Endurance Slaps: as of the present, I am the grand champion of Endurance Slaps. Endurance Slaps is similar to regular slaps but more exciting. In regular slaps, your reaction skills are tested. In Endurance Slaps, your resistance to pain is tested. You and your challenger stand face to face, hands out, on palm up and one palm down, in coordination with the challenger. At the signal, each of you slaps each other's hands repeatedly and with great force until one side cries like a baby and gives up. The longer the competition, the greater the escalation of excitement. It has attracted great crowds in Athens, GA, and would be a terrific addition to the 2004 Summer Olympics (does not go well with cold weather). Also, it would be the perfect addition to the Jimmy Dean 'What Gets You Going?' Wall of Fame!

 
I wear a box on my head.

 

Since 1988 I have been a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism. It is a hystorical reenactment group focusing on the middle ages circa 600-1600 A.D. We reenact medieval combat in full scale armor using rattan weapons. Since starting this game I have recieved numerous bruises,a bloody nose or two, knocked out once and sent to the emergency room twice, once in an ambulance. This is non choriorgraphed combat, and we throw full force blows at areas of the body to wound or kill our opponent. I can't explain how much of a rush it is to take a stick and beat the crud out of my friends.

 

I love a challenge. Really hiking up a trail from the botton of the Grand Canyon, isn't my kind of challenge but crouching below this ledge and trying to make people think I did is just about it for me.

 

My cats live this.

 

well...i collect gem sweaters. http://www.gemsweater.com

 

royal nose picking

 

they hobby is my husbands it is international park bench napping. He has practiced on benches in 30 of the 50 states and competed in France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Isreal and Turkey but he has never competed on a bench in Amsterdam. Help he get there to nap

 

it get's boring in iowa, so sometimes we buy fabric at walmart and smack each other with funoodles.

 

i enjoy making my dogs look like dinner.

 

For many years now I've been involved with a LARP (Live Action Role-Playing Game) called Vampire the Masquerade (tm) The purpose of these games is to adopt a character in a story and act out that characters actions with the other players involved. The particular genre for these games is a World of Darkness(tm) where Vampires, Werewolves, ghosts all exist and your character may happen to be one of them. Games are usually held once a week and we play in downtown area's often dressed like normal street folk. Role-playing is about adopting the persona of a character from a story. You make decisions for your character, and act out your characters part in the story set up by the Game Staff (Storyteller & Narrators). Every player in the game has a character which is theirs to control as they see fit. The Storyteller and Narrators play plot characters, referred to as NPC's (non-player characters) which interact with the Player Characters to create a story. Much of how the story progresses is decided by the participants. When there is a dispute between players how a situation would play out, the conflict is resolved using tests based character statistics found on character sheets and randomized using the simple game of Rock, Paper, Scissors or ROSHAMBO. There are games like this in locations all over the world including (but not limited to: New York, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, Paris, Brazil, Japan, South Africa.... Our local group has a website for this hobby, it is www.scmasquerade.com

 

One of life's great thrills is joining a few hundred loonies to do a "Red Dress Run" in the Big Apple. Men and women dress up for the event and careen about Manhatten until we find the beer.