It takes more for some

His fingers reeked of garlic from chopping and stuffing it into chicken carcasses for people to eat. He's used to it though, he's been working in Michel's kitchen for the past six year's. He'd used to like prepping veggies and marinades for Michel, padding fish and poultry with egg and flour; he used to like the handling of it all. Mostly he just enjoys riding his hog all night now with the air punching him in the face like needles and fists.

Record holder in pole volt until two weeks ago, Jim Holtzer was determined to gain back the title this last year of his high school career. He knew he could do it if he could just get a strong run and snug placement of the pole into the ground stop. He focused on getting the maximum amount of leverage and bend from the pole then began running down the stretch. Intention on high, focus steaming from his pores, tightness compounding in his body till he reaches the stop and slips in the pole, air>up>lite>flex back>farther>release up and bend more>over. Jim realizes he's successfully leaped over the bar after looking up, breaking the record placing him back in the books as the most able.
In college on scholarship Jim took up high diving starting it as a curiosity, originally enjoying the spring from the lower boards. He'd like to see how high he could jump up and then angularly twist his body back down into the deep crystalline water. After a little while Jim wanted to try the higher boards and asked the diving coach if he could use them when his team was through that night, the coach obliged and watched him dive into the pool with amazing accuracy and form, hardly causing a splash in the water. The coach invited him to join the team that night for practice the next day and surpassed the best, most accomplished diver they had. Jim took first position on the team the following week and lead them to first place that year in nationals. Jim dives out of planes now as a spotter for first time thrill seeking jumper's and sometimes performs elaborate air shows with twenty other sky divers using colorful exploding smoke bars and strings they swirl and spiral and draw in the air with while descending. They call themselves the 'Drop Outs'.