How were your summers as a teenager?
Were there any absurd things you just delighted in engaging in?
I loved riding my bike. I loved ratting around in the woods. In the summers I loved swimming. I loved the water. In it, there are few as satisfying as a rousing game of tippy canoe!
Tippy canoe is a two person game. Below are the rules as outlined in the Official Handbook of Tippy Canoe Play
Required:
Lake with a drop off
Friend to play with
canoe
Prohibited:
helmets
paddles
life jackets
supervision
How to play:
Both players:
Drag canoe into the lake.
Player 1: Executes that running, jump in and let it glide kinda thing?
While:
Player 2: Runs along side and swims after the canoe eventually holding on to the back and kicking their feet with a futile flailing splash.
(Hold mouth open wide in part grimace part smile. Eyes shut. Head tilted back and to the left)
Player 1: Shuffles towards bow of canoe. Canoe tips and wobbles a bit. Giggles
Player 2: Face makes rapid contact with arse end of canoe. Shouts …
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