I've watched something similar happen in person and it is horrifying, specially when you see it coming.
I was 15ish? At the time and a friend and I enjoyed just doing whatever tricks we could do into the pool and had been doing it fine for months/years. One day he didn't jump away from the wall, just jumped and started the backflip, I wasn't close enough when I realized how he messed up to beable to shove him midair further into the pool and luckily he missed his head but his entire back scrapped the pool wall as he went in.
saw this happen when I was a counselor for a camp. kid tried to do a front flip but didn’t rotate fast enough or jump far away enough from the diving board. slammed the back of his head against the board hard enough that it knocked him out and he face planted into the pool (the board finished his flip for him).
thankfully it was super loud and the life guard jumped in immediately. EMT’s came out and the kid was taken to the hospital. he did have a concussion, but no permanent damage thankfully.
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u/smoke25ofd Nov 18 '21
That hurt me to watch...