Beware

Last saturday I went to try out for the new American Gladiators (yes thats right the show will be back in january) and here is my story.

It was a beautiful Sat. morning and my friend and I wake up early and head of to the famous Golds Gym in Venice Beach, CA, were the try outs are being held. The line doesn't start until 7 am so we show up at a quarter to 7 and find that we are the second people in line. We stand around and talk for a while and around 7:30 people start to show up. At around 9 am we are escorted to the try out area and are instructed on what it is that we will be doing, it was kind of like a mini obstacle course- as many over hand pull ups as you can do in 30 sec, 10 up and downs, karaoke ladder, and then we had to run 10 feet touch a cone then run back and touch another 5 times. After this I was exhausted. I did a quick interview and then had one more task, the 40 yard dash. As it turns out the 40 would be my down fall. I line up at the starting line and they yell "GO!". I take off running as fast as I can. About 20 yards in I can feel my upper body start to get ahead of myself and then it happens. My foot slips right out from under me and I go plowing right it to the asphalt at full speed. I pop back up finish the 40 and then look myself over. What I saw was gruesome.

The following pictures are what I looked like after I drove home and cleaned my wounds. They are not for the squeamish.