Planking has become an increasing global trend nowadays among youngsters and teenagers. Planking is the new craze that’s gone viral on social media sites, which refer to the people lying down on your stomach completely flat (like a plank of wood) on an odd surface or unusual place and then have their picture taken. It is basically lying your face down on ground. In planking, people lie there bodies flat on the ground or hard surface belly fir stand lie there flat looking like they could be dead from a distance, or there usually are a few together in which they look like a bunch of idiots.
Everybody especially youngsters think that there’s nothing wrong in doing that, it’s just for fun. The art of planking is to lay horizontally across any object or the ground with their arms by their sides, aiming to occur in daring situations or a brotherly display of core-strength. Planking is a great fun for those people who get bored easily and also have friends willing to take pictures of them looking like retards. Planking is more adventurous and dangerous as well to pull off on these places, such as public toilets, tops of tall buildings, on cars, planking off a cliff, off a tower and in the middle of six lane highways.
Originally it was called the “lying down game” or face downs an activity, popular in various parts of the world, consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. In this game, players compete with each other to find most unusual location for their activity. Planking emerged as a game first time in Australia and now taken the world by storm.
Planking has induced many youngsters to produce surprising and incongruous juxtapositions images in order to entertain millions of people through internet. And in this activity, many people die in this world from planking. That’s where you may mistaken.
Planking was boost up in the world after March 2011, when a rugby player David Williams planked after a try during match between Sea Eagles and Newcastle Knights. Act of planking became a highly controversial topic in the news media when Acton Beale, a 20 year old man, plunged to death from an attempt at “planking” on a seventh floor balcony in Brisbane, Australia.
