Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when a man could win two and three events at the national level has past, and the person who is making this fact most evident is Al Tyll, the Men's National Trick Riding Champion from Litchfield, Connecticut...
...trick event, each stunt has a value assigned to it by the American Water Ski Association. The skier has two passes of twenty seconds each in which to perform as many different tricks as he can. The points are totaled, deductions for bad form are subtracted, and the skier receives a bonus for not falling in either of the two passes. The skier with the highest score wins the event...
...speed and grace are not all that set him apart from the rest of the trick skiers in the world. He has placed in his run the very difficult back-to-back 360 degree turns off the wake on both two and one skis. He has perfected another seldom-seen trick which he might use in the Nationals this coming week-end to run his total for that tournament up to 3795. That very difficult maneuver is the 360 turn off the wake with the bar held...
...bill, then turn tail and nonchalantly swim away, with curses raining down over its wake. Or it will grab the bait sideways in its jaws, neatly avoiding the hook, then spit it back into the water with what seems a shrug of disgust. Skilled fishermen sometimes try to trick a white marlin onto the hook by "racing" the bait (skipping it swiftly along the surface), then suddenly dropping it backward as the openmouthed fish approaches. Even that tactic often fails. "Ain't nothing in the ocean so hard to outguess as a marlin," says one Ocean City charter-boat...
...write that both exhilarates and terrifies him. He is so compulsively chained to his typewriter that he recently decided to consult a psychiatrist to determine what the compulsion is all about. On the other hand, he wakes up every morning in terror, convinced that his writing is "just a trick, and people will get on to it." Television, says he, "is a form not of masochism but of martyrdom. I believe if you survive this, you come out a fantastic human being...