Express Action Sports

Everyone seems to have goals or things they enjoy. Things they work for and things that make hard work seem worth it. My life has been one trauma after another and I fell into a deep depression where I’ve been for years. My apathy seems to know no bounds. When I ask advice on how to live, what to do, what my career should be, what my motivation should be etc, I get the same advice. Find what your interested in and do it. I should work to make myself happy and do things I enjoy. I’ve been trying but nothing has broken the barrier. I couldn’t find anything I liked to study in college and I decided to just try and pick something so I could get a degree. After 3 years of college, I just didn’t care about what I was studying even though I tried classes in nearly every department my school offered. I even transfered and nothing changed. I left school on a medical leave hoping the time to myself would help me discover what I really wanted. Nope.
I’ve tried picking up hobbies, all of which give out less pleasure in the ratio of work/pleasure. I have no reason to leave my house anymore. I could go get a partime job working at McDonalds or something but I luckily don’t need the money and I can’t exactly see how that would be pleasurable experience. I’ve thought about traveling but I don’t really care about about seeing sites. Some people have suggested to find a girlfriend or even just get laid. I’m asexual and that really doesn’t appeal to me. I medically am not allowed to drink alcohol, so night life is mediocre at best. Besides, I’m not trying to get laid and I hate loud music. This also gets me thinking long term. I’m pretty sure due to my asexuality that I’m not getting married and if I had a kid, I would have to adopt because I’m physically sterile as well as having to raise the child as a single father. That’s just depressing to think about.
Action Sports intrest me a bit, and I have been trying to learn to surf for a year now but I’m still not that good. I also don’t live that close to a beach that I can do it daily. I do like to ski and I am good since I’ve been doing it since I was 6, but the closest mountain is 5 hours away and it can get expensive. Plus, I have no one to go with. I wanted to get into skydiving, and went twice already, but its too expensive. Other than that, I have nothing. I sleep, eat, and work out 6 days a week and spend the rest of my time on the internet, watching tv, or something else that can distract me until bed.
Yes, I am on the sidelines. I took myself out of the game when I left college. No point in participating in a game that you don’t enjoy. A victory in a game is meaningless if you don’t even want it. I’m trying to find reasons to enjoy it or find another game that I will enjoy.

One cannot win the race unless he’s a participant. Sounds like you’re on the sidelines.

Im looking for a Piranha USP pistol. everywhere i go, it is either sold out or no longer available.

ps: I am looking for a new one, so i dont want to buy from ebay or craiglist.

Piranha is no longer it’s own stand-alone company. It’s owned by Kee Action Sports, as is Spyder – a long time competitor of Piranha’s. The USP pistols are no longer being manufactured. Please reference the following website for more information on Kee’s current paintball marker offerings:

http://keeactionsports.com/

I’m possibly attending Camp Woodward this summer and I’m trying to figure out which camera I should buy for their Video Production camp. We film for Action Sports (specifically skateboarding and BMX), so if anyone who is perhaps a former Woodward camper or skateboard edit filmer, please help me!!!!!
I want a camera that’s going to last me for a long time, and something with HD, and hopefully not used. I have a price limit of about $3,000, but I can make my budget fit around it.
Thanks.
Also, I’m not looking for a GoPro right now, but if you’d give me any advice about that, it’d help.

GoPro would be the way to go.

Never been too big a fan of this genre aside from ssx, and i’m trying to get into it. I put the Action Sports game at a higher priority than just sport games though. Any suggestions to get me started.

Play sports in real life and you’ll be K.

Will you get weird looks if your younger and are just into Motocross of they are? Or is it all good?

Quote:

"The X Games is a commercial annual sports event, controlled and arranged by Disney-owned US sports broadcaster ESPN, which focuses on extreme Action Sports intended for Generation X and Generation Y viewers. The games started in 1995."

Does that mean that group of people strictly? Or can younger people enjoy the games as well?

Thanks.

No, but the sports in X-Games do cater to younger viewers. That’s a very important demographic for advertisers to reach, so they support the games. If X-Games was of little interest and no one watched it would fail, due to the lack of commercial support.

My son is a paintball fanatic and is doing a report/biography on Ollie Lang. We are having a hard time finding info about him. We’d like a book that tells about him and details about his life, history of his playing paintball, etc.

There are no books about Oliver Lang.

The best resources are listed on his Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lang

1. ^ Spohrer, Patrick, ed. (March 27, 2005), Cereal Killerz, Monkey with a Gun (published 2005)
2. ^ Spohrer, Patrick (March 27, 2005), Spohrer, Patrick, ed., Cereal Killerz, Monkey with a Gun, 2005
3. ^ Pro Paintball Phenomenon Oliver Lang Signs with Action Sports Firm. headstronginteractive.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-27.
http://www.headstronginteractive.com/press.php?pressid=5

4. ^ Shafer, Jacob: Paintball Player Oliver Lang, Retrieved on May 10, 2007
http://www.pacificsun.com/story_archives/action_paintball.html

5. ^ a b Williams, Christian. Oliver Lang goes to Dye & the Ironmen, Retrieved on May 10, 2007
http://www.paintballstar.com/pn/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=27&page_id=478

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Also, he has a website

http://www.ollielang.com/

Good luck!

My son is a paintball fanatic and is doing a report/biography on Ollie Lang. We are having a hard time finding info about him. We’d like a book that tells about him and details about his life, history of his playing paintball, etc.

There are no books about Oliver Lang.

The best resources are listed on his Wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Lang

1. ^ Spohrer, Patrick, ed. (March 27, 2005), Cereal Killerz, Monkey with a Gun (published 2005)
2. ^ Spohrer, Patrick (March 27, 2005), Spohrer, Patrick, ed., Cereal Killerz, Monkey with a Gun, 2005
3. ^ Pro Paintball Phenomenon Oliver Lang Signs with Action Sports Firm. headstronginteractive.com. Retrieved on 2007-06-27.
http://www.headstronginteractive.com/press.php?pressid=5

4. ^ Shafer, Jacob: Paintball Player Oliver Lang, Retrieved on May 10, 2007
http://www.pacificsun.com/story_archives/action_paintball.html

5. ^ a b Williams, Christian. Oliver Lang goes to Dye & the Ironmen, Retrieved on May 10, 2007
http://www.paintballstar.com/pn/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&topic_id=27&page_id=478

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Also, he has a website

http://www.ollielang.com/

Good luck!

Im more into the Action Sports games but alot of the times they end up being huge wastes of money and im unsure as to if shawn whites pro snowborder will be a waste of my money? will the graphics just be typical for ps2 games or better?

The graphcis look like typical PS2 graphics, the game is fun though.

Its better than SSX.

I ask because I have just bought PES 2008 (pc edition) but my controller which I bought from GAME doesn’t use the regular buttons to operate the game e.g X is for through ball.

Will I have more sucess with a Xbox controller?

Yes, the Xbox 360 controller can be used in Windows (XP SP2 or later, incl. Vista).

The connector for a Wired XBox 360 controller is a standard USB 2.0 connector and can be plugged in and will be recognised by Plug & Play (Windows Update will install the latest drivers the next time you run it).

For an Xbox 360 Wireless controller you need a ‘Receiver’ – basically a USB Dongle that plugs into your PC to communicate correctly with XBox Wireless Equipment.

Most newer PC action / sports games (and all Games for Windows titles) should have support for the XBox 360 Controller Layout. I believe PES 2008 has a controller profile already for the the Controller.

Older Games that you can ‘remap’ your Controller can be used to remap to buttons on the XBox Controller – but some of the buttons (e.g. the Triggers) may not be possible to assign to functions.

Microsoft do sell a packaged "XBox 360 Controller for Windows" – but this is just a bog standard XBox 360 controller with the Windows drivers on CD – just buying a standard 360 controller and plugging it in, then going to Windows Update does the same thing – and is much easier to find.

I’m a graphic designer looking for work in the Action Sports industry (Quiksilver, Volcom, Nixon, etc…). I’ve been looking for work as a Creative Director or Marketing Director but am concerned about this industry (highly competitive, high turn-over rate…) Malakye.com seems pretty useless too. Can anyone share their experiences working in this field?

Have you considered sports marketing? I hear it is a fascinating industry.