How to fall off a roof and not die

I will keep in mind those 2 Lessons if I ever take a long fall ;-)
 

Re: being graceful as you fall ...

I was on a picnic once at a state park in New York - it was a combination of family, extended family and friends - maybe 50 people.

We were playing with a Frisbee, maybe 4 of us in a big circle. I was about 16 years old, already an accomplished Frisbee player. I thought I would impress everyone with my patented "Jump/Spin/Catch Frisbee Between Legs" move - it always brought oohs and ahs from the crowd.

So I start chanting "Watch me! Watch me!" over and over, until I got so annoying that everyone - EVERYONE - was watching.

The throw came at the perfect height, and I started my move to jump and spin. Unfortunately I hadn't factored in the slippery grass that still had dew on it from the morning.

People later spoke in hushed tones about how I started to rise in the air like an eagle, then slipped on the grass and did a complete revolution in the air and landed on my back, the Frisbee lazily passing over my prone body. I knocked the air out of myself, so when the one or two people who weren't laughing hysterically came to my aid, all I could say was "Woof ... woooof .... ughn ....".

Later retellings of the incident had me as some sort of teenaged Baryshnikov, gracefully pirouetting several times in slow motion.
 
SifuPhil said:
Re: being graceful as you fall ...

I was on a picnic once at a state park in New York - it was a combination of family, extended family and friends - maybe 50 people.

We were playing with a Frisbee, maybe 4 of us in a big circle. I was about 16 years old, already an accomplished Frisbee player. I thought I would impress everyone with my patented "Jump/Spin/Catch Frisbee Between Legs" move - it always brought oohs and ahs from the crowd.

So I start chanting "Watch me! Watch me!" over and over, until I got so annoying that everyone - EVERYONE - was watching.

The throw came at the perfect height, and I started my move to jump and spin. Unfortunately I hadn't factored in the slippery grass that still had dew on it from the morning.

People later spoke in hushed tones about how I started to rise in the air like an eagle, then slipped on the grass and did a complete revolution in the air and landed on my back, the Frisbee lazily passing over my prone body. I knocked the air out of myself, so when the one or two people who weren't laughing hysterically came to my aid, all I could say was "Woof ... woooof .... ughn ....".

Later retellings of the incident had me as some sort of teenaged Baryshnikov, gracefully pirouetting several times in slow motion.
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*resting an empathetic hand on your shoulder*
The hardest thing about those screw-ups is reliving them.
 

Wrigley's said:
*resting an empathetic hand on your shoulder*
The hardest thing about those screw-ups is reliving them.
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Well, that's usually true, but I embellish them a bit ...

Fire streamed from my eyes as I rose in the air. All of the people - as well as most of the wildlife in the area - froze with amazement as I effortlessly executed "The Philly Phlop". Landing like the God of Thunder, shaking the land for miles around as lightning bolts blazed from my leather-clad feet ...
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Wrigley's said:
Luckily (for the artist) it's not my tat.
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Thank goodness Wrigley's! :eek: When I first saw your avatar, I thought to myself.....oh, no....a tattoo nightmare! :D I've seen so many bad tats on that show it's amazing, and lots of them are just misspelling by the artist, which would infuriate me! I like when they joke on the tattoo shows with someone before they see the tattoo and say something like, 'you must really love Matt.....when the girl wanted Mike in her tattoo, the reaction is priceless. :playful:
 
I started watching that show, pretty good the ones I watched, but lately the re-enactment bits are intolerable for me. I like Ink Masters better. Check out the bad tat I posted earlier in this thread.

And here's another ....
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He looks so proud.
 
Wrigley's said:
Lesson 1: have a ladder sitting right where you're going to fall
Lesson 2: swearing saves lives

And it could have looked a lot worse. :bi_polo: < that could have been my face afterward.
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I fell off a 20 foot extension ladder!!!! Fortunately I was on the first rung!!
 
And who else can't get enough of the Tasmanian Devil?

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or a humongous spider on their face?

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