Obstacle Course
- Ugly Dougly
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Obstacle Course
I am seriously thinking of putting up an obstacle course as part of my theme camp:
Of course, without the damn monkey!
Demands are ease of transport, construction and destruction through conflagration. Also safety.
Ideas?
Of course, without the damn monkey!
Demands are ease of transport, construction and destruction through conflagration. Also safety.
Ideas?
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Sounds too much like basic training in the army. Been there, done that. Not up for it again. Hell, at my age, I couldn't do it again if I wanted too! LOL
But I'm absolutely sure it will appeal to many others.
JK
But I'm absolutely sure it will appeal to many others.
JK
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Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me
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I set certain tasks before participants before they can be declared barbarians. (Still in the brainstorming stage!)
It starts with the obstacle course, then a stone that you must heave overhead. Then you must best me in boffer combat.
Then I will declare you a barbarian and my true brother. A toast of mead from a bull's horn and a little trinket to wear home with you - these shall be yours!
It starts with the obstacle course, then a stone that you must heave overhead. Then you must best me in boffer combat.
Then I will declare you a barbarian and my true brother. A toast of mead from a bull's horn and a little trinket to wear home with you - these shall be yours!
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Ugly Dougly wrote:Ideas:
Wall that you can jump over (hurdle)
Wall that you can vault over
Wall that you need to climb over
Wall that you need a rope to climb over
Balance beam
Tunnel to climb through
"Barbed wire" low crawl
Long jump over "water hazard"
High climbing rope
Wall that is sentient and will chase you and grab you
Tunnel that gradually diminishes in size and, in so doing, shrinks you
Gigantic boulder that rolls downhill and could crush you
Gigantic boulder that can somehow also roll uphill and crush you
Flying alligator arena
Bookmaker's lounge for flying alligator arena
Imbalance beam (attempting to cross it interferes with your seratonin)
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Great.dragonfly Jafe wrote:...that was awesome...if bacon was some how involved it would be perfect!
make the water hazards be evap ponds and you are set!
I was happily thinking about mud wrestling and a bacon obstacle course and then you had to mention something about falling into evaporation ponds...
I think I threw up a little bit.
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Great idea. You could make it over your evap pond, and as people fall on it, the goop soaks into their "playa finery", which helps with the functioning of the pond. Win-Win-Lose.ygmir wrote:I like those rope ladders at the fair, suspended on an angle, by a center support on a swivel, balancing as you climb......and, over a "pit-O-doom" perhaps?..
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I wish I could bring some "Mystery Fluid" for you all to splash around in. On a private basic only.
Good source for our Playa Barbarian Challenge 2009 designs:
http://www.physicallytrained.com/fm21-2 ... ills.shtml
Good source for our Playa Barbarian Challenge 2009 designs:
http://www.physicallytrained.com/fm21-2 ... ills.shtml
I think an obstacle course would be really cool, although I'm a newbie around here so I'm probably not considering all the relevant complications. I will say that you can make some decent hurdles and crawl-under areas out of simple PVC, and if you don't actually glue it together then it generally doesn't break when people fall on it. Stakes and P-cord are great for crawling under, of course, even if less viscerally exciting than razor wire.
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