The Flow? Hintern runter! It is a Rush! Day 4

Today we left the college at about a quarter to ten - perfect sunshine and a high blue sky...ideal conditions for our free climbing activities.The destination was a not too far section of the city forest near Haus Salem.The spot was again quite unique - almost mystical....who knows what our ancestors were doing in this magnificient rock formation one thousand years ago.

When we arrived most of the ropes had already been put into place by Christian and our early-hour volonteer team! Thank you guys - great job.

Christian taught us the first basic steps of how to lower oneself from a not so high up position and once we had gotten the knack of it he moved us way up to the highest spot...roughly 60 feet straight down.

We took turns and then another rope was secured and two of us could descend at the same time...some even managed to do it in large "jumps" and reached the button quite fast.

Finally it was time to experience the flow in and through the body....Christian had created a sixty yard or longer Seilbahn - straight down from the top and onto a tree in the distance...the "falling" speed was quite high and it took two people plus a third emergency rope to break the downward rush.The patterns were the same at each launch:once a student was ready to let go - the rest of us fell silent..one second,two seconds and maybe even a short third second....and then bang! a loud metallic click had abruptly stopped the happy traveller and sure enough laughter and chatter erupted once again - until the next launch,and the next etc. until almost all of us had experienced this drug free kick - the ultimate FLOW!!

We broke out into thankful applause for Jenny,Till and Christian...packed the gear into the vans and headed straight to Mac Donalds!

Project 19: "The Flow reloaded" was a wonderful experience for most or should I say all of us and we look forward to our live presentation this coming Monday Feb. 2,2009