Salty thumbs. Why do some people have an easier time than others?
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leviburns89
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Berrien Springs, Michigan
2003, and again in 2004.
I was one of the only freshman on the varsity team. Mostly because I weighed 280 lbs, and was 6'1.
I have since shrunk a bit, 210 and 6'
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2003, and again in 2004.
I was one of the only freshman on the varsity team. Mostly because I weighed 280 lbs, and was 6'1.
I have since shrunk a bit, 210 and 6'
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leviburns89
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Apologies, it was 2004-2005
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mandarin_goby
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Nope, I was a mathlete.
Flippers4pups
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In the early eighties I raced BMX through my high school years. (not the trick riding you've seen for years on TV) got a co-factory Redline deal and raced until I turned eighteen. Raced state, national, world championships. Traveled a lot. Didn't have a drivers license till I was 18. When I hung up racing then, I had over 400 trophies and numerous titles.
Years pass and when my kids got old enough, I got them into racing BMX locally. I too got back on the track racing 38-40 cruiser class. We raced only one year then. All of us even got a state title that year. (Daughter got 1st place in her age class)
Went to the grand national race late that year in Tulsa with the kids and friends. My second Moto I fractured my tibia in four places. That was the end for me and since I couldn't ride, they stopped racing too.
It was fun to see my kids do what I had so much fun doing all those years.
I'm 52 now and lucky to just puddle around the subdivision with the wife on our mountain bikes.
Years pass and when my kids got old enough, I got them into racing BMX locally. I too got back on the track racing 38-40 cruiser class. We raced only one year then. All of us even got a state title that year. (Daughter got 1st place in her age class)
Went to the grand national race late that year in Tulsa with the kids and friends. My second Moto I fractured my tibia in four places. That was the end for me and since I couldn't ride, they stopped racing too.
It was fun to see my kids do what I had so much fun doing all those years.
I'm 52 now and lucky to just puddle around the subdivision with the wife on our mountain bikes.
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Flippers4pups
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Yes I have! It's was gnarly dude! Lol!
Funny you bring that up, I was thinking back in time. There was only just a few of us in high school that wore Vans and Op.
leviburns89
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I would give pretty much anything for an 80's redline bike. Those were an iconic part of my childhood.
I do feel we are throwing this thread off track tho lol
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I do feel we are throwing this thread off track tho lol
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Bent
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Ah ok. It was a long shot.
Mine was WV. And it was back in the nineties. Thought maybe we had crossed paths, small world and all.
leviburns89
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Lol that would be insane, I didn't realize you were reaching that far haha
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Bent
I got nothin'
Stranger things have happened to me.
One time, one of my best friends in high school went on a trip to Alaska. They went on some random train ride off the beaten path somewhere. She said that she said down in front of a couple when they boarded and noticed that the guy had on a WVU shirt. She asked them if they were from WV and low and behold they were. She then asked them what part, and unbelievablely, they were from the same town! They started naming people they knew and....it was my aunt and uncle.
Crazy. :eek1:
leviburns89
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Ditto,
I'm originally from Michigan. I moved to Tampa Florida, and me and my buddy went to the beach the second day.
We walked up to two ladies, they were from the next town over, and knew half of our friends from back home.
Seems like you can't run far enough lol. That was 1,200 miles from home, and the first people we met, knew us
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Not sure what athletics has to do with keeping a successful tank. I think a pinch of knowledge, some common sense and a heaping teaspoon of dumb luck ..... Buddy of mine is a bright guy, but a total knucklehead when it comes to keeping an aquarium. Always calls me for advice, and then proceeds to ignore it.
CStrickland
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It has everything to do with it. If you are very very macho you can play sportsball without even wearing a helmet. The other players will bash your head awfully hard and make a lot of concussions but you will persevere in the face of this hardship like Rudy did even though he was bad at the sport. Rudy had discipline and moxy. If you have these your tank will also be successful. If your tank fails it is because you lacked moxy, or discipline (didn't put in elbow work), or believed the Internet. Or you had too much moxy & discipline (didn't leave your tank alone) and didn't do enough "research." Rudy would never believe the Internet, but he would also research a lot. Be strong like a sportsman, choose a side and never deviate. When your team wins totm rejoice! When they do not, they were clearly no true Scotsman.
Clear water, full bank account, can't lose.
leviburns89
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And ironically enough, the quarterback in the movie Rudy, was my football coach. Bill Bergens.
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Ah, right, of course. A perfect analogy, not sure how I missed it .......
Bent
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I was going to say that professions athletes usually have unlimited funds.
I could have a salty thumb too if someone else ran my tank.
Flippers4pups
Home made abyss
"I could have a salty thumb too if someone else ran my tank."
Where's the fun and challenge in that?! I and most of us here where to suddenly become wealthy, would still maintain their own tanks! They may be much bigger and full of corals and fish! Lol!
Where's the fun and challenge in that?! I and most of us here where to suddenly become wealthy, would still maintain their own tanks! They may be much bigger and full of corals and fish! Lol!
Reef Frog
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As I remember the movie, Rudy wasn't necessarily bad at the sport. He was just obsessed with playing for Notre Dame - a perennial powerhouse team. He likely would have done just fine playing for some Division II or better yet Division III team. He may have made the starting roster in that environment. But he chose to be the little fish in the very big pond and played in just one game.
It's the choices we make that often determine success or failure. Some folks want a tank with a hardy clown & a damsel with some easy to keep softies. Some want to reach for the stars with exotic wild SPS colonies, NPS gorgonians, carnation corals, clams, spotted filefish, Copperband Butterflies, Leopard Wrasses, Moorish Idols etc.
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