Showing posts with label Schloss Phillipsruhe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schloss Phillipsruhe. Show all posts

Monday, December 15, 2008

Part 10: Schloss Philippsruhe (September 1990)

Schloss Phillipsruhe near Hanau, Germany

On the day we visited, there was a big festival on the grounds of the schloss. Since everyone was out at the fest, hardly anyone was inside. This allowed me the perfect opportunity to learn practical momentum skills. I learned if you run fast in your pressed wool slippers, you can slide really far on slick inlaid floors. I must have slid 15-20 feet at speeds up to 95mph. Very good exercise to strengthen tower climbing muscles. As time went by this became my primary warm up excercise (whenever there was a suitable floor nearby).

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Most people are afraid to go 95mph in their slippers. Admit it I am FEARLESS.