Well… if you start giving names to accidental maneuvers, then there’s rules and regulations and the obvious book “tripping for dummies” – and of course there’d be classes where you can learn them.
Over here people say if you are good at tripping you won’t fall.
A good friend of mine has CP, and frequently trips and falls. We refer to this as “random pockets of extra-heavy gravity”, usually as we scoop him back up onto his feet. 🙂
The contender starts strong with the classic two left feet special treat! (Always a crowd pleaser) Follows it with a ‘that ain’t right’ triple pike! He pulls off the half-twist twit! Barely makes the ‘awkward duck’ double tuck! Oh and he sticks the discount dismount!
Don’t forget the pure spectacle of stair tumbling! As far as doing it on purpose, the late Douglas Adams wrote of the feat of throwing yourself at the ground, and missing.
I have a friend who would trip and hurt himself while carrying books and stuff. Apparently it happened enough that he learned that just letting himself fall instead of trying to stop and possibly twisting an ankle, flinging the books through the air, ended up with minimal pain and injury. Though, there was more embarrassment involved.
The capoeira where you fall but by the grace of god and random flailing you regain composure at the last split second and people wonder if it was on purpose
The Homewrecker could be when you break furniture. “Wow Jim, let’s watch in slo mo. The fall starts dangerously close to the glass coffee table and it looks like he’s going to homewrecker right into it but he hits the capoeira and finishes with a reverse Exxon Valdez. Let’s turn to the judges”
I can’t think of a fun term for falling and taking someone down with you but the Scapegoat could be where you start to fall but recover only by knocking someone else over and if they in turn get someone else you could call it the domino effect
Well, lessee here :
We have the “arm flappin’ flail” maneuver, the “barrel roll recovery” (wherein you trip, fall, roll, and pop back up and keep walking as if nothing happened), the “%&$**@$@&%«§¿&$ who left this stuff laying here for me to trip over?” blame game proposition, and of course the classic “trip & fall & look around to see if anyone saw it” gambit.
Not to brag, but I’m considered by many to have mastered all of them.
Have you considered talking to the ministry about creating a branch dedicated to the failure of continuous locomotion punctuated with assorted permutations of perambulation?
Once in middle school I slipped on an ice covered concrete outdoor basketball court and made it all the way across in such accidental gymnastics before going halfway down cliinging to a dumpster. At the time I was mad at my classmates for laughing at me, but couldn’t deny that I must have looked hilarious.
In today’s day and age of personal pocket communication and recording devices you would have been immortalized and gained world notoriety for you impromptu gyrations while in battle with the G force.
I took a couple years of judo when I was 12. The first thing they teach you is how to fall properly (where “properly” == “not getting hurt”), and that much, I remembered. Since then, I’ve tripped and slipped on an assortment of things, and most years I’ve gone horizontal on ice (once per year, though not this year ’cause of weird weather), but I’ve never gotten more than a mild bruise.
As of February 2018, this strip is a hundred times funnier due to Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, wherein the Tarutaru black mage Shantotto DOES, at one point, fall over like a deactivated robot.
Well… if you start giving names to accidental maneuvers, then there’s rules and regulations and the obvious book “tripping for dummies” – and of course there’d be classes where you can learn them.
Over here people say if you are good at tripping you won’t fall.
A good friend of mine has CP, and frequently trips and falls. We refer to this as “random pockets of extra-heavy gravity”, usually as we scoop him back up onto his feet. 🙂
Extra points if you can dislodge teeth with your knee AND bruise the back of your head in a single manoeuvre.
The contender starts strong with the classic two left feet special treat! (Always a crowd pleaser) Follows it with a ‘that ain’t right’ triple pike! He pulls off the half-twist twit! Barely makes the ‘awkward duck’ double tuck! Oh and he sticks the discount dismount!
Don’t forget the pure spectacle of stair tumbling! As far as doing it on purpose, the late Douglas Adams wrote of the feat of throwing yourself at the ground, and missing.
The triple klutz!
Bruce wins the internet!
I have a friend who would trip and hurt himself while carrying books and stuff. Apparently it happened enough that he learned that just letting himself fall instead of trying to stop and possibly twisting an ankle, flinging the books through the air, ended up with minimal pain and injury. Though, there was more embarrassment involved.
Someone once referred to a figure-skating maneuver as the “atomic butt-crusher.”
That sounds more like a wrestling move than a figure skating maneuver.
Maybe it was Extreeeeeeeemmm Figure Skating?
EXXXTREEEEEME TRIPPIN’
Double heel-spin dutch flail with a four-step mono-pedal bunny hop.
The Reverse Exxon Valdez where you fall but don’t spill your drink
The Weekend at Bernie’s where it’s a total loss of motor functions or when two friends catch a third friend from falling
The capoeira where you fall but by the grace of god and random flailing you regain composure at the last split second and people wonder if it was on purpose
The not so safety dance for when an over confident dance move leads to disaster
The Homewrecker could be when you break furniture. “Wow Jim, let’s watch in slo mo. The fall starts dangerously close to the glass coffee table and it looks like he’s going to homewrecker right into it but he hits the capoeira and finishes with a reverse Exxon Valdez. Let’s turn to the judges”
I can’t think of a fun term for falling and taking someone down with you but the Scapegoat could be where you start to fall but recover only by knocking someone else over and if they in turn get someone else you could call it the domino effect
Or the lucky strike
DOUBLE HEADER!!! Taking someone down with you.. aw ….damnit. It was right under my nose.
Well, lessee here :
We have the “arm flappin’ flail” maneuver, the “barrel roll recovery” (wherein you trip, fall, roll, and pop back up and keep walking as if nothing happened), the “%&$**@$@&%«§¿&$ who left this stuff laying here for me to trip over?” blame game proposition, and of course the classic “trip & fall & look around to see if anyone saw it” gambit.
Not to brag, but I’m considered by many to have mastered all of them.
Have you considered talking to the ministry about creating a branch dedicated to the failure of continuous locomotion punctuated with assorted permutations of perambulation?
A variation of the blame game: “Who put these stairs here?!??”
Once in middle school I slipped on an ice covered concrete outdoor basketball court and made it all the way across in such accidental gymnastics before going halfway down cliinging to a dumpster. At the time I was mad at my classmates for laughing at me, but couldn’t deny that I must have looked hilarious.
In today’s day and age of personal pocket communication and recording devices you would have been immortalized and gained world notoriety for you impromptu gyrations while in battle with the G force.
“The G Force” is a great name for a flail move.
I took a couple years of judo when I was 12. The first thing they teach you is how to fall properly (where “properly” == “not getting hurt”), and that much, I remembered. Since then, I’ve tripped and slipped on an assortment of things, and most years I’ve gone horizontal on ice (once per year, though not this year ’cause of weird weather), but I’ve never gotten more than a mild bruise.
Automatic yoga, during a bicycle accident.
As of February 2018, this strip is a hundred times funnier due to Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, wherein the Tarutaru black mage Shantotto DOES, at one point, fall over like a deactivated robot.