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YOUR JUMPING STILTS => Before you buy questions => Topic started by: Exelcior on June 29, 2009, 07:04:20 PM
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Hey guys, I'm looking to buy some bocks but after reading for a few hours on the forum I see that a number of people find they need to exceed the +10kg rule and end up on heavier rated springs. I weigh about 73kg so should be looking at m80s or 90s but I don't want to have to spend £80 on some more springs in 3 months if it's avoidable. So does anyone have any advice/experiences that would help? should I get m100s and "grow" into them?
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It depends m8, personally i see a lot to be gained from not upping the weight much until you are already bouncing confidently, i think it gets you there more quickly, however on the money side of it, you have to spend more on gradually increasing the weight of springs and have to buy several sets even if they are not worn out, when push comes to shove, its your call - it your own money
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I suppose I could get the 100s and then if it's too much buy a lower set, either way it's spending the same money.
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Hilly is spot on. Depends on how you take to them. Some people took to them fast and went just 10kg and needed to upgrade soon but others went like 20 kg and struggled to progress. You will probs have read about both types of stories. If you go for 100s you are at risk of being put off by how hard it is. Starting low should help you get good technique fast.
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Yeah I've read about both . . . Just don't want to wait ages for the 90s to come back in stock to be honest again looking around the forums it seems as if there's a lot of demand for those weights and very low stock with long replenishment times.
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It shouldnt be all that long now. Naz should be able to confirm. I think there is always more demand for the lower weights. There wont be low stock once these come back in and this shouldnt happen again :P
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'growing into springs'? well r u still growing? If 1 may b so bold, how old r u?
2nd where r u>? good chance you could bag a 'try out' of the goods with a local club or individual
As for short of stock. Das cos there is a very slow boat from china with the goods on. Once it is here , there will b a glut od all weights --case of all or nothing.
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'growing into springs'? well r u still growing? If 1 may b so bold, how old r u?
2nd where r u>
I'm 19, not growing any more :P By "growing" I meant developing the skills to be able to handle heavier springs, not physically growing. I've placed a pre-order for a lower weight now, just hope that they come in soon so I can still get some use of them throughout what is left of the summer. Oh and I'm from Newcastle Upon Tyne.
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awesome - i'm hopin 2 be just south of u next year for uni - we'll have 2 meet up - should hopefully be starting in october
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That's awesome I'd hoped there'd be other people around this area to bock with. Where you going to uni? I'm studying Computer Game Software Engineering and Architecture at Northumbria at the moment.
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I'm hopin 2 be at Teeside - so Middlesbrough - depending on results - funnily enough planning to study computer games programming
btw i know there's probably some sort of rivalry there - but bocking conquers all
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Ahh your course is very similar to mine I believe, sounds like we might have a lot in common actually :Claugh:
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Then i turn up dressed as a woman, lol - which tbh with my hair, people think i do anyway
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Lol, no crossdressed bocking please :P
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it could be a halloween thing...? lol.
But ye i dont think there's much up there in the way of bocking at the moment - as i understand it, the largest group anywhere close by is the bradford lot, (correct me if I'm wrong) though it would be a cool project to start a group from scratch and promote the sport in a new area
(However i will of course be an EA at heart forever)
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Yeah it would be good to try and promote it a little more up here, don't think I've seen anyone on them at all around here.
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i saw someone on the pro-jump map, but with that few people up there, unless you find someone at the right time - they can end up as bits of rubbish covered in dust at the back of the garden shed, but keep at it and you'll hopefully tempt more - and the bigger community you have, the more people will join
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Yeah definitely, hopefully if we manage to get out sometime just seeing it happen will bring interest
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I can already see T-shirts with "Tyne/Tees Bockers," or "Hartlepool Hoppers" printed on them - how sad am i, mind you i doubt any of it will matter given that i think iv got about a grade lower than what i need to get in :Ccry:
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Damn that sucks. . . if they don't let you in see if you can get clearing onto Northumbrias course. I'm finding it great so far, just finished my first year.
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I've already got dibs on a bocking game for my dissertation, lol but i'm planning to make it an indie project afterwards, cos i want complete creative control (sssshhh), hehe
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Hehe we've got somewhat of a deal with Northumbria on our ideas they don't own them. But they do own the documents presented to them. Means we can still develop our ideas independently without the uni mooching off us
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When i get outta uni, we can work on it together, lol - do you have the year in industry thing as well, and what language do you use? Java, C++? iv tried an old compiler of my brother's - Dark Basic, and its so horrible i could cry - its not even got any proper structure, C++ ftw
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I work nearly solely in C++, but I know 86000ASM, Java, C#, C, Fortran, Heskell and Delphi. We have the year in industry yeah in the third year, working on a project now to present for my placement.
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I think i've heard of most of those :Cconfused: exceptions being 86000ASM and Heskell, looked at a little Delphi when we were supposed to be doing work in computing lessons though + Pascal to learn about objects. What companies are you looking at for placement
(WOW we are so off topic)
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Yeah WAAAAY of topic. . . At the moment I'm looking at Media Molecule, Ubisoft Reflections, R*North and Epic.
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Awesome, anyway, hope 2 bock with you soon - if we don't have many bockers up there by next year, you'll have to come spend a week at mine and check out some EA meets
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WOOWOOOWWOWOWOWOW YESSS
You two are studying at uni in newcastle and tyne tees? i know of a guy from the PP who lives in county durham, although he's gunna go to uni in sheffield, but anyway, he can drop by up here in his time off.
I live about... 50 miles from newcastle, but am there regularly, and some meets would be cool. I'm 14 btw xD so not currently in university, but despite that. Some northern bockers are REALLY needed :D
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Awesome, seems like we have a few interested up here then :Cbiggrin: Hopefully we'll attract more soon!
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I was firsties here xD we need to get out for some meets when everyone is up here + has stilts, and attract more potential bockers.... :D
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Yeah as soon as I get some we'll have to sort out some meets up here see if we can breed some interest
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breed some interest
might want to word that a little differently :Claugh:
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might want to word that a little differently :Claugh:
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THE NORTH EASTERN BOCKERS OF ENGLAND SHALL BREED INTEREST ALL THEY WISH
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North Eastern Bockers? NEB?? not if i can help it
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Well... that's not a name, just a location :P lol, anyway, what's wrong with the initials NEB? (probably something i shouldn't know about anyway... lol)
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well for starters nebockers is taken, by the americans :P
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NEBockers UK? :P
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NEBockers UK? :P
Nebbies UK :Claugh:
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NEBockers UK? :P
that's just sad, gotta have something with illiteration anyways, or something that just rolls off the tongue
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NE Bockers is taken by the New England Bockers, i guess you can have OEBockers Old England Bockers
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NEBockers UK? :P
that's just sad, gotta have something with illiteration anyways, or something that just rolls off the tongue
I'm not particularly making serious suggestions yet, just fooling around :P
Anyway, if i wanted a name for a north east group, i'd wait till there was more people up here first (to make a group worth it), and then start a thread on the topic...