Originally Posted by ShellyCrash

It's an ausie thing mostly. You try to make your body stiff as a board and balance on one or two points, the more difficult the position the more public the place the more points / cred the poser gets.

I really don't find it that interesting but for the most part it's pretty harmless. I think as with anything there are always going to be a few people short on brain cells that are going to take it too far, doing it on top of buildings, signs and in the roads... but in a way it's kind of like natural selection.