Reindeer legend

Black Mirror

I don't see much tv and as didn't know about it I missed part 1 but while not really watching tv heard only the name Charlie Brooker, and that was good enough for me - promise of some treacherous watching ...hence I've only just caught the first episode on 4onD but one of the better things I've seen put on tv for a while....interested to see what part 2 has in although I've heard its more depressing!

Hair Is An Extension Of The Nervous System

Why Indians Keep Their Hair Long
By C. Young - 9.12.11

This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War .

Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Viet Nam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view.

In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a VA Medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Viet Nam.

Sally said, "I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our apartment on Doctor\'s Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative middle of the road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. What is more, the VA Medical center let him do it, and other very conservative men in the staff followed his example. As I read the documents, I learned why.

It seems that during the Viet Nam War special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. Before being approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts in tracking and survival.

With the usual enticements, the well proven smooth phrases used to enroll new recruits, some of these indian trackers were then enlisted. Once enlisted, an amazing thing happened. Whatever talents and skills they had possessed on the reservation seemed to mysteriously disappear, as recruit after recruit failed to perform as expected in the field.

Serious casualities and failures of performance led the government to contract expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistantly that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer \'sense\' the enemy, they could no longer access a \'sixth sense\' , their \'intuition\' no longer was reliable, they couldn\'t \'read\' subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

So the testing institute recruited more indian trackers, let them keep their long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests.

Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores.

Here is a typical test:

The recruit is sleeping out in the woods. An armed \'enemy\' approaches the sleeping man. The long haired man is awakened out of his sleep by a strong sense of danger and gets away long before the enemy is close, long before any sounds from the approaching enemy are audible.

In another version of this test the long haired man senses an approach and somehow intuits that the enemy will perform a physical attack. He follows his \'sixth sense\' and stays still, pretending to be sleeping, but quickly grabs the attacker and \'kills\' him as the attacker reaches down to strangle him.

This same man, after having passed these and other tests, then received a military haircut and consistantly failed these tests, and many other tests that he had previously passed.

So, the document recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from military haircuts. In fact, it required that trackers keep their hair long."

Comment

The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up with more discoveries about the amazing abilities of man and animal to survive. Each part of the body has highly sensitive work to perform for the survival and well being of the body as a whole. The body has a reason for every part of itself.

Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly-evolved 'feelers' or 'antennae' that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brainstem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.

Not only does hair in people, including facial hair in men, provide an information highway reaching the brain, hair also emits energy, the electromagnetic energy emitted by the brain into the outer environment. This has been seen in Kirlian photography when a person is photographed with long hair and then rephotographed after the hair is cut.

When hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment are greatly hampered. This results in 'numbing-out'.

Cutting of hair is a contributing factor to unawareness of environmental distress in local ecosystems. It is also a contributing factor to insensitivity in relationships of all kinds. It contributes to sexual frustration.

Conclusion

In searching for solutions for the distress in our world, it may be time for us to consider that many of our most basic assumptions about reality are in error. It may be that a major part of the solution is looking at us in the face each morning when we see ourselves in the mirror.

The story of Sampson and Delilah in the Bible has a lot of encoded truth to tell us. When Delilah cut Sampson\'s hair, the once undefeatable Sampson was defeated.

http://www.rense.com/general95/hair.htm

Change?

Bush and Blair = war criminals

not my words....but funny how things like this go on in the world and yet you wont find any mention of it on the BBC, or most other places in the wonders of the unquestioning UK media

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/211590.html

Parkour pioneer

this dude goes off...not to even mention it's from the 1930's!!

A day in the life of us in Malaga

oh yeah, and Ruben was there too!!

Gorge Road Opening Jam

Part of me does of course wish I was joining Chris in the early migration to Queenstown NZ for the Gorge Road Opening Jam....but work calls (hopefully) and there is plenty to keep me busy for a few months up at ALV Woods anyways....

If you are anywhere near Qtown, NZ, get over for the opening Jam up at Gorge!!

Life is so good

Adam Baker

I really like this..spotted on digmore

end of riding season?

coukd be here, I hear....don't get me wrong I like digging but a couple more good sessions would be nice

Power to the Pedal People

need to go buy this

Deville made it

Over the last few weeks we've been at Villij Deville has been busy filming and has now finished his 2011 Summer / Autumn vid....these dude have it right, dig like crazy, reep what you sow. Thanks guys for the great times riding and hanging out at Villij, many more to come I hope

yeah I love that move

the man...the legend

(edit - think I actually feel a bit sorry for the interviewer....well, she's just really struggling with it all aint she)

bit of jazz and levitation in the morning...

Photographs

can't be taken anywhere, anymore

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-15236758

learn and create

concreate or dirt...doesn't matter much

Ten for two attempt 2

Cannabis oil is a highly efficient natural cancer cure

I like the fact they did joint research....

(NaturalNews) Ever since the mid 70s, medical scientists have been well aware of the beneficial effects of cannabinoid compounds over cancerous cells. Thanks to modern science, over a dozen studies conducted during recent years have been able to partially reveal just how it works. Yet cannabis is still not endorsed by pharmaceutical companies as a cancer cure, and since it is not promoted through mainstream channels, very few people are aware of its benefits. Consequently, it is not sought after as an alternative to disfiguring chemotherapy and other harmful drugs.

Laboratory tests conducted in 2008 by a team of scientists formed as a joint research effort between Spain, France and Italy, and published in The Journal Of Clinical Investigation, showed that the active ingredient in marijuana, known as tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, can function as a cure for brain cancer by inducing human glioma cell death through stimulation of autophagy.

The study concluded that via the same biochemical process THC could terminate multiple types of cancers, affecting various cells in the body. Other studies have shown that cannabinoids may work by various mechanisms, including inhibiting cell growth, inducing cell death, and inhibiting tumor metastasis.

What is amazing is that while cannabinoids effectively target and kill cancerous cells, they do not affect healthy, normal cells and may actually protect them against cellular death. Moreover, cannabinoids are also researched for their pain-modulation and anti-inflammatory abilities as they bind to special receptors in the brain, much like opioid derivatives that are commonly prescribed today.

Further evidence to support the effects of cannabis extract on malignant cells comes from the real life experience of individuals who have successfully overcome cancer by using cannabis oil. Examples include a patient, who managed to completely cure his skin cancer by simply applying cannabis oil onto the affected areas of the skin, as well as another, who recovered from a severe head injury with the aid of hemp oil.

Read the full article: http://www.naturalnews.com/033757_cannabis_oil_cancer_cure.html#ixzz1ZuHyCDTm

.....On the money

Street

Magician like precision and balls out

Independant Trader speaks on BBC?!?!

You can see a slightly earlier start of this interview on the bbc site
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15059135

the field

best web video I've seen for some time!!

hahahaha

Where white man went wrong

Police state (s)!

The eavesdropping statute....In 12 States in the US you could potentially go to prison for life for audio or video recording public officials, such as the police!?!?!?

Ginch Bro's

Vaccines are safe, are they?

http://www.activistpost.com/2011/08/vaccines-are-dangerous-government-says.html

British hypocrisy: Gaddafi; friend or foe

Britain has been a close trade partner of Libya over the past years, yet what London is doing now is hypocritically condemning Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi rather than apologizing for the partnership.


Britain's trade with the Gaddafi regime stood at an estimated £1.5 billion last year - most of its oil imports from Libya -- and London kept its diplomatic ties with Gaddafi well into 2011 after the revolutionaries began fighting against his regime.

Read more: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/195681.html

worldwide earthquakes

are far from infrequent right now

goom

Fingers crossed for today, I love this place, hope we have a future together....maybe I do need a contingency plan after all though....

how to save the economy?!?!

WW III or an alien invasion, hoax or otherwise could be the answer

Meet your Strawman

ignite

its hard to find out what is the real spark that has ignited these riots. Mostly the mainstream media seem sure it is due to the shooting and death of the guy in Tottenham, but the beating of a 16 year old girl in London seems to be being mostly ignored, if you didn't catch it the first time it was reported

Riots

seems like some are already starting the uprising....looks pretty serious....money talks I guess, so looting is rife in Birmingham and many parts of London

Just been listening to Ken Livingston on BBC website...I'm sure he said there are only 32000 Police in England, and are being outnumbered in various areas

Some images from http://birminghamriots2011.tumblr.com/

the end of an era

Sometimes things change,and there will be a part of you which doesn't want the change to happen, or at the very least, you would like more time.

You can't stop change, so if on the face of it, you like the changing situation or not, you must take the positives from it. There will be positives even when something comes to an end, as there will always be a new beginning.

Now, I finally understand the saying, 'all good things must come to an end'. I don't believe this is just a statement of how things are, it holds a much deeper meaning too....

ALV Trees

Twas a rad weekend up at ALV Woods. I did get crippled by a trapped nerve from doing absolutely nothing, but still, strange things just happen, just keep smiling and everything will be ok :D Check some of my pics over at ALV here

Accountant or copper....

....doesn't matter....same shit, different angle

How Murdoch ran Britain

Hopefully this whole situation will help the masses realise how the media corporations, (and the select few people at the top of them) affect the running of the country....

Water

should be free, clean and without modern chemicals

http://www.findaspring.com/

more bike porn

I have been interested in and waiting for some info to hit the streets on the Deluxe 2012 signature frames, and finally this came out

The Union - Insight - Mark Potoczny PAwoods / Pototype model







Max Bimar from France will also have a 2012 signature frame out on Deluxe, but he's gonna fly with 74.5...

Union x United Colab frame

I do like the look of these beauties...and I like to support people in bmx who have got there shit down, and are nice people
but...I could seriously do without spending the £££'s





They have a 74.5 degree headtube, which is maybe a good thing, (to put me off getting one) as I have to say, after having my Frog Brown Deluxe for over a year now, I do seriously love the 74 degree headtube.

It seems there are only a few that are tuned into the speed and handling delight of the 74 degree headtube...Deluxe and Ruben to name the two that are most obvious to me...but I also read yesterday that Taj used to have a 74 degree barcode, I wonder if thats true?

John and Jimmy

Good gents with black and red frames out now

free energy?

Zombies

Just so you are aware what your local council might be spending resources on....Someone thinks Shaun of the dead could be coming to a town near you....

guardian.co.uk - when-zombies-attack-bristol-city-council-undead-invasion

I find this kind of stuff rather interesting...a bit like the Alien invasion school drills that have been taking place in the UK over recent times

Harrier message

after being scrapped by the governement

big jump

I was digging today....got a bit done, but this isn't me, yet

Magnet boy!?!?

life and death

pa woods

Case BMX Mags comment on their photo is; everyone needs to experience this at least once in their life..



Too true...I knew I was going through all that crap for a good reason

great conversations

can be found via the internet...just wish this one lasted longer as I would have loved to hear the dude elaborate a little

Make trails

not war....is the title from Boyd on digmore4victory for his latest video

Im aching from digging plenty today, so was nice to see this edit tonight

Sunny afternoon

its not even sunny here, it's raining, but as rain is kind of needed for the woods, I'm glad there is some

Just seen this sunny afternoon edit on build the woods, from Epsom. I went to check Epsom trails last Autumn, they were fully tarped up and tucked up for the winter, but the place has to be up there in the top English spots...amazing inspiration for a day with the digging boots on

double up

I won't apologise that this is kind of a double post...with ALV Woods

Chris Radford was able to visit ALV yesterday and sent me this nice photo he took of the woods now, which is 15 months after we were lucky enough to move in start building in a place that I have waited for, for years.

Good to see Chris, have a ride and call by for a look at his trails in Derbyshire too....look forward to next time :)

Digging

Due to having rode quite a lot the last week or so, part of me wanted to get some digging done today, being as we had a little rain, but probably not quite enough yet and I had a few other things to do...so hopefully more rain and even better conditions tomorrow....

Digging, for some, is as fun as the riding....

B to the O to the Y to the D

Catch up and light bulbs

have been catching up with a couple of quality websites from the world of bmx, being as I didn't really do much of that browsing while I was away on me travels....

Prettyshady and Digmore...

and from this brief catch up, along with some pretty rad trails pics from both, prettyshady threw up some good youtube viewing, right up my street....on planned obsolescence; The Light Bulb Conspiracy....where I shall get my quote of the day

"our role in life, seems to be just to consume things, with credit, to borrow money, to buy things we don't need"

Smug Ice-axe man

etiqutte....

While I have been searching for info on these elusive trails in Toronto I saw this post re trails etiquette in a thread on vitalbmx....word to those who know the deal...inc Hickey138 from Asheville, USA!


10 DIRT JUMP COMMANDMENTS !!!

Some basic guidelines for public dirt jumps / local trails. Maybe you'll find these helpful. Maybe you won't. Very few people know any of this. Remind your fellow rider so next time he can't say he didn't know. Feel free to cut/paste/adjust/repost... SPREAD THE WORD !!!


1. If you enjoy riding your local dirt jumps, then CONTRIBUTE. Give something back. Don't just show up, tear it up, and split. Repairing your own damage is MANDATORY. If you mess it up, FIX it. If you take a chunk out of a landing, FIX it. (If you don't know how, ask).


2. DON'T LITTER !!! This is only one of many ways dirt jumps get torn down. Don't bury it. Use a trash can. Trash looks horrible.


3. DIGGING means to dig new dirt and maintain the trails. It does not mean "re-shaping" things you don't like or "don't flow" for you. Lip shapes and transitions are the privilege of the builders. If the builders like steep lips/landings, that's how it is.


4. If you show up to a spot while people are digging, then you dig BEFORE riding. This applies to everyone. If you show up and the Diggers aren't there, then you can water the jumps before riding, that's it. DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING.


5. MAINTENANCE is watering, sweeping, picking up trash, raking, packing, etc. (Sweeping dust off dry jumps is not as good as actually watering it, which will settle the dust and re-pack it when ridden).


6. Riding is done AFTER you have demonstrated appropriate willingness to contribute to the trails.


7. DON'T ride when it's muddy. It tears the jumps up, and pointless anyway. Be patient. DON'T create more work for everybody.


8. ABSOLUTELY NO motorized vehicles of any kind. No 50's mini bikes, quads, dirt-bikes, RC cars, etc.


9. Dirt Jumps are NOT a playground, and little kids should NOT be running up and down lips/landings like they're at a McDonald's Play Palace.


10. BE RESPECTFUL-Can't be said enough. Be respectful to the builders, neighbors, other riders, and the Earth. If you're respectful, you won't get disrespected. Period. Don't be a loud, littering, selfish guy with an attitude. Thanks.

trails hunt mission

Ok, so after a fair bit of mooching around on the net, there are maybe some trails north of the city, and sine others about am hours drive west. I ain't got a car (yet) so going to venture out to the end of the subway, then half hour on a bus. The last posts I've found on the net are from 2009 and all I know is the name of the area and that they ate in one of many parks uptown somewhere.....fingers crossed as it looks like a real spot from the 2 photos I found :)

Let the trails hunting begin!

joyride150

Haha...found out there is a place called joyride one50 a little way out of Toronto...which is basically a place that looks like its an attempt at something like Rays park in the US.
Sweet, its pretty expensive and a good hour and half away on public t'port but they have $15 Tuesdays so will be heading up there for a look next week

http://www.joyride150.com/

gotta find some way to treat the woods withdrawal, being as one set of jumps were demolished the week I got here, I found the only others but they were sketchy mountain bike things, still pretty wet but being ridden! I will get the odd skatepark session in but it just ain't quite like being at the trails....

Dean Manson

Met Dean in NZ, he absolutely ripped Gorge Rd trails apart, and The Farm Jam for that matter....goes proper high and got style for miles, probably one of the most impressive riders I've met, and a proper sound fella....

Thanks to Jimmy at TRUBMX for posting this up....sweet, cheers dudes, until next time

Natural Disaster tour continues

Yes, finish as you begun, I started as I meant to go on, and things are still holding together

When I had 3 nights in Japan in February at the start of my trip, i got delayed a day leaving Tokyo for New Zealand due to a Japanese volcano's ash had screwed up the planes rudder system...

...then after avoiding the tragic earthquake and its epicenter, by as little as a few days in Christchuch, I then got to Wellington at the start of March, only to experience their biggest earthquake for some time on my first and singular night there...

now I have just spent $$$'s moving my flight forward a few days to arrange an earlier homecoming, but with an extra night in Reykjavik, Iceland, only for a day or two later for Iceland's volcano to erupt, putting me in more than one mind whether or not to def the Iceland leg altogether and just come straight home from Toronto.....hopefully I will get a refund or credit from Iceland air which will mean I can still plan to go there sometime in future

Looking forward to seeing family, friends, class with Sifu and the woods, maybe as soon as 10 days time

It's been a mega trip, and I won't let it end....gotta just keep on tripping.....酸

its a long way

my time in Vancouver and then Alberta for the first too weeks of stay in Canada were pretty good, although the temperature and general weather conditions sure made me feel I was a long way from northern New Zealand

My following 10 days on Vancouver Island with my dear Qigong sister Lee was, well, a long way from what life in a modern society usually feels like....it has to be said it was a very welcome long way, and something quite special....and although it's a long way from home a return visit there is certain, and of greater duration hopefully

Flying to Calgary from Vancouver Island felt a bit of a cheat when looking at the journey ahead, but having already done that part of the route by bus it was a realistic compromise to not leave the Island so soon after arriving there. I left it as late as possible and no sooner than I landed in Calgary I was picked up and we got on the road.

The following 5 days was the longest drive I have ever shared, which ended slightly earlier than my desired destination of Toronto, but go me close. Over 3500km, some less inspiring landscape at times, some skys that went on forever, a bath in the worlds largest fresh water, and at this time of year cold water lake; Superior, meant we were now across our third time zone change, and well and truly in Ontario. Ontario is a very long way from end to end, but is thankfully mostly beautiful with more trees and lakes than you can imagine...

Thanks for the free ride Vitek, hope you liked my driving, which, judging by the amount you were happy for me to do it must been ok...apart from when I nearly fell asleep I guess!!

Safely in Toronto now, even after another Greyhound ride for the last few hours...which is good 'cause all those missing person posters in the terminals do make you wonder...a few weeks to chill and explore some places in the East...then will be back home in one month

RIP some trails

I really hope this isn't the case, but I have regrettably been informed that some trails looked after by a now good friend Chris have reached the point of beyond repair....

I most definitely hope to be getting involved on return to England, if the weather is kind enough to aid repair, to at least help get a couple of lines riding this year. I am keen to see Chris have somewhere local to ride, as well as hoping to have the chance to have a roll there myself.

Fingers crossed, I know hoping for both riding and building weather when I return is asking for the impossible, but I do believe anything is possible

getting fat

ate some right crap while traveling across Canada, so much driving to do and not much time for anything else other than some random stops Vitek wanted to take....to have a change from the incessant burger intake I had my first Taco Bell,...oh my goodness, I have never, ever, eaten anything quite so disgusting in all my life. Plastic, sweetened, bland, plasticy horribleness...

Apart from the odd coffee, my last few weeks in Canada will mostly now just be, water, bread, some rice and like things and vegetables....and lots of walking me thinks

oh and some riding my bike if the weather improves enough in Toronto...which it hopefully will.

New Zealand

Pretty Shady

Ha - ALV Woods blog got a visit from the man who runs Prettyshady.com - which is nice, I've been visiting ps.com for years now, and I know many other people do too. Hopefully ALV Woods will continue to stay underground though!

Peace

Been to busy and not near a real computer of late...too much of a pain in the ass posting on here on my phone...

Have now arrived on Vancouver Island, at my Qigong sisters house. It's so peaceful here, like a paradise - lots of practice, rest and hanging out with Lee, and the micro community that live here - it's just so nice! She has the place and life down, hope I can live somewhere like this one day

I'm not going to want to leave here, but my lift across Canada is likely to be leaving Vancouver at the weekend, which is a little earlier than I would prefer, but you can't have everything eh? - I will try and squeeze as long as possible in time out here, I know it won't be long enough, so guess that means I will probably be back again in the not too distant...

420 day in Vancouver!

Well I met some good people in the hostel bar last night so didn't get up in time to head out for a day hike....so might as well just sort some stuff out then go check out 420 day! It'll prob just be a quiet gathering at the art gallery of 10000 people to celebrate!

One of the guys I met was from chk republic and he's offered me a lift the whole way across Canada, if I share the driving....which could be fun...but its a long long way!

walk, soak and jump

Everyday is still amazing

walked over 42km in 2 days around Mt Doom, had the best weather ever for the main day over Tongario crossing and climbed the Tongario summit...

Got to Taupo, found super hot spring - had a soak where it met the river and cooled down a bit to sooth the aching legs - bliss!!

Beautiful day here in Taupo, couldn't resist booking on a skydive for this afternoon, leave in just over half an hour - 15000ft, over 60 seconds of freefall looking over Lake Taupo and the Volcanos to the south - should be fun....

Hopefully see ya soon but you only die once x

Mt Armstrong & Mt Brewster

That's it for a few days now, heading North on North Isle to Tongariro national park to hopefully do the Tongario Northern Circuit 3 day walk, up Mt Doom, hot springs and other things on the way. Fingers crossed for good weather and quiet Volcano's as one of them has been raised to a level 1 alert!!

Cya soon XO

So long South Isle

What can I say, best time ever on the South Island is over for this time....but will there be more to come....A huge thanks to Lol, Jimmy, Chris, Nath and Trubmx xo

Check Trubmx for an Autumn Gorge update plus a few more Mt Brewster mission pics from Chris...here's a taster from one of the most amazing days ever

Views...

of the Remarkables mountain range on the flight into Queenstown



and from the Skyline Gondala hill




Looking back at Queenstown from the Remarkables at sunset




Weird halo effect from the sun 2300 meters up...

Return

Had an ace flight in from Christchurch, prop plane, sun rise, amazing views of the mountains poking up above the clouds, and couldn't land straight away due to fog at the airport so had to circle around aboce Lake Wakatipu a couple of times which was a treat - you can pay $$$'s for a flight with views like that and my whole flight only cost 60 bucks!!




Went rode the Gorge trails with Lol and Chris showed up too - I wasn't exactly feeling relaxed and overshot the first on the left line a couple of times which wasn't nice (argh thumbs!!) - so called it a day - will get some sleep tonight and hopefully get that line done before I leave Queenstown.

Chris and Lol were roasting it as usual though, and none of Lol's bike snapped which is always a bonus (he's killed a Profile crank arm and a fly rim since I left 2 weeks ago)

Good to see the crew here again....

feels like...i'm home - back in Q-town...love it :D

On the move

I left the fun-town of Q-town yesterday, to head to Wellington by air, via Christchurch. Thankfully I managed to find a flight with only a half hour stop in Christchurch so I wasn't on the ground for long.

Got to Wellington, met two of my qigong friends, went out for dinner and then had the pleasure of a 4.3 earthquake when we got back to the house...which is made of wood, on a very windy hill, and has structural issues in the basement that need earthquake proofing....mega!!!

Got up at 3.45am to get flight to Brisbane, here now and although it's pretty much Autumn for them now it's been 34 degrees today....

There is a Gecko in my bedroom, pythons in the garden, a turkey nest and loads of other mad shit... :)

Sllooowww

Can't upload pics - connection is too sllowwww - arse!!

Queenstown, NZ

Loving the Queenstown vibe, safe locals, feel like I'm chilling with friends I've known for ever, dam good trails, friendly buzzing scene, amazing riders all over.

Went to the Farm Jam over the weekend, didn't bother riding on the warm up day but there are soo many good riders down here, and people travelled from all over.

Back at Gorge Road yesterday, hip line done, the smaller one of the hip lines but they are still big enough. Going back today for more of the same, super floaty jumps. Loads of people in Q-Town now after the farm jam - will hopefully get to see Dane Searls ride the Gorge today as he was just chilling yesterday. A guy called Dean was tearing the place apart yesterday, along with the locals, amazing to watch. Oh, I hope you heal up fast Jimmy.

Gorge Road

The trails at Gorge road are bigger than they look on pics...

Going to hit the place up today with the super good locals.

They are all dam good fellas and have made me feel so welcome - cheers guys.

Check www.trubmx.blogspot.com for some updated pics - unfortunately I will be in Brisbane when the jam happens so I better get off and get some riding in XO

Safe

SO glad I was only in Christchuch for a day last week, and I was meant to be going back on my way to Wellington. Truely awful what has happened there. Love and thoughts are with all those in Christchuch

Q-Town

Queenstown Rocks

Amazing views, great people, rad but slighty scary looking big girly jumps....just need to be in town on a good dry day....

Unreal...why have I never been here before??

Umbrellas

They absolutely LOVE them here in Tokyo :)

Inspirational.....

...buzzing, moving, amazing....

this is all those and something else
(thks facebook via Paul Jones via Chase Hawk)

Uuunniiiieeetttt twenty threeeeee

Had a seriously bad ass time in Scotland, only got to ride Unit 23....but you don't really need much else. I can't believe I've actually properly enjoyed the last 3 skatepark sessions I've had now....good timing really, for getting back into that stuff....

Line 13 and the far away hip, probably some of the best wood construction I've ever rode!

Of course, chaps I had the pleasure of going with were ruling it!!

Poison

A friend of my family, his wife works in a hospital. She had the Flu jab as she is working with 'ill' people and is therefore in the 'high risk' category.

She has been very ill for the last year, more ill than she has ever been in her life, with one horrible thing after another, all believed to have been caused by the flu vaccine and it's relentless attack on her immune system.

At least it is being documented that there are some medical professionals who will put their name up against the view of the big pharma funded mainstream.

Download the Free report here!!

Here's some of what you'll find in this eye-opening report from the International Medical Council on Vaccination (www.VaccinationCouncil.org)

• A list of the many MDs, PhDs, NDs and other medical professionals who are signing onto this document.
• Why vaccines have NEVER been proven safe or effective.
• A list of some of the serious health side effects caused by vaccines.
• Why autism is associated with vaccines.
• The profit motivation behind the pharmaceutical industry's big vaccine push.
• A list of which institutions and organizations profit from your sickness.
• The shocking truth about what's IN vaccines (aborted fetal tissue, 59 different chemicals, DNA from diseased animals and more)
• An overview of some of the most dangerous vaccine ingredients
• The truth about conflicts of interest in the vaccine community and why doctors profit from vaccination policies
• Why vaccinated children have far worse health outcomes than unvaccinated children
• How to opt out of "mandatory" vaccines.
• Important advice for parents about how to protect the health of your children while saying NO to vaccines
• Online resources for learning more about the dangers of vaccines
• A list of recommended reading materials for further education

The exponential function

After just selling my car it makes you realise how much you take it for granted, being able to go anywhere you want, when you want. However, a break from having this luxury is a good thing I feel, it reminds you how terrible we are in our consumption of things, which really has to reduce, not keep growing the way it does....

Remember that lecture on growth and how amazingly no one (economists) seem to care or understand the maths on where it is going....we are well and truly on our way it seems....so maybe getting used to not using a car much is good preperation

If the inflation of fuel prices does start to race away to the point of a doubling time between 20 and 10 years (3.5% - 7%) things are going to get interesting.

So are the last 2 years increases, exceptional years, or just the rate of fuel price growth now?

If the growth of fuel cost stays anything like 2010-2011 per the below table (I don't know how reliable the Daily Mail figures are) fuel will be £120 a tank for the Micra, and £180 a tank for the Sharan in 5 years...yes, seriously, in 2016 it would cost twice as much to fill up....

PM's plan for fuel tax