Here are a collection of quotes that Ratfeeders the world over mostly in response to "how do you feed your rat?" or "what drives you to feed your rat." We reckon that what you guys have written says more about Feed The Rat than we could ever write, so here goes...
"Just because something has been done before is no reason not to do it too." Luke
"When I climb, I just can't stop smiling. it makes me soooooo happy." Emma
"Pushing my own limits physically and mentally overcoming my own obstacles and focusing entirely on what I am doing right now." Nynne.
"When you meet your true love, you don't think, 'I love her because she is beautiful or funny or generous or has blonde hair or..., you just know that the whole person is one irresistibly perfect package. Climbing is the non-human equivalent of that feeling. It is just one irresistibly perfect activity for me and I am passionate about it."
"When you finally get up a climb that you thought there was no way that you could possibly do when you first tried it, it makes you realize how everything else in life is possible too no matter how hard it seems at first if you just give it everything you have got and don't give up." Mikkel
"I am a Pro - Skier and Dirt Bag living out of my 23 foot RV in the Whistler parking lot and eating from the foodbank. I ski 200 days a year and love every fuckin’ minute of it. I met another person at the food bank who told me about Feed The Rat. I am a rat". Steve L
“I get my action through the lens! Your action is my action. Your beauty my beauty. Your inspiration my inspiration as well”.
“You can’t leave the rat hanging buddy, or it will curl up and die, and so will you!!! To feed the rat is to truly LIVE”...
“Cos I love it.... Adrenaline is my favourite intoxicant! Feed me.... Feed the rat”!
“Hi Ratfeeders. I’ve just read Brett Rapp’s story and I think he's a pussy. Try walking down the falls road in Belfast with a union jack on the back of your tee-shirt singing god save the queen. Now that's fucking feed the rat-tastic. Wanna fight”? Adrian
“Life is about feelings. Feelings of joy. My greatest interest is cave-diving, followed by all other types of diving, including deep free-diving. I guess the main reason for diving in caves is simply to "boldly go where no man has gone before". And the reason for being under water I cannot really explain. I just feel I belong there”.
"No ethics, no morals, no conscience, no guilt." Dwain
“I am a mad runner, ultra runner, and hash house harrier. Have run 25 marathons to date, plus 10 ultra-marathons (ranging from 50K to 50 miles), and hash house harriers events all over the world. Also love adventures, camping, and travel in general and think your page, concept and design is brilliant!”.
“I get off on photography 'cos I get to meet every different kind of person it's possible to poke a lens at, and 'cos it takes me to the most beautiful and most mind-blowing corners of the world. After all - "An idea that isn't dangerous isn't worthy of being considered an idea at all..." - Oscar Wilde.
“I am a paragliding instructor in Santa Barbara California. I love to push the limits of flight and to teach others the sport”.
“When I started climbing and skiing I viewed it as a break from normal existence. Now, after many climbs I view the rest of life as the break from true living. True living is doing that which you love”.
“Padding for a 6ft wave a Burleigh heads on the gold coast dropping into the pit with the wave sucking up under your feet and hitting the bottom so hard, then producing so much speed as the water curls over your head its unbelievable”.
“There’s no other feeling like it. That’s how I feed my rat. FIND IT, FEED IT, LIVE IT”.
“Cause it inspires me to seek out new adventures and avoid the ordinary!”.
“I get off on what I am into.... there is a need inside of me that is not ready to get "normal". I love the learning aspect and the challenge. Using ALL that I have to keep me alive. Ski to die and live to ski”.
“If I don’t do something crazy like, I get tried and depressive. It’s a good reason to climb, paddle, and jump out of perfectly good planes”.
“Off piste snowboarding in France. Surfing off Wales or Newquay. In line skating in Manchester. Water skiing in Washington DC. Adrenaline keeps me in the game!”.
“It makes my head rush and my heart pound”.
“I love snowboarding and I get a boosted feeling of freedom and occasionally find that stillness when you’re hooking thru the air but spinning real slow its like in slow motion”.
“Skiing and climbing for me is a way of conquering the mountains. I have an endless crave to be on the summit of every mountain I see”.
“Whether it's wet, dry, cold, hot, extreme or not so... Whenever I'm outdoors pushing my limits I feel more alive than I did yesterday!”.
“I love being outdoors getting amongst it. Challenging myself to go bigger, higher, faster. You can’t beat the rush”.
“Surf, snow, sex, it’s all about the sensation”.
“Because I love it all ... paddling, climbing, riding powder, drinking beer, sex, travel”.
“I love snowboarding among other things. Mainly because you get to move at high speed across all sorts of terrain gives me a greater sense of freedom”.
“Skydiving? Because it makes me feel alive”.
“Escapism and I love a challenge, to try something I don't think I can do, if I don't pull it off, try again. If I do, do it again to make sure it wasn't a fluke!!!”.
“Dear boys, I've been rat-fucked and made wretched by every anal obsessed rat - dictator in Australia. I've ridden down hills, fallen off cliffs, swum with sharks, and all I want now is four of your fantastic feedtherat transfers and tee shirts.
How much and how do I get it? Proud, insane, money, inspirational, all words that represent all the very best of the hungers that feed aquatic and terrestrial rodents and their kind.
I have been an ice hockey player, short track speed skater, back land X country skiing, and well I do like the thin air of Italian mountains. And now I like the quiet live of the south coast and surfing, and diving with sharks, rays and squid.
I am Aqua man.
Love your work, Stiffus Maximus”.
“Hey Boys, this is a sad plea from a very dark place, the Heart of the Beast but this is my dissertation on the surf and Feed The Rat: The little sister of all water rats goes ugly and out.
We are inside the mother of all waves. Totally off shore, 2 metre waves, sun is melting the fur on our pelts and then like a bad wet dream this set comes out of the Strait, cold and hard like a smiling priest.
And it is not getting any better, 45 seconds tic, tic, tic and hey up we come, back on the hot wax. Wax is rotten sticky stuff is sucking the water proofing from our fur and as all smart rats know. It is the best of three that sets you free" and yes, here comes momma.
On top of 2.5 metres of solid cold, shiny water, and fark, squeak, fark, fins, fins, fins, holy shit the sea is full of fins, teeth and water and that rotten wax and the panic, hold the fear, swallow the squeak and the pelts are saturated and then, 25 pig fat dolphins are on us, under us and gone up the beach.
Nearly rat fucked tuna look alikes, but instead I'm sitting there grinning like a rat with a gold tooth. Stiffus Maximus”. |
