|
February 23, 2003
Suberidai - θδ
One of the things I love most about living abroad is the little surprises that I run into on a regular basis. A few weekends ago I went to Nagoya to catch up with some old friends, and one of my friends there brought me to a giant θδ (suberidai) somewhere in Gifu. This is a §hΘθδBCan you believe the size of this thing? It's freakin nuts... 
The slide works on metal rollers. The rollers reminded me of the portable transportation sleds that are used for moving cardboard boxes and empty lunch trays... It kinda makes you feel like a piece of meat when riding... There are mats available at the park for people using the slide. Without the mats, the slide with bake your rear as you descend. The thing is -so- fast. Once you get going there is no hope of stopping until you get to the bottom... really. 
After talking to some friends I learned that slides like this are pretty common in Japanese parks actually. I would have loved to ride one of these when I was a kid in the states. I wonder why we don't have any? Or... maybe we do and we just don't have any in Iowa... 
Anyway. Good stuff. If you're in Japan, ask around until you can find a kiddo park and crash the suberi-dai. Great fun not to be missed. Free too. -Harvey 
Comments
すごいなー、立派だな
My advice is...don't ever ride one of these things in the rain. I went to a park in Hakone about five years ago that had one of these things and really wanted to try it out. But a light rain had been falling all day, and the ride operator said "noranai hou ga ii". At the time I took this to mean, "Well, it probably would not be best to ride this now, but if you really want to...", so after little more pleading they let me ride. As I expected, the rain made it go faster. So much faster, in fact, that I flew clear past the soft landing mat prepared at the end, and landed hard on my hands and ass on the concrete. Later, my wife said that what the ride operator was really saying was "you'd be an idiot to ride this now!", but was just too polite to refuse me, and that any Japanese person would have gotten the hint. What do other Japanese people think? Posted by: joepet on February 23, 2003 08:06 PMI always wondered why we never had these cool roller slides in America too. Posted by: mdchachi on February 23, 2003 09:54 PMYeah! They had a sign up on the slide that said that you shouldn't ride it after a rainfall... It said it would be slippery.. but I didn't imagine it would be -that- crazy. Cool... hopefully I can get up there again after it rains... Mwahahha. Posted by: Harvey on February 24, 2003 06:59 AMI've seen this thing in Monterrey, Mexico. But it's nothing compared to this one in size. I hope I have a chance to try it some time.. Thumbs up!!! Posted by: adityo & shiuny on February 26, 2003 10:03 PMLOL @ the story about the rain! I would love to go on one of these, but I don't know where they are... perhaps these *huge* slides are more common toward the rural areas, because of the availability of land? I mean, you wouldn't find these in Shinjuku. (Or would you? Haven't been in Tokyo for six years.) Posted by: Iku Kawachi on February 27, 2003 01:17 AMNope, won't find them in Tokyo Iku! Don't think so anyway... Wow, Adityo, Mexico has got them too? America is missing out. If I were still young (haha), and lived near one of those things, I would be there everyday! Posted by: Harvey on February 27, 2003 07:52 AMSlides are outstanding! Posted by: Mr. Slide on March 2, 2003 08:17 AMtesting Posted by: Harvey on March 7, 2003 09:32 AMSome say yes but some say no but as a matter of fact it is the best site on the net Posted by: Free mature sex movies on October 22, 2004 11:06 PMComment?
|
|||||||