| Stories of the Aqua Addicts | |
|---|---|
| Guys' Ballet Line | Todd Swivels he he he |
| Search & Recovery Skiing | Matt's Great Save |
| Like a Rock | Story of "The Wave" |
It was a day, not so very long ago, back in the summer of '96. The Aqua Girls were just beginning to learn hop docks (hopping of the dock on one ski), many were beginning to complain that it was too hard. They said, "Todd we can't do this why don't we just drop a ski?" Matt said to the girls "It isn't that hard." But they did not believe him. So he told me that he and I would do it to show them how easy it was. I said that I had never done them before but I would give it a try. So we went out and we did it. Thus began a scary thing, guys forming a ballet line. It is ugly it is scary but to this day only two guys, who we no longer acknowledge as guys, on the Aqua Addicts has ever missed a hop dock, ever. Knocked out the whole line while they were out there, yes; looked like fools, yes; but missed a hop dock, never.
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Swiveling is reserved for the Aqua Girls. But Todd has swiveled, just to say he has done it, I think, I hope, I pray. It was not pretty, it was not graceful, it was not alone, but he did do it. One day he went out behind the boat with his brother skiing beside him on two skis and spotting him, and Todd completed a toe turn. He was not even marginally as good as the swivel skiers on our team. Sorry Todd, its true!
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Once upon a lake, we were skiing on double
wides and I let go. I was in deep water but
strangely enough I was standing on something!
It took some convincing but people finally
believed that I was standing on something.
I had to jump up and down on it to convince
them but in time they believed. I was standing
on a wheel. Soon we found the other one.
By this time we had concluded that this was
an upside down dock that's wheels were five
feet underwater. Later we found out that
it was the neighbors dock which had been
taken in a tornado a few years back. Anyway
we hooked a rope up to it and drug it around
with the boat so that we wouldn't catch ropes
on it later. After the boat had gone around
is circles a few times, a humorous site in
itself the dock surfaced, like JAWS, and
followed the boat close to shore. We then
used our own might to bring it even closer.
We flipped it over and now its sits on the
lot doing very little of note.
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It was the final pyramid of one of our first
year shows. We left the dock but one of our
girls decided that she wanted off. She fell
off into the water and here our story would
end but Matt grabbed her by the arm just
as she was about to hit the water. He pulled
her up to his skis and then she climbed up
to the top of that three high.
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It is not entirely out of the ordinary to hear singing from the bottom of a large pyramid at an Aqua Addicts practice, or show for that matter! One of the old favorites (right up there with Row, Row, Row your boat) is "Like a Rock". So if ever you are standing on the shore of a lake and you hear someone singing "Like a Rock" it may not be an old Chevy Truck commercial playing on someone's VCR, no it just might be the Aqua Addicts putting up a big pyramid.
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In 1997, I saw a sight I will never forget;
a sight known to Aqua Addicts as "THE
WAVE". It all happened when a group
of Aqua Addicts were trying to put up a four
tier pyramid. The girls climbed higher and
higher as the men on the bottom saw a great
wave in the distance. Being the ignorant
fools that we were we thought to ourselves,
"If we just bend our knees we should
be OK." HA!!
The girls climbed higher and higher and the
men became more uneasy as they began to realize
that this was no ordinary wave. I being a
middle base was indeed worried. But we all
thought we would be able to gut it out. HA! HA!
The 4 foot wave hit the boat and the boat
hopped out of the water, propeller and all.
At this point we all realized we were in
great peril. As we hit this huge monstrosity
the pyramid collapsed in on itself. Three
people landed on me alone! The moral of the
story is: If you are building a pyramid and
you see "THE WAVE" or one of its
siblings, BAIL BAIL BAIL!!!!!
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