one small step for man, one giant leap for tiny hockey player kind

March 6, 2019 2:36 PM

"An extremely steep step felled nearly every member of a Nova Scotia minor hockey team, with each wee leap to the ice ending in a boy-sized pile."
posted by ChuraChura (17 comments total)

Watch that first step - it's a doozy!
posted by NoxAeternum at 2:38 PM on March 6, 2019 [4 favorites]

Feel sorta guilty for how much this made me laugh.

Not that guilty, though.
posted by A Terrible Llama at 2:47 PM on March 6, 2019 [2 favorites]

I love the one about five or six in who sees his fellows try and fail and just goes for the triumphant belly flop.
posted by mercredi at 2:48 PM on March 6, 2019 [6 favorites]

If you like this sort of thing.
(OMG that cheer squad. You can see the bwah-ha-ha in slow motion.)
posted by hydrophonic at 2:48 PM on March 6, 2019 [3 favorites]

They're all wearing pads and seem to take it in stride (hah) so I think in terms of videos of people tripping down stairs, this is probably the one least likely to land you in Hell for chuckling at.

I like how one or two kids decided to really take their time and basically sit down on the step, while others apparently decided to just hurl themselves out the door and onto the ice and work the details out later.
posted by Kadin2048 at 2:49 PM on March 6, 2019 [8 favorites]

to just hurl themselves out the door and onto the ice and work the details out later.

Kadin2048 - that has roughly been my life strategy and it's going swimmingly!
posted by Lizard at 2:54 PM on March 6, 2019 [1 favorite]

I liked the 9th one out - he almost stumbled, recovered, and cheered himself in triumph.
posted by Greg_Ace at 2:55 PM on March 6, 2019 [14 favorites]

The cellies by the couple of kids who manage to keep upright are great.
posted by tavella at 2:55 PM on March 6, 2019 [2 favorites]

I liked the 9th one out - he almost stumbled, recovered, and cheered himself in triumph.

While behind him his comrade lands an enormous and surely deliberate full body plant onto the ice.
posted by howfar at 2:58 PM on March 6, 2019 [4 favorites]

That was a well-deserved self-cheer. I also liked the kid that checked on his teammates, too.
posted by GenjiandProust at 3:03 PM on March 6, 2019 [2 favorites]

This will always be my favorite of the genre.
posted by painquale at 3:19 PM on March 6, 2019 [9 favorites]

If you can't get enough of teeny-tiny hockey players: previously.
posted by maudlin at 4:42 PM on March 6, 2019

Oh, Canada.
posted by Abehammerb Lincoln at 5:28 PM on March 6, 2019 [2 favorites]

What a lousy arena design, the parents to the right are all at normal height. Here’s hoping Hockeyville or whatever goes and fixes that situation.
posted by furtive at 7:23 PM on March 6, 2019 [1 favorite]

Ugh, the video is inaccessible in that article on Chrome on Android, because the survey required to see the video has options that go beyond its container, and it doesn't scroll.
posted by limeonaire at 8:18 PM on March 6, 2019 [1 favorite]

This will always be my favorite of the genre.

That last kid was totally just playing along. And why not?
posted by traveler_ at 8:23 PM on March 6, 2019 [1 favorite]

Apparently they all chose not to receive the offered adult assistance down to the ice.
posted by Brocktoon at 3:46 AM on March 7, 2019