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Heh, I remember a group of us doing that as well. Also "penny drops" off the monkey bars, where you'd hang upside-down with your legs, swing back and forth, release and essentially do a flip and land on your feet. God we were fearless back in the day.

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> God we were fearless back in the day.

I have a rule on myself to stay young. Every time I see a swing rope into water I must do a back flip, and every time I see a 1m diving board, I must do a gainer (run forward, back flip).

I'm 41 now, I'm really curious how old I'll be when I can't do them anymore.

We always say “a backie a day keeps the doctor away”.

It’s entirely incorrect but it keeps life fun!

We called those "baby drops", and flipping back off the swing seat as it comes forward we called "cherry pickers". I'm 46 now, I can still do both. Once you've learned them, they're easy.

can and do are two different things. things heal a lot faster when the landings are wrong in playground days than they do at 46. i have personal experience with the healing slower bit if not from a cherry picker move.

At 50 I strained my shoulder doing just a few simple push-ups, and it took nearly a year for the pain to (mostly) go away. Getting old sucks.

I tore a rotator cuff when convinced that riding a long board down the street while not in a sober state would be easy. Going downhill of not an impressive hill, and the speed wobble on a board I had been on for 3 minutes suggested time to bail. I didn't roll nearly as well as a younger me would have. Nearly a year sounds about right.

Yeah, You're way off your game when you're drunk. I learned that lesson the hard way a few times over in my early 20s (though not so hard that I needed a trip to the hospital).

Skateboards are a mortal enemy of vertebrae

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