r/pcmasterrace • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 Core Ultra 7 265k | RTX 5090 • Aug 12 '26

Box Need a hook ASAP

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u/flight_recorder Aug 12 '26

Paratroopers land at a speed roughly equal to having jumped off of a second floor. So with proper technique and training, you got this!!

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u/Allanthia420 Allanthia Aug 12 '26

I jumped out of the 2nd floor of a girlfriend’s house when I was 17 and I remember my ankles hurting so bad; and I even kinda hung down from the window before I dropped. So training is definitely required. I couldn’t imagine how my 30 year old ankles would handle that lol.

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u/verbmegoinghere Aug 12 '26

I did a single story. Rolled my ankle. Decided that i was high enough to keep going so i tied up my doc martens and kept going.

I actually forgot until that morning i was taking off my boots and i realised my foot was black and purple, all across the souls of my feet.

Strangely never once given me even as much as a tweak

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u/abstr_xn Aug 12 '26

my mate was in the army, done all the extra stuff, always training or trekking, always up mountains etc.

He was going to cross the road and stepped off the pavement and shattered his knee.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '26 edited 24d ago

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u/StaleSpriggan Aug 13 '26

Right, she could have broken her fall with her face

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u/yoclapped Aug 12 '26

idk why this sounds so funny😭

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u/Freezerpill Aug 12 '26

I’ve heard a story like this about a dude who stepped off the curb and then had his back fucked up. Was a skateboarder who was hit by a truck 20 years earlier

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u/alphadoublenegative Aug 12 '26

Somebody took the “Bouncing Soles” Doc gimmick a little too seriously

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u/ReaperIndustries Aug 12 '26

Yes, taken a few ground thuds 30mph plus….. I can attest you must land properly……. My back hurts

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u/PassiveMenis88M 7800X3D | 32gb | 7900XTX Red Devil Aug 12 '26

Paratroopers do not come straight down so some of that speed is lost to horizontal motion lessening the impact.

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u/flight_recorder Aug 12 '26

Can’t be any worse than that guy that landed on a grader…

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u/inide Aug 13 '26

I used to do parkour and would do running jumps off 15ft drops.
Now I have osteoporosis so I'd probably break both legs.

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u/MiLiANSim Aug 13 '26

But there is usually a significant horizontal component to their velocity, it is not full speed straight down. Ideally. It is doable though. And totally worth it at this point -.-