Respekt!! Stefan Raab!


TV Total Turmspringen, live from the olympic hall in munich. Very entertaining. Single diving and synchron diving from the 3-m. Who dove? Actors, sports people, comedians. They were quite brave, doing all kinds of dives with varying difficulty, and skill(!), some with only four days preparation!
[excuse any garblewarble, I'm dead tired right now, will look over when awake]

They were good enough. I'm anew astounded that Stefan Raab manages to pull up something like that, and how professional he is about it. They followed the official rules for diving, had qualified judges from the sport, trainers, judges, alumni. The participants really made an effort - no fun jumping or anything silly, real dives!
They did two rounds to qualify for the final, and then two final rounds. Same in the synchronous. After the official presentation of prizes they had a "Mut-Springen", a dare so to speak, to jump head first from the 10m tower. Don't underestimate that - I'm reckless and fond of water but haven't gotten over the 5-m yet, so there. My deep respect! They all had guts, even some who definitely are unsportyness personified (Lukas Hilbert who earned major plus points here) or suffer acrophobia (Elton, and that's being afraid of height. He sync jumped something he hadn't even done once before!!!).

They had fun, some made good dives, others fucked up royally. The crowd loved them all the same, if only "for going out there and falling on your face" to quote Stefan. He himself fell badly on his back which turned bright red in return, a musician (Ben) hit the water face first, sporting a red cheek afterwards. Another still had a black eye from the training and a girl had her thigh bruised. The water is very hard when you hit it wrong, so it's not Pillepalle what they did. It was grand entertainment.

Moderating forces were Ingolf Lück, Sonya Kraus and Olli Pocher, the latter was wickedly talked into doing the dare-jump by his colleagues and the crowd. He did it, like a couple of the others, and he wasn't the only one who could be seen shaking, with a sinking belly. First mentioned ended the day by jumping off the tower with his suit still on.
There were true Rampensäue everywhere - the comments reached from lovingly over naughty and rude to crude, i.e.:
- "That's yesterday's bruise" (on a young girls thigh)- "It could also be cellulitis or a burst varicose vein" (Olli Pocher)
- "Let's see how it will spray in the audience when the girls are jumping" (Ingolf Lück; where spray in german would be a rude form of ejaculating)

Soloists ~ Winner: Lucy from the No Angels Pop group. Only girl in the finals! They played the wrong hymn, though, hehe.


Synchronous ~ Winner: two handball professionals. Males with blessed bodies! They were really in sync, after all handball is a group sport and they are used to coordinating their moves.

--> read about it in german or watch clips on Stefan's homepage www.tvtotal.de! (pictures their ®™)

Posted: Fr - Dezember 17, 2004 at 03:34 Uhr      

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