Jay Reeve

hold until the things are overflowing and then it'd be like eight kids behind just let the thing go and you'd all get fucking flushed out at the bottom they're like I told you not to do that it's such a rush yeah you know where they're not you're gonna drown make it out alive like fuck what was going on I would love I've always romanticized the idea of having a hydra slide or a big slide that went into a river at the back of the farm but obviously then it would it'd make you know you couldn't just fucking put soap in it because it would fuck everything in the river it's available

But we had this perfect part.

And at the back of our farm, we had the stream, which was the Tipuna stream, which basically was the boundary of our farm.

And there's a big sort of a gully side that went down to it.

And I spent years during primary school designing slides and figuring out that

that you could put a, there's like a liner that goes into silage pits or a silage pit cover that goes over.

It's like a real thick polythene.

I was like, that'd be fucking awesome if we were to put it into that.

And then eventually we tested one out at my cousin's farm and it's so fucking hard for the

is so hard that you just get absolutely battered through this plastic shit like I don't you'd have to have like foam down or something underneath it to make it not so brutal because you go like the clappers are just fucking like going over the corridor yeah not as enjoyable as doing it on like a nice like green lawn backyard for a slip and slide and my cousin's one because he had it out on Christmas day went straight through this massive patch of like Californian thistle so he's like if you're a little bit heavier it's a tough

There's lots of lakes around the city.

There's so many hydro slides that used to be there too.

Anyway, so our family friend Dave Mack.

Stab of the duck, wild.

He's an engineering genius and was chaos too.

His idea of a good time was seeing how far you could flick the person on the biscuit up into the tea tree on the side of the fucking lake.

Fuck, that's wild.

Yeah, he was pretty chaotic.

He's still a massive motorcyclist, rides all around the country doing big motorcycle tours on those big enduro setups.

anyway because he was all about pace and he's always been all about pace he was like what you want to do is you want to turn yourself into a bobsled so lying on your back using your shoulder blades is the only things touching the thing at the top and your heels and then your body arch he's like you'll go faster he's telling us like me and my mates the other mates about similar age to me and some teenage bloke was standing behind us obviously eavesdropping