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Extreme Sports, Generation Jumps and the Cigarette Papers!
by Milota Sidorova

Courage, challenge and humour are general feature human beings, doesn' t matter the nationality, sex, gender, age and any other classifying systems you use.Pending around extreme sports theme, I have found brilliant dialogue among middle aged and youngster from America.The youngster starts like this: ''Oh man, I must tell ya, there's nothing better than those extreme sports, ya know, those wind surfing, shark chasing, bungee jumping. Makes me feel so, huh, extreme, powerful and I can tell ya, you can regret your jean age, because you didn't hear about it at all.''Than the old fella, almost mortally offended bristles his mustache to its full, walrus-like proportions, focus his sight down on this naughty node and starts to speak with terribly deep beer voice:"Young man, if you'd bothered to study any history during your last stint in Juvenile Hall, you'd know that my generation invented extreme sports long before you were hatched," he finishes his academic speech.For a second the growth transforms his mouth into the enourmous cage and finally shuts up.And the old fella carries on speaking about the most favourite extreme bizzard sports of 60's generation. Let's take few of them. The first, promo nervous event named: The Civil Disobedience Obstacle Course entails weaving player's way through lines of opposing team (mostly members of security guard, police, or beer fueled rednecks). To finish the ride the winner ends passing through the entrance of the local military recruiting center or administration buliding. Tear gas is allowed to use, moreover player gains some extra points.The second typically American stuff represents sprinting from a crash pad or dorm room to the nearest fast food restaurant, arrive in time to seize armloads of the most recently discarded food from the Dumpster before sprinting back to aforementioned crash pad or dorm room for a post-game feast. However, Big Macs suddenly taste extremely delicious.Good enough for hungry evening.Those funny games remains me a brief short story from the 80's Czechoslovakia. A group of currently known actors and musicans have been periodically wasting their evenings with 'at the first sight' extremely naive childish game called: Do you mind either not?Simple rules of this child's play can change into a sopfisticated decadent civil war. Moreover, when you strike for your life, work and art in a coutnry, where a bare word can put you in the prison. You can't listen to the western music, and all the western pleasures including cigarettes and clothing are inaffordable luxury.But back to our tuned actors, drinking our national alcohol, singing and passing relatively cosy evening. Till one, Julo Satinsky, incredible charming and humorous man of let's say more than enough kilos suggests: Dear friends of mine!(his academic way of speaking could lead the audience into the smiling madness) I suppose I feel great affection for playing such a marvelous and intelligent strategy game: Do you mind either not.The rest of the group, hardly say sober enough accept the propose.And they start to play. One player asks another: Do you mind either not?Now the asked one have to decide whether he fulfills the order from the first one or lays down the deposit. So it starts. It's very important to introduce another musican and actor of that times, Jaro Filip, who has been always known for a satirical and ironical humour so far. He knows a hell lot of people, he always jutts from the crowd, even the leading party marks him as a 'decent dissident'.So Jaro asks Julo: ''Do you mind either not, Mr. Satinsky?''And Julo despite noticing Jaro's malicious sight answers with all the gentleman's pride: ''I don't mind, dear friend Jaroslav!''And here it comes. Jaroslav continues. ''Dear Mr. Satinsky, you will have to jump into baby buggy and round our block three times.'' It' s necessary to say, that in this time, still a lot of people were passing the streets. Watching overweight famous actor trying to ride the baby buggy itself, will rise to hell lot of suspections. Western spy. Dissident. Drunken actor's rat.But Julo gets into the buggy and hardly rounds three times around the concret block of Bratislava's suburb. Yet, the revenge comes out.The game continues more less in good and funny direction, unless the Julo comes into turn.He asks Jaro:''Dear friend of mine, do you mind either not?''Jaro had to know, where the wind blows but still replied with courage:'' I don't mind.''Julo orders the worst order ever possible: ''Dear friend of mine, will you kindly go and visit the member of public guard (in our world known as a cop) and ask him for a cigarette paper?''Jaro knows that filling this order entails an accusation for public provokation, either vandalism.But, man's word has to be paid.Hardly breathing he visits the nearest police station, coming to the officier and asking him for a cigarette paper. Imagine young slim, hairy guy entering the door asking for the stuff. The officier immediately asks Jaro for his adress. What can one do about it? Jaro returns back to the actors and the party's over. Everyone splits and even Julo feels somehow guilty about Jaro. Jaro goes to bed, for the first time praying God, maybe for the first time in his life fot redemption of that horrible situation. And God replies. The door bell starts to ring. Ring Ring! Terribly nearing horror. How it can be in this time?One must say, that the visits during the night often meant police summons. Jaro opens the door and suprised stares at the police officier.''Oh, here you are Mr. Filip. I have those cigarette papers for you!'' says the officier.Jaro amazingly changes into the living piece of human and smiles. ''Oh, thank you dear comrade! Honour to our Republic!''He would invite the officier to cup of slivovica (our national alcohol), but it would be too much.Like in the fairytales, everything turns to good, and if you question about Julo, the order maker, I can only tell you, that Jaro had used all his intelligence to remain him this story.And if you question something like extreme sports, you can't deny that those sports were in some case even more extreme than bungee and other expensive trinkets of our days.

related story: http://www.thereporter.com/hamlin/ci_8911480

by Milota Sidorova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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