Air Frodo

Went the skatepark this morning with Darryl and I took Frodo along. He loved getting to run around and sniff stuff.

At one point, I was in the park just taking a breather and I saw Frodo up by the parking lot so I hollered to him. He came booking down the approach to the skatepark, just taking the straight line path towards me. What I could see, but he couldn’t, was that his path was taking him right over a 5 foot transition (basically a quarter pipe). There was nothing I could do to stop him, so I just watched as he ran up the small embankment to the edge of the transition and launched into the air. He basically jumped off a 5 foot wall at full speed. He was running at full speed, so his momentum took him out at least six feet from the edge. He made a nice four point landing, but collapsed under his own weight and slid another ten feet or so. When he came to a stop he stood up and kinda looked around, then trotted over to me. Apparently no worse for the wear! Wish I’d had a video camera…

One thought on “Air Frodo

  1. Ouch! I had a cat once that did something like that.

    We had a long walk to some stairs that went down to the road- maybe a total of 12 feet. He sprinted down the walk (it was on a downward slope) and flew off the landing, and landed at the bottom of the stairs. He took a tumble, got up, and looked around, trying to act cool. Funny stuff.

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