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Chaz
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greater Boss Angeles area
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Apr 15, 2016 - 10:12pm PT
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You gotta love a music video that starts with a long aerial shot of a bullring.
Here's the other ( now the only ) bullring in Tijuana:
The actual border is the fence the cars are parked against. I got the shots the day of the bullring's 50th anniversary.
I'd go see this guy and his horse:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 15, 2016 - 11:09pm PT
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Without los caballos it would very hard to deal with los toros.
Around here there are several times each year when the locals bring out their highly-trained and very valuable steeds to show them off, with choreographed steps and various tricks.
Such magnificent animals, maybe worth as much or more than the Ferdinands.
(And God rest old Ranger Ferdinand of Tioga Pass entrance station.)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 16, 2016 - 12:07am PT
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Show me more, Missouri!
How good was Rogers with a fly line?
With multiple rods?
Jeesh!
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Jim Clipper
climber
from: forests to tree farms
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Apr 16, 2016 - 12:30am PT
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maybe what I admire is that he wasn't really flashy, just exceptional
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Apr 16, 2016 - 06:45am PT
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Mr. Clipper that was really amazing thanks for posting that
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2016 - 07:03am PT
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Lynne mentioned BAJA as an interest, which she apparently shared with Erle Stanley Gardner. Funny way to spell Earle, but I guess they used their creative licenses.
Like the video this is rare
also
Off the Beaten Track in Baja
Hovering over Baja
Erle S. G and unidentified ladies at Rancho Del Paisano, able to write sans computer which was to be invented much later.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2016 - 07:15am PT
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I must point out that in Chaz' photos it is readily apparent that there is plenty of body surfing available in close proximity either in TJ or IB. Further on up the coast is the Sloughs, birthplace of California big wave riding (and respiratory illness).
Local hero Dempsey Holder, 1967 small day at the Soughs
NEXT:
Here's our neighborhood bullfighter in practice session in Lemon Grove before heading east.
No bulls were harmed in the making of this photo. The making of the horns, I can't vouch for.
And after some 61 encounters and a couple of retirements (1999, 2009) here is his take on it.
Unlike Michael Vick, he makes no apologies for his avocation and faces no incarceration on account of it. He also counts two dogs, two cats, a guinea pig and a fish as pets.
“I don't feel I really need to defend (bullfighting),” Rombold said. “It is what it is. It's been going on a long time. That doesn't make it right in a lot of eyes, but it's something that's ingrained in a lot of Latin cultures.
“I view it in a romantic aspect. Death is all around us. Yes, we do it for entertainment, to a point. But we're showing off this magnificent creature. . . . If it weren't for bullfighting, this animal might be extinct.”
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Twice, Rombold said, he has fought bulls that performed so admirably their lives were spared so that they might breed. With the others, he seeks to facilitate a warrior's end, invoking the Star Trek term “Klingon death” to convey its nobility, aiming to end it with a single sword thrust.
And Hemingway?
In “Death In The Afternoon,” first published in 1932, Ernest Hemingway approached bullfighting as art while acknowledging that, “from a modern moral point of view . . . the whole bullfight is indefensible.”
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2016 - 07:39am PT
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Next up, though technically out of alphabetic sequence:
Bowling and Bowling for dollars: It's practitioners and aficionados.
President's in the alley, he ain't got no shoes
Mouse is in the factory lookin' for the fuse
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plasticmullet
climber
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Apr 16, 2016 - 08:55am PT
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I have seen extraordinary fights at the Bullring by the Sea; I have also seen complete disasters. With respect to the former, a rejoneador from Spain was awarded two ears and a tail for his skills. He was placing Six-inch long barbs at one point. The number of times he had the bull's horns intertwined with his mount's tail hair was incredible.
Then there was the fight where a truly massive bull fought so galantly it was awarded its life.
On the flip side, a team of bull wrestlers from Fresno made a mockery of the fight. About 10 guys were supposed to line up in a row and as the bull charged, they would try and tackle the bull to a stop. I asked later and they evidently practiced by attaching a set of bull horns to a motorcycle, which they would then drive into the above mentioned line of wrestlers. The day I was there their plan of attack did not play out as expected. The lead wrestler, whose job it was to jump on the bull's head, instead jumped on a horn full charge. With every subsequent step the bull took, blood would gush from the wound. It was a horrific gore. Dude later died at the hospital.
I hope they do not ban.
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Apr 16, 2016 - 09:01am PT
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I hope they do not ban.
Thanks for weighing in. Taking a break from pulling the wings off butterflies?
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Juan Maderita
Trad climber
"OBcean" San Diego, CA
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Apr 16, 2016 - 12:02pm PT
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zBrown,
Thanks for your post on Rombold. Interesting, as I grew up in Chula Vista and went to the same high school (some years later). Brought back my childhood recollections of watching him bullfight in Tecate. Peter was a teenager, dreaming of becoming a matador.
Your mention of the slough was interesting too. I frequently bodysurfed the Tijuana Slough/Boca Rio around 1968-1970. Somehow survived the runoff from the Tijuana River!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 16, 2016 - 02:09pm PT
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say hey Juan.
Pete lived right near First and J St. and around the corner was another guy who lived a good life and then a couple of years ago decided to jump off the Coronado Bridge, not far from all the murals he was so instrumental in getting restored.
If you're out there in OB, say hey to Marudas and watch out for those OB Longhorns.
"Nothing good ever lasts", eh.
http://obhotel.com/ocean-beach-web-cam
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tuolumne_tradster
Trad climber
Leading Edge of North American Plate
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Apr 19, 2016 - 09:38pm PT
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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Apr 20, 2016 - 07:08am PT
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That Will Rodgers roping video was amazing!
Bullfighting in this age is a celebration of stupidity and cruelty. What's worse is that even if the population of many regions of Spain is solidly against it, the Ministry of "Culture" keeps trying to force it down our throats.
Tax euros supporting keeping arenas that are only 10% full running so that corrupt politicans can go out with their mistresses, and so that tourists who have taken Hemingway too much to heart can get a "taste of the real Spain".
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overwatch
climber
Arizona
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Apr 20, 2016 - 07:37am PT
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so that corrupt politicians can go out with their mistresses, and so that tourists who have taken Hemingway too much to heart can get a "taste of the real Spain".
If only they could gird themselves to emulate his chosen departure
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