With hurricanes it was that sheer power of the earth roaring. We dropped almost every time one rolled through until a friend of ours almost died when a major wind caught his coat and almost blew him down an embankment into the east river at 3 am. Would have been the end of him except he blew past one of my other, much bigger friends who saw him coming and managed to grab his coat as he was flying past. Dude came right out of his coat and kept going but stopped short of the bank since the wind lost its grip.. Ironically the guy who saved him was also the same guy who, the year before saved another friend from getting sucked out into the ocean in a massive riptide. We saw him get pulled under and yelled and just as my hero buddy turned around to see what was going on, buddy went cruising right by him in the current under water and he grabbed him by his long hair and pulled him up and helped him out on to shore. Also.. tripping balls in a small hurricane, this time at the beach like fucking idiots.
Yeah... luckily where I'm at and where I've done most of my tripping, we just get some damaging wind and flooding from hurricanes.
The power of the ocean is so magnificent without any influence.. really feel for those in the danger zones.
I've done a fair amount of surfing and snowboarding tripping and, luckily, never had the elements swallow me up.
I've been graced with superhuman reflexes and strength a few times when I'm on... making it out of swells I shouldn't have that swallowed up other (presumably) non-tripping people.
Launching over rocks or pointy treetops (when there's 10' of a base layer... not something impossible) that I probably would have the wherewithal to simply avoid otherwise.
Ugh... one time I was just tearing ass down a slope, went to carve and hit an icy patch, somehow managed to catch enough of an edge to stop myself from losing control... come to a complete stop and there was a jagged broken branch pointing right at me that seemed to be about 3 inches from my face... as you could imagine, tripping... it felt like the entire mountain, all of its trees, rocks and snow came cascading around me and that branch while I just sat there stunned
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WARNING: DO NOT REPEAT THIS CRAZY SHIT
I should also add that I was not, nor would I ever allow myself to be, tripping hard when I do decide to do extreme activities... just enough to have some psychedelic visuals and a nice body high. Not that that's an excuse. Don't do this shit.
