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I never heard the rider who hit me. She had ridden up behind me, silent as a mime and WHAM! in the back of the head with a pillow that felt like a lead cosh.
I sprawled in an ungainly heap in the dirt, feeling foolish. It had seemed like an easy assignment... report on the sport of PedalPillow,
or pillowfighting on bicycles.
These guys were experts and angling for it to be officially included as a demonstration sport at the 2012 Olympics, in London.
Singles, Doubles and 4-hand Team matches are played, on a circular arena 50, 75 or 100 metres across. Pillows must conform to IPP standards, weighing no more than a kilogram (2.2 lb) and no blow may be struck with any part of the body or cycle.
Apart from that it was a free-for-all, with a player losing a game after being "Downed", or knocked from their mount five times, with the winner to be two "Downs" ahead to win the game. First to five games won the set; best of three sets. Blindfolds all around if a tie-breaker proved necessary (first "Down" wins); No tie-breaker in the final set.
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By the sounds of it this is a co-ed sport, so I am up for the challenge of putting on wheels the ongoing pillow fight with either bliss or po. I'll be oiling up the essential components of the trusty old two-wheeler whilst awaiting word of the time and place of my first match.
<Thwack! Canuck receives a sharp blow from a stealth pillow to the left side of his face and falls awkwardly, nearly bending his crankarm. po rides away, snickering derisively>
"What have I gotten myself into?" Canuck thinks to his elf. |
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Hmmm - neutral vote, I'm afraid. It would have to be "Off-piste nude mixed doubles bicycle pillowfighting to a George Clinton backing track" to get a positive vote out of me today. |
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I just assumed a George Clinton backing track. |
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I was thinking more of a Pyotr Tchaikovsky backing track, but George Clinton would work. |
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[hippo], I considered it but it just got too complicated when I introduced the birch switches, rubber chickens, chihuahuas, marshmallow cannons and tequila that it was going to need if I did the off-piste nude mixed doubles bicycle pillowfighting thing. |
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You know how it is when you have these ideas. |
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I shall give you a very rare puddin-croissant, and I don't think I need to give a reason. Bravo. |
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However, for fear of it turning into a brawl, I may have to favor a slightly more decorous bicycle-pillow jousting version. |
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I had forgotten about this one. Now I remember why I loved it so. |
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