Pitchy Ice Capades

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:31 am

Got the skating rink done, small but big enough to break a leg.

Will be trying skating later today, stay tuned for vid.

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:33 am

safer than flying, I guess...

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:38 am

Current picture.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:39 am

Soooo, is it you or your wife that's gonna test skate on the ice?

Which ever one of you that does it, be careful. Bumps and bruises hurt.

Joe

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:42 am

Either one of know how to skate Joe, but i didn`t know how to fly either so how bad can it get.

J Miller · Post by **J Miller** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:48 am

How bad can it get? Beats me. I can't skate, not even on roller skates. No ankle strength. I just know that as I've gotten older falls hurt more and take longer to quit hurting. Hense, my suggestion to be careful.

Joe

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:11 am

I better get some popcorn ready for this performance. I get the front row.

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Chris83716 · Post by **Chris83716** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:30 am

I see some quality entertainment in our future.

Chris

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:40 am

OK !

PRESENTING:

"THE PITCHY POP ICE FOLLIES" .

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bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:48 am

.45colt wrote:I better get some popcorn ready for this performance. I get the front row. .

I'll bring some rail stock and my whittling knife. Of course, this is really for splint stock...

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:48 am

Well pards nothin fancy but since i haven`t been on skates since i was a kid.
These skates are the clamp on type, they are a little short in the front so they dig in if not careful.

Video.

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:52 am

At least it does'nt fly!

Pete44ru · Post by **Pete44ru** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:00 pm

But Pitchy might

- I'm waitin' on the (action) video.

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bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:01 pm

not bad at all.

I think he'll live.

Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:01 pm

Hey Pitchy, that's great, wondered what you had been up to

Post by **Old Savage** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:01 pm

What a hoot, the one and only.

gamekeeper · Post by **gamekeeper** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:03 pm

Pitchy, you're better on skates than I would be, I think I'd need a cushion down the back of my jeans!...

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:11 pm

what no triple jumps???......

.You just made My day.I'm goin back in the woods to clean up some downed wood from the Sandy storm a month ago.lets see if I can stay on My feet as well.

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Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:22 pm

Thanks gents, scary but fun, the ice isn`t frooze all the way yet and was cracking

More to come.

Nath · Post by **Nath** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:58 pm

You pair

Keep the helmet on hey!

Nath.

El Chivo · Post by **El Chivo** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 1:01 pm

wear the pink tutu next time

3leggedturtle · Post by **3leggedturtle** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 1:06 pm

El Chivo wrote:wear the pink tutu next time

was thinking it didnt wanna say it

Barcelona Rick · Post by **Barcelona Rick** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 1:13 pm

Hey Pitchy can ya do one of those tripple "klutz" ?

rick

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:14 pm

Stylin'!

AND... PLU--LEEZ, NO on the tu-tu! A gent wears a tuxedo!

cshold · Post by **cshold** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:25 pm

Removed

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:05 pm

Pitchy,
You still going to move?
Now where yet?

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:05 pm

Pitchy,
You still going to move?
Now where yet?

mod71alaska · Post by **mod71alaska** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:08 pm

Pitchy, you should write a book!!! You never cease to amaze me!

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:15 pm

Mescalero wrote:Pitchy,
You still going to move?
Now where yet?

Don`t know, just trying to stay sane at the moment.
Had to learn in a bar where i shouldn`t have been in the first place that my dad is dying

It never seems to end

day by day, day by day

mod71alaska · Post by **mod71alaska** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 3:30 pm

Sure sorry to hear about your Dad, Pitchy. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers. May God Bless you in all things with his Grace and Love.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 5:10 pm

Thanks everyone, ******* life has been a mess for a long time and am constantly trying to make it better but sometimes it`s like a bad dream ya can`t wake up from.
Anyway sorry for getting off topic

back to ice skating.

FatJackDurham · Post by **FatJackDurham** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 6:32 pm

Bummer. It never happens to the people you wish it would.

BTW, someone in Vermont invented a lawn mower zamboni to resurface the ice.

http://www.portarinxandbambini.com/news.shtml#

Ji in Hawaii · Post by **Ji in Hawaii** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:01 pm

Pitchy wrote:Thanks everyone, ******* life has been a mess for a long time and am constantly trying to make it better but sometimes it`s like a bad dream ya can`t wake up from.
Anyway sorry for getting off topic back to ice skating.

This forum has been a great escape for me during some hard times, and also a place of support from friends here. Always good to see you posting here my friend. Sympathies on the news about your dad, I went through that a few years back and my friends here were a great help. Thanks you guys. Hang in their.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:29 pm

Friends Call Me Ji wrote:
Pitchy wrote:Thanks everyone, ******* life has been a mess for a long time and am constantly trying to make it better but sometimes it`s like a bad dream ya can`t wake up from.
Anyway sorry for getting off topic back to ice skating.

This forum has been a great escape for me during some hard times, and also a place of support from friends here. Always good to see you posting here my friend. Sympathies on the news about your dad, I went through that a few years back and my friends here were a great help. Thanks you guys. Hang in their.

Cool stuff FatJackDurham

I doubt i`ll go to his funeral, he lives 20 miles from me and hasn`t came over in 21 years.
It`s a sad story all around.

but like you this board of friends has helped alot.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 7:49 pm

Oh yea, just bought some figure skates on flea bay, my oh my

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:15 pm

Pitchy,
This is my case and my case only.
When my mother died this May 29, I felt nothing.
You can not undo 60 years of aberrant behaviour.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:31 pm

Mescalero wrote:Pitchy,
This is my case and my case only.
When my mother died this May 29, I felt nothing.
You can not undo 60 years of aberrant behaviour.

My heart goes out to ya bro, heck of a world sometimes

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 8:54 pm

Pitchy, I enjoyed that video! I went to see the Icecapades several decades ago and they were alright, but your performance blew them away ...... well ..... almost!

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:02 pm

Thanks bro, wait till i get them new lace up new fangled skates boy oh boy.

Ms Boots · Post by **Ms Boots** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:07 pm

Pitchy wrote:Well pards nothin fancy but since i haven`t been on skates since i was a kid.
These skates are the clamp on type, they are a little short in the front so they dig in if not careful.

Video.

What a blast Pitchy.. its been years since I have done that...You could do some sweet circles there on that ice square! LOL With your talent you could go a long way! Thanks for sharing...... I use to bartend at a bar on a lake, lived across the other side..... winters I would ice skate to work and stop at all the ice shanty's to see what was biting.. when the guys came for lunch I could tell them what and where. Use to boat over in the summer. One summer a friend and I tubed across... after a few cocktails... glad there were was one moter boater out there.... we got the giggles so bad and ended headed for the dam... but we were rescued... thanks for the memories.. made me think of those days with cheese curds and wine and cold winter days in an ice shanty.. Thanks bud!
MS Boots

Ms Boots · Post by **Ms Boots** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 9:08 pm

Pitchy wrote:Well pards nothin fancy but since i haven`t been on skates since i was a kid.
These skates are the clamp on type, they are a little short in the front so they dig in if not careful.

Video.

What a blast Pitchy.. its been years since I have done that...You could do some sweet circles there on that ice square! LOL With your talent you could go a long way! Thanks for sharing...... I use to bartend at a bar on a lake, lived across the other side..... winters I would ice skate to work and stop at all the ice shanty's to see what was biting.. when the guys came for lunch I could tell them what and where. Use to boat over in the summer. One summer a friend and I tubed across... after a few cocktails... glad there were was one moter boater out there.... we got the giggles so bad and ended headed for the dam... but we were rescued... thanks for the memories.. made me think of those days with cheese curds and wine and cold winter days in an ice shanty.. Thanks bud!
MS Boots

Hayseed · Post by **Hayseed** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:27 pm

My oh my !!

You are quite graceful amigo !!

Id have a big bunch of knots on my tailbone if I tried that !

DixieBoy · Post by **DixieBoy** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:18 pm

I think I've just seen an Olympic contender ! We're talking style !!

Like Ms Boots, your ice skating endeavors brought back some memories for me too. When we were kids living up north, my Dad used to have a ritual every winter. There were a bunch of small lakes about a mile away that we'd walk in to, no regular road to 'em. When there had been a couple of freezes, and we wanted to go play hockey, Dad would take a big rock from along the bank and try to break the ice near the shore (where it was thinnest). If he couldn't break it, us kids had the go ahead to skate.

I used to love those mornings when the ice was slick like glass and no one else had been on it yet. Still remember the sound the blades of the skates would make on that slick ice. One of my better memories from those times. Thanks for reminding me. - DixieBoy

Mescalero · Post by **Mescalero** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 11:29 pm

Can you describe the sound?

DixieBoy · Post by **DixieBoy** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 4:18 am

Mescalero - Wow, that's a tough one. I can hear that sound in my memory very clearly, but to try to describe it ...

How about, first you've got your skates just sort of making a metallic sound on the ice, when you're going straight. But when you turn, or go into a harder turn, just to feel the skates bite a little bit ... the skates would make a kind of really cool "swish" sound when the edges bit in. This is a crummy description, but I swear, I can hear that sound very clearly in my memory.

Now, this is something you got me going with here. Know what ? All the years I surfed, up until not that long ago ... the sound of ice skate blades cutting into fresh ice when you turned was (to me) very close to the sound your rails ("rails" are what we call the edges on your surfboard) make when you pull off a very crisp and smooth turn on a wave. Especially when the wave has a clean glassy surface. Kind of like a "whooshing" sound. Very distinct.

So, this is what I get for not being able to sleep.

I'm up at 4 in the morning describing the sound of ice skates on smooth fresh ice, and a well made surfboard with the proper rails, slicing into a nice bottom turn or - better yet - a cutback.

This might sound like silly stuff, but you know what ? Skating and playing hockey when I was a kid, and surfing until I was well past being a "kid" are still some of the best memories I have in my life. Pure, simple, uncluttered joy. - DixieBoy

Sixgun · Post by **Sixgun** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:57 am

Hey! How did I miss this action? Cool Pitch...your very own rink. Its not too deep is it?

I think we will send the party girl over to keep you company......Ms. Boots.

Or if shes' busy, Tanya Harding. Careful with the second choice though, she might break your leg if you show her up.

------------Sixgun

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:20 am

Mescalero wrote:Can you describe the sound?

Turn your volume up and watch the video again

Glad ya liked it DixieBoy, we have lakes within a 1/4 mile but i wanted a rink in the yard.
We may venture to the lake later though.

Sixgun

Hayseed, i`m hearing ya and it ain`t over yet.

Bill in Oregon · Post by **Bill in Oregon** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:50 am

Hey, no trash talking our own Oregon red-head Tanya, who can stick a triple Lutz and change out the transmission in an F-150!

Pitchy, I am relieved to see that you have been busy and creative during your hiatus from posting. You are better on skates than I ever was. All I remember is falling down, landing in the thin layer of slush and getting my jeans wet.
Very sorry about your father, and the estrangement. Prayers for your peace of mind, bro.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 10:03 am

Bill bro, thank you

DixieBoy · Post by **DixieBoy** » Wed Nov 28, 2012 9:12 pm

Pitchy - You just make sure you bring a grownup with you if you head over to the lake.

- DixieBoy