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On 3/6/2002
Jake Kaplan
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head over to our street luge site and check out our new video that i put together. I sugest you have broadband because its 2.5 megs in windows media player format. lemme know what all yall think of it!
click here: http://www.angelfire.com/extreme/thetoxicbrothers
see ya
Jakekaplan@san.rr.com
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On 3/6/2002
Tony Healy
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Rename it "NASCAR Luge" and start crashing into each other on a regular basis. People will start watching. Gotta remember that all TV is entertainment.
Being inches above the ground on a luge at 50 mph is way exciting...more exciting that watching a group of lugers go past at 50 mph. Long, twisting courses with lots of lead changes, bumping, etc. would be first rate entertainment (ala NASCAR, motorcycle racing [GP, WSB, AMA], boardercross, etc.).
The race at Donner Summit last year was pretty exciting to watch, especially when three luges came into the last corner together. They got tangled up a bit and missed the corner. The good news is that there was a little runoff so no one got hurt.
Unlike race cars, there's no cage protecting the luger. So bumping and crashing can have catastrophic consequences. Which means slower course where people bump and crash, or fast courses where people ride them clean.
TV viewers want a race; not a parade. This can be tough as it's a gravity sport and passing is accomplished via drafting, or setting up for turns differently. Maybe head-to-head luge races on parallel tracks. Of course, they tried women's head-to-head downhill ski racing in the 70's. Exciting, but in part because of the crashes. Still, might be an interesting format to try.
Have other sports been changed to make them more entertaining and fit the TV format better? Yup. Figure skating. See anyone skating figures at the Olympics? Nope. [Ironic, since that's what the sport was named after.] They dropped that technical stuff from the competitions years ago. It was terribly boring to watch, but it counted a lot towards the skater's final score.
When someone with a lousy score in the figure portion then skated a great program, they'd still finish in the back of the pack. And people watching the program part on TV would wonder why they didn't win the competition. Eventually, they dropped the figure requirement. And now figure skating is one of the most watched sports on TV.
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On 3/5/2002
Andy
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I was on the X-Games Athlete Advisory Council for the Skysurf dicipline, which got dropped last year. Finally made it back to the east coast, and my sport got dumped. It is a dissapointment. I haven't paid much attention since then, so I don't even know what sports they are including but it blows either way.
My condolences!!
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On 2/27/2002
david
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heres some math
x-games=pile of feces
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On 2/27/2002
Cliff Coleman
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The latest word is that ESPN dropped Luge from the X-Games.
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On 2/25/2002 hc
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see buttboarding.com (faq)
see geocities.com/sk8sanjose (equiptment)
buy darren lott's book and build the wood luge.
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On 2/25/2002
Isaac
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Hey
Any body have a luge sled.I need an extreamly cheap one
because I'm a begginer
luger and need a really cheap board
because I am a teen and can't get a job. Thanks
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On 2/22/2002 hc
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west la
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/wwskiclub/inline.htm
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On 2/22/2002 Mario
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Thanks, I did a search on West LA College and now I've got plenty of info. It sounds like a lot of fun, I'll be there at least a couple times this year. (Got to build a gravity bike, too!)
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On 2/22/2002
DrNo
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The series you are referring to is held at West LA College and have been at past events held on two seperate hills and a third hill used as a slolam practice course. The "center" hill is the slolam course (skateboard & inline) and the "outside" hill is used for buttboard (classic), luge and gravitybikes.
In December the fees were $25 for all the classes you wished to enter (NOT $25 EA.) and was put on by the Westwood Ski Club.
The event is a small but fun one!
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On 2/22/2002
Mario
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Miko,
Now you have my email. I'd like to hit some local contests as well. Will someone on this board who knows what's up with the California Championship Series please speak up? I've looked around and I can't find any more info.
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On 2/22/2002
Miko
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> On 2/21/2002 Mario wrote in from 148.87.xxx.xxx:
> I just looked at the IGSA newsletter and saw that there are some events called "California Championship Series". What are these events? How much do they cost, etc.? Since I'm in California, these would be relatively easy for me to attend. Where do I get more info?
Hey Mario... here's what I found on the IGSA site. Looks like most of the races are in Culver City? I wonder what the course is like?
Then there's the EDI listings...
Send me your email address so I can keep in touch... I'd love to find a race I could make as well! -Miko
2002 WESTERN UNITED STATES REGIONAL SCHEDULE
Apr 21 California Championship Series #1 Culver City, CA
May 19 California Championship Series #2 Culver City, CA
Jul 21 California Championship Series #3 Culver City, CA
Sep 1 California Championship Series #4 Mammoth Lakes, CA
Oct 27 California Championship Series #5 Culver City, CA
Dec 15 California Championship Series #6 Culver City, CA
2002 IGSA NORTH AMERICAN NATIONAL SCHEDULE
Apr 5-7 Spring Nationals Barrett Junction, CA
Jun 14-16 U.S. Nationals Talahina, OK
Sep 27-29 Fall Nationals Barrett Junction, CA
EDI...
Saturday, June 8th – Sunday, June 9th, France Downhill Rendezvous
Saturday, June 22nd – Sunday, June 23rd New Mexico Downhill Classic - State Road 536, Albuquerque, NM
Friday, July 12th – Sunday, July 14th, Maryhill Downhill Challenge - Maryhill Museum Road, Goldendale, Wa
Friday, August 2nd – Sunday, August 4th *Canastota, NY
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On 2/22/2002
Todd
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Electric luge - shocking!
Hmmm... I don't know about that electric luge thing. I could understand the reasoning behind taking a two-stroke motor from a dirtbike and strapping onto a luge - but electric engines just aren't exciting enough. Secondly, racing in a velodrome would be dull. Its much more fun crashing into trees and flying off cliffs and stuff.
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On 2/21/2002 Mario
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I just looked at the IGSA newsletter and saw that there are some events called "California Championship Series". What are these events? How much do they cost, etc.? Since I'm in California, these would be relatively easy for me to attend. Where do I get more info?
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On 2/20/2002 IGSA / Bob Ozman
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There is Important news that everyone needs to read at the IGSA site, (gravity-sports.com)
Please click on the flashing link 2002 Newsletter on the front page. Also the new rules have been up on the site for a few weeks now.
The reason that these post’s were posted by IGSA / Bob Ozman is because Marcus is on a road trip with a broken modem on his laptop. This is not an excuse but it is called teamwork.
Anyway I’m getting off this computer tonight to watch the skeleton racing hoping that my dream of street luge could someday become an Olympic sport.
www.gravity-sports.com
www.gravity-sports.com/rules/2002/rules.htm
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On 2/20/2002 hc
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oh, forgot the $100 question, what is the future for IGSA?
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On 2/20/2002 hc
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wow! the rumors were true after all, I am guessing declining ratings and expense of securing a separate site was the cause. At least, we still got the gravity games...
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On 2/19/2002 Duane
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X-Games: Weak
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On 2/19/2002
IGSA / Bob ozman
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In response to the posting earlier today. It is true that Street Luge will not be in the X Games in the future. Marcus has been talking with ESPN on this issue but things had not been finalized yet. Marcus did not want to announce the news until the paperwork was finalized.
The announcement letter went to our web master on Monday and I’m waiting for it to be posted. I was then going to post a link on all of the message boards so everybody could hear it from IGSA. But since someone wanted to post this information before IGSA could, I thought all of you should hear it from IGSA.
When the announcement letter is up on our site I will post the link.
IGSA / Bob Ozman
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On 2/18/2002 hc
wrote in from
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being checking out this guy's page. lean to steer trike.
check out info on cg/road holding.
http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/psychology/bok/trike.html (scroll down)
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On 2/14/2002 Duane
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A slight rake has some merit. As air goes under a flat surface, the depth of the "shear layer" of air grows, this is the air that is moving near the luge, but not moving near the ground. Too much rake and air will flow from the sides to fill the vacuum created by the extra space under the rear, this causes a lot of drag. The best is to have a rounded bottom (the luge, not the rider) to get a low cg but avoid a large shear layer underneath, slight rake. I used to use disk brakes but they will lock the wheels and flat spot your tires, or even pop over-inflated pnuematic tires. I use pnuematic drag brakes now.
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On 2/14/2002 hc
wrote in from
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oops, that 'I' not it!
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On 2/14/2002 hc
wrote in from
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leo, darren lott mentioned his 'raked' luge in the book saying it's more aero. (but it don't really buy it)
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On 2/14/2002 hc
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duane, sounds like you want to race!
fyi, Randal has entered in this race in a full fairing(open top) luge, they made him put on brakes, he's got these cute little disk brakes in the backs!
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