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Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-05-12 23:51
This question comes to my mind this morning as I finished my Dahn class in the neighborhood. It's an hour session of stretching-breathing-slight mucles exercises and meditation. It did good to my clarinet practice in the following hour.
As with most instruments. clarinet playing needs lots of energy, so if you're a weakling , it could be quite difficult to hang in there, even. So what do you do to keep your basic strength ? Aerobics, swimming , related to some breathing activities? or marathon? Any comment would be interesting to hear.
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: Mark Pinner
Date: 2004-05-13 00:13
Horse racing and football. Gee it is great to watch really fit people, and horses for that matter, go around. Hours of valuable exercise can be gained from lifting a beer glass up and down from the table but I suggest changing hands every half hour or so so as not to overdevelop one side of the body. Symmetry is where it is at in this regard. If one cultivates a large enough beer gut, the appearance of diaphragm breathing is easier to simulate.
I personally try to do about an hour of walking/running and stretching 6 days out of 7. I just find it helps aerobically and is good for the mind.
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Author: woodwind650
Date: 2004-05-13 00:16
i'm active in Bikram Yoga, Pilates, hiking, snowboarding, resistance training, running and tennis.
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Author: javier garcia m
Date: 2004-05-13 00:30
Swimming, twice or three times by week;
trekking, once or twice by month.
I practiced hatha yoga some years ago, it was very helpful to control breath and performance anxiety
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Author: hans
Date: 2004-05-13 00:55
Exercise wears out the body's joints prematurely and it diminishes longevity. To paraphrase one of the astronauts: when we are born we have a certain number of heartbeats to our credit; exercising raises the heart rate and uses the heartbeats up faster, thereby shortening our lives.
On a more serious note, I think I read somewhere that Pete Fountain was advised to take up the clarinet to strengthen his weak lungs. Since he is in his eighties now, the prescription appears to have been beneficial and one could conclude that a good exercise for clarinet players is playing the clarinet. Res ipsa loquitur.
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Author: diz
Date: 2004-05-13 01:20
of the sort that is banned from general discussion on this bulletin board due to the abundance of youngsters who "tune in"
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Author: Anon
Date: 2004-05-13 01:48
I'm into weight-training, biking, swimming, and running. I'm currently training for my first triathlon and I did a relay in a marathon last weekend. I find that the concentration and determination required to run long distances is very similar to practicing and learning new pieces.
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Author: bkmorton
Date: 2004-05-13 03:22
I like to go fishing with a fishing pole in one hand and a beer in the other.
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Author: Burt
Date: 2004-05-13 03:40
Kayaking, golf, bicycling and swimming. I got too old to continue soccer and tennis. Now my main aerobic exercise is carrying and playing a bari sax.
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Author: marcia
Date: 2004-05-13 04:00
Cross country ski, swim, cycle. And I walk to and from work, about 20 minutes each way.
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Author: CPW
Date: 2004-05-13 04:28
Fritos Cashews and TV
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Author: Robert Small
Date: 2004-05-13 04:32
For excersise I stumble and fall into a coma.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2004-05-13 04:34
Horseback riding (English) and yes, the rider does get the exercise, not just the horse.
Tennis
I am too young for golf
Wine tasting
Cigar chomping
Exceding the posted speed limit
and...whenever possible.......Competitive mattress testing
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Author: OpusII
Date: 2004-05-13 07:31
Alseg wrote:
> and...whenever possible.......Competitive mattress testing
Competitive mattress testing and beer lifting seems just to work great for me....
Eddy
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Author: ned
Date: 2004-05-13 07:38
I watch the Test Cricket. Wot's that you Yanks probably say!
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Author: bnanno
Date: 2004-05-13 08:31
Its a question I have to ask when my clarinetist daughter wants to sign up for everything from volleyball upwards. Perhaps the worst for a musician would be the Basque sport (and my daughter loves it) of "pelota vasca" =basque ball, where they hit this little hard leather ball with their FISTS against the wall (sort of squashy like court but open on one or two sides) leading to immediate enlargemnt of hands and fingers!!!
So we have compromised on tennis and swimming for the clainetist daughter and football (soccer) and swimming for violinist son (but he is not allowed to be the goalkeeper)...he would be a disaster as a goalkeeper in any case.
I agrree to watching test cricket though...John...thats one of the things I miss out on living here in Spain.
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-05-13 12:47
yoga and folkdance
I must ask as an "Amurrican" what is test cricket???? I know about plain cricket but test???
Katrina
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Author: chipper
Date: 2004-05-13 12:59
Tuesday my instructor asked me to hold a note as long as I could. He got bored before long. Playing clarinet is good for developing lung capacity and breath control for those other activities in life, speed skating, XC skiing, swimming, running, etc.
Interesting aside: my wife plays flute. She was in a terriable auto accident last December and was litterally on her back for three months. They gave her this device into which she was to breath so as to reduce the likelyhood of pnemonia. I knew she was going to live when she said those three words every husband loves to hear,"bring my flute." Excellent resperatory therapy (and not so bad for the spirits either)
Keep making music, its important
Peace
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-05-13 13:31
Running (helps lung capacity), general exercise at the gym, biking, and I'm always up for playing baseball when there's enough willing people to pitch, catch, hit and field.h
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: William
Date: 2004-05-13 13:56
Curling.
Here's a link for more info regarding this sport played on sheets of (usually indoor) ice with 42 lb granite rocks. http://www.usacurl.org/
Curling is an official Olympic Gold Medal sport.
Post Edited (2004-05-16 16:05)
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Author: Ron Jr.
Date: 2004-05-13 14:37
In the dead of winter I work out at the gym in my building 5 times a week in the morning. My workout consists of aerobics, ab-work and free weights.
On weekday mornings in the summer I work out four times a week.
Sometimes on the weekday evenings I'll go out skateboarding with my longboard.
Post Edited (2006-03-06 18:16)
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Author: ginny
Date: 2004-05-13 15:26
I don't do sports. I do ride my bike for most travel under two miles, work out at the Y about three times a week with my 83 year old dad and folkdance regularly. I have done tap and ballet in the past as well.
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2004-05-13 15:27
Stair climbing! Fortunately my office is on the second floor so I have to run up and down stairs to get photocopies, greet clients ("C'mon up" is the frequent phrase when they come in to see me), and when I tire of tax law manipulation, disciphering people's writing, and lifting files. I figure if I run up and down 19 times a day, that equals doing the stairs up and down the Hamilton mountain once.
Too bad it doesn't compensate for the hours spent barely breathing at my desk. The physiotherapist ordered me to get to the gym 3 to 4 times a week - that helps A LOT! But do I listen? It's possible after tax season.
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-05-13 16:47
Katrina asks "what is test cricket?"
A test match is an international game lasting (usually) five days. Other cricket matches usually last only one day; some last three.
It's all the same game, apart from some slight differences in how they work out which team won. (Or very often, work out that neither team won. As in chess, a lot of games end in a draw.)
It is quite astonishingly tedious to watch. Though I am told by those that have tried that it is not quite so tedious as baseball.
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: Clarinetist
Date: 2004-05-13 16:48
Ron Jr.,
Nice biceps in that picture!!!
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Author: Brenda
Date: 2004-05-13 17:41
Hey, curling! Surprisingly, that's a sport that can get spectators on the edges of their seats, more than baseball for sure.
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2004-05-13 17:51
A nice game of frisbee works for me, which goes especially well on a nice day before rehearsal.
Skiing is also great fun, though I don't go nearly as often. I keep forgetting to go kayaking, though I will hopefully go a few times this summer with a few fellow clarinetists.
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
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Author: Susan
Date: 2004-05-13 20:52
I figure skate, at least an hour at a time, 5-6 times a week. I also do Pilates, which has taught me a lot about posture and breathing, and sometimes also ballet.
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Author: Luke
Date: 2004-05-13 21:32
Finger olympics?
I do extreme skiing, run, lift weights, swim, and teach Taekwondo. But I'm more of a sax player than a clarinetist.
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Author: jo.clarinet
Date: 2004-05-13 21:43
Good grief! Reading all those energetic replies was enough to make me reach for the wine bottle!
I've never been keen on organised sports, but I do a fair bit of walking (we don't have a car, so that helps!) and I do like going on the Dance Mat from time to time - in the privacy of my own home, of course!
Joanna Brown
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-05-13 23:45
Now, David P...
Baseball is not meant to go quickly...and it is _rather_ shorter than your test cricket...lol!
I do enjoy watching baseball, myself...a remnant of my ex-husband, I guess, but sometimes a batter's swing or a pitcher's pitch or a nice long throw to home plate is a very beautiful thing to watch.
And sometimes if you're in the centerfield bleachers, you get lucky and have the opportunity to see a wonderful "backside" of a centerfielder... 
All the best,
Katrina
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2004-05-14 00:28
Diaper dance with wiggling toddler...(for dexterity)
Full-check hockey with 8 year olds...(for endurance)
Begging my wife for reed money...(for resistance training)
750ml liquid drainage...(for mental lubrication)
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Cricket is the only sport I know of that can be played for days and end in a tie; when the visiting team runs short of tea.
Curling fans sit on the edge of their seats because aluminum bleachers are unheated during a bonspiel. Curling will be popular next Winter, when the NHL hockey rinks need something to sell beer.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2004-05-14 02:55
Post Edited (2004-05-14 02:58)
oops....will try it again
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
Post Edited (2004-05-14 02:59)
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2004-05-14 02:57
Attachment: AShtwdcloseup.JPG (102k)
Well here ya go, in reference to my post above.
No...this is not mattress testing, altho' a mattress placed under the jump is sometimes appreciated
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Author: donald
Date: 2004-05-14 05:38
ok
during the spring/summer/autumnmnmm i play Frisbee once a week (a game known as "Ultimate Frisbee" played internationally)
i also run about 40km a week if there's time (only 30km this week)
and i go surfing no less than twice a week
last weekend was awful- terrible conditions
but after 4 years living in the mid west (miles from any sea)
i will go out in anything resembling a wave, big or little.
despite all this
i still have a double chin
but i'm told my legs are pretty sexy!
donald
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Author: ned
Date: 2004-05-14 06:43
''I must ask as an "Amurrican" ''
Hey Katrina, this is quite observant of you I must say! Of course, you all say ''American'' but we hear ''Amurrican'' when you say the word.
I may add it to my dictionary which I have been compiling for a number of years now. It's a proposed tongue-in-cheek guide to the American language for non-Americans!
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-05-14 06:55
As I suspected, many of you clarinetists are sportive. I'll keep in mind some of the people's way of doing regular work-outs.
One question, what's 'Pilates'?
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2004-05-14 08:20
SynBot wrote: "Cricket is the only sport I know of that can be played for days and end in a tie; when the visiting team runs short of tea."
No, that's a draw, which is very common.
A tie is when both teams end up with exactly the same score, which is very unusual.
Anyway, the home team provides the tea for both sides.
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If there are so many people on this board unwilling or unable to have a civil and balanced discussion about important issues, then I shan't bother to post here any more.
To the great relief of many of you, no doubt.
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-05-14 17:05
Right now I just do light weights or calisthetics with lots and lots of reps. A different body part about every other day. Just to make sure I can maintain some semblance of "athleticism". I also go to the batting machines every once in a while (I've always loved baseball however can't find anyone that seriously wants to make a weekly commitment to getting together and throwing the ball around. Not to mention to play an actual game I'd need a whopping EIGHTEEN dedicated people. Never gonna happen in my town.)
That's pretty much it. I'm a very active person and so I do whatever's around at the moment (anything from horseback riding to swimming to skydiving to rock climbing etc. etc.) but those aren't things I do on a regular basis. Just whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Oh. And I often carry around a bass clarinet and tenor sax every now and then. My left shoulder has grown MUCH stronger over the past year . . .
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Meri
Date: 2004-05-14 18:09
Tennis is the big one for me, and, oddly enough, is also the sport of choice of two of my students and my former teacher.
Meri
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-05-14 23:39
Lucy...Pilates is a form of exersize similar to yoga...it's done on a mat and focuses on strengthening muscles through holding postures. The big difference between it and yoga is that yoga is more than just the physical stuff. I think yoga is more of a life philosophy than anything else...
John Kelly...We sure do talk funny over here, eh??? My question for you (a little off-topic, but oh well...) is how do Australians "hear" British accents?
Katrina
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-05-15 01:55
sfalexi,
Move to South Texas. I've got gloves, a fresh set of baseballs, and a Louisville Slugger ready for me to find someone to play with.
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2004-05-15 02:12
Katrina,
Thanks for the explanation. I'm learning much more than clarinet through this board.
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: ned
Date: 2004-05-15 02:36
''John Kelly...We sure do talk funny over here, eh??? My question for you (a little off-topic, but oh well...) is how do Australians "hear" British accents?''
Again.....you certainly have a refreshing attitude to all of this. As for Brit accents.....they too are different to our ears (mine certainly). I won't go any further off topic , so maybe I'll start a new thread with clarinet/musical terms and comparisions of how you say, how a Brit would say, and how an Aussie might hear them. I'll need a little time though.
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Author: Sartre Heidegger
Date: 2004-05-15 03:18
None at all!
Except Marching Band
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Author: Alphie
Date: 2004-05-15 10:56
Gee, when do some of you guys have time to practice. ![[huh]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie11.gif)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2004-05-15 14:08
Quote:
sfalexi,
Move to South Texas. I've got gloves, a fresh set of baseballs, and a Louisville Slugger ready for me to find someone to play with. At least now I know there are others out there that are willing. Of course if I could find someone a little closer than the 2,000 mile radius it'd be great! But thanks for giving me a chance anyway Ralph!
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2004-05-15 16:42
Katrina wrote: "Pilates is a form of exersize similar to yoga...it's done on a mat and focuses on strengthening muscles through holding postures. "
Your almost right, but...
The matwork part of Pilates is only part of the whole system (not even a quarter). Joseph Pilates also created machines on which to exercise, which are used as part of the whole Pilates system.
"holding postures" is not really done in Pilates, like it is in yoga. Pilates places emphasis on rhythmic movement, co-ordinated with the breath in a fluid manner. You never actually stop and hold a pose, like you would with the Asanas in yoga. The main advantages of Pilates are the development of a strong core, spinal flexibility and precise alignment of the body.
My wife is a Pilates trainer. Although I'd happily spend all day practising, she makes sure I stay in some kind of shape with Pilates exercises!
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Author: Katrina
Date: 2004-05-15 21:14
Liquorice...I knew I was missing something about Pilates...
I should have known I was a little off because the person who most recently explained it to me was wrong with her yoga explanation too!
Katrina
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Author: donald
Date: 2004-05-16 04:15
over here in NZ, a perfect day for sport and clarinet
it went like this
up at 6.30am (sunday morning)
surfing from 7.30 to 10.30
caught at least 4 "all time great rides"
came home
practised the E flat clarinet for about 2 hours
still got another hour of practise to do
but it's great being able to do sport and music
unfortunately during the week it's considerably more difficult
especially as i get older and need more than 6 hours sleep
donald
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Author: Zela
Date: 2004-05-16 04:31
Why worry about yoga or pilates when you could find a whole new way to potentially pull a series of muscles? Many times dancers take preliminary stretching classes prior to whatever routine they do. Up until a couple years ago it was either pilates or yoga. Lately these teachers that used to dominate the dance studios in the early mornings with pilates have been replaced replaced with teachers who focused on Feldenkrais. You thought pilates was killing your back. Even the dancers hate Feldenkrais Method.
I like to keep it simple. Walking through the hallways of the conservatory to rush to practice rooms is enough of a workout. What with carrying my double case, my Eb, and a C for some Rossini (why the obsession with the C clarinet?!?) not too mention me plethora of reed cases, bags of music, and helpful devices, I'd have to say my sport of choice is carrying clarinet equipment to and from places. Not to mention walking about trying to find a place where the stupid cell phones will work.
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Author: Cindy
Date: 2004-05-16 06:23
ummmm.....drum corps *runs and hides*
Don't worry, I practice my clarinet more than the brass!
So many instruments to play........so little time to play them!
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Author: marcia
Date: 2004-05-16 06:31
Dare I ask-what is Feldenkrais?
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2004-05-16 11:12
Feldenkrais - not just for breakfast anymore!
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Author: William
Date: 2004-05-16 16:12
Hey Brenda, here's the edit I just did to my previous posting on "curling":
http://www.usacurl.org/
Hope you enjoy.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2004-05-16 21:59
I practice the old Charles Atlas routine of muscular tension and throw in a little mountain climbing . Recently I've added leg stretches and deep knee bends at the barr. I try to go along with the Twyla Tharp dancers' routine to Philip Glass' music video but it's a bit strenuous.
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Author: Micaela
Date: 2004-05-17 03:29
Ummm, I haven't taken gym class since middle school. I embarrassed myself this year at the Music Department picnic with my atrocious baseball swing. My college requires phys ed, so I will confront Hatha Yoga next fall.
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Author: clarinetpro
Date: 2004-05-17 05:00
kung fu and tai chi........ lol
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Author: Ralph G
Date: 2004-05-17 18:01
clarinetpro,
Gesundheit.
/somebody had to say it
r
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Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it.
- Pope John Paul II
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Author: Tara
Date: 2004-05-18 02:41
Skydiving...
Bungee Jumping...
Scuba Diving...
Lion Taming...
Bull Riding...
Mountain Climbing...
Swimming in shark-infested waters...
Racecar Driving...
Space Travel...
Disco Dancing...
Fire Breathing...
Knife Juggling...
The truth?
I'm more of a spectator. What if I broke a finger?
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Author: cigleris
Date: 2004-05-18 11:51
Don't do sport but enjoy watching the cricket.
Peter Cigleris
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