Sunday, March 05, 2006

Extreme Aerobatics

Ever wonder what it'd be like to hop into a vehicle while in freefall just like James Bond? Well, Squirrelett introduced me to this fun sport back during the There Games and tonight qgon and I went and had some fun experimenting with it. In fact, qgon improved upon the original technique.
Basically, the idea is to drop a buggy from really high up then follow it down on a freestyle board, possibly doing aerobatic stunts on the way down. You fall much quicker if you nose down with the board and, when you reach the buggy, you are hopefully close enough that you can jump in. qgon wasn't satisfied with this random pot luckness of it all and discovered that if you fall whilst on a cruiser board you can actually control where you're headed! Later on, Buff_God shrugged this off as if it were common knowledge. Well, nobody told me!!
Now, I've done this a couple times before but qgon hasn't and so it took him a few leaps to get his technique down. Until then, he was bouncing off the buggy like it was a trampoline! In the end, he figured it all out though.


Jon Quixote was There.

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