quiting paintball

[slade]

Fake extreme sport.

welcome to my ignore list, moron.

agreed.



and master alexander, pics please?? lol. ive known a few people that have made duct tape things, and one kid my sister was friends with made pants and a backpack. all ive made is a few wallets . but anyway, lets see your work!!!

[Glickman]

skateboarding.
the gear is cheap,
there is a style to suit everyone: downhill, longboard, street, parks/pools, vert, slalom
it is a real extreme sport, not a fake one like paintball where all you stand to suffer is some extreme craptalk from ecool teenagers on the web. and the price difference between the best and worst gear is a couple hundred bucks, not thousands. and once you have your gear you can do it for free anywhere, anytime, with others, alone whatever.

"extreme craptalk from ecool teenagers" is this pbn or is this skateboarders? i cant really figure it out

"fake one like paintball"
hmmm AO vs. this guy?

buahahhaa i see a weltman jr.


just keep skateboarding by yourself, or playing with yourself, or whatever it is that you do.

[slade]

just keep... playing with yourself

check his profile, he's probably not old enough to know how to.

[Glickman]

check his profile, he's probably not old enough to know how to.

[Gtask8]

OOOO OOOOOOO!!!! u can play guitar...or....or...watch tv..orrrr....eat....or get a gurlfriend!

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Its Trebuchet'... and there is no way any trebuchet will hit a house a mile away from you -60-90 yards, yes; a mile - no. The Ballista was the largest of the midiaeval siege engines and it could ontly throw a 60 pound payload like 400 yards -- thats was the 'big gun' of the ancient worlds. So I highly doubt your 1 mile claim. However, I do agree that midiaeval weaponry is fun to build!

i'm afraid he's right. we built a trebuchet a while back. while it really flew things, there is no way it's going to go a mile.

however, you just completely slaughtered the spelling on medievil

[Will Wood]

Its Trebuchet'... and there is no way any trebuchet will hit a house a mile away from you -60-90 yards, yes; a mile - no. The Ballista was the largest of the midiaeval siege engines and it could ontly throw a 60 pound payload like 400 yards -- thats was the 'big gun' of the ancient worlds. So I highly doubt your 1 mile claim. However, I do agree that midiaeval weaponry is fun to build!

Erm... How do you figure? If you shooting something like a pumpkin.. it can easily go hundreds of feet with just a simple small trebuchet. And yes I've seen it done.

Now a full scale trebuchet... that would be nuts. While a mile away is a bit nuts, they do have incredible range. Granted, for heavier objects, they won't gain full range, but they can hurl objects alot farther than 60-90 yards.

[lord1234]

i switched to homebrewing beer...

[MedicDVG]

"A full scale Trebuchet" as you say was displayed some time ago on the Discovery channel. Some excentric Brit lord sumthing rich built a 50 foot monster with a 3 ton counterweight. He would then hurl junked autos (amazing how many abandoned Mini's there are in Britan) and pianos about 750-800 feet. That is a HUGE trebuchet, as most midiaeval (english spelling I am afraid.. its in the dictionary) trebs were less then 15-20 feet tall and were designed for portability and mobility. They were used to hurl 20.40 pound rocks at strategic points of the battle some 300 yards or so... Ancient warefare was much more an "in your face" type of battle -- often only 250 yards or less apart and screaming at each other at the top of their lungs prior to a mad dash and then a pitched battle of hand to hand melee...

Anyway.. I invite you to check out http://www.trebuchet.com/ for lots of good information.

[Will Wood]

Ah, you mean the Nova thing? That is what I figured what was a full scale one. Guess not.


And I've already been there, and have build several trebuchets, one of them for a school project I got an A+ on

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midiaeval (english spelling I am afraid.. its in the dictionary)

well, i'm pretty sure i've just been served to the highest extent.

awesome knowledge of them, and thanks for that link. very cool