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...presents... The Zen of Skateboarding, Part 1:
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Autumn Foliage
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by Thoai Tran
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01/01/1996-#309
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__///////\ -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc- /\\\\\\\__
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\\\\\\\/ Everything You Need Since 1986 \///////
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___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___
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|___heal_the_sick___raise_the_dead___cleanse_the_lepers___cast_out_demons___|
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A note from the author:
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To many of us, skating is life. It is the nourishment that keeps my soul
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fresh and fulfilled. It makes me happy when my days are mediocre and sad. It
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makes me happier even on my better days. It provides the fulfillment that goes
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beyond anything this apathetic world can offer. In this series of articles, I
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will attempt to describe this profound beauty, this harmony with oneself and
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with the universe whenever I step on that board.
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Thank you,
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Thoai
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"Skate to live, live to skate."
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An impatient skater once cried out to Master Ch'an, "I have skated for
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almost a year now, and yet I can't get any better. I cannot do a kickflip.
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My ollie is not as high as my friend's. I practice and practice, but I just
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can't do these tricks. I see all these maneuvers in magazines and videos, and
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it seems that everybody is doing them... except for me. All these little kids
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do these complex flips and make them look so easy. I see people doing crazy
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things down huge flight of stairs. Every other skater is getting better and
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better, developing more and more intricate tricks with each passing day; but
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not I! I am so frustrated!"
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Master Ch'an picked up an orange leaf that had fallen from a tree and
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said, "This leaf that has fallen down from the autumn skies... does this leaf
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chose to come down whenever it wants? Why does it wait for this time of the
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season to change its colors, to lose its green lushness, to fall from the tree
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that has given it life?"
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"Why do the blacknecked geese begin to make their annual migration during
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this time, nd not during the summer or spring? Why must they wait for this
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exact moment, when in fact, they have the ability to do it anytime of the
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year?"
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"Time takes its natural course. Just as this leaf is patient to wait for
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fall to change into its illustrious colors, so you too must be patient when you
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skate. A trick will blossom into its magnificent colors as inevitably as this
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fall foliage when you have patience with time. When you build it slowly and
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perfectly. You cannot backside ollie without first learning to ollie straight,
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and you cannot ollie successfully if you can't roll away smoothly. Time takes
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its natural and inevitable course."
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"Look at this leaf: it is unique, it is special. It is completely
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different from the other leaves that surround our feet. There is no other leaf
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that has the same patchwork of colors, the same patterns of vasculature, the
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same feel. Your skating should be like this leaf. It should be special and
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strictly your own. No other person can dictate to you what is beautiful in
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skating, because beauty is within your own soul. Once you realize this, your
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skating will blossom as inevitably as the autumn foliage."
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So spoke Master Ch'an.
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WORLDWIDE \ / `-' (U) `-' \ / WORLDWIDE
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Oooo / ) __
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/)(\ ( \ Copyright (c)1996 Thoai Tran and cDc. / ( /\
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\__/ ) / All rights reserved. Award-winning CULT OF THE DEAD COW \ ) \)(/
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(_/ is published by cDc communications, P.O. Box 53011, oooO _
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oooO Lubbock, TX, 79453, US of A. Edited by Swamp Ratte'. __ ( \
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/ ) /)(\ / \ ) \
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\ ( \__/ Save yourself! Go outside! Do something! \)(/ ( /
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\_) "THE COW WALKS AMONGST US" Oooo
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