I started scooting in 1892, when President Garfeild was giving his speech on STD's and his latest trip to the grocery-mart ...
Seriously though, I started scootering Around Christmas 2000 when my little sister got a little crappy scooter, I hould always use it myself. That summer I got a scooter for my birthday for like 20 pounds. I used it for racing and nothing more, I would race down my Driveway against my English neighbour, (and thrash his ass). I eventally broke that liitle scooter and for Christmas 2001 I got an Ozbozz Arrow runner scooter. It was an incredibly advanced scooter for the level scootering was at back then, back at that point the concept of Shocks was unheard of to me. I did some real crappy stuff on it, and eventually the shocks bent (typical) so the wheel would always loosen giving me NO got turning ability. I tried tailwhipping on it but because it was such an old scooter (by this point we were ain 2003/4 and the scooter was considered 'old' at that point) I never really grasped it, I think I hit like 1 whip ever on that scooter. I remember jumping the 5 set gap for the first time after weeks of it tempting me (like, when your at the level where whipping is trouble for you jumping a 5 set isn't really the smartest thing to do, you should start on oe sets, kerbs, up to 3 sets, that sorta thing) You guys are probably thinking that I must suck because of such a slow progression rate, but you gotta understand that I had absolutly no resources by which to learn tricks and new concepts. Like, when your livng in the US or even England in a town or a city you not only have other scooterers, you also have big companies like Micro, Razor and JDBUG (which is pretty much Razor) pumping out 'NEW AND IMPROVED' models, accessories and really cool stuff that could give even the most unskilled newb the illusion of talent. Everything I knew was self tought, and because of the Irish weather I was lucky if I could scooter once or twice a month. The Arrow Runner eventually met its demise whilst I was showing a friend my 5 set gap attempt. I hit the landing and the T-Tube just went down. That little golden thing (jeez, the names on the tip of my tongue, its not important right now anyway) snapped. So, I was scooterless. I had discovered the Wizard Trick Library on Mitchells collectables, and studdied the kid doing the whip car fully. I think he's not the same stance as me, because I'm Goofy. I learned his style of whip, but because of the 'stance Difference' I found that My tailwhips (which I could rarely do whilst moving included an unwanted sex-change whilst doing it) I saw no problem to this at the time tough. Whilst my Parents were in England so that my Dad could have his Lung transplant my aunt looked after us. On the way home from a trip to Lisburn Leisureplex , we stopped of at JJB Sports in Sprucefeild and that where I saw it, what was to become my first 'Real' scooter. An original Razor A. I'm not sure whether it was old A or not, but I loved it. I hadn't the cash to pay for it there and then, (because it was like 30 pounds and I was skint) so I saved, a lot. My parents come home from England eventually, with everythingokay. But my dad needed to have a checkup shortly so on his way HOME from Belfast city airport he stopped off at that same JJB's and picked up that scooter. I paid him back for it and rode it everyday! I eventually learned ramp transitions and got good at them (till my Mum ran over my ramps by accident) so after that it was pretty much flatland for me. I jumped over several ovjects and then I tried my jump over a really big, heavy, filled cardboard box. I failed it, and landed so badly that The back wheel was f*cked. At that point the scooter was pretty beat up too, so I got a new Razor A2 from eBay. It was okay, I'd preferred my 1st one though. I practised flatland one my (wheel-less) old scooter and got good at tailwhips and heelwhips, without that (now) annoying sex-change at in the middle of it. My A2 eventually snapped (coincidentalled right around the time I discovered SR which just drove me towards improvment like nothing Holy) eventualy my parents ordered me a pro model (at this point it was like last February), the pro model came months after, as thee was no shipping and the only alternative was to wait until someone I knew was going over to the States and bring it back for me. So it came 2 months later. I became very good with my quickest & best improvement rate happening and soon I was hitting the stuff I had only fantisized about before. I finally whipped that grid, over, and over and over again, I did injure myself a few times, but all in the name of progress. And so here I am, Coire Mc Crystal, cMac, better than ever, and that is my story of scootering. Thanks for reading it!
EDIT: DAMN! I was just looking at the length of this and I realise how long it is! I am sorry for the length, but I hope you all still read it!
(P.S.: I am till working on 'My World' with a zero percent progress rate and all I have right now is footage from 'BIDSR' (BEFORE I DISCOVERED SCOOTER RESOURCE, which is at the point where my riding was that of a no-tricker, but now I am infinatly better than I was at that point I'd say) And you should expect some hot stuff after summer, I'm gonna scale it down from wat I had intended it to be, but I'll try not to cut out any good concepts and Ideas.
