new glue (cement)

UpSideDownCarl said:

I used to skate to that song all the time:

This is me in competition:

That is back in 1995.

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This is awesome, I love when TT players have another hobby that people typically see as badass. My band loves to make me sing these guys' music and it just kills me, I have no idea how he can belt closed vowels (e and o sounds) the way he does. For me, that just makes my vocal cords bleed. Haha

kukamonga said:

skating sounds extreme for the bones.
did you have any big injury doing it?

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Lots of minor bangs. As you get better, you learn how to fall softly. The ramp is a curved surface like a slide. It still hurts to land "softly" from 25 feet in the air. But there was more dings and bangs than major injury. The larger injuries were, I broke my hand in 5 places doing something simple and small. And I did a partial dislocation of my left hip landing wrong on a hand plant back flip, which hurt like hell and took a lot to make mostly better. Still a bit wonky 20+ years later but.... The thing that actually had the longest impact is, when I would fall out of a trick because I knew I had messed up, I would land on my right hip "softly" to slide out of it. And my right hip has a decent deal of arthritis from that. That bothers me more than any of the other injuries.

On a skateboard, when you bail, you kick the board away from you and use your knee-pads to break the fall. On in-line skates, the skates are in the way. So sliding on my hip actually was safer than using the knee-pads. Or, at least that is how I felt at the time. [emoji2]

BTW: @ theknife: ramp skating was a hobby for me. But I also got paid for it and did it full time. So, it was also a profession. I did stuff like that for 2 years touring the USA with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Weird as hell.

As far as that glue: here is information on the composition of rubber cement.

From this page:

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_cement

Rubber cement is simply a mixture of solid rubber in a volatile solvent that will dissolve it. When the cement is applied, the solvent evaporates, leaving the rubber as the adhesive. Almost any rubber (pre-vulcanized or not) can be used. [1] The rubbers used might be natural rubber, gum mastic or gum arabic. Early solvents used included chloroform and benzene. [2] In the United States of America, current formulations include n-heptane. In the UK, a product called Marabu-Fixogum uses acetone.

Special compositionsEdit
Many compositions have included hardeners and/or vulcanizing agents designed to improve the cohesion of the rubber. [3]

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If the glue you got has a similar composition and looks and reacts like rubber cement, you can use it. But it will expand your sponge for a few days.


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Gene Tuttle said:

"Upside down" Carl now has clarity of meaning.

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Newcomers haven't realized it is hiz mind that is backwards... but for all practical purposes, that orientation is exactly right side up.

Why not play tennis instead on Table Tennis ? More participants,more tournaments.More sponsors.