Re: I'm trying this at home.

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Original poster: "Christopher Boden by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chrisboden-at-hotmail-dot-com>

>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>Original poster: "randy by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" 
><randy-at-gte-dot-net>
>
>Duck:
>
>Have you read your own sig file lately? Freeclimbing? Street Luge? You seem
>obsessed with
>taking un-necessary risks.

Read your other post too (and the 50 others...)

I'm not doing the experiment.

(and the crowd goes wild)........................

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ok ok .................


ok......sit down, thank you............

ok

This is why......

1. The main reason I'm not doing the demo is the repercussions to the Group 
and the Tesla community if I have a "Catastrophic" failure.

2. the learning curve is too steep, and if I fall off there's no safety net. 
This isn't like sterrt lugeing where I can get some road rash, or climbing 
where I pull a muscle and get some harness bruises. This is a pass-fail 
thing, and I've simply got too much to loose.

3. I'm a teacher, and I run a large Group with a hundred impressionable kids 
who hold me as a mentor, and a role model. I will not be responsibe for the 
deaths of my students and fellow Group members.

4. I can't control the situation like I want to. There's no possible way to 
be in complete control of the coil when I'm on the platform, and this isn't 
like climbing where I can have a belay person that I trust with my life, 
it's different, things happen too fast here. Even with climbing you can 
yell, Watch Me!

As far as my other pursuits, yeah, I'm a serious adreniline junky. But it's 
different. I can always control most of the variables. With Lugeing, 
Climbing, and Racing (I don't drive anymore, I lost my ticket years ago when 
I could no longer pass the physical for a year, no practice, no racing, no 
track-time, no points, no license....) When you're Lugeing, you're 
completely alone, same as climbing, if I make a mistake, I die, and I'm 
responsible, and I'm also the only one who gets hurt (as long as I don't 
land on my Belay, lol).

I have a thing for danger, as long as I'm in control. I can do 200+MPH only 
a couple inches from the Ground on a racetrack all day long....but I can't 
ride a rollercoaster at all, because I'm not in control.

Now I have the wreckage of a Teslathon to clean up, more on that tomorrow :)





duck




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