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WHAT'S HAPPENING NEAR YOU => Arrange a meet => United Kingdom => Topic started by: Trixter on August 31, 2007, 02:25:04 PM
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OK ive managed to blag our way into a Gym in Chesterton in Cambridge i spent about half hour on the phone to a lovely lady at the gym and convinced her to let us hire the hall to practice flips and stuff, the best time available is a tuesday were we can get the hall for 2 hours on a night time, i asked for November as the EA bockers have a meet in October and plus the weather will be pretty crap in November :)
The hire of the hall will be £20 an hour, so the more people who come the lot cheaper it will be if 8 people show up its a Fiver each well worth it i think, bockers from everywhere are welcome im not sure if they have foam pits but she did say we could use everythink in there and crash matts will be available to us any intrest or a specfic date would be a good start it has to be on a tuesday tho thats the exception hopefully hear from you guys soon
All Bockers Welcome Not Just EA Guys
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Sounds good, so would be nighttime on a tuesday sometime in November? I think i can make all of them, possibly... :-\
P.S. if 8 people went and its £20 wouldn't that be £2.50 each? (sorry i know thats annoying but i just couldn't help it :P)
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Tim he said for 2 hours so £20x2 =£40 divided by 8 =£5 ---yep dont you just h8 annoying peeps ;D
And more annoying we have 2 or 3 round here between £6-7 an hour :'(
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Hmmmm so its not my maths @ fault....It's just the fact I can't Read..... :-[
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yea ur maths would be fine if we were goin for an hour bloody people who dont read lol
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100% im their get me a date cant fricking wait!!! will book it off work sometimes i work late on tuesdays but yeh me and jonny will be their !!
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wkd im tinkin first tuesday in November 2bh with ya im gna book it off work next time im in
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Hope you dont mind me butting in again. But may I tell you a few things Ive found with gyms and sports halls.
The 1st is re the hooves. On some surfaces the black rubber can leave marks and they dont like that. The worst case is when you arrive you may be told 'oo cant have them on the surface' or just not permitted back.
There are 3 solutions ( ive tried them all) 1st put 'real' sox on the hooves and secure with elastic bands or cable ties. But be warned cant be used on nice shiney wood surfaces. 2nd put trainers on the hooves, you may remember Muffin Man did that for the London meet. 3rd ask if they have an indoor cricket whicket they could roll out and use it as a runway. Its good to have these solutions to hand if you 'phone other gyms and they bring up the problem --sounds like you know what you are doing and more likely to get a 'yes' :)
Next, to add variety, for warm up and for people who may not want or may not be ready to flip ( and so may be put off going along). See if the gym has any 'foam blocks', used in gymnastic practice and in creches ( ;D). Can be used to jump over both for height and for distance and, laid in a row combinations. Plus if put infront of the main crash matt may be used to encourage 'jumping-up' before atempting the flip. Rather thean peeps trying to fling themselves foreward.
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yeh, im an ex gymnast and i still train couple of times a week at half localish gymnastics centres so will probs take people through a gymnastics warmup ..
And also can provide tips but yeh ty for the idea about a cricket strip mat and we will record everything :P and will probs have a few ground level moves in the video :P
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i did explain to the woman exactly what they were when i was on the phone and i said i would pop in clsoer to the time and arrange a few things with her, she said we can use more or less anythink in the hall so hoping to use the vaultin horses and stuff like that,
on the day i have 2 girls from work who want to get tees so they could come along and film etc for us as ground crew
thanks for the ideas bmthbloke i will use them the cricket ones a good idea never would of thort of that, and of corz all will be filmed the hopefull flips the falls and hopefully no brakes will be recorded i think the comp for november should be worst accident filmed lol
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Woooooooo DAVE
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2nd put trainers on the hooves, you may remember Muffin Man did that for the London meet. 3rd ask if they have an indoor cricket whicket they could roll out and use it as a runway. Its good to have these solutions to hand if you 'phone other gyms and they bring up the problem --sounds like you know what you are doing and more likely to get a 'yes' :)
Sorry butting in but .... this is going to sound stupid, what size feet did they use ?
Or should I walk into a shoe shop witha hoof ( I've got extra pairs ) and try some on !? Now that would be funny ;D
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yup im there m8 just tell me time and date and post code then i can ssat nav it there
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ok the date is the 6th of November, at half 4 but id say meet at about 4,15 so we can all go intogether n sort out money etc will get postcode soon
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dont spose u able to meet us at train station ?
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yea can do
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awesome cause we have no clue how to get around cambridge only the bits we walked around on the meet
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Woooooooo DAVE
woo to you to :P
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might be able to get there, will be in leicester then at uni, so will check my timetable when it is available, and see if there is a free time at that period!
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thas wkd i hope you can make it man if you cant let me know a tuesday in November n ill work it round you you have to be there
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im new on here and have just moved to cambridge for uni, anyone got any more info on the gym, i think where i am staying is a 15 miniute walk away so i will deffinatly be there
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any definates on time/date yet??
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O and anyone going past Lynn/Wisbech on their way?
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Am I too late for this one?
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No if anything, you're to early ;D any news on dates guys?
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Haha excellent, I would definately be interested!
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any more about this from trixster?
really hope this goes ahead as it will be my 1st gym meet
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same for most of us methinks, he ain't got (reliable) internet so could be a while before we hear.... :)
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i cant make the meet soz but i have somethings planned
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i am trying to get hold of rob as much as possible but for some reason his fone isnt wrking :( i think i might have wrong numba but yeh this meet must go ahead!
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ok, well if anyone wants me to go down to the gym and try to organise it i can. i think i know which one it is and i need to head over that way soon anyway
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its a gym in chesterton thats all i no so if u can get there and ask it would be good but im sure they said to rob that the only time they got is on a tuesday evening
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i didnt book this date off as i heard nothing so unfortunatly i cannot come if it becomes a regular thing or we get some notice i can book it off but it has to be 100% as i can only take a certain amount of days off per year
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no1 has arranged any certain date which is kl but i think this meet may have to b missed as rob has all details of this gym and they seem to know him so we will just all have to b patient
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and T-shirts... :(
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yeh cant wait to get my tees does any1 have robs numba i cnt seem to get hold of him with the numba i got
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Same, i ain't heard nefin from him, we better set a deadline before we hunt him down on bocks... ;D
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back guys ive been tryin to get online as much as i can, tees have been orderd first of all, have order most of them and im going back to collect them friday and will be personally ordering more for me and freinds, i have delayed a few of them so i can get the same price bracket on the others as i couldnt afford all myne this week, i have been assured by the guy doin them that he can get all the tees done and ready for children in need event.
i will take all tees i get printed down to children in need incase a few ppl are able to end up ther on the day.
as for the gym i have been told it is not able to go ahead as the gym manager has refussed it and wont reply to any emails now i will look for another gym asap if not i know paul said he was possibly goin to b gettin a gym lined up so hopefully sumin will come of that
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Hey rob, can u mail me mine, cos i deffo won't be @ london? cheers, would really like it for p'boro!!! ;D
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wot u doin in pbourh