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POWER BOCKING EXPERIENCE => Bocking Stories => Topic started by: CJ on January 23, 2009, 04:53:13 PM
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Right i have just been out for a walk on my pro jumps, i finally managed to make it off my drive and decided to walk round the corner to my local high street when a woman with her kids stopped me and asked me if i had them on because i had broken my ankle and were they some new cast type thing.
so i was wondering what other strange things people have come out with??
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Right i have just been out for a walk on my pro jumps, i finally managed to make it off my drive and decided to walk round the corner to my local high street when a woman with her kids stopped me and asked me if i had them on because i had broken my ankle and were they some new cast type thing.
i seem to get that quite alot from kids hey think they are my legs and i cant walk without them. i have had a elderly man come up to me and said to me that i would have to be careful about getting pregnant on them because then i would have a spring baby. also had a lady come up to me wanting to shake my hand saying how nice it was for her to meet me. that kinda scared me abit.
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thts just norwich there all weird just look at spud XD :Claugh: :Cwink: :Cyes: :Crolleyes:
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thts just norwich there all weird just look at spud XD :Claugh: :Cwink: :Cyes: :Crolleyes:
who said it was in norwich?!?! lol. could have been ondon or well anyway. but yes it was norwich and spuds not that wierd. well not compaired to the people i know.
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For me it was this Xmas I was in town on my stilts covered in tinsel,bells and raindeers dressed in an inflatable Father Xmas outfit dancing with another Santa collecting for charity.
A couple of people came up to me and asked " Did I mind them taking some picture of me ? "
Told them " YES ! I do mind ! " and kept dancing :Mshocked:
Not really posed for them and asked one of them to dance with me :Mlaugh:
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"Are these free?"
No, they bloody well are not.
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my favorite is "are they real?", no they are not, and this group of people are all holograms
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I've got
'Are those to help you walk... did the doctor prescribe them for you for weak legs or something?'
(i wish)
and then when i said no, she asked
'So did you make them out of bike parts then?'
Bikes have leaf springs?
oh, and also, 'why aren't you out with your friends like a normal teenager?'
my response was 'I'm not a normal teenager...'
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i have had someone shouting at me saying "why am i on them, im a freak, why is it i do it, its not normal,its childish and stupid, i should go jump off a cliff" my response was im not the one who is sat at a childrens park getting drunk and laying in mine and other peoples sick!
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The didnt say much..I got a glass lobbed at my feet :Cconfused:
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"I've seen those on TV, they're computer generated!"
"Yes. And I'm a hologram"
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Halloween dressed on bocks dressed as death a veil so no one could see my face
A girl came up to me and said "Can I have my picture taken with you you look kind of Safe" :Cbiggrin:
Jason :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
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Nobody round my area really say things, i just get things thrown at me unless im down a side street.
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you look kind of Safe" :Cbiggrin:
Jason
jason and safe together? well there is a first for everything
and i get the usial are they real?
and get a life such, all i say when they say your not normal, i say well what is then? as nouthing can be normal.
:Cyes:
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I really dont get why or how people can be so stupid to ask 'are they real?'
No, they're actually a cardboard cut out made with cleverly positioned split-pins and a hell of a lot of lolly sticks... ^^
WHAT DO YOU THINK??
god ^^
i just dont get how someone would ask that... i mean... they're on our feet when we're asked that... of course theyre real.
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I have heard asked about Toddy on bocks
"yeah I've seen bocks before but whats that on them" :Cbiggrin: :Cwink:
Jason :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
Ps still sore about the sand Toddy :Cbiggrin:
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i have had quite a few people saying omg i didnt think they were real. which is understandable if they never seen them in person before, but as for are they real.. im not even that blonde!
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Halloween dressed on bocks dressed as death a veil so no one could see my face
A girl came up to me and said "Can I have my picture taken with you you look kind of Safe"
Yeah I had loads of people taking my picture at halloween too. I wore the same outfit as in the picture I used to have as my avatar (body armour and bocking trousers). As well as an awesome skull mask and a chainsaw! We had two smoke machines, a strobe light, a chainsaw soundtrack and dead bodies scattered around. You should have seen the look on some people's faces when they heard the saw and I jumped out of the fog, then chased them up the driveway roaring!
:Cwideeyed:
It was awesome! ...I also had a few of the tiniest kids say "I'm not scared of you." Kids watch too many scary movies these days. They're totally desensitised! ^_^
Anyway... the weird thing was, that after the small kids said "I'm not scared of you" and "Wow are you on those stilts from TV", some much older teenagers (after coming to my house about ten minutes earlier) came back with their friends and said:
"I told you - He's MASSIVE!"
That was pretty weird. And made me hope that the smaller kids don't end up in the same school as the teens.
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"Oh wow i want one!"
"...just one?"
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"Aren't they really crap and illegal?"
"no that's skyrunners" :D
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yeah i have heard "arent they illegal?" and the one i hear after talking with 80% of people on the street is "the police would never catch you on them".
bless the chavs
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but nero havnt you seen the advert? :Cyes:
they wont but the fan will :Cmask:
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LOL true that
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ive been asked "do you have real legs"
"can you walk on them" when im walking
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I was once asked are they fun to jog in I was thinking of getting some ?
What's wierd about that you may think ?
He was in a wheelchair !
Turned out he'd had a heart attack and the doctors told him to go for a short jog every night and he told me it's boring but my stilts looked fun ( which they are ) ? I told him about them and told him to check this forum and even give him my email address. I told him the wheelchair throw me a bit which made him laugh ( he needed from time to time ) .... Don't know if he got a pair ?
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"Aren't they really crap and illegal?"
"no that's skyrunners" :D
OI sky runners arnt that bad
mine are still goign strong an it seems lots of peopls are braking ( like at the norwich meet )
xx
lozzi
xx
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yeah but your sprinsg arnt to responsive are they :P
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Someone asked me "are you a robot?"
And i responded "beep beep bloop bloop!"
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iv had
"Are they Real"
" no im floating on air " :Cmask: of corse there real u dippy some ppl r just idiots
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I allways get asked if im training for the paralympics
and once some one ask me to prove i can walk normally :Cnah:
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'So did you make them out of bike parts then?'
the joys of tyre armour,i get that loads, and when they are sat of the floor by the bar ive even had people ask me if it was a bike.
or "look he has bike wheels on them"
now im sure i dont need to explain to you lot the difference between a wheel and a tyre, but some people shiiiiiiiii
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''do a backflip!''... you first
''can i have a go?'' ... no
''why are you on them dressed as a banana?'' its fun =D
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" thats £3-95" ... freakii
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Me and Q got the best one...
Child:---- 'Is he your dad??'
Me:----'Only when we are doing role play'
Child:--- 'What :Cconfused: ?????????' (completly lost on them :P)
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better was when some1 asked sprog if I was his dad :Cbiggrin: :Claugh:
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What happened?
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well lets just say we didnt 'role play'
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Lol, :P wanna get details now :P Same people?? :P
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Me and Q got the best one...
Child:---- 'Is he your dad??'
Me:----'Only when we are doing role play'
Child:--- 'What :Cconfused: ?????????' (completly lost on them :P)
Just LOL
i once told some old women that they were something i cant say on this forum - they had no idea what i meant, but it was funny all the same
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O wait the best one is someone asked me how I got my stilts....
My reply 'Well let me tell you a story about the birds and the bee's....'
DC
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lmao i had an italian family in the main street ask for a picture with them lol, i do get alot of people saying
"can i have ago" no
"please i do trampoline" no
"dont care there s**t anyway" lmao
another i got was asking me if i had broken legs lol, ive never had things threw off me but i was runing on them once and some stuck there leg out and i very luckerly made a turn and carried on running, i was pretty impressed with myself lol :P
cooper
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ive had the same ppl askin me if my legs are broken..
most just look at me like "what the hell is she doing" lol
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Woop got the best one at the bus stop today,
child-'OMFG mum look at them'
me-'I know ain't I great'
child-'What a t**t'
Bear in mind the child was like 9, Suppose it is pretty normal for us west country folk :P
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I was walking along the path on my road, and a man randomly asked me "How much do they cost?". I was just like "Erm, £180..." XD Bit random - maybe he wanted a pair. Except he was very old. :P
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Whats annoying is 90% of people think their for something. They look skeptical when i tell them they don't have a purpose other than what I'm doing.
What are they for? :Ceek:
>Jumping and Running :Csmile:
But what are they made for? :Cwideeyed:
>Its freestyle, their for doing whatever :CGEEK:
Is it a sport? :Cchatterbox:
>It's freestyle :Cnah:
Like, do you use a ball? :Cconfused:
>NO! :Cmad:
DO A BACKFLIP!!!!!11!!!1 :Cswoon:
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It is amazing how many of these things I have already had said to me after just an hour bocking in London. Some people can be really rather dense, but surely half the fun is running through a busy street and being the center of attention. Especially in London, and for me. :Cbiggrin:
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Now that I'm thinking about it, this is a very common conversation.
>It's European
>>Ohhhhh, OK
I don't know why but it seems to make sense then.
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Ive had a group of chavs ask me how much they cost and i said
"About £180"
then rather shockingly they ask ive i could come ove rthere so the could beat me up and steal them.........
i just looked at them and said
"if you can catch me" then took off at real speed :Claugh:
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In the main central gardens of bournemouth ..near the pier. ...so busy central place....there are a load of sets of flights of stairs leading to a big theatre.
1 guy Ben races up then (never seen um b4, 1st visit to bmth) then jumps all way down um, after doing it 3 or 4 times, we had built up quite a crowd and were partly blocking the p;ath way. ben turns and looks up the steps and 2 police officers r walking down 'oh my god cops' says be. As they pass us, without breaking stride, 1 turns his head un says 'bet we scared you'
look on bens face was classic
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"Are they roller-blades?"
That's my favourite one by far, bless old drunk people xD
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I was asked by a random guy if his mate could use them, only later on in the conversation he said that his mate has no legs........................ i wasnt sure how to put it :Cswoon:
MDLuffy :Becky:
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haha probably the funniest thing said to me whilst bocking in plymouth by a Chav was :
"ERE MATE ARE YOU FOCKIN DISABLED?!"
lol good times
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We get that all the time, although since I gave up smoking the response back has been getting a lot more aggressive, from...
'So what if we are, you got a problem with it'
to
'Shut up you pathetic immature chav'
I should really calm down :D
DC
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hehe alex I've noticed that :)
like the drunk who tried to steal your last fag
"give me your fag"
no
give it ere!
NO f**k OFF
that was a good day
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Nero got:
'Tread on my dog and you'll know about it' from a blatantly homeless person looking for compo, to which he was calm and didn't reply.
Then he walks in front of Nero and stops, and Nero replies with
'If you don't move I'll tread on you' to which the nice man replied
'you shouldn't be walking on them things anyway' Nero less than happily retorted with
'GO AND SIT DOWN'
HAHAHAHA I made it sound more sophisticated than it actually was
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he did what he was told still though, not one of my finer moments, but it was pretty funny i admit
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Yesterday I had one guy grab a spring to try and trip me up (I didn't fall - HAH! :P). Then later that day, (I had my headphones in my ears) a guy tapped my leg and asked for a go. XD
A little boy also got very excited when I jumped - like, 2cm off the ground! :D
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talking of grabbing springs, has any1 else gone up behind some 1 else on bocks whilst they r jumping. then when they r at about the top of a bounce shout ' GRAB HIS SPRINGS' then lightly tap them with fingers....its funny
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I was walking to the park with my friends so they could have a go and this noise just came out of this car we were all like WTF?!
It was some guy he found them funny I think.... That was pretty funny! xD
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yep spring grabs are fun especially when there someone elses and they're using them
like josh winding me up after I shared my brackets off I was quite p**sed off at this point
so dragged him round the car park with one spring :P until DC tried to tackle me :/
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I have had one chav in a car call out at word I can not post on here, it begins with W and has six letters, from his car as I ran past. Most other people honk their horns or shout encouragement :D
I had one lady ask 'Is it like walking on the moon?'
My response was 'Dunno I haven't ever walked on the moon before'
Her other half laughed at her :D
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was out in Plymouth with the RR's as usual
a c*cky little s**t comes up to me being rude and asks "ere mate what is the point those stillty things?",
i replied "what is the point in a Bmx or skateboard?"
he answered "for get round on and doing tricks and stuff" c*ckily
I finally said "well there your answer then "
looked at me completely bewildered.. then i think i saw a glimpse of some realisation in his facial expression
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The answer to the eternal question of "ere mate what is the point those stillty things?"
IS.
"If you need to ask that question you would never understand the answer!" :Cyes:
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Got to admit the most satisfying one was answering a Young Yob that had asked several times for a go (I was thinking about letting him just to shut him up)
He then tells me he's gonna fling his empty bear bottle in the pond we were near
When I asked him why he said "cause thats who I am"
Told him it wasn't a good idea so he went and did it anyway
Next word out of his mouth was "Can I have a go now"
Ohh it felt good to say "No because you chucked the bottle in the lake" :Claugh:
Think I Pi**ed him off as he tried to trip Chris up and then went to kick my spare set of bocks over
Ohh boy you should have seen him run when I bellowed at him and ran at him full pelt :Claugh:
It made my day :Cbiggrin:
Jason :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
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LOL Jason! I haven't had many bad experiences with people, to be honest. :>
A lot of people either ask for a go or just ask my why I wear them.
Yesterday I was in the park for a while and a guy started talking to me about how you could have sex on them LMAO! Bouncing etc, wink wink.
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someone asked katy (gizmoqueen) if she was my mom :Claugh:
if you know both of our ages then try do the maths :Cwideeyed: it would mean katy was nine.
jordan
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I think it time for the tissues, i obviously must look 33 not 23 :Ccry:
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no your still fine katy. when i first met you i thought you were 19. :Cyes: i think its me as most people think im between 9 and 12.
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well katy i think you are younger than me and we are the same age
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Totally had to dig this thread back out after I got this today:
"will you run really high on them? I want to see what it looks like"
Followed by one of his mates asking
"can you fall over on them for me?"
I had to laugh :Ctwitcy:
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when asked /suggested ... 'bet you can get really high on them' I replied 'well, yes, but normally i used drugs for that kind of thing'
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on Saturday in Newcastle we got about 6 different star wars references thrown at us .
the top 2 must of been ere mate it;s jar jar binks
but the best must of been OI LOOK THERE LIKE BOUNCY LIGHTSABER FINGS!
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This topic has really made me laugh :D I've only ever been asked "can I have a shot" (which when I actually let the person in question have a shot, was shortly followed by "get these things off me!" lol)
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At the last EA meet in Norwich an old bloke came over and asked how high we could jump with ours bocks "could you jump as high as that bus?" funny thing was that we were like yeah you can jump even higher than that and he believed it.
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Once while just walking up town some chav on a bmx rode past me and said in a genuinely inquisitive tone, Could I push you off those?
as if i was going to answer yes?
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When at a festival near plymouth I once had a drunken guy grab my stilt and shout "Got your leg!" repeatedly until I threatened to stand on him. :Ctongue:
Jamie
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Not something said but at last years Halloween meet I was standing having my pic taken in Leicester Sq (Dressed in the Dragon costume) when I felt a hard shove in my back
Span round to see a guy jump up of the floor and run
Another guy standing next to me said "What a pr*t he tried to run into you to push you over"
The thing was I had a staff to lean on and that makes me fairly stable and I weigh about 19 stone on stilts and in the Dragon costume
So it seems this 12 stone weakling bounced off me and fell over :Claugh:
Best bit is I just thought it was the crown getting a bit pushy :Cbiggrin: must be more stable on them than I thought
Jason :Hoofies2: :CGEEK:
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While out just having a walk on my stilts the other day and this little kid about 8 mabye nine asked me if I was a government spy and the stilts helped me look into peoples garden and stuff? So I thought I would be nice and just replied by saying yes but the stilts are also to have fun on :P I thought this was quite weird so I thought I'd share it with you guys
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Yesterday I was walking along the pavement, a group of kids were walking towards me and one shouted
"Can you jump on those?"
So I shouted back "yes!"
Then one of the other kids says "can you jump us"
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best one ever the other day
Random guy: "hey there!"
Me: "yeah?"
Random guy:"I bet those things give you something to stand on?!"
Me: "well yes i suppose they do" (bewildered expression)