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1. Set up with your back foot in the ollie position. Anywhere on the tail is pretty much good, I put my foot on the tip for some pop. Some put it way on the side. Now for the front foot, there are a couple places. I like to put it right in the middle and a little slanted, but some tend to put it just below the front bolts and angled. Just experiment to find what is right for you. Make sure to have your front foot on the board a ways, you want to have everything on except your heel, and then you can angle your foot. |
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'''John Caesar''' ([[1764]] – [[February 15]], [[1796]]), nicknamed "Black Caesar", was the first [[Australia|Australian]] [[bushranger]] and one of the first [[Blacks|black people]] to arrive during British colonization of the continent as a [[penal colony]]. |
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2. Pop the tail and slide your front foot up like an ollie, but instead flick it off the dip where the nose starts. Remember, its a flick with more of your toe than anything. While your flicking it off the top you wanna lift up your back leg so the board can flip. If you don't the result is the board wont flip right. |
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Caesar was a [[slave]] on a sugar plantation in his early life, most likely born in the [[West Indies]] around [[1764]]. At some point he was able to run away and reach [[London]]. |
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3. This part gets some people stumped. "I land before the board does!!" well this is where you gotta JUMP! Make sure to jump!!!!!!! |
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On [[March 17]], [[1786]], he was tried at Deptford, Kent for stealing 240 shillings. His sentence was transportation to Australia for seven years. He left on the [[Alexander (ship)|Alexander]], a convict transport ship in the [[First Fleet]], in May 1787 and arrived in [[Botany Bay]] in January [[1788]]. |
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4. Now lets go freeze frame. Your in the air and your board is flipping under you. A half second more and your gonna land and complain about only landing one foot. No more of this. Back to the freeze frame, after you flicked your foot out and you have your back foot up, you wanna bring back your front foot and bring down your back foot. Simple, but for many that is a problem. If your foot hits the board while your bringing it back, bring it back faster and jump a little higher. |
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On [[April 29]], [[1789]] he was tried for theft, to which he resorted presumably due to the scarcity of food in the newly established colony. He took to the bush a fortnight later, reportedly with some provisions, an iron pot, and a musket stolen from a marine named Abraham Hand. A dearth of game prevented him from sustaining himself however, and he began to steal food on the outskirts of the settlement. On 26 May he helped himself to a brickmaking gang's rations on [[Brickfield Hill]] and was nearly caught. On the night of June the 6th he tried to steal food from Zachariah Clark, the "house of the colony's assistant commissary for stores", and was caught by a convict named Wm. Saltmarsh. |
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In July 1789, [[David Collins (governor)|David Collins]], the colony's Judge-Advocate, wrote: <blockquote>This man was always reputed the hardest working convict in the colony; his frame was muscular and well calculated for hard labour; but in his intellects he did not very widely differ from a brute; his appetite was ravenous, for he would in any one day devour the full rations for two days. To gratify this appetite he was compelled to steal from others, and all his thefts were directed to that purpose.</blockquote> |
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Possible problem: I only land with my back foot. |
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Caesar was described by Collins after his first recapture as a "wretch" who was "so indifferent about meeting death, that he declared while in confinement, that if he should be hanged, he would create a laugh before he was turned off, by playing off some trick upon the executioner". Governor [[Arthur Phillip]] however, took advantage of Casear's potential as a labourer and had him sent to [[Garden Island, New South Wales|Garden Island]], where he would work in fetters and be provided with vegetables. There he showed good behavior and as a result was eventually allowed to work without iron shackles. |
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Remedy: Remember to bring it back, but sometimes you're just scared to land it. So grow some balls and just stomp it down. |
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Nevertheless, it didn't take long for Caesar to abscond again; on [[December 22]] he ran away from the island with a week's worth of food by canoe. On the night of the 25th he was able to procure a [[musket]], and survived for a few days by robbing gardens and taking the food of [[Australian Aborigines|Aboriginals]] after frightening them away with his gun. At one point he lost his gun in a garden at [[Rose Hill, New South Wales|Rose Hill]], and was subsequently attacked by natives, leaving him wounded in several places. He turned himself in on the 31st to an Officer on Rose Hill. |
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On March 6, 1790, Caesar was transported to [[Norfolk Island]] after receiving another pardon from Phillip. He returned to Sydney in [[1793]], and began stealing from the farms and huts on the outskirts of the towns again. He was apprehended and then flogged to little effect, declaring "all that would not make him better." |
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Caesar later became a hero for capturing [[Pemulwuy]], an Aboriginal who had launched a [[guerilla war]] against the British colonists. |
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In [[1795]] he ran away for the last time, forming a gang of runaways in the process. On [[January 29]], [[1796]], a reward of five gallons of rum was offered by Governor [[John Hunter (New South Wales)|John Hunter]] for his capture. Despite almost daily reports of missing property, he was able to evade capture until [[February 15]], when a man named Wimbow, who had been pursuing him with a partner for days, found him in an area of thick brush called Liberty Plains (near what is now the Concord/Strathfield area of Sydney) and shot him. Caesar was taken to the house of Rose and died a few hours later. |
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By some accounts, a man named William Blakehurst first captured Caesar without struggle and was given the reward. Blakehurst then went on a drinking spree with some friends, which ended with him lodging an axe into one of their skulls, resulting in him having a similar reward placed on his head. In another version of the story, Caesar ran away again and was finally caught and shot by one Wimbow. |
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== References == |
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http://www.convictcreations.com/history/caesare.htm |
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http://fmpro.uow.edu.au/FirstFleet/FMPro?-db=ff.fp3&-format=detail.htm&-recid=113&-find |
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http://cedir.uow.edu.au/programs/FirstFleet/s_caesar.html |
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http://www.nedkellysworld.com.au/bushrangers/caesar_j.htm |
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Possible problem: I only land with my front foot. |
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[[Category:Australian criminals|Caesar, John]] |
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Remedy: You have to make a clean level flip so that when you bring down your back foot, it goes right onto the bolts. Sometimes its just because you dont bring up your back foot straight, and it goes out and all over the place, and you don't land anywhere near with your back foot. Just remember that it has to go straight up. |
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[[Category:Australian outlaws|Caesar, John]] |
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[[Category:Australian people of African descent|Caesar, John]] |
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[[Category:Bushrangers|Caesar, John]] |
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[[Category:Convicts transported to Australia|Caesar, John]] |
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[[Category:Deaths by firearm|Caesar, John]] |
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[[Category:Slaves|Caesar, John]] |
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[[Category:1764 births|Caesar, John]] |
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[[Category:1796 deaths|Caesar, John]] |
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Revision as of 06:19, 11 March 2007
1. Set up with your back foot in the ollie position. Anywhere on the tail is pretty much good, I put my foot on the tip for some pop. Some put it way on the side. Now for the front foot, there are a couple places. I like to put it right in the middle and a little slanted, but some tend to put it just below the front bolts and angled. Just experiment to find what is right for you. Make sure to have your front foot on the board a ways, you want to have everything on except your heel, and then you can angle your foot.
2. Pop the tail and slide your front foot up like an ollie, but instead flick it off the dip where the nose starts. Remember, its a flick with more of your toe than anything. While your flicking it off the top you wanna lift up your back leg so the board can flip. If you don't the result is the board wont flip right.
3. This part gets some people stumped. "I land before the board does!!" well this is where you gotta JUMP! Make sure to jump!!!!!!!
4. Now lets go freeze frame. Your in the air and your board is flipping under you. A half second more and your gonna land and complain about only landing one foot. No more of this. Back to the freeze frame, after you flicked your foot out and you have your back foot up, you wanna bring back your front foot and bring down your back foot. Simple, but for many that is a problem. If your foot hits the board while your bringing it back, bring it back faster and jump a little higher.
Possible problem: I only land with my back foot. Remedy: Remember to bring it back, but sometimes you're just scared to land it. So grow some balls and just stomp it down.
Possible problem: I only land with my front foot. Remedy: You have to make a clean level flip so that when you bring down your back foot, it goes right onto the bolts. Sometimes its just because you dont bring up your back foot straight, and it goes out and all over the place, and you don't land anywhere near with your back foot. Just remember that it has to go straight up.