Summer Verticle Fun video

[C James]

This video is sure out of place in this forum, but I thought it was one you'd enjoy, for the eye candy if nothing else.

 

rope swinging triple back-flips off a 100 foot cliff.

[jkeeling]

This video is sure out of place in this forum, but I thought it was one you'd enjoy, for the eye candy if nothing else.

 

rope swinging triple back-flips off a 100 foot cliff.

 

Can ya say YIKES!!!!!!!!

 

[C James]

Can ya say YIKES!!!!!!!!

 

 

Yep... if he misjudges the landing and hits wrong, it could be fatal. That's also one hell of a leverage load he's putting on that rope rig, and if a tree branch breaks...

 

Hitting the water from that height has to be done just right. I've done feet-first entries from heights considerably less than that and even done right, you hit damn hard. I've blown an entry from just fourteen feet (trying flips and twists) and managed a blown eardrum as a result, and I've also screwed up diving board dives from the LOW board and even that hurts. From a high dive platform (33 feet) a bad entry can be dangerous. I've over-rotated a forward flip more than once (I sucked at diving) and even that was agonizing. I think a belly flop could be deadly from 33 feet. Personally, I think the guy in the vid is crazy.

[Krista]

Shew.. That was scary.. lol. I wondered where he was going to land.. because the rocks could be seen on the bottom except for that one little pool of water... I know I couldn't hit that perfectly.

 

I'm not one to be adventurous on cliffs though. Definitely leaving that up to the experts.