse: navy heads to remote Antarctic islands to hunt out pest

25 years ago, a mutant American crayfish turned to asexual reproduction, and all of Europe’s lakes are filling up with its clones

Plastics Sicken Coral Reefs

Houses that can float, to survive climate flooding

Maya civilization was much vaster than known, thousands of newly discovered structures reveal

Young Skater, 1960s

Should we give up half of the Earth to wildlife?

Cloudy Day

11th Annual Surf Guitar 101 Convention August 3-5, in So. Cal.

Revenge of the vinyl record album

The Space-Jazz Guru’s Astounding ‘Batman and Robin’ Lp

Downhill Marathon

LA’s snow days

Living in a parking lot amid Santa Barbara’s wealth is a kind of middle-class homelessness

Pachucos: Not Just Mexican-American Males or Juvenile Delinquents

A Beautiful Pandemonium

Seven charts that explain the plastic pollution problem

This Seaweed-Based Edible Packaging Could Help Save Our Seas

The never before seen images were taken by photographer Hugh Holland, and are being run in a Hollywood gallery as part of an exhibition called Silver. Skate. Seventies.

Source: California skateboarding revolution captured in photos | Daily Mail Online

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Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit’s Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet – Motherboard

Roots vs the Future

Stanley Black Sophisticat in Cuba 1958

The New People (1969 Promo)

Mapuche Leader Moira Millán: “We Mapuche people don’t fight for land ownership but for a way of living on the land”

California wildfires: 120,000 forced to flee as blazes tear through south of state

Are You Ready to Consider that Capitalism is the Real Problem?

How 5 African-American Women Are Shaking Up Atlanta’s Cocktail Scene

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Nelson and Ashley Ahina, Laniakea 15 Nov 2017

DownHill SkateBoarding Freeride Lacets Montvernier

This British gent lives life like it’s the 1940s / Boing Boing

Hidden Beat-era Enclave Could Get National Historic Status

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Is This The Solution To Plastic Waste Pollution?

Octopus tiki mug

How to Etch Aluminum / Etched Guitar Pedals

The article that changed my view … of humanity’s impact on the planet

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Fmr FBI Agent Turned Surf Guitarist Using Her Voice To Advocate For The LGBTQ Community. She released her ‘Love Is’ compilation in October

Source: Fmr FBI Agent Turned Surf Guitarist Using Her Voice To Advocate For The LGBTQ Community – GirlTalkHQ

Source: Blackboy: A Portrait of Deni Firdaus

The Jetsons is actually a bone-chilling dystopia – The Verge

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There is more than enough wind energy to power our future. But our model of paying for it is stuck in the past.

Source: Who Owns the Wind? | Boston Review

Source: There’s enough wind energy over the oceans to power human civilization, scientists say – The Washington Post

Seth Andrews and The Thinking Atheist’s Matt Dillahunty recently took a little field trip to Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter — the giant creationist theme park designed to teach children that the bible is literally true and the earth is around 6,000 years old.

Source: Atheists give a tour of Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter: ‘It’s a $100,000,000 paperweight’ – DeadState

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