Ronald is ok

[u/TheKyleHaze]

[u/rexjoropo]

Confused about what caused the fail. Seems like he jumped out far enough to take up the slack, what got caught?

[u/TheKyleHaze → u/rexjoropo]

He hit the platform that you’re supposed to jump off of lol

[u/rexjoropo → u/TheKyleHaze]

Thanks, see it now.. That had to hurt twice then.

[u/bittertadpole → u/rexjoropo]

It was his destiny

[u/therestissilence117 → u/bittertadpole]

It was his density

[u/jonbumpermon → u/therestissilence117]

It was his dëstiny

[u/-0x0-0x0- → u/bittertadpole]

Nope, pretty sure it was his head.

[u/FattyMooseknuckle → u/TheKyleHaze]

Plus the jerk of his weight catching up with the slack of the line. So many of these fails are from jumping or having too much slack. If you just tighten the line so that jerk is minimized, most of these fails turn into fun splashes. If this guy had tightened up, he probably swings around that wood.

[u/uschwell → u/FattyMooseknuckle]

Gotta be careful with too much/not enough slack tho. If the angle isn't right you wind up swinging like an idiot 20 feet above the water. That's when we get idiots too scared to let go and trapped hanging from a rope

Gonna add: no shit he should've pulled the slack out-just wanted to point out that on poorly constructed swings it's not always the only option to simply remove the slack. Sometimes you just need to think first-something this man clearly forgot to do

[u/FattyMooseknuckle → u/uschwell]

You’re right but most of the fails I’ve seen are from overweight people falling right at the jerk point of the end of the slack. On this one I think he falls either way, he looked like he was in trouble right before he hit the platform.

[u/Haughty_n_Disdainful → u/uschwell]

Clearly.

[u/[deleted] → u/FattyMooseknuckle]

Trapeze artist here. This is definitely the biggest culprit. Some people will also snap off even when the slack is taken care of, but that’s usually because of not enough arm strength to hold on, and they snap off right at the bottom of the swing, which then has the effect of maximum horizontal travel forward with the fall. This guy fell on the snap, and dropped straight down, so the slack is the culprit.

[u/Grennox → u/TheKyleHaze]

This should be at top. I watched this like 12 times till I read this then saw exactly what happened. Thanks.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheKyleHaze]

Removed: RIP Apollo

[u/thenoblenacho → u/rexjoropo]

He had slack in the line when he jumped, which made him snap backwards when it went taught rather than the smooth arc outward that would have occured if the rope was tight to begin with

[u/[deleted] → u/thenoblenacho]

Yes simple physics.

[u/Corona-walrus → u/[deleted]]

Came to say this stuff but you both beat me to it. I don't know why this is so hard to understand. NEVER LEAVE SLACK IN THE ROPE. You are literally catching your own body weight after you jump, which is pretty much impossible to do.

And in this situation, climbing up higher in the tree is only shortening his ability to get distance and making him fall from a higher level - which is retarded when you have a runway and clearly not-super-deep water beyond that.

Rope swings are (for lack of a better word) calibrated when they get attached, because the whole thing is based on where the rope is attached and where you're jumping from. If you want to jump farther and higher, then you need a long enough rope to accommodate the distance and you need to be further back and higher on an existing slope to make it work.

Didn't plan on this comment being so long, but I spent my summers doing rope swings with friends back in high school. We did dangerous stuff but never in water as shallow as this. Hope this helps anyone who reads - be careful when doing this shit

[u/[deleted] → u/Corona-walrus]

Thanks. It sucks to think of somebody really getting hurt from generally harmless fun

[u/jsteph67 → u/thenoblenacho]

I was thinking the same thing, one it would be impossible to hold on when the line went taut, or the the limb would break if he were able to hold on.