stupid redneck 2

stupid redneck gets shot in the penis with a 6mm airsoft gun from walmart

Author: gislgar
Keywords: sketch
Added: September 27, 2008

I've had many years to consider my fear as I've hung above the planet on a set of thin strings, paragliding. I've watched many students come to terms with it. And yet my familiarity with fear has not bred complacency. Too many of my friends have paid the price for that mistake.

Greg has been flying since 1992 and is a paragliding instructor and cross-country pilot. He is an author and photographer and lives in Cape Town. His novel Beyond The Invisible explores themes of fear and freedom within flying. His Fresh Air Site Guide is a book for pilots touring South Africa. He was featured in the television production Fresh Air Riders (available on DVD).

I find my own fear in paragliding when I leave the roads behind. There's a thrilling feeling of commitment when I lift up my feet and fly over the mountain, rather than along it. Very soon I enter unfamiliar terrain. Sure, I have a map, but its a new map, unthumbed, unblemished. The winds flow strangely over the changed terrain. My familiar landmarks are absent, I have nothing but the sun to orient myself with, and even that appears strangely altered; brighter, somehow. New valleys are laid out before me. Where will I land? Amongst new people, upon new roads. Into a new life, if only for a few hours, or days.

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Words Greg Hamerton.

Life's too short not to be scared.

Fear. The constant companion of extreme sports.

It doesn't need to be the path with the greatest fear, to be a worthy path. But your companion should be with you, even if he's a little guy with a crooked smile.

Fear can ruin any sport, but fear can not be ignored. Can it be transcended?

Finding Your Fear - Why We Do Extreme Sports

There's a path we all come to if we play the game long enough. Wise men know that fear is not to be ignored altogether. It has a use. It is a trusted friend, an adviser, rather than an adversary. It is an indicator of your exposure, and you choose how much exposure you're willing to take. The search for your acceptable level of fear takes you on the greatest adventures, to the moments when you are stretched, when you grow. How much of an appetite you have for growth determines how far and how often you travel. But it needn't be terrifying, that's for the masochists. Just be sure to keep a little fear beside you as a companion.

Enter the second player, who laughs a little too loud when asked if he ever gets scared. "Life's too short to be scared!" he'll answer. Such men died on battlefields, died in high-speed crashes, died alone in cold places .. they are the kind of egotists who earn the scorn of the veterans and professionals alike. Maybe they catch the fleeting glimpse of their own reflection in a camera lens, or the passing interest of young maidens. But they will fulfill their own prophecy. Life will be short.

It might be arduous to hike out later, it might be a little crazy to be alone in a remote place, far from my friends and the safety of numbers. But I believe it is worth it, to walk beside my fear for a while and see where the path leads.