Thing you tried to do in real life

In middle school, my friends and I tried to figure out how to make a gondola out of an inner tube, a dish sled, and a broom so we could float down a nasty creek. We managed to float for a while and we avoided getting tetanus from submerged shopping carts.
 
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Similar story to a few others, I took up skateboarding after getting Tony Hawk Pro skater for the Playstation at Christmas. I actually got pretty good at it, this trick was my favorite to do:
I haven't touched a skateboard in 10 years.
 
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I was the kid who was convinced I just had to watch enough kung-fu movies and I'll be a kung-fu master in no time. I think I still am that kid at heart. Learning kung fu would be rad.

Aberforth said:
For much of my teenage years, I tried to skateboard. Never had the coordination to even pop a successful ollie. Kind of want to try longboarding now.
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You should! I love longboarding. I can ride a regular board provided that it has large-ish wheels but my coordination is pretty shit and I haven't figured out any tricks besides "not falling". Hoping to change that soon.
 
When I was 14, me and some friends snuck out to watch Rocky Horror at a theatre near our houses. After we got ungrounded, a few of us tried to reenact the time warp scene, which mostly resulted with us all get frustrated with each other. It's rather embarrassing to look back on, and I'm pretty sure we only liked it because we weren't supposed to see it. In hindsight though, the place was pretty sleazy, and I'm surprised they didn't ask for an ID or anything, being that most of us looked even younger than we were.
 
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When I was kid, I tried to do the Mary Poppins fly. I got my umbrella and stood on the top of a tall slide. I felt hard to the ground, cried a little and then went to the sandbox to build a pyramid.
Back in the early to mid 10s, my best friend and I were obsessed with the LOTR and The Hobbit. We went trekking to a forest and took to home two big sticks to build a bow, she built it but my parents threw it away.
 
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In my mid-twenties, myself and a few friends tried forming a Jethro Tull tribute band. Called ourselves Jack Frost and the Hooded Crows after the title of one of their songs. We played at a few clubs that allowed live music, we got lukewarm/decent reception and it just kinda fizzled out after three or four nights. It was fun, short lived but kinda dumb as well.
 
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I was maybe six and jumped off a balcony just like I'd seen heroes do in movies. The ground was a lot harder than they make it seem on screen. No major injuries, but I never did that again.
 
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When Kenshin was airing on Toonami back in the early 2000s, I think I honestly gave real attempts to try and even believed Anji's Futae No Kiwami could actually be a thing.

Good thing someone told me how stupid it was before I wound up breaking my knuckles.
 
When I was learning to drive in a parking lot, I instinctively shifted the car from forward into reverse as fast as in video games and nearly gave my mom and I whiplash. Got yelled at pretty bad.
 
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When I was seven I tried to fly like they do in Super Mario World with a cape. I jumped from my tree house. I didn't break anything, but I got grounded from the Super Nintendo for a month.
 
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