• Moon@slrpnk.net
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    Have you tried not paying attention when navigating stairs? I find missing a step to be an invigorating interjection in the bleak humdrum of my existence.

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    The first and last time I was on a trampoline, I tried to do a backflip and landed on my chest in a full scorpion. My spine whipped and cracked pretty much every join in my spine. It was loud enough for the people standing next to the trampoline to hear.

    I felt such unknown levels of comfort and relaxation that I was worried that I had just paralyzed myself, until I realized I could feel my toes.

    That was the only time in my life I have experienced such nirvana, from the tension and pressure being released from my back to the euphoria of not being paralyzed. It was a serene tranquility that I imagine only the Buddha knows. I was in a moment of Zen that can otherwise only be achieved through dying of natural causes while meditating.

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      30 years later, after getting an X-ray for some unrelated thing, the doctor: “Wow did you know four of your vertebrae were fractured?”

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        It is a relief knowing I have like 6 years before I get the bad news.

        I had zero pain or discomfort after(totally the opposite) and was very conscious of any signs that I might need to go to the hospital. All was well, but I am sure I came very close to having a bad time.

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        I had some friends do that. I’d ask them for advice on doing heroin, but I ain’t got a ouija board.

        Come to think of it, I think one of the people who heard my vertibre crack OD’d a few years later.

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    I don’t get it what’s a double bounce are y’all counting the number of bounces you do on the trampoline?

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      When you try to jump on one but another person already jumped.
      So your momentum get’s negated and your jump is dampened.

      Or if you sync your jump so it get’s amplified.

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      Lol it’s gravity and physics. Double bounced means two people jumped and tried to land as close to the same time as possible to cause the trampoline to sink lower than it would if one person were jumping. The person getting double bounced sits on the trampoline waiting to be bounced.

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        Yeah you can bounce yourself while a second person also bounces you at the exact same and so you are double bounced.

        Alternatively, you can roll up like an egg while two other people try to bounce you and crack the egg. If two bounces manage to launch you a the same time then that also gets called a double bounce.

        Both approaches to being double bounced are absolutely terrifying because you’re feeling twice the force that you expected. So if you’re an emotionally dead adult nostalgically looking back to the last time you felt something then the terror of being double bounced is a good candidate.

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          Crack the egg was the best! It sounds like you and I had very similar upbringings. Hopefully your uncles didn’t try double bouncing you from a tall balcony as well 😄

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        The other person doesn’t have to sit down and wait. It’s more about timing. One bounces ever so slightly before the other and one of them ends up getting almost all of the combined momentum making them bounce higher, With the other, having traded that momentum now doesn’t get as much height as normal.

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          That’s true, I thought the same thing after posting. I still think you get both better results and a better experience if the third person is sitting. You’re definitely right about the timing though. To maximize results you have to very slightly stagger the landing. That’s really something kids learn fairly quickly after some trial and error.

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    I haven’t been happy since my medication levels brought my normal up from -80% to a whopping 120%, but then leveled back off to -30%. It was great.