#QuarterPipe

[henrimatosphotography]

A skate park in Sintra, Portugal.

IG: henrimatos1996

[doodlenoodleboi]

Hello! I have a request for Sal Fisher! Can you please write something about him with a reader who suffers from anxiety and that leads to her eating a bit faster than other people? She feels really embarrased when someone points it out. Comments like "Are you done already?" get to her, but she doesn't say anything and instead ducks her head because she is too shy and non-confrontational to stand up for herself. Thank you! <3

Sal Drabble

The vibe

Sal

It was a high school summer, these summers you could choose to either be a kid again or grow as an adult. We have a difficult time choosing these things. Why must we choose things that we don’t want to why not just live the moment?

“Hey! Hey! Bro, wake up!” I was Welcomed by the faces of my two best friends Sal and Larry, a rather interesting duo. The night before or rather shall I say a couple hours ago we had a sleepover at Larry’s house. I was tired and confused by the sudden disruption of my sleep.

“What?” I said, practically still asleep, rubbing my eyes from the crusty buildup of rheum.

“We’re leaving!” Sal said his smile evident in his voice, even though his prosthetic covered his face. I had never been out at night, especially with these two friends. Apparently it was a common thing amongst Larry and Sal. Sal even took off his prosthetic couple times. Nobody could see you in these dark streets, nobody was there to breathe in the air instead of that suffocating mask as Sal described.

Funny enough, Sal might dislike his appearance but the only thing that he truly appreciates about it, it is how it finds him real friends. Ones that couldn’t care less about his appearance. Those ones still tight, so now we’re strolling late at night down these streets I can’t remember. Soon I’ll never see the streets and will have to go away we have to be independent adults. Maybe even barely seeing each other and that sucked, just even the thought.”

The cold air braised everyone’s skin, obviously cool, but nothing close to freezing. Sal’s shoulder, blue hair covered his face for the most part. The way his face had been obscured as a child scared the creeps away but kept his friends closer. The way his right cheek torn reminded me of Mileena (MK reference).

The walk down the cold streets were quiet the only interruption being Larry every so often comments. And the sound of Sal’s skateboard against the road, streetlight and moonlight being to be only source of illumination.

I simply followed, along like a lost puppy going along with the flow, not wanting to ruin the vibe. It was uncomfortably quiet until Larry made his extroverted comment about being hungry. We stopped at a (insert place), probably close to our destination.

Larry ordered for everyone being the extrovert, he is of the group. Then we left, soon we made it to our destination. An abandoned skate park, right next to it was a building covered in graffiti. It was a comforting vibe about the place, because even if it was abandoned, I’m sure many people have still came here even though such information had been given.

I sat on the top of the Quarterpipe, a rather vacant area until Larry decides to sit next to me. I wasn’t fond of eating in front of people, maybe feel uncomfortable and watched. They could have absolutely no interest in me, but for some reason, I feel like all eyes on me. I am the best person in the world because I could be the absolute worst. I’m scared of people’s perception of me.

I started to eat next to Larry not wanting to confess that I am uncomfortable with the situation. I had been made fun of in the past because of my eating habits. As I ate my food, almost finished with it, Larry responded. (damn little lady you sure can pack it away. Jk) “Yo Bruh you look like Kirby right now, fucking that shit up.” in between the time of now and then, Larry was high, and that truly made me laugh forgetting about the previous situation given his state.

“Shut up Larry.” sal had said as he skated over to him. “He’s probably just high don’t mind him.” For a while, I would be dealing with a high Larry and a Sally who couldn’t care to do more than skate to get his mind off everything.

That night she realized she was surrounded by people. She wouldn’t have to worry about being embarrassed around. After all, they all are flawed.

(I am so sorry this was so rushed and so last-minute)

[ozarkthedog]

do you know if anyone has ever asked shawn about skateboarding on ak like did he already know how or need to learn?

yes, Shawn had some skateboarding experience before AK and it was most likely written into the plot because of it!

Here's an excerpt from an article with CBR

Fans have been very taken with your skateboarding scene. I'd love to hear a little bit about the behind-the-scenes of that. You looked pretty natural on a skateboard, so I imagine you have some experience.

It's funny because it was written a certain way. I think they even talk about it in Episode 9, "Well, he's rolling back and forth." Then, when Loren [Yaconelli], who directed the episode, said, "Now, I'm going to put you in a bowl." She knew I did skating a little bit. That was my first time, I think ever, in a bowl, actually. I used to skate half pipes. The interesting thing is for Season 6, skateboarding becomes a very big part of our story. I think it's because I do skate [laughs].

What's really cool is there's an element where Pope goes off a mini ramp. So I had to go revisit my childhood and put two quarterpipes in my backyard, so I was kind of practicing. But I got to take a skateboard to work for a lot of Season 6, so I'm pretty excited about that.

[woundliqour]

whys my back look like that. You could do quarterpipe techniques with a tech deck in there

[omeletcat]

ALLRIGHT so i am currently doing.. a lot, soon i will have a massive MASSIVE post explaining all the research i've been doing to improve the game!!

But rn wanna show you this, i added a speed progress bar that keeps track of the players speed, the idea is that you have to try and stay in the green area, that is where you can make most jumps. you gotta push to regain speed, and can go as fast as you want BUT at your own risk of smashing against a wall. ALSO doing tricks like railgrinding and kickflips, or turning around in a quarterpipe, will setup a timer below the metre, and the speed will only be reduced when that timer gets to 0, that way the player is forced to do tricks and use obstacles to stay in the right range,

[dandelionsprout42]

Norway need to stop being cowards about Winter Olympics hosting

I've thought about this for a couple or 3 years now, and I've concluded that alleged economics graduates need to stop blatantly lying about the hosting costs, that the Norwegian Sports Federation need to stop giving up after mere weeks, and that Norway's rather aggressive de-centralisation movements need to stop being aggressive.

The cost estimates have been somewhere in the area of 2.3bill€, which is flatout wrong. Had I been prime minister, I'd have done it on 300mill€, simply because we already have all of the needed facilities. No need to build anything new at all. Even at the very most, we'd only need to make a Rena-Elverum trail path and a centre dugout in Friends Arena.

Snow events:

Ceremonies: Ullevaal Stadion Oslo

Cross-country, biathlon, Nordic Combined, longhill ski jumping, quarterpipe snowboard: Holmenkollen Oslo

Smallhill ski jumping: Lysgård Oslo or Lillehammer

Snowboard, freestyle skiing: The various X Games facilities in Oslo and Trysil

Downhill, Super-G, Alpine Combination: Narvik

Slalom, Great Slalom, team events: Trysil

Ski mountaineering: Geilo, maybe?

Ice events:

Ice hockey Final 4, figure skating, short-track speed skating: Friends Arena Sweden

Ice hockey preliminaries: Håkons Hall Hamar, Scandinavium Sweden, Stavanger Arena

Speed skating: Vikingskipet Hamar

Curling: Trondheim Spektrum

Bobsleigh, luge, skeleton: Lillehammer

Brand new sports because we have that many facilities:

Telemark: Trysil

Bandy: Telenor Arena Oslo

Snowsled racing: Tromsø to Vadsø

Megahill ski jumping, speed-skiing: Vikersund

Crushed Ice: Møllenberg Trondheim

Ski orienteering: Beitostølen

95~100km long-distance skiing: An extended Birkebeineren route with start in Elverum.

960 Chess where matches must be played to checkmate: Oslo Spektrum and/or Jordal Arena Oslo

Should it be necessary to win the vote:

Ice hockey preliminaries, mixed teams curling: Royal Arena Denmark

Preliminaries in 960 Chess where matches must be played to checkmate: Sparkassen-Arena Germany

Long-distance (Maybe 30km?) mass-start speed skating: Heerenveen Netherlands (Not on the above map).

[taquaone]

Thrasher's DIY: Noping Quarterpipe

[lavendarjevil]

Tony Skawks Epic Piepline Boogallo 8

The Quarterpipe's Dark Desire?

[runthepockets]

"What can we learn from trans men"

Money is the root of all evil

Bacon sandwiches are the bomb

12 year old Tom Schaar was the first to land a 1080 on a mega-ramp quarterpipe

If you have one wish, ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss

It's kinda funny how many articles about trans guys are about how we're the bridge between two worlds and understand both sides of sexism and will bring the decline of the patriarchy, or whatever. I'm literally just some guy.

[azteco-producciones]

Calaverita de azúcar para Jake Phelps [1962-2019] en el parque de la bandera, zona centro. Con ayuda de mi sobrina #sk8 #skateboard #skate #skateboarding #mural #acrylicpainting #skatepark #quarterpipe #skull #calavera #calaveritadeazucar #jakephelps #rip #diademuertos #cenpasuchil #aztecmarigold #tijuana #streetart https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg-fw95v9cN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[snakebitebmx]

It’s the simple things!👌✨ #bmx #oldschoolbmx #midschoolbmx #quarterpipe #snakebitebmx https://www.instagram.com/p/CKnZczGlsRh/?igshid=l63ygirphavr

[pocketdays]

Isra, Octubre 2019

[slimjimtherunner]

[alvaroboldu]

📷Quarter Pipe📷 • • • • #quarterpipe #motorsportphotography #mxphotography #mx5nd #motocrossitalia #motocrosss #motocrosslover #fmx #fmx650 #fmxlife #fmx4ever #fmx13 #sonyphotography #kawasaki #onealrider #bigramp #lleides #mxp #motocrossman #motocrossaction #fmxshow #brap #braap #mxdaily #motocrossdaily (en Lleides Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHQqAb1lifz/?igshid=1hgk0ciyb60g2

[pour-one-on-da-bench]

MANE ‘17

[omeletcat]

ALLRIGHT! so i am reworking these animations for my skating game!!! whenever the player went up a slope the game checked how steep it was and chose the correct animation, a few problems arose tho, 1 after watching a bunch of video's i noticed that usually while using ramps (with the intention of jumping off) the skater tries to keep their body right side up, but when using a halfpipe /quarter-pipe they often rotate their entire body, this means that if i do wanna add a quarter-pipe to my game i'd have to make a special set of animations for it.

i have this cool idea for a quarterpipe at the end of a road/level for the player to go up and then turn around and go down to do a part of the level over again or just to have a halfpipe level for a boss fight!