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WHAT'S HAPPENING NEAR YOU => Arrange a meet => United Kingdom => Topic started by: Hilly-of-the-Marshes on September 11, 2009, 08:10:21 PM
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I know there aren't too many of us, but once im up north and settled i thought we could have a meet in either newcastle or middlesbrough - i get up there on the 27th but inductions is 29th, so i was thinkin a weekend in october - nice & chilly :Cbiggrin:
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Im in for a Chilly meet with Hilly love you
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sounds good, i'll have to notify some of the other ppl from the north-east, lol.
Do you have any idea of a date/time? possibly a meeting place? although tbh, the monument in newcastle's fairly good to meet at i'd say... it's pretty hard to miss :P
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monument'll be fine - don't know what it is but sure - either that or that prissick plaza place near middlesbrough, but maybe another time 4 that 1 - as for a date how about 17th - mid month so it wont be too freezing and late enough that im settled up there
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the monument is a big landmark in newcastle.. it's a great big pillar with a statue on top, lol, it's in a square, and there's usually a band performing there, or someone protesting about something or other, lol, google maps will show you where it is :P
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i tried google - i saw a pic of it, but i couldnt see the monument on the map - could u link me it please
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never mind, found it
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http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=the+monument,&sll=54.973667,-1.612887&sspn=0.002168,0.004823&ie=UTF8&radius=0.1&rq=1&ev=p&ll=54.973848,-1.613075&spn=0.002168,0.004823&t=h&z=18
Or if you go on google maps, and search 'The Monument, Newcastle' it's marker D
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I'm from stockton! i'll be able to meet you in boro if im wanted :P just say when :Cbiggrin:
-Tom
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How far away is Middlesborough from Newcastle? There are four of us up here in Newcastle atm! :P
I'm trying to sort out a weekly meet, have a look at the other topic
http://www.projumpforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=3913
http://pp/forum/newcastle_bockers_when_are_you_free-t6667.0.html
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Hi i live in redcar just outside middlesbrough not been bocking for long and not very good but im trying hard and need all the practice i can get.
I can get to newcastle but not every weekend couldnt afford the fuel lol but im happy to meet there once a month or so or every other weekend then maybe you guys come down hear the other times :)
Dunno just an idea im looking in to starting a propper northeast power bocking group up to so if anyone is up for that please let me know.
Cheers
Lee
sorry forgot to say middlesbrough is about an hours drive 50 or so miles i think
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Hi Lee, just thought i'd post back to say, i'd be interested in a north-eastern powerbocking group, but i think it'd have to be centred around newcastle, because if you're 50 miles south of newcastle, and i'm 50 miles north, then it could get tiresome for one or both of us going back and forth about a hundred miles each way, each time we wanted a meet xD
I think monthly or bi-monthly meets would be good, and i must say, weekends seem like a sensible option to me...
post back about what you think, as we really need to try and find a time of the week that is good for everyone to attend XD
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yeah we need to make a powerbocking group in the northeast!!
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but rather than centralising the group on newcastle - it should be more fluid - we're going bock-spot hunting on saturday in middlesbrough - more are welcome to come along
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i'll bock spot hunt in newcastle and alnwick then, if we're gunna be fluid about it :coolS:
:D
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yeh i recon your right somewhere between hear and newcastle would be cool. just not sure where. I thought of durham as thats kind of in the middle and im working there for the next 2 days so can have look about see whats what.
I think a monthly meet is a good idea and take it from there once we found somewhere to go. Then every now and then when people have the time and cash we could go come up to newcastle and you guys come down to middlesbrough/stockton, just for the change in scenery :)
By the way i know its probs a bit premature but i cant help it lol. anyone got any ideas for a name? i thought of a really s**tty one, tyne 'n' tees bockers yeh i know took me all of 20 secs to think of that one
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off topic, there's a place between alnwick and newcastle called bockenfield - just thought i'd throw that out there
Anyway... names... erm... dunno??... NEwBockers? near newcastle/got NE for north-east in it, i dunno, i suck with names :D
Time for a name thread methinks?
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teeside bockers, smoggy bouncers, smoggy froggies, the bouncing peoples republic of the powerbocking embassy for the most northeasterly province of the united kingdom <= that ones a bit long but i think its kinda catchy :P
i'll try to think of more :P
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Sound like some good ideas :P
Oh, i thought i'd just say, i've emailed a few people who i've found around the PP who are also north easterners, and i've tried to get them to sign up on this forum, so that we can keep ourselves all in one place. Anyway, i need sleep now, i've been typing loads today. Hands are tired XD
G'night :P
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Hahaha yeh some good names there and Kazbahn i like bockenfield lol is that south of newcastle? and good work on getting some other northeast people on hear your right makes sense to try and keep everyone talking in one place. maybe the fix for that would be a northeast bocking website ;) just a thought lol
anyway i think is kindda hijacking this thread lol so i think ill start a new one on New North East Bocking Group
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It's actually north of newcastle, lol, just thought i'd answer that little question :P
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Votes for names, what about
Nbokz?
The Bockers who say ne?
Never Eat bockers?
:Claugh:
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hmmm i liked the sound of NE bockers :P hehe must admit im still a fan of 'the bouncing peoples republic of the powerbocking embassy for the most northeasterly province of the united kingdom' i mean, come on, its short, snappy and really easy to remember! but its up to yous:P few new ones of the top of my head:
north east's bouncin' beasts
smoggies with springs
NE bockerz <--- (added 'Z' for extra coolness ;])
NEbounce <--- totaly scammed off swebounce but oh well :P
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Bocking bronkoz?
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just Tyne/Tees Bockers sounds fine to me,
but then again i'm not going to like it whatever it is, except 'the bouncing peoples republic of the powerbocking embassy for the most northeasterly province of the united kingdom,' is growing on me,
but i think that'll kill us to say each time in full so we could always shorten that to BPR-PEMNEPUK (bee-pee-are-pem-nee-puck)
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ok then how about we have our official name as the Tyne/Tees Bockers, or we call it the bouncing peoples republic of the powerbocking embassy for the most northeasterly province of the united kingdom for short :P
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hiya guys
well i recon if we all happy with tyne tees bockers then thats what we call it :)
congrats everyone we now have northeast bocking group.
Right! now what do we do haha we need a logo anyone good at stuff like that?
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oh i hadnt even suggested the best one
we could be the Bocking/Bouncing Northern People
or BNP for shor.... oh wait, yeah that one's taken
If we're going with TTBs i think either maybe a logo with the shape of the rivers or landmarks of the local area with some bocking stuff - I'll get some vague stuff knocked up - but we might want a decent meet first so we can get some pics to silhouette with
and if we do shirts or anything - using zazzle might be a good idea, 'cos then its easy enough to edit yourselves and put names on etc, or change the pics to one of yourself
the thing is the bocking season is kinda over except gyms - so if we get some gym meets going now, we can help each other out and should be ready to come back bocking with a vengeance in 2010 at which point we could start getting more regular meets sorted and clothes and stuff (which we could get updated designs perhaps yearly so we don't get bored and everyone can have a say on a new shirt design - maybe even do it competition style)
urr yeah, rather a lot there - discuss
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just get everyone to design soemthing in photoshop or paint for that matter and see what looks good. put it to vote
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ok, so send any ideas to me & i'll make a poll in a couple of weeks- when several entries are in, and we can vote on what's best - nice & democratic like
my email should be on my profile on here, if not, pm me and i'll send it to you
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sounds good ;) now to get thinking of logos :P
And to try and find a gym we could meet in :D
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superflyrico has a skate park here in Newcastle...
http://www.superflyrico.com/
with a bungee rope harness thingy... ;)
we keep meaning to go over there..
Btw was anyone bouncing around Newcastle the other day? I heard unconfirmed reports of bockers flipping around here lol
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It wasnt me :P
That skate park looks good btw :P
We ought to arrange to go there as a group some time
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just bumping this to say i've only a total of two designs in for a TTB's logo, so its still wide open, plus im gonna work on another as soon as i can get F4L to install right, but it may be easier to just use GIMP and have it look awful for the moment, but would love to see some more logo ideas, so i can put a poll up for us to decide whats best
in addition, if anyone has any gyms where we know prices & could go quite soon, and could possibly organise a gym meet at all, it would be nice to meet up again before xmas
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I've been looking into renting the gym hall at the sports centre in alnwick, but the management there is a bunch of block-heads who don't listen or care, so i don't know if i'll be able to get any permission to use their hall.
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I think everybody should meet up again sometime in January in newcastle because i can't drive :Cno: But we have a group for North-Easters which is Black & White bockers- generally more for newcastle but there's a website, youtube and everything already set up ( because im so organised, well my friend is ) :PJ101John:
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except we've been talking along these lines for a while and been getting things sorted, and have some more stuff upcoming, let everybody hae their say on a name rather than what you're doing, which is just forcing it in your own direction.
dont get me wrong, i admire your spirit, but you didnt really bring this up early enough, in which case i know i at least would have voted against your group naming (not least because of the way it could be misconstrued as having racial implications) and you taking control of a growing when you have little experience of the community in general, i dont mean this maliciously, you have every right to start a group, but we've been working at this ourselves & you're kind of dropping a huge steaming pile of faeces on top of it
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Well i didn't even know there was any other group, im just giving other people the option and i have been talking to kazbahn for a couple of weeks about everything, and why can't there be 2 groups ? because there is no way i can travel to middlesborough and other places outside of my area and that was why me and my friend decided on making a group as we didn't think/know there was many other bockers in the NE nevermind newcastle
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like i say, i see no problem with another group, but there could be implications with your name being thought of as having racial implications, which would not be a good image for the sport
as for not knowing, we've spoken of it several times, had you done your research there were several threads which should have been brought up by a simple search
i appreciate that it can be difficult to travel between the two, but we hve been talking of coming up, and there can always be meets at both places - i know i wont be able to make many meets in newastle at least until my next loan comes through, but will try my best
should there be a schism between the bockers in the area, it may be possible to have two groups as subgroups of one larger group - with occasional meets under one banner, or in seperate banners and have some friendly competition, though you should know, that were that to happen - the 'Boro Bockers would blow the BWB out of the water :Claugh: :Cwink:
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Yeah but you are able to travel, im 13 and physically wouldn't be able to go unless i went with my 30yr old friends who live in middlesborough but they come up like 3 times a year or something. And BlackAndWhite isn't really racist or anything because it would be black and white, and considering it's for newcastle's home/main colours im guessing people would understand. anyways better go, laptop battery running low and charger downstairs :Claugh:
And never, boro' bockers would never do it lol, im sure a "group" of 2 teenage girls would be far more amusing :L
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actually on second thoughts, that sounds like a good idea
we could have larger occasional meets less regularly, but having two groups, so close to eachother could introduce some friendly tyne/tees competition, really driving the groups to better themselves, and we could find som ways of making the sport competitive
high jump is an old favourite, we could set up short races, long jump, judged routines & tricks (single & groups)... discuss
and as for the name, im not saying it IS racist, im saying it could be seen that way - not everybody would make the connection to football as they're very different sports - with the main difference being that one is good, fun, entertaining, different and not performed by such overpaid pansies
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Sounds good, and then we could all get together maybe once a month or so as a whole Tyne- tees bocking community and do races/events for charity :Csmile: but deciding on a charity may be a hard one but whatevers best :Cnotworthy:
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Not been funny hear guys, but who really gives a s**t how many groups there are or what they are called. i just wanna bounce and have loads of fun :) and if we all happy then its all good. lets just have less thinkin less talking and a whole lot more bocking, god sake! its christmas :)
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Most people care about groups and evyerthng, as it gives the group a label instead of : the random people bocking all over the north-east of england.
And we all want to bock aswell but deciding on a group doesn't stop/prevent you bocking at all because you can bock while other people work things out or whatever. And i also think we all wanna just bounce around and have fun but people would need to organise things if you want to bock with other people.
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god sake! its christmas :)
im an atheist it makes no difference - the values associated with christmas (good will to all men etc.) should apply at any time of year to any decent person, so ireally dont see any relevance
as for less talk more bocking - theres kind of snow around, although im back home t the moment and there's even more down here
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well maybe there is a new sport right there infront of u. skating on stilts ;)
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the staff of a portable ice rink offered once, but meh