Freestyle Walking

Ok, so this one is specific to me and my friends, but it was fun as hell and maybe it will spark some sort of creativity?

Anyway, when we were in 8th and 9th grade, we bought Soap Shoes (shoes made for grinding rails, ledges, etc):

Let me tell you, we were bad at using them. Not only were we bad, we were EXTREMELY wussy. We would only grind ledges and benches that were level or at a very shallow slope. So naturally, we created a website to show off our "skillz." We created the site, got advertisers (illegally of course since we were too young to make money -- it was ok though, everything we signed up for had this kid jared's name on it -- we were safe), and then got listed on yahoo.

Naturally, "freestyle walking," being an interesting new fad at the time, and our website being the only one that actually had an intuitive layout and real pictures, we started getting hits. We decided to take down the advertisements after we all made enough money to cover the cost of our shoes.

Then, I decided to make a freestyle walking game. If you happen to have a mac running os 9 or earlier, you can probably still download the game by searching google for "Freestyle Walking 1.5" (1.5 being a TOTALLY arbitrary number of course). It was the worst game in the world. I made it in a program where you didn't have to have any programming skill, all of the code was automatically written as you chose your options for the game. The graphics were drawn in something similar to MS Paint. However, when it was all said and done, the website had almost 100,000 hits, and the game had been downloaded over 30,000 times. Unfortunately, hypermart.net decided to take away its free hosting, and with it went the website. After a while, download.com deleted freestyle walking 1.5 from its database, although, like I said, some mirrors picked it up and it can still be found.

Freshman year of college, before the site was deleted, we decided to resurrect it. We used all the traffic that the site was still generating and created the most inane freestyle walking video possible and then laughed at all the hate mail we received telling us how EXTREMELY gay we were (most went in to much more explicit detail). We figure that many people wanted to show their friends about freestyle walking, took the time to download the 10 meg video and then were embarrassed when they saw us running around in the snow in our underwear and aquasocks.