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Originally Posted by Halcyon
I was gonna ask what you thought of the film "murderball." I loved it and found it inspiring....but I would guess your perspective might be different. What did you think?
btw, this thread is awesome. The nuggests of wisdom hidden inbetween penis questions are golden.
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I am glad someone gets the nuggets
To me murderball was about type A jocks who are now in wheelchairs. It was inspirational in its own ways. It also showed how some may over compensate or even make the able bodied feel disabled around them. Does that even make sense?
I have tried assorted sports but was never super into them. They are brutal and "we" seem to have zero sympathy for each other. My last sport attempt was water skiing and I will tell every one know that I will fucking never ever do that again. For those that are not to familiar with a handicapped water ski. It is a device the marque de sade would of been proud to call his own. It is effectively a snowboard type device with a rudder, on top of this is a metal chair or sorts that you loop your feet into to secure yourself to the ski. Sounds simple enough of course.
Now you must somehow keep the tip of the board well above the water line when the boat takes off. Not an easy task to say the least since the whole board and your life jacket is buoyant. If you do not you will end up doing what happened to me. The boat takes off, my ski temporarily dipped into a wave about by two inches and well I was on a one way trip to the bottom of the damn lake at an incredible speed. Same principle that keeps you on top of the water makes you a great diving submarine.
Assuming you ever do get to where you are on top of the water and doing what you are set out to do, ski. For the love of all things sacred do not and I repeat do not crash. It is one thing to crash when you are doing this able bodied style, now try to imagine you are in a near fetal position and very attached to a board when you crash. I think it would be the same feeling one would get if you were in a kayak sitting side ways on the side of a steep hill and someone pulled you down the face of it.