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Ace · Post by **Ace** » February 12th, 2004, 12:37 am

Ranger wm311 I will take that offer as soon as I find time. I am still trying some how to fit a visit to Ranger Master J. School is my first priority. I have stop alot of other activites just to focus on school. I am not struggling but its better to have both feet in and have only one focus than many.

As for taking up that smoke session though, its really something I would like. It's nice to know will happen.... well sometimes

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BadMuther · Post by **BadMuther** » February 12th, 2004, 12:40 am

Who knows, ya might see Master J sooner then you think....

The offer of a smoke session is always good.

Check yer Pm's.

EggMcMuffin · Post by **EggMcMuffin** » February 12th, 2004, 12:54 am

Hey I used to skateboard too,

and of course I busted my ass. I was up at the local school at a stair set that I had skated a million times before. Right before we were about to leave I decided I would do a frontside 180 over the stairs. I screwed up and only one foot landed on the board and it popped up and hit me across my left eye. I seriously thought I ripped the crap out of my eyeball because it kind went off to the side and there was a whole lot of blood. After I got through running in circles yelling "oh fuck, oh fuck" my friends decided to take me to Dairy Queen for medical attention. While I was sitting outside on a bench bleeding they went inside to get napkins to stop the bleeding. Of course the waitress was giving them crap about coming in and getting all the napkins until she saw me with the left half of my face almost completley covered in blood and she started freaking out. We got out of there finally and got to my house where my mom who is an RN told me I would have to get stitches but she needed a shower first, so I had to sit there bleeding until we finally left for the hospital. Anyway after 11 shots of lidocane in my eyebrow and 8 stitches everything was back to normal.

When I went back to that school the were three Globe emblems (Globe is a brand of skateboarding shoe) in blood on the concrete that lasted for about a year. Soon after that I decided that skateboarding was not worth getting hurt badly and I quit.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » February 12th, 2004, 1:02 am

I think there is a bit of a problem with you kids who are skateboarders who are going have contracts to go to RIP. Most young Rangers have an attitude, and practically a firmly held belief, that they are invincible. It sounds like many of you have been banged up pretty good, which of course toughens you up some, but also lets you know that you are NOT invincible.

How will that affect you when it looks like you're going to do something that will have a lot of risk and quite possibly result in injury. What will you do? Quit like you did with skateboarding?

BadMuther · Post by **BadMuther** » February 12th, 2004, 1:04 am

Good question.

"Control the fear. Don't let the fear control you."

EggMcMuffin · Post by **EggMcMuffin** » February 12th, 2004, 1:17 am

Spartan wrote:
How will that affect you when it looks like you're going to do something that will have a lot of risk and quite possibly result in injury. What will you do? Quit like you did with skateboarding?

Ranger Spartan, to me it was not worth getting seriously injured doing something that is rather pointless and that I was begining to lose interest in anyway. However being a Ranger is a huge achievment and worth doing anything that will get me there. If I know I am going to get hurt I will suck it up and do it anyway. Becoming a Ranger and being a good Ranger are worth risk and injuries, I would expect it with the nature of the job. I have almost always known I am not invincible but I also know that even though I may be injured I can keep going and do my job until I cannot function anymore.

Once again, I've been out-typed.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » February 12th, 2004, 1:20 am

edmcman wrote:Ranger Spartan, to me it was not worth getting seriously injured doing something that is rather pointless and that I was begining to lose interest in anyway. However being a Ranger is a huge achievment and worth doing anything that will get me there. If I know I am going to get hurt I will suck it up and do it anyway. Becoming a Ranger and being a good Ranger are worth risk and injuries, I would expect it with the nature of the job. I have almost always known I am not invincible but I also know that even though I may be injured I can keep going and do my job until I cannot function anymore.

So, when exactly did you say you were getting your contract?

EggMcMuffin · Post by **EggMcMuffin** » February 12th, 2004, 1:25 am

So, when exactly did you say you were getting your contract?

Hopefully in the near future but I get the point. I will STFU and knock out some push ups.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » February 12th, 2004, 1:28 am

edmcman wrote:
So, when exactly did you say you were getting your contract?
Hopefully in the near future but I get the point. I will STFU and knock out some push ups.

Did you take the ASVAB test yet?

EggMcMuffin · Post by **EggMcMuffin** » February 12th, 2004, 1:37 am

No Ranger Spartan I am still too young by a couple of months. I had also been planning on doing ROTC, or USMA if I could but I am not counting on that. I want to go active duty as soon as I can which would mean enlisting, but I also would like to be involved in a battalion or regiment level command later in my Army career which means being an officer. The officer thing is the only thing that is not definite and I will have to wait and see how things go. I am going to go take my ASVAB as soon as possible though.

Ace · Post by **Ace** » February 12th, 2004, 2:46 am

Spartan wrote:I think there is a bit of a problem with you kids who are skateboarders who are going have contracts to go to RIP. Most young Rangers have an attitude, and practically a firmly held belief, that they are invincible. It sounds like many of you have been banged up pretty good, which of course toughens you up some, but also lets you know that you are NOT invincible.

How will that affect you when it looks like you're going to do something that will have a lot of risk and quite possibly result in injury. What will you do? Quit like you did with skateboarding?

Ranger Spartan, I didn't quit skateboarding. Fuck anyone ever hear of a "Leap Of Faith"? I actually attempted this twice, fucked up my knees. The "Leap Of Faith" is a drop off a ledge thats 2 stories high. I still do things like this only i try to restrict them to a story, story 1/2. I have always known I was not invincible. That has served me for the better I think. It has strengthened my mind to overcome the things my body tells it. Skateboarding has done alot for me, in how I live my life now. I grew up with thte culture side by side with my family of military. Even after my parents were divorced when the military aspect of my life didn't have as firm as of an exsistance in my life, skateboarding did.

To me those people who have the belief in themselves that they are invincible may be at downfalls. They will be more prone to low morale when they relize that their bodys are not invincible. They will hold themselves at such high esteems all to see themselves crush into nothing like everyone else by the Cadre and those in Batt.

For me, I know some of the extents my body can do, and those that it can't, will be broken by my mind. The risk of injury makes it all the better. Nothing worth doing is easy. Higher the risk the more I am into it. Skateboarding has taught me not to be afraid of injury and to go for broke. Its the only way I got to be half decent. I hold firm belief that anything and everything in my life will help me obtain my goals, and I can not actually remember quitting for anything ( well maybe as a samll kid but my memory doesn't work well). I have skated with a fractured ankle home from a skate spot about 2 miles away. I've twisted ankles more than 5+ times and have kept on skateing till I can't stand becuase I would not quit until I landed that one trick.

Everything I do is a passion for me, or I would not have done them. All of them I firmly believed has bettered me in many ways.

Sorry got kinda carried away.

Spartan · Post by **Spartan** » February 12th, 2004, 9:40 am

certiorari wrote:Also, in this area, theres just no good places to skate that wont get you chased away by cops.

That's cause Skateboarding is a crime.