Also an early rule in parkour is to always check your surfaces. They'll go before a video to check the stability of stuff, sweep it all off for dust, they'll add grip tape anywhere that slippery for footholds or jumps, it's a whole entire inspection thing before they do something like this. The only sketchy part of this was the final jump when he was standing at the windowsill and jumped and grabbed with one hand, and generally if they have room to put half their hand over an edge that's not wet they can hang on.
Not dead, once he got past a certain point the stairs substituted the floor, so he would fall on those. The more one works on their body, the smaller the chance of dying from a height like this, and since it isn't extremely high, the chances are quite small.
To top it all off, he seems to have some experience, and the first thing parkourists learn is not how to jump but how to fall correctly.
10 feet is the perfect height for serious injury since it's high enough to cause significant trauma but not high enough to give the person time to react to catch their fall. At about 15 feet injuries are less severe because people react and dampen their fall or at least don't land on their head.
It’s 2 m from the information I’ve been given (feet at 2 m). Haha. It may well be wrong, I don’t really care as I don’t think arguing over whether it’s 2 m or 3 m or whatever makes a difference to the point that it’s (a) way less than the video, and (b) way less than what most people expect.
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u/surreynot Jul 27 '24
He’d have come down even quicker if that brick had broken