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When I was in elementary school, the playgrounds were still allowed to have teeter totters made out of wood that went more than a foot high. My friends and I would play on them all of the time, but after awhile we got tired of just going up and down. We especially got tired of the person on the other side jumping off when they were at the bottom and they were at the top! We would do a free fall drop and land hard on our rear ends (probably the main reason for the change in design over the years). So, we started to find creative ways of playing on these playground devices. We would each take a teeter totter and stand in the middle with one foot on either side of the middle bar. We would then bring up the low side slowly and attempt to level off the board. This took some serious practice because if one side starting going down too quickly, it was hard to stop the momentum. If you were able to stop it, it took so much force that it ...