Last week I decided to get out my climbing gear and set up a slack line between two trees in the Quad here at UW so that one of my buddies and I could see how hard it was.<\/p>\n
It was very VERY hard.<\/p>\n
Over the course of probably about an hour and a half, I managed to be able to balance on it for a a total of four seconds at a time. I was pretty happy with that.<\/p>\n
My buddy only managed a max of about half a second of contiguous balancing. That was, of course, after he decided to do something stupid. After I told him not to, and that it was ludicrously stupid, he decided to try and to a handstand on the slack line. The even sillier thing? He can’t do a handstand on solid ground. So he goes for it, does about half a cartwheel, and then buckles and falls on his side, on his arm, which knocks the wind out of him, and I can’t help but laugh.<\/p>\n
That’s the horrible thing about those situations, you make sure they’re mostly ok, and then you laugh your head off at them. Gasping for air, between rolls of laughter, I attempted a few times to get out an “I’m sorry!” or an “Are you O.K.?” It barely worked.<\/p>\n
By any means, he survived, and decided afterward that it was a really stupid idea, and he would definitely not attempt that again.<\/p>\n
Ah, the fun of a slack line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week I decided to get out my climbing gear and set up a slack line between two trees in the Quad here at UW so that one of my buddies and I could see how hard it was. It … Continue reading