[manimal]

Per request, i've started a comprehensive Lil' Manimal Pic Thread.

the pics are not necessarily in chronilogical order but the older ones are obvious because he's on the little red 12" bike. they're also dated by which helmet he's wearing too

i didn't realize how many pics there are of him in my photobucket account so if you're still on dial-up...i hate it for ya.

i'll break these up over a few posts.


fire truck gap

stair gap/drop

drop

first attempt and “shore”

…….

first teeter (on a 2x4!)

first skinny

learning the DS course

flying over table/double

bermed…the early years

father son flight

early ramp stuff on the full squish

sporting the ridemonkey hat

 

[manimal]

bermed

NBR….first fish

testing out newer, but too big bike

launching a steep hip

hip

southern education

first drop that started it all July ’04, 4yrs old

posing after first true trail ride w/ dad

first trail ride

post crash motivational hug/speech

first wall drop

drop

first race team shirt Aug ‘05

winning first race

first DS race medal

in the berm

pre-first DH run at Sugar Mtn

 

[manimal]

mulch jump

beating up Ronald mcdonald

6pack small bike

stair drop

steep dj

skinny ledge to drop

gas station kicker

Gap over kid

stepdown

stairs old

best shot ever…4yrs old

first stair set

stairs at a sheriff’s department

first BIG set of stairs

stair drop to ramp

ouch!

 

[bikenweed]

Nice, he's feeling the stoke for sure.






Except for maybe that last one.

 

[jdcamb]

Cool stuff! Thanks

 

[escapeartist]

Great stuff Tubby. I'm glad to have been present for some of those.

 

[jimmydean]

Those are great! Can't wait to see him on the new ride next week.

 

[GumbaFish]

Dude I never saw that pic of the teeter before, excuse the expression but that is rad!

 

[Squeaver]

Wow, that is awesome. I can't wait to have a son so I can get him into stuff like that. Badass. He is much better than I am.

Parker

 

[spincrazy]

he needs his own website

 

[dhkid]

wow, he can launch drops so he lands on both wheels pretty much even.
and just to think, today lil ripper, in a few years whooping our asses.

 

[dump]

Great shots mang! Dunno 'bout that gun though!

 

[elRey]

steeze

(that kids getting it)

 

[GiantRider]

Great shots! Hes got good style too.

 

[manimal]

Great shots mang! Dunno 'bout that gun though!

it served it's purpose. he used to ask to see my guns/play with them all the time. then i took him out to shoot and he saw first hand how powerful and dangerous they are....he hasn't asked to see them since. he'll be much less likely to pull one of those "hey, check out my dad's gun" tricks with his friends. he knows better and knows what they can do.

 

[manimal]

more from the south forum

 

[dump]

it served it's purpose. he used to ask to see my guns/play with them all the time. then i took him out to shoot and he saw first hand how powerful and dangerous they are....he hasn't asked to see them since. he'll be much less likely to pull one of those "hey, check out my dad's gun" tricks with his friends. he knows better and knows what they can do.

makes sense

 

[antimony]

that was such an awesome collection of pics! he is amazing... i still get sick just looking at the one where he fell on his face... what a tough guy!

 

[Bicyclist]

Damn. Impressive.

 

[TreeSaw]

I've said it before and I am sure I'll say it again...'Lil Manimal ROCKS!!!

 

[manimal]

an action shot of him on the, slightly large for him, new bike.

 

[hooples3]

awesome!!! i can see pics of him over and over!!!

 

[BAH]

very cool. Get a journal for this!

http://www.blogspot.com
http://www.wordpress.com

 

[sanjuro]

Hey, you on the 50! Get off my jumps!

 

[maxyedor]

I've said it before and I am sure I'll say it again...'Lil Manimal ROCKS!!!

Ya he owns 'Lil TreeSaw!

I vote for a sticky on this thread.

 

[manimal]

more action shots from today. i think i'm gonna take it back to mike and let him rig something to stiffen up the fork. he doesn't have enough rebound to keep his front end up.

these pics are from his first 2 jumps today before he realized that he didn't have to go so fast. i'll have to spread the ramps out again like i did a while back on his other bike.

 

[manimal]

lol!!! i just noticed this pic. he figured out that he had to slow down a lot to make the tranny.....but check the cheerleaders in the background

 

[moff_quigley]

pre-first DH run at Sugar Mtn

Does Lil'Manimal take karate or some other martial art? I bet he would be an awesome student. Most kids (in my limited experience) his age aren't into it and it can be frustrating.

Why isn't this thread a sticky??????

 

[mcA896]

What the hell. Your kid is awesome.

 

[manimal]

Does Lil'Manimal take karate or some other martial art? I bet he would be an awesome student. Most kids (in my limited experience) his age aren't into it and it can be frustrating.

Why isn't this thread a sticky??????

He took martial arts last summer but opted for gymnastics through the year. for roughly the same price per month he gets twice the time at gymnastics and it's much more physcially challenging to him. he mentioned doing martial arts again this summer but quickly recanted when we told him he'd have to choose between that and gymnastics.
besides, my wife works at the gym now so we get a killer discount

he and i fight/wrestle enough that he gets some good defensive tactics instruction

 

[manimal]

very cool. Get a journal for this!

http://www.blogspot.com
http://www.wordpress.com

i've never gotten into the whole blog thing. is it just like a e-journal or something? can you post pics in it?

 

[Changleen]

Stick with the Gymnastics!

 

[mud'n'sweat]

Yeah, you gotta get a lilmanimal.com site going. I never get tired of seeing his pic's

 

[manimal]

Yeah, you gotta get a lilmanimal.com site going. I never get tired of seeing his pic's

ciaran hooked me up with one and i had a buddy that was supposed to get it up and running (i am clueless when it comes to web design).......but it never really happened.

 

[bikenweed]

it served it's purpose. he used to ask to see my guns/play with them all the time. then i took him out to shoot and he saw first hand how powerful and dangerous they are....he hasn't asked to see them since. he'll be much less likely to pull one of those "hey, check out my dad's gun" tricks with his friends. he knows better and knows what they can do.

Good call, I wish my parents had done something similar with booze and drugs, I'd be a much healthier person if I had learned about the "joys" of life earlier and had more respect for them than I do now.

Oh, btw, I think you might need to take him shooting more than once. When I was 7 or 8 a buddy's dad took us shooting one day, and it just progressed into us stealing the guns whenever he wasn't home and shooting everything in sight. It was our favorite hobby, but we never got to really practice it! We both learned how to load and put in fresh CO2 canisters that day, and ever since, no rabbit/bird/tree/fish/deer has ever been safe within a half mile radius of his house.

 

[dante]

Good call, I wish my parents had done something similar with booze and drugs, I'd be a much healthier person if I had learned about the "joys" of life earlier and had more respect for them than I do now.

dunno, if my parents had "introduced me" to booze and drugs at age 4 I might not have been the same now... :looney: :teacher:

 

[stephanie]

W-O-W!!! Your son is awesome! (he also makes me feel like a no-talent-hack)! Seriously...he rocks!!

 

[erastusboy]

I have been watching these threads for a long time (dont really post alot). Have you thought about getting a hook up from a company. It seems like that would be great publicity to have a tiny little shredder like that ripping it up, but that might make it all serious and stuff and he might get burnt out. Whatever still cool as h***

 

[Konabumm]

these are freaking great, I hope to have a post like this in a few years

 

[manimal]

xpost from the ride-reports forum

we had a great *first-trailride-on-new-bike* ride this week. he's gotten very comfortable with the gears and hand brake and is even jumping the large new bike very well....smooooth is the word