![]() ![]() Now I'm super into it - I probably surf more than I skate. But when I turned 12, I got a sick surfboard and wetsuit for Christmas and I surfed straight through the winter. "My dad had a surf camp every summer, and I'd always go surf his camp. I preferred skating way more," says Caples. ![]() "I started surfing basically right when I started skating, but I didn't like surfing at all. It shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that Curren Caples can mix it up in the break with the best of them. I think it would look really bad if I got hurt surfing and couldn't skate for a while, so I don't really try to push my surfing that hard, but I kind of want to come out with a surf video part soon." I'm not a guy that tries street tricks in the water. The cast had this weird bubble wrap underneath it making it almost water proof so I was surfing and skating with it the whole time." "Then they told me I was a wild card in the finals and I was doing a little back lip as I was ending my run, time was over and I tried to do one last thing and my foot slid off my nose. "I got 11th place in the contest, so I didn't make the finals and I already gave up for the day," says Caples. Recently, he broke his wrist at the annual Van Doren Invitational bowl contest in Huntington Beach, but in true Curren fashion, he didn't let it sideline him. I was stoked that I was able to because it was the first Vans video ever, and that's huge."Ĭurren Caples' life might seem like one endless summer, but there is the occasional dark cloud he has to weather. "I basically filmed my whole part in six months or so just to prove to myself that I could get a part done in time. "It was pretty stressful, because a year before deadline, I wasn't sure if I was going to have a part," says Caples. Curren was fortunate enough to be included in the first Vans skate video ever, along with a massive roster that includes some of the greatest skaters of all time, such as Steve Caballero, Christian Hosoi, Tony Trujillo and Anthony Van Engelen. For them, real talent is determined by the hard work put into video parts. Skateboard contest results and earnings don't mean much in the eyes of purists. I'm saving up to buy a second house as a rental property." I figured out the format of the contests, and I've been trying to skate more to the format. "You can be the best skater in the world, but if you don't have any strategy in a contest, it doesn't matter. #Curren$y the game how to"I feel like I kind of figured out how to skate a contest," says Caples. At press time, he's positioned as the skater with second-most earnings in contests this year. I got to skate what I wanted to skate, and I didn't have to worry about finding spots or anything."Īfter a rookie year of up-and-down contest placings, Curren began to understand how judges determined their scores, and in 2015, he went on a full-on contest killing spree. "I was 13, and me and Louie would just stay at the team manager's house in Long Beach, and he'd just drive us around to spots. ![]() "That was a pretty cool time in my life," says Caples. Curren was working on his first video part for Flip's "Extremely Sorry," to be showcased alongside such legends as Geoff Rowley, Bob Burnquist, Tom Penny, Lance Mountain, Mark Appleyard and David Gonzales. While other teenagers started junior high school. That first trip was definitely, to this day, the gnarliest trip I've ever been on." It was right at the end of the Flip partying craziness. I got in the van, and there were crazy magazines everywhere. They didn't know what was going to happen. They were super scared to have me on the tour with my dad. I remember going to the Amsterdam Am contest at age 11, and Flip was doing a tour right after and they asked me to go. "I remember meeting Geoff Rowley when I was super young, and after that, he started giving me boards. "I got on Flip Skateboards at age 11." says Caples. Curren was so young when he got sponsored that he had to be accompanied by a parent when traveling. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Management went to his apartment and questioned him and told them No, he did NOT have a barbell□️♂️, so management told me that it was his□door making th at loud impact sound. He has this barbell □️♂️ that he uses in His kitchen to exercise and he unbelievably drops □️♂️it to the floor on purpose to retaliate against me for reporting him to management. He has done this very same thing to many people who lived in my apartment before I came and He ran them all away and he's trying to succeed to make me leave but I refuse. I told them it is coming from the person below me apartment. I reported it to management and they told me it must be coming from another building. My apartment floor squeaks and he follows me around my upstairs apartment with his ceiling thumper. I have this resident man who lives under me who tortures, torments, stalks harass me 24/7 recently, non-stop. I am a 65 year old woman with severe health issues and I have lived here for about 3 months. I completely understand what you are going through or have gone through. Hi, I'm new to this post and NOT sure when you posted it. Maybe more plausible if you don't live alone or are more sensitive to noise. I'd possibly consider it if I didn't have a dog, but I'd sure feel fucking awful if we had a fire and I doomed her because I slept with fucking earplugs in. I already personally can sleep through a hurricane, so I fear adding anything like headphones or earplugs to the mix is a really dangerous combination. I've also had a fire while living here, three hurricanes, and two tornados that required taking cover for - and I've only lived here since summer 2019. ![]() I have had several emergencies while living in apartment buildings in my life, so I know its not impossible my apartment flooded about a month ago, and has flooded 2x previously (actually I guess we're averaging about one flood per year at this rate). I live alone and with a dog and I honesty fear missing some telltale sign of an emergency like a fire, or my fire alarms going off in the middle night, CO2, etc. I totally support this but this gives me a lot of anxiety in an emergency. *at the end of writing this I’m thinking just fuck it … I also have Aspergers and inconsistent noise like this makes me rage lolīut I gave up on my upstairs neighbor noise and just wear noise cancelling headphones My roommate and I have tried banging on the ceiling with our mop and broom or playing loud music but they give zeroo fucks. I have never even made a Reddit post before but the fact that I can’t find this stupid thing is triggering me □ But I can only find it on AliExpress which is susp and has no reviews. I recently just heard about this device called a ceiling thumper or ceiling vibrator that was invented by a man in China. In our lease it says if they get 3 complaints they will be kicked out. ![]() It’s been 7 months now, I have complained at least 30 times to the RA and they haven’t even given them a warning. ![]() The music isn’t even bothering me at this point I just can’t fucking stand the thumping and thunder noises □□□□□□□□□□□□□ Not to mention the extremely loud music and door slamming. They stomp around, they run around (I don’t even know how the dorm is like 300 sq feet), the best way to describe the next noise is like there’s a bowling ball being DROPPED and then starts rolling across the floor. I honestly don’t have the energy or patience to re-tell this story again, but basically I live in dorms, hardwood floors, the people above me roll around on their desk chairs and night. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Targa’s added steel bracing provides extra rigidity and the G50 gearbox, while being heavier, is more robust and has a slicker change than the 915 unit from the earlier coupés. However, he insists that the Targa shell was a better concession: “The PS Spyder was never intended to be a Caterham chaser, it doesn’t compromise all of its comfort and ease-of-use in pursuit of light weight”. Stephens admits that basing the car on an earlier coupé could have dropped the mass down further, to around 800kg. These changes, along with some extensive steel-for-aluminium swappage on the car’s bodywork, bring the weight down to 950kg. Stephens sacrificed the front and rear screens, roll hoops and the majority of the heater system, and also replaced the car’s hefty original bumpers with some composite parts which he fabricated himself. Understanding the Spyder formula is simple – low weight, low drag, little or no windscreen and no roof – however, executing it is a little more difficult. Weighing in at 1300kg, it needed to be put on a strict diet to have a chance of emulating its namesake: the Spyder moniker has only been applied to lightweight, open-top sports cars, beginning with the 1953 Porsche 550 and continuing today in the form of the 2010 Boxster Spyder. The donor car fortunate enough to be selected by Stephens began life as a 1989 3.2-litre Targa. But this project was a little different from his usual, and rather than resuscitating a slightly tired old model, he decided to completely reincarnate one as the 911 Spyder that never was. ![]() Paul Stephens is no stranger to giving a classic Porsche a little TLC: he’s well-known in the Porsche community (and wider – he also restores other luxury marques) as an independent specialist. This led Essex-based Porsche fanatic Paul Stephens to take matters into his own hands. Oddly, despite producing countless special editions and limited production versions of the car which embodies its brand, Porsche has never produced a Spyder version of the 911. ![]() |
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