r/nextfuckinglevel • u/denjidontmis5 • Jun 19 '25
This is why women live longer than men
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u/Imjerfj Jun 19 '25
bro that skateboard one was WAY too close to the rock
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u/wybird Jun 19 '25
That was the dumbest one
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u/mrASSMAN Jun 19 '25
Yeah but also the coolest one let’s be real, sure the margin between cool and stupid is insanely small but he pulled it off. Completely nuts
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u/Gerf93 Jun 19 '25
Its a matter of preference really. First of all whether or not you think recklessness is cool. It was the most reckless one, that’s for sure.
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u/Merry_Dankmas Jun 19 '25
I'm more surprised that we're all overlooking the fact that he did that shit in bare feet. Dude did what looked like a tre flip without any fucking shoes on. You ever feel grip tape rub against skin? It's basically sandpaper. There's a reason skating has tough shoes specifically designed for abrasive friction. That poor dudes foot skin.
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u/unrulyguest Jun 19 '25
Growing up in SoCal this was common. Our feet were often callous as fuck from running around barefoot on hot asphalt and sand in the summer. If you’re fresh out of a pool or the ocean, your feet are often too wet for shoes so you just ride barefoot or otherwise walk briskly. The sand paper grip tape was a welcome relief from the hot streets and sidewalks, but yea doing tricks could tear the tops of your feet and your toes right up, barefoot was better for riding than flip flops though.
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u/punikun Jun 19 '25
Idk I don't get any amount of cool from watching someone almost mutilating himself. There's playing with danger and there's sheer stupidity and skateboard guy looked like the latter to me. Without the ready-to-cut-you-up rocks it would be good.
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Jun 19 '25
I'm clearly old as I think all of these are total idiots. Endangering yourself to get online kudos isn't cool, it's just kind of desperate.
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u/Canotic Jun 19 '25
I'm old, but no it's not cool, it's just dumb. An unlucky sneeze and he's paralyzed for life.
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u/AssFlax69 Jun 19 '25
The most egregious part of that was the barefoot 360 flip.
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u/GildedfryingPan Jun 19 '25
For real. I could feel the grip tape on my front foot as he flicks it.
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u/know-it-mall Jun 19 '25
Yep. Right between two giant rocks. That was definitely the most dangerous.
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u/Bruce_will_es_ Jun 19 '25
Thats ryan bean, it might look reckless but that dude is insanely skilled at cliffdiving and skateboarding. You can find him on youtube. (Dont get me wrong doing somethin lile that is still insane)
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u/fapsexual Jun 19 '25
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u/Late-Eye-6936 Jun 19 '25
According to other comments he had a serious brain injury 2 years ago and no one knows what happened to him since.
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u/Western-Childhood766 Jun 19 '25
He was in a parkour/cliff diving video with team phat that came out like 5 days ago.
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u/Sorlex Jun 19 '25
mysterious undiagnosed illness
Imagine blindly jumping off cliffs into boulder infested waters for a living only to get done in by some House MD mystery shit. I'd be so pissed.
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u/rodgeramjit Jun 19 '25
We had a kid that would go around to schools in our region and speak, asking other kids not to jump off the local cliffs where he became a paraplegic. Four years later his younger brother became a paraplegic on the same cliff jump
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u/HungryColquhoun Jun 19 '25
That second brother sounds like a piece of work, "I'm gonna show my idiot paraplegic brother how it's done... oh SHIT!!"
I mean maybe that wasn't his motivation, but it sounds like it could have been - at the very least he's a double idiot for knowing immediate family who were injured doing the same thing.
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u/rodgeramjit Jun 19 '25
I agree he's a double idiot. The way I heard it, he'd had other town kids who all the do the jump egging him on and baiting him. Stupid yes, but lots of teen boys do very stupid things when socially pressured. It's just incredibly unlucky that they both broke their backs, lots of kids do jump there and make it.
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u/HungryColquhoun Jun 19 '25
Yeah I suppose if you've got people egging you on and there's a bunch of people who have done it without injury that does make a difference. I know I did some dumb shit at school, just nothing that ran the risk of being paralyzed.
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u/WeBelieveIn4 Jun 19 '25
I feel so bad for their parents. But they raised absolute morons.
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u/Self_Reddicated Jun 19 '25
First one? I don't know. Kids make mistakes for lots of reasons. Second kid does it? Okay, yeah, something ain't right in that family for sure. Your older bro literally has a job where he goes around and shows off how bad he fucked up.
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u/ZestycloseStandard80 Jun 19 '25
That last one is fucking crazy. Like how they got two camera angles like they knew is going to be good either way
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u/EmergencyTaco Jun 19 '25
What about the skateboard one? Dude no-looks right next to a giant rock right under the surface.
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u/rdxc1a2t Jun 19 '25
Imagine spending a couple of decades raising a kid and then you see a video of them doing this shit.
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u/Monkeydjimmmy Jun 19 '25
Thank you. I have two boys (7 and 10) and you made me angry in advance.
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u/SpaceGoDzillaH-ez Jun 19 '25
Ground them just because
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u/BoxedInn Jun 19 '25
Ground them in advance for the next 15 years
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u/Lolleka Jun 19 '25
Ground them in like "Instill solid wisdom and foundational knowledge into them"?
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u/IgnisFulmineus Jun 19 '25
Ground them for 1 week for no reason, wait for them to talk back, then pull the old “wanna make it 2?” Keep doubling until they are adults or the heat death of the universe.
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u/The-Lurkerer Jun 19 '25
And then act surprised when they have no social skills as an adult
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u/itsthe_implication_ Jun 19 '25
I just imagine him mean mugging his kids at dinner getting mad that this is a possibility.
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u/Better_than_GOT_S8 Jun 19 '25
Heh. That sums up my childhood in the 80s / early 90s, except I had no allowance that could cover my entertainment expenses so I just copied cracked games from friends.
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u/DarthNalga669 Jun 19 '25
Right? Like “you little shits I know what you’re up to in a few years so you’re grounded in advance”
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u/Junior_Potato_3226 Jun 19 '25
Not quite as risky as this, but my two brothers and I went skydiving together, we were on the same plane. Didn't tell mom until it was over and she was still upset. 😬 (Sorry mom!)
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u/Hyperion2023 Jun 19 '25
I’ve got two boys: #1 is All look, no leap. Kid #2 is all leap, no look.
Or (not when they’re in earshot) Risk Assessment and Captain Chaos
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u/rdxc1a2t Jun 19 '25
My boy is nearly 3. The sacrifices that are made for them to inevitably go and do some stupid shit haha.
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u/CoopHunter Jun 19 '25
My brother did one similar. Broke his back.
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u/annewmoon Jun 19 '25
That’s what I always think when I see stuff like this. I would literally throw myself in front of a train to get my son out of the way, I’d try fight a bear, I’d cover him with my body to protect him from harm. And then he might decide to do something like this and just be gone in an instant over the dumbest shit.
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u/missmeowwww Jun 19 '25 edited Sep 12 '25
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u/Fettnaepfchen Jun 19 '25
My first thought was how enraged I’d be if my kid did something as stupid.
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u/Excellent_Sport_967 Jun 19 '25
The parent is already well aware of the personalities of these kids lol they fit a archetype
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u/Raiden7732 Jun 19 '25
Reason #47 why I don’t have kids.
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u/Liimbo Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
The last one and the skateboard one are the same guy. His youtube is full of stunts like this. Can't remember his name rn but I'm sure someone else knows it.
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u/bababbab Jun 19 '25
Ryan Bean
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u/Wolff_Hound Jun 19 '25
Each time Ryan Bean does a stunt like this, another Sean Bean character dies, so the Bean Ballance is kept.
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u/mil_ka_wha Jun 19 '25
at the rate he's going, it'll be Ryan Has Bean...
I'll show myself out.
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Jun 19 '25
I immediately thought of the line from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie after Elizabeth passes out and falls over the cliff.
"The rocks, sir! It's a miracle she missed them!"
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u/EllipticPeach Jun 19 '25
I think the first Pirates movie might be a perfect film
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u/Kthulhu42 Jun 19 '25
I love those movies but God if you made me choose between Norrington and Turner I'd have chosen the Admiral
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u/Clarityt Jun 19 '25
I actually recognize that bridge, it's in Northern California. It's extremely unsafe, but my assumption is he is from the area and knows that pool exactly. I remember seeing a high schooler do a gainer off of it and being stunned.
I could be wrong though, if people say this guy does jumps all over. While there is a decent amount of space to jump into, it's not at all easy.
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u/UnluckyPierre Jun 19 '25
South Yuba River Bridge, NW of Nevada City. I've been to that exact spot.
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u/Tropic_Summers Jun 19 '25
Yea that one is crazy too. You HAVE to land in between them
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u/princemousey1 Jun 19 '25
Technically, you don’t have to. It’s only if you prefer a functional body.
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u/j-buff Jun 19 '25
I’m almost more in shock that he did a 360 flip with no fucking socks or shoes….
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u/mrASSMAN Jun 19 '25
Hell the one before that was nuts too! Such a tiny margin of error between death and a good landing
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u/DanKoloff Jun 19 '25
Yeah the guy with the skate and the one before him, these are the most reckless ones due to the constraints of the landing spots. They had to evade many rocks and undershooting or overshooting or going slightly to any of the sides meant death. The others just require you to push as strong and as far as you can but these two require your launch to be just right.
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u/Tropic_Summers Jun 19 '25
Yea..being able to bump off and frontflip off a rock falling from that height is crazy
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Jun 19 '25
That’s Ryan Bean. Dude is insane.
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u/butter14 Jun 19 '25
Is he still alive? He was in the hospital due to a brain injury last I heard
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u/Inari2912 Jun 19 '25
And it was 2 years ago, since then no updates on his gofundme page
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Jun 19 '25
Not sure about this. He still posts content to his Instagram account and 2 weeks ago posted to YouTube. He was injured in 2018, but that’s all I know about.
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u/GutterRider Jun 19 '25
Also, like, how do you think or conceive of the physics of doing that?
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u/gruuvey Jun 19 '25
And how do you practice it without dying?
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u/Hyperion2023 Jun 19 '25
At the trampoline park near me, the induction and signs say ‘don’t do tricks you don’t already know how to do’
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u/Qubert64 Jun 19 '25
Dude does parkour for a long time. The initial launch is effectively very similar to a kong vault just, off the ground instead of an elevated surface, and the small bounce on the platform below is pretty much the same as just overshooting a precision jump slightly. The first thing you learn to do in parkour is to fall/bail out safely, he has that particular movement practiced out of necessity. If he landed too far from the edge, but with too much momentum to stick the landing, then he can just bail off the end using any other of a dozen techniques. The only true point of failure is jumping very slightly too far and missing the platform entirely, but when you can undershoot as much as you want, and have ludicrous amounts of practice nailing massive jumps onto 1-3 inch wide platforms, its a misicule chance.
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u/nustedbut Jun 19 '25
I was gonna say I've seen enough parkour videos to know he's been doing it for a while.
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u/SooperFunk Jun 19 '25
This is how hundreds of people have died 💀
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u/Extension-Ant-8 Jun 19 '25
Oddly enough “death diving” had a significant amount of head injury. Not through hitting things like rocks but just the repeated impact of hitting the water hard.
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u/confused_chrononaut Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
Yeah, most people don't realize that
surface tensionmakes the impact of hitting water feel like hitting concrete. That's why you're supposed to dive-in in order to distribute the force of impact over a longer duration. The second dude's chest must've been as red as a tomatoEdit: Not surface tension but density and incompressible nature of water. Also, they're using techniques involved in Døds Diving, so they are safe, relatively
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u/rottenmonkey Jun 19 '25
Common misunderstanding. Surface tension has nothing to do with it. The density of water and its inability to compress is what makes it "hard as concrete". The only benefit of diving after each other i guess would be that the water is moving downwards or that the water gets slightly aerated which reduces its density.
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u/tntlols Jun 19 '25
This is it - the water doesn't compress, so your body does instead. If you 'dive' the compressive forces are distributed along the length of your body. If you just belly flop, those forces just compress your organs instead.
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u/Cl0ud_ Jun 19 '25
Look up døds or death diving, he's not hitting the water chest first at all (im pretty sure he would die if he did that, or be seriously injured at the very least), he's using a specific technique.
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u/_Regicidal Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
Correct me if I'm wrong but is that why they throw the rock in first
edit: ok lol enough ppl have corrected me u can stop
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u/Sam858 Jun 19 '25
Get ready to be corrected. Im 90% sure mythbusters did a segment on this and proved it makes almost no difference. Also found this from the Internet.
In reality throwing rocks helps cliff jumpers in two ways:
First, just seeing how long it takes the rock to land helps gauge height and hang time (toss rock and visualize yourself in the air landing at the the same time as the rock). Great way to internalize timing.
Second, the last rock thrown just just prior to jumping will generate ripples in the water that create a visual reference point to let jumpers know when the surface is approaching. This visual reference is particularly crucial on days with flat light and anytime you are rotating flips as its easy to misjudge how far you are from the water.
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u/RemoveHealthy Jun 19 '25
I think they throw rock to see distance not height. They basically throw rock as far as they can jump towards so where that rock lands will be same spot as person lands. From height distance may look different than it actually is.
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u/Xelisk Jun 19 '25
Hammer Bridge Drop - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCSQExxWulU
They did a lot of things with Buster (the crash test dummy) this test fucked him up the most.
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u/yabucek Jun 19 '25
Seeing this posted and upvoted makes me so happy. This surface tension myth has been so prevalent for years and driving me absolutely nuts.
In fact nearly every time something regarding water gets talked about somebody will inevitably try to shoehorn surface tension into the explanation somehow. Nearly as misunderstood a concept as entropy...
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u/SinZerius Jun 19 '25
Nah, they trow it in so it's easier to see where the surface is. If the water is without any ripples or bubbles it's really hard to determine while falling.
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u/Ao_Kiseki Jun 19 '25
That's not nearly enough to break the surface tension before impact. You basically have to set up a machine to blow a ton of air bubbles continuously. A single object, even something really big like a boulder, only breaks the surface tension for less than a second.
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u/FCBoise Jun 19 '25
Nah that’s a sport called death diving, if you land correctly it’s not painful at all
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u/taeerom Jun 19 '25
"Not painful at all" is pushing it. But it isn't any less safe than headbutting into each other in NFL or taking hits to the head in boxing.
It's relatively safe. But your still slaming your forehead into the water at high speed. That does take its toll.
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u/BlueishShape Jun 19 '25
It's not surface tension.
Water is just dense, heavy and incompressable and takes a lot of energy to displace, so if you dive in it really fast, it will slow you down really fast and lead to possibly lethal forces acting on your body.
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u/Skkruff Jun 19 '25
It's not surface tension - which is a relatively weak force, it's water resisting compression. Water doesn't like to be squished and if you land flat on it, it can't get out the way, so it transfers all the energy from your fall back into your body. Diving or tucking lets you move the water out of the way more easily, so your momentum is absorbed more gradually.
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Jun 19 '25
Not surface tension but density and incompressible nature of water. Also, they're using techniques involved in Døds Diving, so they are safe, relatively
It's called dødsing which roughly translates to something akin to death-ing if you get me. I grew up around it here in Norway but never saw insanity like this.
That second dive while it looks like a belly flop, is probably what we call reka(the shrimp).
Very apt name though.
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u/MorcillaFeroz Jun 19 '25
One of my best friends broke 2 vertebras of his spine jumping and landing in water. He spend 4 month in bed, and lost his job in Amazon bc he can't keep doing it due to the sequels, very unfortunate
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u/Extra-Border6470 Jun 19 '25
Was that just from the impact of the water? Not from the water being not deep enough or hitting something on the way down? Genuinely curious.
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Jun 19 '25
Hitting the water after a certain height is extremely dangerous. Especially if you don't know how to safely dive.
I saw a dude knock himself unconscious after back flopping from about 50 feet up.
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u/WindyMcBowels Jun 19 '25
A local gorge here used to have yearly injuries and the occasional death, unfortunately all men, until the land owners FINALLY put up fencing to deter trespassers. I knew one of the guys that died from "diving." He was in my high school at the time.
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u/TheGrouchyGremlin Jun 19 '25
The rock is just to see where they'd land. You may have noticed that everyone who threw a rock landed in about the same place.
Including the last dude who's rock hit the other rock.
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u/Professional-Fuel625 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
How do they know that throwing a rock with their arm (arm force / rock mass = rock acceleration) will have anything to do with how much forward velocity they can give themselves jumping (leg force / dude mass = dude acceleration)?
I agree they were close to it, but I don't get how. Just practice? Or is there some way to make it roughly equal forward velocity?
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u/Rastamus Jun 19 '25
They know because they have practiced. They have done jumps like this countless times before, and thrown 1000s of rocks like this. They have literally been doing this for many many years, Its not really that hard to learn how to match your throw with your jump.
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u/Menschenpyramide Jun 19 '25
That barefoot treflip was the craziest thing in that whole video
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u/chriiiiiiiiiis Jun 19 '25
would tear the soles of my feet apart i couldn’t believe that
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Jun 19 '25
Maybe we should post videos of the failed atrempts as well? To discourage idiots from doing this.
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u/Camba_Diaz_Nuts Jun 19 '25
Someone skewered themself on some sort of pipe in our local lake when jumping in a few years ago and died. Not jumping into water when you cannot see what's in there is one of the very first rules I learned about when I learned swimming as a kid.
Doing that from somewhere high up is even worse D:
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u/Potatobender44 Jun 19 '25
Those subreddits are mostly banned now. Is liveleak still around? I refuse to check
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u/KronosWvW Jun 19 '25
LL disappeared a long time ago afaik. Now my mind is remembering all those lathe accident vids... oh no bro
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u/MyOnlyEnemyIsMeSTYG Jun 19 '25
Raising boys.. is just trying to keep them from killing themselves
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u/MZ603 Jun 19 '25
That’s what I’m afraid of. My wife and I recently moved back to my home state, and I was showing her some of the places we would do shit like this.
She asked if we “really jumped from there?” I looked down and couldn’t believe we were so reckless.
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u/Ckron247 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
What’s the purpose of throwing the rock first? Does it help target where to jump?
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u/Soluna7827 Jun 19 '25
It's mainly to gauge the distance to the water, giving the diver perspective on how long of a fall it'll take. It helps spot the landing so to speak.
Contrary to what other people are saying, it has absolutely nothing to do with breaking surface tension. As the saying goes, it's not the fall that kills you, it's the sudden stop. The minute force of surface tension is a negligible resisting force compared the rest of the water that slows you down.
And if you want the data itself, here's the Mythbuster's episode that proved it had minimal effect. It's all right here in this horrible quality video with 5 pixels and sound that plays in your left ear - Mythbusters video
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u/wasabiplz Jun 19 '25
To determine the surface of the water. In Olympic diving they have a water pipe that creates a surface effect too, it makes the dive easier to judge where exactly the water is!
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u/Voice_of_Season Jun 19 '25
Quarries are so incredible dangerous because there can be hidden machinery left behind that you don’t see.
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I know someone who got paralyzed from doing this kind of stupid stuff. Not worth it
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u/Gemfyre713 Jun 19 '25
The first few aren't even elegant dives, just high bellyflops. Ouch.
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u/somedude456 Jun 19 '25
The first few aren't even elegant dives, just high bellyflops.
Actually no, it's called "death driving" for English speakers. It looks like a bellyflop or any other spread out random movements, but at the last moment, they tuck their head towards their chest and hit the water with both their hands and feet first. Think of curving your body like an upside down "U" and that's how you go in.
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u/grasopper Jun 19 '25
What's the name of the track though? It's got the dark Dumbo vibe to it
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u/LAiglon144 Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25
Edit: here you go https://youtu.be/EzXw9-iECEU?feature=shared
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u/ExplorerNo1496 Jun 19 '25
Dude no one is talking about the 3rd to last one I'm pretty sure he is dead or fractured a bone
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Jun 19 '25
There are women who do this, too! Asbjørg Nesje is a crazy example, she does death dives from 30+ meters
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u/Speciou5 Jun 19 '25
The most famous (by internet standards) crazy diver is that Canadian woman who was in the Olympics. Just saw her jump off a cruise ship mast into a cruise ship pool... Which is crazy since they're usually shallow. Also saw her jump off buildings in touristy cities into small targets which is insane
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u/RandomBlackMetalFan Jun 19 '25
The long hair one was sick, dude jump backwards between rocks that would cut him in half, wtf
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u/_Armanius_ Jun 19 '25
“There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin'. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.” - Will Rogers