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My X-Treme Paragliding Terror Longbow
My XPTL Imagine a sport so extreme and intense that your children’s children are going to have flashbacks of when you attempted it. I now introduce the “X-Treme Paragliding Terror Longbow” (XPTL). A sport only for those who have the testicular fortitude to compete in. The sport is divided into three different portions. Paragliding, snowboarding, and Longbow that are all judged on three separate areas. The first one would be skill, the second is style, and the third and final is on points. I am here to define the sport’s three sections and sum it up into the sport as its own. Here in the first section of XPTL is the paragliding portion. Most people know what paragliding is I would assume, but for those who haven’t got the slightest idea I
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