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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #75 on: August 15, 2012, 08:15:43 PM »
Pub. Lock in.

Nuff said.

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #76 on: August 15, 2012, 09:56:25 PM »
OMG do you still have them in Wales mate  :Claugh:

Sounds good though

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #77 on: August 17, 2012, 11:16:38 PM »
This is why I love this sport. Capital Bocking Eve and I'm sat down at a table with the legends.

Good company, good times, bring on one amazing weekend!

Sorry Clive I think you were at the bar or something :(

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #78 on: August 18, 2012, 01:19:10 AM »
Here we go... Start as you mean to go on, IN THE PUB!!!!  :Claugh:
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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #79 on: August 18, 2012, 10:10:14 AM »
I should have a couple of pics posted during the day on our twitter account:

http://www.twitter.com/welshbockers

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #80 on: August 19, 2012, 10:17:21 AM »
What a fantastic day shame we couldn't stay for the sunday

Locky you are a hero mate thanks for organizing it all

So nice to see all the old faces and see that we are still all alive  :Claugh:

Can't wait for next year (gonna start getting fit for it now  :Cbiggrin: )

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #81 on: August 19, 2012, 11:30:23 AM »
Hello all :) here is the link to the photos i took http://photobucket.com/capitalbocking message me for larger versions and also i can do edits like the ones attached here message me if you want one done  :Cbiggrin:
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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #82 on: August 19, 2012, 11:42:16 AM »
Thanks locky for a awesome day and thanks for droping my new stilts down to camp site for me   :Cnotworthy:..still cant beleave i won the stilts  :Cyes: nice seeing everyone again and meeting up with billy and the team..big big thanks to maya for running after us or should i say drfting after us to let us to let us  know that the raffle was going on..thankyou maya..Well my daughters has put up the photos and as you can see theres some really good shots she allso dose awesome art work with a picture so you can put on a t shirt. :Straddle5:
« Last Edit: August 19, 2012, 01:21:57 PM by clive »

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #83 on: August 19, 2012, 09:48:02 PM »
Actually guys I think you would have really liked the Sunday, much better weather and we got pretty much everyone doing some real bocking. My pics are on the facebook page which should be public.
I got a couple of vids of jake and greg today on the steps including jake doing a backflip 720 (thats a backflip with two full twists). Not sure if that's even been done before but man what a day.
Thanks to everyone who made it what it was 8)

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.318451328250454.73700.226329440795977&type=1

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #84 on: August 19, 2012, 10:57:52 PM »
home safe and sound (only took us 3 hours to get home ) and what a amazing weekend perfect weather good  company great food and lots of stilting and skating loved every minute of it :D

huge thanks to locky for organising it :) and for everyone else for making it so fun ie clive jason josh matt maya steve mitch abi ellie rob adam deano stephanie and mum jake steff and everyone else :)

we should do it more often yer know :D

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #85 on: August 20, 2012, 11:32:22 AM »
I'm tired, aching and slightly sunburnt. So all in all a great weekend guys. Thanks for making it such fun :)

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #86 on: August 20, 2012, 07:07:36 PM »
gemma some of those shots you took of us are awsome well done :D damn i wish id had one done on my skates and stilts now so i could of had it on a t shirt :) im hoping to get a better camera soon after seeing some of the photos you took :D

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #87 on: August 21, 2012, 08:54:24 AM »
Thankyou  :Csmile: much appreciated

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #88 on: August 22, 2012, 10:28:42 PM »
You can see my pictures here

And this has just finished uploading:


Excellent weekend with friends old and new, really nice to catch up with some people I haven't seen in 2-3 years. Hope everyone enjoyed themselves as much as I did :Csmile:

Also: First Proper Post in 2 years!
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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #89 on: August 22, 2012, 11:50:53 PM »
Love this. Love you. Love Bocking 8)

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #90 on: August 23, 2012, 03:33:06 PM »
did any one get a photo of me flipping the highest setting on the high jump bar coz i would like a copy :)

also this year was amazing thanks to locky for putting it on and thanks to naz for epic prizes dont know where it will be next year if locky doesn't want to put it on again then im coming to wales to have some fun any way oooorrrr the abby gardens in bury st edmunds lol
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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #91 on: August 23, 2012, 04:59:04 PM »
I'm not against having it in Cardiff, but it would really want it re-surfaced  as its in a terrible state. I think we got lucky with the weather as well. Sunday was a great day and few got sun burnt. If it was throwing it down with rain it would have been a different story.

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #92 on: August 23, 2012, 08:51:05 PM »
Locky lets admit it mate  :Cbiggrin:

You have the best Bocking venue in the known world on your doorstep mate  :Claugh: (even with the surface as it is )

There I've said it and it hurt  :Claugh: (why do you think I am moving to Wales as soon as I can mate )

If you hold it they will come  :Cbiggrin:

Maybe we should change it to Cardiff Bocking

I for one want to come visit you for a weekend at least once a year gutted I missed Sunday it looks like you had so much fun but next year I'm there

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #93 on: August 23, 2012, 09:24:37 PM »
I was pretty astounded at the state of the Basin surface, even compared to 16 months ago it looks and feels awful. Having said that, it's still my favourite place in the UK for bocking.

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I for one want to come visit you for a weekend at least once a year
You say that Jason, but I warn you - You will become addicted if you start that. My visits to Wales went from once every 3 months, to every 2, to once a month, to the point where Locky had to put up with me living in his house for 2 weeks (And I think Carl came to stay for a few days too) :Claugh:

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #94 on: August 23, 2012, 10:18:28 PM »
First of all i want to say how sorry i am to jason as i drove down and was jason lift back and cut the two days to one day for that jason im very sorry,next year will be different you have my word.  :Cyes: :Cwink:

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #95 on: August 24, 2012, 11:15:20 AM »
You know I agree there are few places in the UK that rival cardiff bay for bocking however, I still feel not a lot of bocking takes place at CB. I mean sure the EA's had fun on both the conrete and wooden steps and some of our guys did too but on the whole I dont think people look around and think ok what I could learn to do today.

It's not a bad thing, many of us are old friends and its great to chill and chat and have a laugh but when I see things like Hannah (mini ellis) learning to vault, Jason and Clive jumping on the dock wall I think THATS what CB should be about.
Seriously with the amount of steps of all shapes and sizes, hand rails, blocks and even the giant pebbles which nobody visited this year - there is a lot that I think any bocker could come along and push themselves and learn something new.

When we talk about the possibility of other venues around the country we always look for obstacles and things to do for us but do we really need that?
I think people would learn more coming to cardiff in a smaller group and actually bock, just like sprog mentioned though I wouldnt count on staying at my house for 2 weeks!

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Re: Capital Bocking 2012
« Reply #96 on: August 24, 2012, 06:03:06 PM »
Not your fault Clive so no appology needed mate

I do agree that I for one didn't make as much use of the obsticals as I would have liked to Locky
I had that awful cold a couple of weeks before and lost all my fittness so get knackered very quick at the moment (can't believe how much it has affected me )
But next time I am gonna push myself and get a few new tricks under my belt

I recon a good google earth of London is called for to try and find some good places that we can use

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