And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
This reminds me of diving board at Del Mar High School in San Jose California, in order to pass swim lessons the instructor dropped a 5 pound rubber brick into the 12 foot deep pool, you had to jump off the very top and grab the brick and bring the brick back up.
Old video clip on Youtube from American Bandstand. In the comments about it all the guys were marveling at girls with no tats, no weird hair colors, and no weird outfits. They were asking where they could get a time machine.
For several summers in the 60's, I was a lifeguard at a local lake in Colorado. We had a one level tower with a slide. The tower was located at the edge of a steep ledge that started a pretty deep part of the lake. Kids would wade out to the tower and go off the slide thinking that they could touch the bottom after landing on the water. SURPRISE!!! We pulled a lot of non-swimmers out of the deep water.
In my early twenties I was standing on Malibu pier (wife #1 was a California girl) and saw a surfer crash head first into a piling. The whole time I'm dragging him out (I'm in no way a lifeguard btw, or was ever close to being a decent swimmer) he's thrashing and yelling about his board.
"Dude you're gonna ding my board!"
I can't picture the kid anymore but that line still rings in my head when I think about it and still makes me laugh.
When I was a skinny 13 year old I dove off a high board like that. After climbing up there I wasn't going to climb back down so I dove in head first. It was a good dive, but I lost my swim trunks going in. Luckily I spotted them floating a short distance away, but not before several seconds of sheer panic.
I once did a bellyflop 45 ft off the wheelhouse of an offshore tug near Key West on a hundred dollar bet!
ReplyDeleteYou know....young, dumb and full of.....well you know,..... but hey easy hundred!
This reminds me of diving board at Del Mar High School in San Jose California, in order to pass swim lessons the instructor dropped a 5 pound rubber brick into the 12 foot deep pool, you had to jump off the very top and grab the brick and bring the brick back up.
ReplyDeleteWhen was this? Notice the chicks on the base and first level, all svelte and tat free.
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DeleteOld video clip on Youtube from American Bandstand. In the comments about it all the guys were marveling at girls with no tats, no weird hair colors, and no weird outfits. They were asking where they could get a time machine.
DeleteFor several summers in the 60's, I was a lifeguard at a local lake in Colorado. We had a one level tower with a slide. The tower was located at the edge of a steep ledge that started a pretty deep part of the lake. Kids would wade out to the tower and go off the slide thinking that they could touch the bottom after landing on the water. SURPRISE!!! We pulled a lot of non-swimmers out of the deep water.
ReplyDeleteDid they thrash around and try to drown you?
DeleteIn my early twenties I was standing on Malibu pier (wife #1 was a California girl) and saw a surfer crash head first into a piling. The whole time I'm dragging him out (I'm in no way a lifeguard btw, or was ever close to being a decent swimmer) he's thrashing and yelling about his board.
"Dude you're gonna ding my board!"
I can't picture the kid anymore but that line still rings in my head when I think about it and still makes me laugh.
They usually were young (and stupid) and thankfully they just relaxed as we pulled them to shore.
DeleteWhen I was a skinny 13 year old I dove off a high board like that. After climbing up there I wasn't going to climb back down so I dove in head first. It was a good dive, but I lost my swim trunks going in. Luckily I spotted them floating a short distance away, but not before several seconds of sheer panic.
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