I’m kind of taking the week off from posting on Skate and Annoy, but I’m not being lazy. I’m actually working on the back end of S&A, cleaning up some code and CSS, preparing to dump all the old static content into the the database. It’s annoying and slow going, but also long overdue. So watch this video of wacky germans who have invented a sport that combines streetstyle and freestyle skateboarding with the art of sitting on a stool. And not just any stool, it’s got to be a stupid expensive sport stool. Anything goes as long as you land on the stool. I thought it was a well executed parody, but a search on Youtube reveals way too many Hockern enthusiasts to be a hoax. Extreme sports stool! You will feel like loose stool after watching this video.
[Source: Gizmodo] – Thanks to Seth Grossman and Aaron Polansky for the tip.
25 comments
cri crow
Finally, a sport that favors those born with a ball-sac and pair of vulnerable, sensitive reproductive organs.
iain
A HUNDRED EUROS? They’re modelled on the “Tam Tam” stool, made by habitat, which sells for about twelve euros.
http://hyggenook.com/2009/01/design-classic-tam-tam-stool-from-habitat.html
jaguilar
i just shit my pants!!
mezmer
Just wait until I share my new sport that mixes Break Boarding & Hockern. You will be jealous.
talentlessquitter
Haaa,lol!
orezona
Rollerbladers now have people they can legitimately make fun of.
Slit
What’s the worst thing about being a Hockerer? Telling a rollerblader you’re gay.
conahan
Is there a longboard version?
bailgun
it’s a barstool.
frank
are you kidding me? people really do this? i was hoping it to be a joke but i guess its for real. why cant people just ride a skateboard
talentlessquitter
Damn! Why haven’t I seen this before? Know thy neighbors.
Another group of people selling a passtime as a sport.Reminds me of those ‘pro’ Jojo clowns from the 80’s.
I like the moves though,but I wouldn’t want to be seen in public with it.
More gently on the ankles (as opposed to landing on four small wheels…) but you need buns o’ steel.
The Shralper
backside boneless 1:31
talentlessquitter
I think it falls into the floor gymnastics category.The germans have always been good at it,just like that wacky indoor bicycle soccer.
john e
Apparently the object is to do basically anything as long as it ends with you sitting on the hockern in some sort of rap pose with a really smug look on your face. I guess this is no more stupid than the hoola hoop, right?
Eric
I would have thought the United States would have been the first to make a sport out of sitting down. We’ve all failed!
sol
Hock n’ Drop, Porta-Hockern like…
lou sassel
Lame
jer
sit and destroy
ssk
Add a lid and you’ve got an Xtreme chamber pot.
Prickly Pete
Has anyone seen the too hot for You Tube doubles routine? Extreme man-on-man lapsitting!
Tito
this is the all time weener of all things horrible
marek
its just rip off
this is original:)))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYbCuarCTzc
conahan
House of Flying Stools
talentlessquitter
These guys are no longer welcome in Home Depot or Ikea.
Stool ‘n Annoy!
sandor
At least now we know how the rest of the world sees askateboard: as a prop to facilitate public dancing in by purportedly non-gay men…