The Origin of Planking: First Photographed Plank?
Surely by now you’ve heard of ‘Planking,’ a quickly growing fad that involves participants of the game lying face down in unusual and many times unsafe locations.
Individuals performing a ‘plank’ are required to have both hands touching the sides of the body, feet together and pointed at the ground, and then must be photographed so that others can assess the difficulty factor involved. Extra points are of course rewarded for planking in the most original and public locations possible.
While looking into the history of planking, which I won’t go into- I will, however, say it originally was called the ‘lying down game,’ and is claimed to have been started in Europe- I stumbled upon what is probably the first known, albeit unintentional, photo of the crazy game.
Courtesy of LIFE, Voila!
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Tags : earliest known pic of planking, first planking pic, lying down game, origin of planking, planking, What Is Planking?
Posted: June 18, 2011
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Jun 18, 2011
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Jun 28, 2011
Plankingis how they transported slaves on ships from africa they stacked em like they wrrr nothin the bottom ones died and were discarded like nothing great game.
Jul 1, 2011
Your statement is exactly why I came to this page…
Jul 3, 2011
I'm trying to think of something original help prease _.
Jul 8, 2011
thats what i heard didnt know if it was true…is the part about it being a game true?
Jul 28, 2011
What is your info source on the slave thing?
Jul 29, 2011
Here's a resource: http://thehiphopdemocrat.com/2011/07/03/know-the-history-the-planking-edition/ hopefully the link works…I've tried a few other links but their not loading right….if it doesn't work then google: origin of planking slaves
Jul 29, 2011
The link isn't working but I believe I did a google search and found that article shortly after reading this. I was involved in a long discussion about this a few days ago. Every article I found SPOKE about slaves lying face down but SHOWED images of them lying face up. If the evidence isn't consistent with the claims, my question is why are we up in arms? It feels like we, as black people accept any claim that we are being disrespected and are ready to fight without inspecting the information thoroughly. We can't claim that anyone lying down straight in any position is making a mockery of slavery. Here's an article I found from the Associated Press saying it started as a school game – http://alturl.com/a448s. Here's the image I found from the hiphopdemocrat article I saw – http://alturl.com/yvsp2. Hope you see what I mean. We become indignant far too easily without verifying facts. If someone else can show me facts that support the complaint, I'll be upset too. Until then I feel like this whole planking argument is a foundation-less fight.
Jul 31, 2011
Well slavery is dead in america so who cares?
Aug 9, 2011
who cares you ask its kinda like walking up to your grandmother and spiting in her face on her birthday thats all but ya we said sorry for that so it should be cool to make fun of how slavey were transported. Pure ignorance
Aug 17, 2011
I don't understand how people can get offended of the whole Planking thing, there are plenty of things that were done then, and done now, that have no revelance. 'Owling' is like the new 'planking' and what connection are people going to make with that? People who play along with this are not of foul intent, it was just something stupid, a soccer player did, that happens to look funny. I really hate when people TRY to get offended over everything, Seriously? Oh yeah, Planking is also an exercise, it's great for the abs.
Aug 20, 2011
……. lol. Its a game. Get over it.
Sep 5, 2011
According to the diagrams we saw at the Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, they didn't stack them on top of one another as you state, Erik. Cramped beyond belief, yes, and some did indeed die, but nothing like you describe. Planking is just something dumb that people are doing, and has nothing to do with shipping slaves across the ocean. Get over yourself.
Sep 22, 2011
let me take you and put you on a ship butt naked stacked with thousands of other people and sail you for thousands of miles with little food no water and no whereto take a crap and tell me if you still think we should get over it! I swear people are dumb as hell and so ignorant, this is why we as a race of people will repeat the pass because we have not learned from it and we think it is funny.