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About two year ago, my three younger siblings (they're 13, 9, and 7 now) and I were waiting on my mother to finish up some copies at Kinko's. A great big place, it was. So of course we started bugging each other, stepping on each other's feet and whatnot. It turned out to be fun, and I formalized it
as a game.
If the other person was prone to running away, the two combatants would interlace fingers; otherwise, hands went behind the back. Every time you stepped on the other person's toe or foot, you recieved a point. If the other person fell down in the course of trying to stomp your toe, you recieved two points. And vice versa. Two skilled players (like my 9-year-old brother and myself) playing a game of ToeStomp look much like a pair of Riverdancers having a tiff.
Great fun, and no equipment required! Sneakers reccomended, as sandals are foolhardy, slippers and clogs fly off like nobody's business, and a hobnailed boot to the instep often offends.
Shin Kicking. A related idea from the Cotswold Olympics
http://www.truebrit...v/shin_kicking.html
[gnomethang, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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[Eugene] I can't believe your misfortune. What looks like a great game has already been baked, by you, roughly a year ago. |
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The horror! You are technically--no, without a doubt--correct. Even so, it's such a great game that I would like to offer it to the masses that it may be widely baked. |
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My brother and I used to do this, but as you said, just for fun. Here's a plus for foramlizing things people do to annoy each other. |
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Funny thing, my little brother (the 7-year-old) *begs* me to play the game with him. |
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For added danger: Try stomping on each others' tongue. |
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That would complicate the game uneccessarily. But a good player always has an excellent grasp of the language. So to speak. |
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So where's the other idea? (Well, never mind. I don’t think you should be able to halfbake yourself. Especially when the idea produces such a fine spectacle.) |
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I was really hoping this would be a scaled down version of the musical show "Stomp!". |
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[BrauBeaton]: That'd be called MaledicToe. |
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I played a toe-stomping game a while back with some Australians. It had quite formal rules, and they told me it was widely played in Oz. It's a multi-player game (at least 3 people). You all stand in a circle, and then each person in turn can move *just 1 foot*. You can also move a foot in response to a stomp-attempt by another player, but otherwise you must keep your feet still. Moving a foot out of turn was a foul. The game combined the thrilling danger of imminent toe-breakage with the tie-yourself-in-knots hilarity of Twister. |
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Ow. I couldn't just stand there and take it. |
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