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Daredevil skateboarder Danny Way leaps Great Wall of China
Bakersfield Californian ^
| 7/9/05
| AP - Los Angeles
Posted on 07/09/2005 8:23:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Skateboarder Danny Way, 31, from Encinitas, California, jumps the Great Wall of China at Ju Yong Guan, north of Beijing Saturday July 9, 2005. Way was attempting to break his own skateboarding records for distance (79ft/24.07m) and unaided height out of a ramp. (AP Photo /Greg Baker)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:25:07 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: NormsRevenge
Wow, the Chinese are really getting this capitalism thing.
They've progressed to the Bread and Circus stage already ..
Just joking lol.
To: NormsRevenge
I thought all skateboarders were daredevils.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:28:18 PM PDT
by
k2blader
(Was it wrong to kill Terri Shiavo? YES - 83.8%. FR Opinion Poll.)
To: NormsRevenge; mikrofon; martin_fierro
including China's ministers of extreme sports and culture I wonder if they have a Minister of Silly Woks.
To: NormsRevenge
Did he stick the landing?
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:30:32 PM PDT
by
airborne
To: NormsRevenge; martin_fierro; mikrofon
Daredevil skateboarder Danny Way leaps Great Wall of China Where's there's a Wall, there's a Way.
To: NormsRevenge; martin_fierro; mikrofon
Where's there's a Wall, there's a Way. My last post was a real apostrophe.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:35:10 PM PDT
by
Charles Henrickson
(***Where*** there's a Wall, there's a Way.)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge; mikrofon; martin_fierro
. . . at Ju Yong Guan Funny, he doesn't look Juish.
To: spetznaz
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:40:33 PM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: NormsRevenge
The guy's 31 years old and he's still skateboarding?
Get a job.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:40:33 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(A lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.)
To: NormsRevenge
Skateboarder Danny Way, 31, from Encinitas, California, attempts to set a height world record at Ju Yong Guan, north of Beijing Saturday July 9, 2005. Way, who completed the first ever skateboard jump over the Great Wall of China, was attempting to break his own skateboarding records for distance (79ft/24.07m) and unaided height out of a ramp. (AP Photo/Quiksilver/Mike Blabac)
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:40:35 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
To: NormsRevenge
Skateboarder Danny Way, 31, from Encinitas, California, jumps the Great Wall of China at Ju Yong Guan, north of Beijing Saturday July 9, 2005. Way, who became the first skateboarder to jump the Great Wall, was attempting to break his own skateboarding records for distance (79ft/24.07m) and unaided height out of a ramp. (AP Photo/Quiksilver/Mike Blabac)
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:41:51 PM PDT
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NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
To: Texas Eagle
Get a job. He's board with his job.
To: Charles Henrickson
Who would hire him? He's a skater.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:42:45 PM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(A lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.)
To: Texas Eagle
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:44:09 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
To: NormsRevenge
On a skateboard? He's nuts.
On the other hand, one of my favorite clips from the Jim Rome show is of his interview with Evel Knievel. Evel's attempted 1974 rocket-jump across the Snake River Canyon comes up, and Evel says he figured beforehand he had a fifty-fifty chance of not surviving the jump. Rome asks, well, if you figured you had a coin-flip chance of dying trying to do the jump, why try it at all? And Evel replies matter-of-factly...
"...You know who the hell I am?"
The point being that to do stuff like this, you have to be tough, supremely confident in yourself...and, yeah, at least borderline nuts.
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:45:36 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Sanity used to be a friend of mine...but I haven't seen him around in a while.)
To: Charles Henrickson
"Where's there's a Wall, there's a Way."
Groooooaaaaannnnn!
[;^D
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posted on
07/09/2005 8:46:16 PM PDT
by
RebelTex
(Freedom is everyone's right - and everyone's responsibility!)
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