saturday evening, in between hospital visits i went to Li’s party. I didnt have that great of a time given the circumstances, but the party itself was pretty cool. his house has a 4 foot half pipe in front of it. the plan for the night was that after people who knew how to skate got to ride the ramp, a bunch of people who had never skated a ramp before would go for it. now, 4 feet really doesnt seem like that high. practically nothing right?? well, when you stand at the top of the ramp, all of a sudden the 4 feet seem like a loooooong way down. io had been contemplating riding the ramp before, but once i got to the party i really wasnt feeling it. if i was gonna bail big time on a ramp, i’d rather do it someday by myself without a huge crowd watching. of course, i spent the next several hours being harassed by everyone and pressured to just go for it. after a while i started to think that i better try it. why not? what’s the worst that could happen? well, the worst did end up happening, but luckily not to me. after 3 people unsuccessfully tried to ride the ramp, mike kubo tried to ride it and ended up w\/ a compound fracture in his ankle. several people had to rush him to the hospital and early the next morning he got surgery. yikes! after the happened, i was pretty glad that i didnt try to ride the ramp obviously…<\/p>\n
here are a few photos and a couple of videos from that night… click<\/a> (and yes, i do realize that the last one is sideways. but i dont know how to fix that.) saturday evening, in between hospital visits i went to Li’s party. I didnt have that great of a time given the circumstances, but the party itself was pretty cool. his house has a 4 foot half pipe in front of it. the plan for the night was that after people who knew how to skate … Continue reading “under pressure”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisisvlad.com\/werd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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