Past Gymnastics Message Board Memories- Which was your first message board?

[Sasha]

@irichluck21 @JoseM

Maybe it's okay to confess now that I chose that name to irritate people. LOL

I bet it was effective!

 

[rlayt]

@irichluck21 @JoseM I totally forgot my user name was Gogean on OOBNess.

Maybe it's okay to confess now that I chose that name to irritate people. LOL

It really triggered some people.

 

[irichluck21]

Yes. GGMB even named their closed thread forum "Dead Gina".

 

[irichluck21]

I was on OOBN but have very little memory of specific users, aside from Skitch, a woman named Peridot who was really into Blaine Wilson and reminds me a bit of kitty from IGF, and Rick Perrozzi, whose son was Atler's webmaster (we exchanged VHS tapes). I don't even remember my own username.

I met Periodt at the 2000 Olympic Trials, I was second seats from the floor in the corner by beam and parallel bars. She was behind me with her mother. I was a budding photographer as at the time I was the Photo Lab Supervisor at my local CVS while I was starting college. I happened to grab a picture of Blaine shirtless. This was back before digital photography and I used a 35 mm film (which is making a comeback!!).
I traveled from Boston back to CT each night of trials because I had to work in the AM. I was able to get my film developed and brought the pictures back for women's finals. She was obsessed with the Blaine Wilson picture, so I gave her the copy I had.
LOL.
We exchanged emails but kinda lost touch after that. I wonder what happened to her.

 

[eanda]

Maybe it's okay to confess now that I chose that name to irritate people. LOL

I wouldn't say it irritated me, but I was always baffled that anyone would seem to like her enough to use her name.

This was back before digital photography and I used a 35 mm film (which is making a comeback!!).

I've been thinking about getting some film and pulling out my old camera. Even with the basics of composition, settings, etc. being the same, I feel like film after all of these years will just be a much more deliberate process for me.

 

[RedBirdie]

There is a user here by the name of Peridot.

 

[RichardL]

I attended every U.S. Nationals from 2000-2003, and I remember meeting a poster named danafan (OOBN I believe, then GGMB?) who I became friends with. Then @Denn and I met in NYC in adult gymnastics classes and attended at least one American Cup together (maybe two? lol what is memory) as well as the 2007 Nationals in San Jose. I haven't really attended meets in person since then, though... now I'm realizing I miss it as I think back.

 

[Sasha]

There is a user here by the name of Peridot.

I could be wrong, but they don't seem like the same person to me.

Re: danafan, I remember a danafan from a slightly later era - like 2010-2014ish? I assumed they were the same as the older danafan. To the best of my memory, he was Canadian, yes?

 

[RedBirdie]

I haven't thought of Danafan in years.

 

[RichardL]

yes, Canadian! I don't go on FB anymore but I just checked and he's still active there and still a fan of the sport. He finally came out and seems to be living his best life.

 

[RedBirdie]

I'm glad to hear that. I chatted with him fairly frequently in the early 2000s.

Do I remember correctly that he had one of the rare VHS copies of Olomouc? Or do I have him confused with a different knowledgeable, prolific male poster?

 

[eanda]

I'm glad to hear that. I chatted with him fairly frequently in the early 2000s.

Do I remember correctly that he had one of the rare VHS copies of Olomouc? Or do I have him confused with a different knowledgeable, prolific male poster?

It was danafan. He was the first one I know who shared it publicly.