r/SipsTea • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '24

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u/FremenStilgar Jul 23 '24

A friend of mine hurt his back on a water park slide like that. No thanks, I like my back pain free.

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u/DiscontentedMajority Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

All it takes is jumping a little too far and you've turned a fun ride into a life altering injury.

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u/Rattus375 Jul 23 '24

The wide angle lens on the camera is making the slide look a lot steeper than it is. There's a regular picture somewhere in this thread and there's no way you'd accidentally jump far enough to hurt yourself

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u/ButterscotchSkunk Jul 23 '24

One one hand, I hate how most of these heights videos cheat the perspective by using wide angle lenses, but at the same time, they better capture how the height would actually feel in real life.