BIG SANDBOARD MOUNTAIN Madness! Some would call them fearless, others would say they were plain,simple f@$#ing mad. But when Dad, Crash Test and Problem Child decided to sandboard the rock quarry in Benoni, they were adamant they were going to succeed! The first run was through a rock gully, a perfect start to the day. With a few fellow team members watching the proceedings, Dad opted to accomplish the goal first. What we heard from down below was rocks tumbling, boards being destroyed and language that would give parrots a lot to talk about. Occasionally we saw Dad's head popping up from behind the rocks, sometimes we saw his board, or his feet, or his hands -- it just depended on how he had tumbled in that specific section of the run. But he completed the run and, like a trooper, still had enough in him to give a "horns" for the camera

Next down was Problem Child, who although hasn't been sandboarding as long as the other two, gave them both a run for their money -- especially in the swearing department. He too had a run that involved tumbling rocks, getting stuck under fallen trees and inspecting boulders up close and personal after falling face first into them (thank God for helmets, hey guys?). At the end of the run, the relief was clear -- he had lived through the quarry. Last, but certainly not least, came Crash Test. And he lived up to his nick, as he tested the crashing ability of human bodies on practically any hard surface that crossed his path. His run was also filled with tumbles, grunts and groans and the eventual two-minute-long barrage of ridicule for the forces of nature that had inspired them to do the run in the first place. At the end of the run he also had some very colourful words to say, along with some very interesting tales of the various boulders he encountered on the way down. But the fun did not end there -- Dad and Crash Test (Problem Child opted out of the second run due to rather serious knee and elbow injuries incurred on the gully run) made their way back to the top of the quarry again to face the ultimate challenge -- a sheer face consisting only of loose rocks and very little else. This was considered by many at the day to be the dumbest, most insane thing that PureRush had ever tried to accomplish -- they would be boarding on an almost sheer rock face and one wrong move would have resulted in serious injuries, if they survived. But survive they did. After kissing his puppies, Crash Test assaulted the face with vigor and contempt and made his way to the bottom in perfect Crash Test form (like a clown with an electric eel in his pants). A few moments of terror were shared with the crowd as he discovered that the "little" drop-offs were not as little as we had anticipated -- some were as high as two-and-a-half meters, down onto sheer rock. On a wing and a prayer, Crash Test overcame these with minimal skidmarking, and gracefully tumbled the rest of the route to the bottom. Dad took the same gung-ho approach to the challenge, launching into the most spectacular drop in we have seen in a while. His landing was a bit less graceful than the launch, but he recovered well and continued down to the enormous rock drops that had stopped Crash Test in his tracks. He too stopped in his tracks. And swore. And then dropped like a wingless bird into the treacherous falls. And he survived. He swore some more, and then continued the rest of the way to the bottom of the run -- yet another victor of the mountain. Once back at the cars, the intrepid boarders compared scars and laughed at their antics, all the while relishing in the adrenaline of staring Death in the face and giving him the finger. Well done guys! You embody PureRush -- Be fearless! View video with windows media player or any other aplication that plays windows media files. . The recomended player is windows media player 9. The codec for Windows media player 9 is available below. .................................................................................... Download video media player 9      3.86MB Download video media codec         823 KB .................................................................................... Dune Madness small 2.39  MB medium 5.38  MB