I’m in the coast guard. I jump out of helicopters when people need to be rescued (that’s the majority of my job) and I can tell you jumping from any higher than 40 feet (12 meters) is actually incredibly dangerous. If you don’t land straight up and down with the water you run a very high risk of breaking a bone or worse knocking the wind out of you. If you are wondering how that’s worse try swimming with the wind knocked out of you. Now try that after jumping from 30 feet up. You will nearly drown (or drown).
@@jlrollingit means that the impact of the water literally takes your breath away from the force of landing. it’s an idiom that means losing your breath from a sudden impact. it’s often used in sports
@@pauljohnson6019 bro, go get you a drink, or get you a smoke or some 🌱 on me. What kind of stinkin thinkin is that to have on a midsummer Friday afternoon? 🤦♂️
I'm a lifeguard so not unfamiliar with the water or high dives. I feel pretty certain if I had the wind knocked out of me after jumping from that high, I'd gasp and inhale the water
@@sanguine2552 She's not hitting the water with her face. As other commenter said, most likely sun, she's an athlete training all day in the water, not easy to keep sunscreen on.
I jumped off of a 10 meter cliff once & I legit felt like I broke my tail bone, got the wind knocked out of me, and had water shoot up one of my ears which gave me a massive headache. I cried a little bit because it felt like I got hit by a car! So much respect to all of you divers who make it look so easy
I jumped off a 70 ft cliff when I was younger and my friends thought it was crazy and apparently you can die at that height from just blood rushing to your head
I used to jump off a bridge in Washington state. It's 66feet which is almost exactly 20M. The first time I did it I jumped maybe 5 times in one day. The next day it felt like I had been in a car crash
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidenwhy are you eager to dismiss the danger of this sport? There was a diver who was only slightly off and she got a concussion. The force you hit the water with is no joke
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidenIf you think there’s no risk of serious damage, then youre the idiot. And you will only be more of an idiot when you jump off thinking its easy.
I jumped off 11-12m height once when I was a teenager. It was extremely scary as after jumping I entered as a pencil, so I didn't feel pain, but I was surprised to find out how deep I fell into the lake, so when I was getting back to the surface, I started to panic half-way, because I was swimming and swimming, but didn't seem to reach the surface. It worked out well, but that's because I was a halfway decent swimmer. If you're not confident in your swimming or don't have balls of steel, I don't recommend jumping from that height ,cuz it is honestly dangerous.
Hum, If you panicked at being really deep Youre either a good swimmer or a bad one, no Room for 'half-decent'. It also doesnt help If the lake's water was dark, because you cant actually see the Surface Very well.
@@Reir0othat's why you got to watch the direction the bubbles are going and follow them up to the surface. Easier said than done if you're halfway panicking.
People dont realize, (and yes this is taking to the maximum but you can divide down to get the point) but at close to terminal velocity or around 300ft / 100 meters, still water has the same surface tension as concrete. Solid. concrete. Thats why they have the little fountains spraying the spot where they land, to help dissipate the surface tension when they hit the water. So theyre at 20m, if 100m is max (for this consideration anyway) for guaranteed grievous bodily harm or death, thats 1/5 the impact of solid concrete. Doesnt sound like much but in perspective thats still an insane amount of force.
@@soupisfornoobs4081Surface tension also isn’t a variable that has a linear relationship to impact velocity iirc, so it’s all a mess to approximate. But the point still stands that you’re operating under conditions that are wandering toward some margin of “you can just die if you aren’t careful”
@@mattjack3983 obviously there is more time when the jump is higher, but the point is that the time isn't double as long when the jump is double the height. And the speed on impact is a lot more. I guess your base jumping parachute always slows you down to the same speed? (Genuine question)
@@mattjack3983 I think OP was talking about proportionality: you don't get twice as much time to do tricks just because you dove from twice as high. Apart from that, very cool you BASE jump, but I don't think the two are comparable. 🤷🏻
As someone who has never and will never dive from anything other than the regular pool equipment, this is very insightful. Thank you. I have never heard it being put that way before
@@Lucey2diving in a marked pool isn’t that dangerous, but you should never dive into a natural body of water because you can’t judge the depth or the water or account for any rocky outcroppings, etc.
When I was a teenager I jump off a cliff at a rock quarry. It was a 4 and half second free fall which was around 100' . I did it 4 times in my life and it was painful every time. I have scar tissue in my shoulder from having my arms out the first time. One of my friends brother got paid $100 to dive. He did but when in with his arms wrapped around his head. You had to swim across which took you about 15 with a slow painful paddle. By the time he got out of the water he had huge blood boils on his shoulders. Rumor is one guy had a compound fracture of his leg too. You would have an enema every time. One time when I was falling I looked down and saw a bird fly underneath me. Not something many people get to experience in their life. This was in the early 90's so I might have died and this is just a dream Im living out.
This actually makes a lot of sense. How many times in one session are you hitting a 90 to 95% squat? Hitting 95% three times a session, multiple sessions a week, is a lot
@@pslmountainit’s about intensity being applied to the body. Sure, one is about micro-tears to build back better muscle tissue, but you’re missing the analogy: it’s about engaging in extreme intensities within your sport, you cannot do it repeatedly or with high frequency without major risk of injury. Try benching your one rep max, then do it 5 more times. Now it makes sense.
@@virtuersehow many times do you do 95% in one session? Powerlifters use a rep range of 3-5 which us the equivalent of 90-95%. They don't do 1 or 2 sets either. They just use extended recovery. Sprinters don't do just 1 set of sprints. That being said recovery is essential.
Just the sheer force of hitting the water wrong can split your skin open if you hit wrong. Then there's if you're gonna be actually finishing it in a dive head first, and you missed even the smallest amount of covering the top of your head, you will be concussed, garunteed. Speaking as an ex cliff diver, there aren't many things that feel as bad as hitting the water with nothing but the top of your head.
@@criticalyoshi I have seen divers say that that's a common misconception and the bubbles provided are to help them see where the water is whilst diving. Seen people say that them chucking in their wee towel or a rock or whatever is also to break surface tension but that is apparently to do with judging the distance of the dive, I think?
Well theocratically it would work. But the chances of pulling it if are very slim. But if you could break the surface tension before you hit it it would be ideal n@@lovecatxx
Friendly reminder that water, when rapidly compressed over enough area is effectively a solid. The only thing that's keeping you from getting seriously injured from a bit over a 60 foot drop (a meter is a little more than a yard, so 60 feet is conservative) is good form. You're going to feel anything less than perfect form when you get out of the pool. And anything less than great form is going to make getting out of the pool much more difficult "3 a day" is not entirely about if her body can physically handle it, it's about not feeling the need to tempt fate more than 3 times a day
1. water is almost incompressible, it does not compress when you jump in to it, it gets squashed out around you(like a liquid, because it is a liquid). 2. It's not effectively like a solid, this is how liquids behave. What actually happens at high speeds is that solids acts more like liquids because the forces are so great that the material strength becomes more and more negligible. Think like a tungsten APFSDS rod going like 1500 m/s hitting a slab of armor, it will act like clay. So no, high speed impacts does not make liquids act as solids, it makes solids act like liquids.
@skitidet4302 I meant from a human perspective, and I should have been more clear about that when I wrote it. I appreciate the physics lesson, but it's also not strictly incorrect to say that a liquid does not compress (and I should have said in my original post "tries to compress") has a force that acts upon it quickly enough or in such a way that the liquid doesn't have time or an efficient enough path to displace itself is basically a brick wall for whatever is hitting it at the moment of impact. Especially something that feels pain and takes damage the way a human body does
Every public pool used to have a 12 ft board. That's not super high, but for a 7 y/o kid the pain on not entering the water smoothly was enough to teach you how to enter smoothly. And yeah, these were available to everyone.
@@malinia.20 it's ridiculous how easy and severely you can hurt yourself jumping from 10 meters. I failed a head first jump from 5meters ONCE, and I never did any such foolery ever again. Water is just too heavy. I jump into foam out all day every day, but not water. That shit will knock you out, break your spine and then drown you. No thanks.
When I was getting my spine X-ray tech certification, that was a specific type of injury we learned about, was a fracture of the Atlas, or your C-1, top of your spine, it's shaped like a disk compared to the rest of the spine, and it can basically burst into pieces from impact. The example my teacher gave was professional divers 💜
20 meters, that's like jumping off a six story building. You'll be going 70 kilometers per hour by the time you hit (45 mph). If your body doesn't align perfectly and slice into the water, it'll be like hitting a brick wall at car speeds.
The Atlas is the first cervical bone right under your skull. The Axis is the second cervical bone, upon which the Atlas pivots, allowing your head to move in various planes. I suppose that if you fracture your Atlas, your head can no longer pivot...
Molly was talking about one of her dives she recently did where she BARELY over rotated and wound up with a forced water enema. She RUSHED out of the pool to the bathroom and was in there for over 10 minutes trying to expel the water. It is extremely painful to land wrong and even more painful to land right too many times over-practicing.. Most coaches already know the dangers to their athletes bodies and refuse them any extra practicing.
My grandfather's Friend was an Olympic diver in the 1960s. After his Olympics dreams were over, he worked building and repairing bridges. He fell off a bridge when he slipped while trying to reattach his harness. He ended up breaking both of his ankles when he landed wearing, heavy boots, and the harness broke his teeth when it smashed into his face. But he said he was able to adjust his body to land feet first.
My husband jumped from a cliff into a lake on a dare in middle school. He belly flopped and got bilateral inguinal hernias and had emergency surgery. It’s dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. Many quadriplegics and deaths from diving.
During the summer in the south, there's a decent cliff diving culture. Some of our cliffs are over 15 meters. We would dive atleast a dozen times. We could barely move the next day. Its so intense
15 meters was my one and only jump. No coordination, no balance, just dead weight falling in the water, I couldn't even tell which side was up once I fell in. I just swam towards the light and when I came out I was like "piece of cake, everyone should do it" lol.
There are cool cliffs near me over 15 meter only part that really makes your muscles ache is climbing up you should try wearing flipflops while jumping so you feet dont get busted
Yeah theres this one cliff here about 45 feet high, i remeber being a 13 year old kid and doing 10 - 15 jumps absolutely wrecked the nect day. Still fun though.
After hearing her say this it makes sense, but I hadn’t thought about it before. You often hear that people who die plunging into water often die from the impact. The water is an incredible force.
Jumped off of an old bridge into a river once, my arms were out away from my body, as soon as I hit, my arms flung up over my head and I lost full rotation on both arms for several weeks, could barely put on a shirt or wipe my ass. Some time later, some drunk guy jumped off the same bridge, water was forced up his ass and tore right through his intestine. He needed several surgeries and was in the hospital for a while, recovering and fighting infection. That was maybe 20 feet off the water MAX. 20 METERS is scary as fudge. Super dangerous, even if you know what you are doing, mistakes happen.
I jumped from high up as a teen (I'm not even sure how high it was) as a dare. I had enough sense to tense up but as soon as I hit the water it bent my straight legs backward and nearly broke my back like a twig so she is NOT lying. Anyone who thinks I'm over exaggerating the pain and anguish equaling a near broken back can kick rocks because it HURT so bad I screamed underwater. 😅
Summer before freshman year of highschool I dove off the high dive atthe pool got more aire than I intended hit the water smacked my calves on the surface felt my back bend as ifforcefully leaning back I surfaced and couldn't feel or move my legs for 30 minutes legit thought I was paralyzed
@@veronicadavanzo2064Romans 10:9-11 says, "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved".Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
@@tylerhall3860Romans 10:9-11 says, "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved".
I did something kind of similar but head first. I didn't keep my hands together and arms rigid properly to cut into the surface of water, so they crossed on impact and the top of my head hit the water, instead. It felt like having a cinder block dropped on my head. The next day, I could barely sit up and I couldn't turn my head to the right at all. A decade later and I'm still dealing with the damage I did to the disks in my neck.
It's like hitting concrete, until you break the surface tension of the water if you jump from a high enough height it'll actually split you apart like jumping off a skyscraper and landing on concrete, that's why so many people jump off the Golden gate bridge. It's an instant stop
The GoldenGate bridge is 67meters some people survive some don't. When they were building it they said to toss your hammer ahead of you while you falling to break the surface tension.
I did a cannonball off a harbour wall once. It was probably about 5 meters. Unexpected seawater enemas are really not fun. They are in fact, quite painful. 😂
😮 Seeing from the divers' high perspective above the pool has changed me from spectator-in-amazement of their form-to-entry, to now having deepest respect for their fearless bravery. This is incredible! 👏🏾👏🏾
We need more and more professional divers giving us lessons on diving from how high you’re jumping from. It may seem easy or fun to do so but in reality, jumping from that high can hurt you. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn new things everyday.
Good, today let's learn that "every day" is almost always two words. Every day = 7 days per week. "I used to go to the gym every day. I eat garbage every day." Everyday = adjective that means typical. This word is not as commonly used. "These are my everyday clothes. This was an everyday occurrence."
@rambo-cambo3581 Because the important part of the jump are the twists in the air, not the physical impact of the water, they can train that last as thats the easiest to fix lol, who would do more complicated jumps? someone who jumps 3 times a day or someone whos able to practise up to 15 because the impact is closer to 0 and 20x less impactful or painfull if they fail the jump. This way they can practise very hard maneuvers with lesser impact on the body, we can even look at distance running as an example, why do zone 2 training instead of going all out every single run? same principle
50m is about 95% fatal. That is way less height than most people expect. Dude who did the 58.8m record had a helmet on, bubbly moving water and they still had to pull him out of the water, because he was out for a few good seconds.
As a young soldier, went Cliff Diving in Cyprus. Did not know the risks ... when you're on the edge and people are watching you shut up and jump/dive. Holy Mother of God, I will swear to this day, that someone took a hefty board and smacked me on the head. I saw stars, and then did that 5 more times to prove that I was an Idiot. Got a great response from onlookers, yet I was dumb to continue on. The physical fatique that followed beached me. Ego ... till head smacks water. Ouch. 🧐😳😲🤯🤠🤣🤣🤣🤣😵💫🥴💥
I used to do cliff jumping to water, I loved it, and once I was feeling kinda iffy, but still did the jump (I shouldn't have), I got scared in the middle of the air and tried to get straight before I should and my body went out of control, I ended up entering the water in and outside down "L" body shape and my upper body hit the water full force. I ended up giving myself a barotrauma, and in the emergency room. Where I jumped was in a deep river pond (like a small lake) created by a beautiful waterfall in the mountains. The waterfall generated waves. The impact was so strong that I was temporarily disoriented, and couldn't understand where was up and down and then the waves kept pushing me in all directions. Lucky, my husband noticed something was wrong and helped me get out of the water, onto a rock. I swear, that rock felt like marshmallow, from how disoriented I was. I had to keep taking medicine for a month, to heal due to the pressure of the water hitting my internal ear, and nose channels. (Doctors said no more jumping for me 😅) I'm not sure how high was that cliff to the water, I doubt it was 20 meters, maybe like two stores hight. Ten-ish meters. And it hit hard. Water.will.destroy.you! (If you don't attack it)
@@losk.s6555 she literally did, what comments are meant for. Nevermind the dire warning of our impending destruction if we do not deliver a preemptive attack against water!! I have already set traps under all my faucets as well as thoroughly beating any bottle of water before drinking them. Next I will drive to the ocean and empty a few mags in it. That'll teach that H2O to stay the f away from me. But just in case, I always carry a towel with me. Now it all makes sense
I remember when Greg Louganis had his own show at SeaWorld in 1986. He was diving repeatedly throughout the day off of very very high dives that they built exclusively for his use during the show. I have never been so thrilled and yet terrified before in my life! Watching somebody do this and I have to say such an incredibly skilled diver. I've never seen anyone as smooth as him since. He was one of a kind. God bless him.
I jumped off only a 3 meter diving board without warming up and ended up getting a concussion. Had trouble driving and focusing for 2+ weeks, so I can imagine how scary and dangerous 20 meters would be!
I have a persistent neck injury from a simple mistake I made on a 12 foot (3.5 - 3.6 ish meter) dive over a decade ago. It doesn't take a whole lot of height for water not to be so soft anymore.
@@_theaven_5907 For sure! So I was never in any sense a diver. It was something I did recreationally for fun when I was swimming in water deep enough to allow diving and there was somewhere to dive off of. I was at a lake with friends who had a covered boathouse. The upper deck was about 12 feet above the surface of deep water (20 - 30 feet). It was not the tallest thing I've ever dove from, but it was the last tall thing I ever dove off of. I had had maybe a half dozen (give or take) smooth, head-first dives that afternoon, so I went for one more. I was putting my hands together, one over the other so that the palm of the hand on top was pressed against the back of the hand below, with my arms raised above my head so that my fingertips cut the surface of the water. On that final dive, I was already a little bit tired and cold, and I dove before I was really ready. This time, when my hands hit the water, the impact made my arms cross and fold slightly out of the way, away from guarding my head and cutting into the water. The top of my head hit the surface of the water, breaking the surface tension rather than my fingertips. The moment I hit the water, I felt like I had just slammed head-first into a brick wall or like I'd been cracked over the head by a baseball bat. My vision lit up like a Christmas tree. Once I was out of the water, I could already feel my neck wasn't right, but between the water being cold and the top of my head hurting a lot more, I didn't fully feel the extent of the neck injury until the next day, when it became excruciating to turn my head at all or sit up. That was a little over a decade ago, and that neck injury still gives me trouble now and then. I love water, swimming is one of my favorite things, but I don't dive off of anything more than 6 or 8 inches above the water. I had my fun, and now I've got the injury to show for it, so no more for me.
@@_theaven_5907 I'd just say learn good technique, don't dive tired, have some safety guidelines in place for yourself, and always always always respect water.
A neighborhood pool in my hometown removed the diving boards after a guy hit his head and flayed his scalp and skin off his back. A couple of decades later, a woman drowned in the diving area because the water was so turbid from people's sunscreen, the lifeguards could not see the bottom. She was discovered only after the pool closed and her friends could not find her. They thought she'd gone home, leaving before them, but when she couldn't be found, they searched the facility. Now the diving area is closed when the water is cloudy.
Sounds like they need to do a better job of maintaining that pool, which can also include limiting the amount of people allowed in it at any given time.
@@Iluvpie6 yes. And open more municipal facilities. Calls to close the ones they already have puts significant additional strain on existing infrastructure.
I jumped from 65 ft last year and completely fucked my knee. I am so pissed at myself because I was extremely fit and never had physical limitations. DON'T CLIFF JUMP if it looks higher than 30 feet.
@@stevenandrews5050 Yeah man it really sucks. I made a lot of promises with some graduating college buddies to climb some of the 7 summits and I was the most prepared, now I'm too embarrassed to really explain how bad it is. It will hurt if I walk around for an hour, I just hope it's healing but will take a long time.
@@stevenandrews5050 Also thousands on rock climbing and mountaineering gear just rotting in my closet now. Which was a shit load of work to pay for that stuff and it's so damned expensive
@@c4yourself319 shit, sorry man. Genuinely I wish you the best in your healing and recovery. I wonder if physio would help, and if it’s even an option for you..
I remember being flung off a tube while tubing when I was young, my feet slammed into the water as if I was stomping onto the ground type of motion(due to how I was flung off the tube) and it felt as if my pelvis was in my throat, I was fortunate to be able to have a quick cry/grown under the water moment before they turned back around to get me. So I can only imagine what 20-25m feels like
@@jackfrost8043I smacked my ballsack once off a 10m jump, needless to say that shit hurt. I’m still very willing to go on a limb and say I’d do a jump off a 20m but it won’t be anything spectacular.
I once jumped of a rock from 12 meters in curaçao, falling flat on my tummy because I essentially suck. A very dumb thing. The water feels like a brick. Under water I had to just endure the pain a bit before I decided to surface. Luckily no injuries except a red tummy 😅 because at that height you can break things. I learned something that day. Won’t do it again unless I train for it. Imagine 20 meters….
I once tried to dive from like a 5 ft diving board and for some reason my legs went over too much so I basically did a front flip and landed right on my back. It hurt so bad I can’t imagine messing up a 20 meter dive
I've literally never in my life messed up a dive from a 5ft board. 😂 A statistic I will keep for life due to me not having the balls to dive in from any higher than the edge of the pool. 😂
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbiden that supposed to be an insult? A dude who has that type of support, openness and emotional maturity is living the dream
Years ago at a diving competition, a diver had someone shout something during her entry causing her to lose her form & belly flop. She wound up in the ICU, nearly dying, because of it.
my brother once landed wrong jumping off a 3M tower, lost consciousness and needed an ambulance. his body was a mess. i dont wanna imagine what 20M could do to you..
Yeah, I jumped off a cliff in the outskirts of Austin TX at 18yo. It was my first Summer home from college. I don’t actually know the height of the cliffs, but it was well over 15 feet. It was my first & last major jump. I just tried to do a standard jump, feet first but the length of time it took for me to even reach the water sort of freaked me out. By the time I reached the water, I ended up bending my legs up so I hit the water in a sitting position. I just so happened to be wearing jean shorts; they split at the pocket seems because of how hard I hit that water & my tailbone hurt for a long time after that. My tailbone frankly still hurts a bit once in a while, I am 40yo. Lesson learned: jumping into water from tall heights, especially anything above 10 feet is very dangerous & should be worked up to so as to ensure a safe entry into the water.
I had to see if it wasn't me who hadn't written this comment cause it's exactly how i tell everyone how it happened to me. They told me to have my arms and legs straight and next to my body at all times, but because i was in the air for so long, i panicked and landed in a sitting position as well. I tell everyone i got butt raped by the water before i learned it's actually called enema or something
15 feet is a mere 3 meters and I can tell you that hitting the water the wrong way at 3 meters can hurt bad and possibly break something if not knock the air right out of you.
Jumped off the cliffs at Huntington Gorge in VT decades ago. This Gold ring I always wore eventually bent into the natural shape of my finger due to the impact, even holding a tight position feet first. Gorge no longer safe due to an extreme flood changing its entire path and no longer accessible. Prior to this event, a local TV filming at the Gorge because a double roped and tightly secured specially trained water rescuer attempting to save a college/university student trapped after a major rain storm, in this river’s waterfall section filled with rocks. We all watched as he too was dragged under and no matter how hard everyone tried both died. Afterwards they blocked off any and all places available to park. Jumping off cliffs in other locations still happening and already one unfortunate incident occurred this year. Struggle knowing young adults who believe they’re invincible, but make it patently clear their very close friend at 15 became a quad due to similar dangerous circumstances and hope🤞 think twice.
People talking about 3-5 meters deep like it is ‘nothing’. It’s a lot!! I once jumped from 4m high, and I got scared. The altitude doesn’t sound like much, but it is. The scariest part was when I didn’t calculate how much air to ‘take in’ before going into the water. I got probably 2 meters deep that it felt like 6! I was missing all the oxigen while I was swimming up to the surface as fast as I could. The longest seconds of my life! It was my first time doing it, and I know I made some mistakes when jumping but I got so scared that I never wanted to try again 🙃
I remember jumping from a high platform into a 12ft pool. It wasn't 20m but it was high. When I hit the water a jolt of pain shot up from my feet through my legs, back and neck. It was SHOCKING. Scared the shit out of me and made me realize the impact water can have and can literally paralyze you.
This stuff is common knowledge, it shocks me that people go so far through their lives not knowing this Really, really stupid to jump off something that high into water if you don't understand this, this shouldn't have been how you learned
@rambo-cambo3581 I was 16yo and I knew jumping from high would hurt I just didn't know what little distance was required to make it hurt as bad as it did.
I remember cliff jumping as a kid, I had jumped off of tall fences before, and diving boards. Point your toes, arms by the side, pencil dive, no problem. The first time I jumped off a high cliff, (50 feet, 15 meters) The thing I didn't expect to feel, was having to fight the air resistance to keep my arms down. I remember trying, them being pushed up, and then having to force them to my side just as I entered the water. Turns out, the same lake 40 years ago, my mom had jumped off a cliff called "The 151" (151 feet, 46 meters) landed wrong and to this day still has chronic back pain due to that injury.
Jumped from a cliff into a quarry about that height, wasn't straight when I hit the water and had a bruise about 10in diameter on my thigh from impact with a varicose vein
Happened to my gf. She landed into the water in a seated position because of the nervousness 😆 good size bruise on underside of both thighs. Had to be a 30 ft cliff jump too
As a former platform and springboard diver, and having knocked the wind out of myself multiple times in over rotating or under rotating a dive - this is seriously the truth 😮
The amount of pressure that you feel from jumping is unbelievable. I agree with her I could only do three. I was a professional swimmer for 10 years Dove for three. For fun I would do lots of bridge jumping. And my training for that was three only.
There's a video on Instagram where a indian guy did a high jump from a bridge and crashed into the water. He surfaced snd floated like a dead log for a bit then started to move flopping around with no direction. His head was going under or up just a painful thing to watch. Then he eventually stopped flopping and started floating away like a dead log. What a way to go. The guy broke his back he was in his early 20s (yes he died)
When i was in college, my friends and i went to the cove. I had never cliff jumped before, and they were all doing it. I jumped off a small one (maybe 12 feet) after about an hour of everyone else. After climbing up again, a bunch of them went over to the highest spot and were jumping from there. I got pressured into doing it too, and the only risk i understood at the time was making sure you dont hit rocks. I jumped, and the last 3rd, i pulled my legs out straighter in front of me to avoid rotating back. When i hit, it echoed 3 times around the cove. People thought a boat had wrecked. I spread out in the water and didn't move as I floated back to the surface, even though the breath was mostly knocked from my lungs. I gently swam back to the edge, and over the next 24 hours, white whip marks, red marks, and DARK purple bruises covered my legs from my butt down. I was extremely lucky more damage wasn't done, especially to my girl parts. Turns out the height I jumped from was 60+ feet, according to locals.
Deeper pool some air hoses connected to a perforated mat anchored in the water that “sprinkle air bubbles” The air bubbles will make the water bubbly, allowing for safer jumps without damaging your body or brain that just get completely squashed in scull when slowing down in the water.
The first time I tried a backflip, I was around 7-8 meters. My neck hit first and I'm lucky I didn't break anything. I was in a load of pain for a week.
Yesterday I stood on the 1m board, and I was shivering with how scared I was🥲, so props to her. ( I am 17, and actually I am overwight so that added to the fear)
jumped off my first considerably high surface this summer at a dam and that shit is so much different than a 10-15 foot diving board bracing for impact is one thing but adjusting to how long you’re underwater afterwards is wild
As someone who is severely scared of heights (as in, I get weak knees when getting on the third step of a ladder), the beginning of this video is insane to me.
I dove in college, D3 so we only competed 3m. Sometimes we got a chance to go to a D1 school and try out their 10m platforms. It was freaking terrifying. The impact was pretty substantial, even if you landed correctly. I can't even imagine trying 20m.
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidenI bet you never dived deep enough into the water to know how it feels to have the pressure on your body and lack of sense of depth.
I've always bee impressed by the skills of divers. Not just the grace as they're going down but also the ability to enter the water from those heights and come out with no injuries.
Crazy what about the guys in acapulco who jump 30-40 meters into ocean where the water is said to be only 16 to 6 ft deep 😮 off a cliff this just made it way more impressive hearing this
She is so correct. It makes such an impact on the body. If you think about it, it's a critical fall, and a huge majority of people would not survive it. Yet she does it all the time... amazing..
This is what high level show jumping and puissance equestrians do too. We limit how much we school at height with the upper level horses between competitions in order to preserve both our joints and theirs. I know of some puissance (the competition where you essentially try to jump as high as possible) riders who don’t ride over fences more than a handful of times a year. If you know your horse has enough scope to clear height and you focus on good technique and strength training through flat and lower height but more complex exercises (ie combinations, adding/removing strides and extensions/collections, tall singles, cavaletti, and roll backs/quick turns) you don’t need to constantly ask them for 100% at height and can have a successful horse with more longevity and less risk to acute or stress injuries.
I’ve jumped 20 m a bunch, but I just pencil dive. I cannot imagine flipping the way that they do and possibly land incorrectly it’s always so impressive to watch somebody do it in person
I need the olympics to have more informational segments to explain the insane physics these athletes are doing and why they need to dedicate their full time to training. Like on animal planet how they would explain how strong ants are or something with those crazy 3d animations.
I did a jump just under 90 feet in a canyon in BC ... Water feels a bit different at those heights. I went feet first into the water of course with shoes on (idk if that was a bad idea, but with all the hiking we had to do it made sense). That jump drove my legs into my chest so hard and tweaked my back for sure. I was an elite junior athlete that could full squat just over 400lb for reps at 178lb too. This stuff is no joke.
So, as someone who once did swimming and not diving, let me tell you I have nothing but utter respect for divers. I only went on the 15 meter platform twice “for fun,” and both times, it triggered my brains fear response and I had to force myself to jump off. You think it’s not that bad, until you get up there and are looking down 15 meters and realize “yeah, I’m a little over a story above the water, so I’m jumping off of a house right now, and I have to land upright, or I’m gonna get the shit knocked out of me.” What I’m saying is, I could not be a diver 😂
There are so many people here talking about jumping from cliffs higher than 10 meters.... I've had bad jumps from 5 meters that taught me to never do that shit.
One tiny correction for both the speaker and those sharing their stories here. It's not the "water" that attacks or destroys you - it's gravity. Some of it is surface tension but mostly it's Earth's gravity that is responsible for both the fall and the impact. "Water" (being a fluid) SAVES your life: try jumping from that hight with solid ground below to feel the difference (don't). Aside from that, I've done a bit of diving myself (never dared approach that hight though). I think it is all about putting your body in a straight line before the entry and "opening" the water with your limbs (either both of your arms if you are jumping head first or your feet if not) rather than anything else. It's the only way to avoid injury.
I used to dive as an extracurricular so I did training and all but I never had any intent to compete or go pro. It was just fun and my trainer was a friend of the family who did it for free so I was never an advanced diver, not even close. My max was only five meters which I think is a little over sixteen feet. It was scary but doing it and getting that perfect form feels incredible. If you're angle is off its terrible though and if it's way off you can get hurt. I can't imagine a 20 meter dive, how that would feel, staring down at that tiny looking pool you're meant to go into.
Peeople won't believe me but I jumped off a 68 metre cliff into the ocean. I lost consciousness, thank God there were people to rescue me. I actually have it on film too
I jumped off 15-ish meters up from a cliff into a river and didn't know how dangerous it actually was (college kids on vacation). I ended with a half body bruise starting from my torso to my right thigh. It hurt so much hitting the water my vision went black. I realize now that I was actually lucky all I got was a nasty bruise.
Why would you go in flat-footed? First time I ever jumped off a 50-ft cliff. The first thing I noticed was damn does my feet sting. Second was I can taste water and my mouth's closed
@@s.p.8803 coming from someone who has never jumped off of anything over 10 ft right? You point your toes unless you want to have sore feet. So your little piggies will stay intact and unbroken. Coming from experience, not opinion.
I’m in the coast guard. I jump out of helicopters when people need to be rescued (that’s the majority of my job) and I can tell you jumping from any higher than 40 feet (12 meters) is actually incredibly dangerous. If you don’t land straight up and down with the water you run a very high risk of breaking a bone or worse knocking the wind out of you. If you are wondering how that’s worse try swimming with the wind knocked out of you. Now try that after jumping from 30 feet up. You will nearly drown (or drown).
What does knocked out wind mean? For a non native entlish speaker.
@@jlrollingit means that the impact of the water literally takes your breath away from the force of landing. it’s an idiom that means losing your breath from a sudden impact. it’s often used in sports
Hey we're all going to die anyway if that's how God wants you to die, not the worst death in the world.
@@pauljohnson6019 bro, go get you a drink, or get you a smoke or some 🌱 on me. What kind of stinkin thinkin is that to have on a midsummer Friday afternoon? 🤦♂️
I'm a lifeguard so not unfamiliar with the water or high dives. I feel pretty certain if I had the wind knocked out of me after jumping from that high, I'd gasp and inhale the water
We need more interviews like this. Most of us do not understand the sport but like watching it leisurely.
Am I the only person who likes watching it gingerly
You can definitely see the effect the high speed impacts into water have had on her skin. Her face looks leathery
@@sanguine2552What if that’s just from lack of skincare or maybe excessive sun exposure?
@@sanguine2552 She's not hitting the water with her face. As other commenter said, most likely sun, she's an athlete training all day in the water, not easy to keep sunscreen on.
as long as the guy asking questions doesn't use 10 "like"s in one sentence
I jumped off of a 10 meter cliff once & I legit felt like I broke my tail bone, got the wind knocked out of me, and had water shoot up one of my ears which gave me a massive headache. I cried a little bit because it felt like I got hit by a car! So much respect to all of you divers who make it look so easy
That’s kinda funny
Proof or fake
For me I didn't tighten my legs, like, at all. So my balls absorbed the shock and boy did that hurt.😮
I jumped off a 70 ft cliff when I was younger and my friends thought it was crazy and apparently you can die at that height from just blood rushing to your head
@@OHPancrathaven’t heard an Olympian die from this as of yet. 70ft is about the same as the 20m they jump.
"You need to attack the water"
As a diver I've never heard that but I'm sure glad I did now!
You have not heard of the Roman emperor that went to war against Neptune and had his legionnaires stab the water.
Pretty much he said the same thing.
My Brother belly flopped off a highway that was 25 m high and his whole body exploded.
@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepper sheeesh sounds like skill issue to me
@@argiedude3762 As an Ancient Roman history major in college, I cannot thank you for this comment enough.
@@Coffeeisnecessarynowpepperwas there water?
I used to jump off a bridge in Washington state. It's 66feet which is almost exactly 20M.
The first time I did it I jumped maybe 5 times in one day. The next day it felt like I had been in a car crash
Notice the lack of any serious damage like every idiot thinks will happen
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbiden well I landed okay every time, but I definitely couldnt think about doing it 20 times a day or multiple days in a row.
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidenwhy are you eager to dismiss the danger of this sport? There was a diver who was only slightly off and she got a concussion. The force you hit the water with is no joke
You sound dumber than me i like you 😄
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidenIf you think there’s no risk of serious damage, then youre the idiot. And you will only be more of an idiot when you jump off thinking its easy.
I jumped off 11-12m height once when I was a teenager. It was extremely scary as after jumping I entered as a pencil, so I didn't feel pain, but I was surprised to find out how deep I fell into the lake, so when I was getting back to the surface, I started to panic half-way, because I was swimming and swimming, but didn't seem to reach the surface. It worked out well, but that's because I was a halfway decent swimmer. If you're not confident in your swimming or don't have balls of steel, I don't recommend jumping from that height ,cuz it is honestly dangerous.
That's why they 'spread' their body after entering the water, so that they don't go down that deep.
Hum, If you panicked at being really deep Youre either a good swimmer or a bad one, no Room for 'half-decent'. It also doesnt help If the lake's water was dark, because you cant actually see the Surface Very well.
@@Reir0othat's why you got to watch the direction the bubbles are going and follow them up to the surface. Easier said than done if you're halfway panicking.
@Reir0o why is there no room for half decent 😐 who do you think u are
Yeah, exactly. 11-12 m or about 33-36 ft is the highest anyone should be diving unless you’re a professional! And even then it is scary as hell!
Let's just say if you land the wrong way it can cause major issues...
Literal death
I once slipped off the high dive and belly flopped.... that f*cking sucked to damn much
@@CrippledAutistnow imagine the 20m drop, you mess that up and you get some serious damage 💀
@@CrippledAutist if it was 20m it wouldn't have just sucked, it could suck the life out of ya..
You will get smushed inside from 20 meters on flat water you can defenetly die from landing flat
I dove off 7 meters and entered the water incorrectly, completely tore the labrum in my right shoulder. Water is no joke yall.
People dont realize, (and yes this is taking to the maximum but you can divide down to get the point) but at close to terminal velocity or around 300ft / 100 meters, still water has the same surface tension as concrete. Solid. concrete. Thats why they have the little fountains spraying the spot where they land, to help dissipate the surface tension when they hit the water. So theyre at 20m, if 100m is max (for this consideration anyway) for guaranteed grievous bodily harm or death, thats 1/5 the impact of solid concrete. Doesnt sound like much but in perspective thats still an insane amount of force.
Look water is the most destructive force on the planet next to a nuclear bomb
@@JustAPriapismvelocity over time is not linear so you can't really say it's a 1/5th the impact of the 100m dive, right?
@@soupisfornoobs4081Surface tension also isn’t a variable that has a linear relationship to impact velocity iirc, so it’s all a mess to approximate. But the point still stands that you’re operating under conditions that are wandering toward some margin of “you can just die if you aren’t careful”
Well I hope your shoulder recovers that sounds painful
You can tell by her demeanor just how serious this diving is. Respect!
Thing is, because of your acceleration, you don’t gain much more time to do tricks, but you massively increase the danger
Good point
That makes a lot of sense 😅 10 meters just to get closer to terminal velocity 😂
Sure you do. When I BASE jump, the higher I jump from, the more tricks I can do before i have to deploy my parachute. That is a fact.
@@mattjack3983 obviously there is more time when the jump is higher, but the point is that the time isn't double as long when the jump is double the height. And the speed on impact is a lot more. I guess your base jumping parachute always slows you down to the same speed? (Genuine question)
@@mattjack3983 I think OP was talking about proportionality: you don't get twice as much time to do tricks just because you dove from twice as high. Apart from that, very cool you BASE jump, but I don't think the two are comparable. 🤷🏻
As someone who has never and will never dive from anything other than the regular pool equipment, this is very insightful. Thank you. I have never heard it being put that way before
🤣😆 You and me both Diving off the edge isway enough for me
Don't dive, ever. It's too dangerous. Look up Joni Eareckson Tada.
I just stay where I can touch the bottom!!
You can do plenty of damage on a regulation high dive.
@@Lucey2diving in a marked pool isn’t that dangerous, but you should never dive into a natural body of water because you can’t judge the depth or the water or account for any rocky outcroppings, etc.
When I was a teenager I jump off a cliff at a rock quarry. It was a 4 and half second free fall which was around 100' . I did it 4 times in my life and it was painful every time. I have scar tissue in my shoulder from having my arms out the first time. One of my friends brother got paid $100 to dive. He did but when in with his arms wrapped around his head. You had to swim across which took you about 15 with a slow painful paddle. By the time he got out of the water he had huge blood boils on his shoulders. Rumor is one guy had a compound fracture of his leg too. You would have an enema every time. One time when I was falling I looked down and saw a bird fly underneath me. Not something many people get to experience in their life. This was in the early 90's so I might have died and this is just a dream Im living out.
Wake up, it's time for school!
A bird flew underneath you !! That's such a awesome thing to experience ! Lucky you !!
This actually makes a lot of sense. How many times in one session are you hitting a 90 to 95% squat? Hitting 95% three times a session, multiple sessions a week, is a lot
One has nothing to do with the other. What you have just said literally made zero sense
@@pslmountainit’s about intensity being applied to the body. Sure, one is about micro-tears to build back better muscle tissue, but you’re missing the analogy: it’s about engaging in extreme intensities within your sport, you cannot do it repeatedly or with high frequency without major risk of injury. Try benching your one rep max, then do it 5 more times. Now it makes sense.
@@pslmountain go back to school bud
@@pslmountainyou can’t be this stupid
@@virtuersehow many times do you do 95% in one session? Powerlifters use a rep range of 3-5 which us the equivalent of 90-95%. They don't do 1 or 2 sets either. They just use extended recovery. Sprinters don't do just 1 set of sprints. That being said recovery is essential.
Just the sheer force of hitting the water wrong can split your skin open if you hit wrong. Then there's if you're gonna be actually finishing it in a dive head first, and you missed even the smallest amount of covering the top of your head, you will be concussed, garunteed. Speaking as an ex cliff diver, there aren't many things that feel as bad as hitting the water with nothing but the top of your head.
Absolutely right! You see the white dot in the middle they point at? Those are bubbles they make to break up the surface tension.
@@criticalyoshi I have seen divers say that that's a common misconception and the bubbles provided are to help them see where the water is whilst diving. Seen people say that them chucking in their wee towel or a rock or whatever is also to break surface tension but that is apparently to do with judging the distance of the dive, I think?
Well theocratically it would work. But the chances of pulling it if are very slim. But if you could break the surface tension before you hit it it would be ideal n@@lovecatxx
Finally, hearing people respecting the water instead of bragging how easy these things are.
Me belly flopping off 10 meters as a kid just to show exert dominance
"That was a bad idea." -You, immediately afterwards.
“show” and “exert” are synonyms. you either “show dominance” or “exert dominance” but you don’t “show exert dominance”
@@primetimeturner_YT He's so dominant he shows AND exerts at the same time so you can't miss it. Eat wang liberals
@@primetimeturner_YT I bet you're just a blasty blast at all the parties xD
@@primetimeturner_YTThose words are not synonymous.
Friendly reminder that water, when rapidly compressed over enough area is effectively a solid. The only thing that's keeping you from getting seriously injured from a bit over a 60 foot drop (a meter is a little more than a yard, so 60 feet is conservative) is good form. You're going to feel anything less than perfect form when you get out of the pool. And anything less than great form is going to make getting out of the pool much more difficult
"3 a day" is not entirely about if her body can physically handle it, it's about not feeling the need to tempt fate more than 3 times a day
We know. Everyone knows.
@@kitten-whispererby some of the comments here, no not everybody knows it, pal! We’re on this dire of a situation! 😅
1. water is almost incompressible, it does not compress when you jump in to it, it gets squashed out around you(like a liquid, because it is a liquid).
2. It's not effectively like a solid, this is how liquids behave. What actually happens at high speeds is that solids acts more like liquids because the forces are so great that the material strength becomes more and more negligible. Think like a tungsten APFSDS rod going like 1500 m/s hitting a slab of armor, it will act like clay. So no, high speed impacts does not make liquids act as solids, it makes solids act like liquids.
@@skitidet4302 dude. You know what he meant. Why are you so insistent on being this annoying? Are you autistic?
@skitidet4302 I meant from a human perspective, and I should have been more clear about that when I wrote it.
I appreciate the physics lesson, but it's also not strictly incorrect to say that a liquid does not compress (and I should have said in my original post "tries to compress") has a force that acts upon it quickly enough or in such a way that the liquid doesn't have time or an efficient enough path to displace itself is basically a brick wall for whatever is hitting it at the moment of impact. Especially something that feels pain and takes damage the way a human body does
Every public pool used to have a 12 ft board. That's not super high, but for a 7 y/o kid the pain on not entering the water smoothly was enough to teach you how to enter smoothly. And yeah, these were available to everyone.
My public pool as a kid had a 10 m (32 foot) platform, and YEAH. You've got to at least point your toes!
@@malinia.20 it's ridiculous how easy and severely you can hurt yourself jumping from 10 meters.
I failed a head first jump from 5meters ONCE, and I never did any such foolery ever again. Water is just too heavy.
I jump into foam out all day every day, but not water. That shit will knock you out, break your spine and then drown you. No thanks.
When I was getting my spine X-ray tech certification, that was a specific type of injury we learned about, was a fracture of the Atlas, or your C-1, top of your spine, it's shaped like a disk compared to the rest of the spine, and it can basically burst into pieces from impact. The example my teacher gave was professional divers 💜
And doesn’t that result in paralysis?
20 meters, that's like jumping off a six story building. You'll be going 70 kilometers per hour by the time you hit (45 mph). If your body doesn't align perfectly and slice into the water, it'll be like hitting a brick wall at car speeds.
@@The-KPHoly Fricken Frick! Ouch! …to say the least!
So if you have no atlas how are you going to find your orientation 😅😂
The Atlas is the first cervical bone right under your skull. The Axis is the second cervical bone, upon which the Atlas pivots, allowing your head to move in various planes. I suppose that if you fracture your Atlas, your head can no longer pivot...
Molly was talking about one of her dives she recently did where she BARELY over rotated and wound up with a forced water enema. She RUSHED out of the pool to the bathroom and was in there for over 10 minutes trying to expel the water.
It is extremely painful to land wrong and even more painful to land right too many times over-practicing..
Most coaches already know the dangers to their athletes bodies and refuse them any extra practicing.
I have never in my life heard of a forced water enema..... New fear, unlocked.
Wait, I just googled forced water enema and nothing came up 😭 can u pls explain
@@hotfishfromsharktaleWhen she landed, the water went up either the pink or the brown eye.
@@hotfishfromsharktaleI just googled enema to find out what that means. I filled in the blanks from there. And…Yikes 😬
@@hotfishfromsharktale You know what an enema is? Well the force of the water when she hit it gave her one
My grandfather's Friend was an Olympic diver in the 1960s. After his Olympics dreams were over, he worked building and repairing bridges. He fell off a bridge when he slipped while trying to reattach his harness. He ended up breaking both of his ankles when he landed wearing, heavy boots, and the harness broke his teeth when it smashed into his face. But he said he was able to adjust his body to land feet first.
My husband jumped from a cliff into a lake on a dare in middle school. He belly flopped and got bilateral inguinal hernias and had emergency surgery. It’s dangerous if you don’t know what you are doing. Many quadriplegics and deaths from diving.
He obviously didn’t 🤕
Scary!
That opening shot made my feet start to sweat.
Same here, and my belly flopped, and my heart rate immediately increased. There is a zero percent chance I will ever be doing this 😂
stinky feet?
@@lesliebean4594facts 😂😂
Right? I was concerned for a second that I might’ve peed a little. There’s no way I could even make it to the platform.
I jumped from 50ft and didn’t land fully straight. Broke a vertebrae and almost died/paralyzed for life. Don’t ever jump, it’s a stupid gamble.
During the summer in the south, there's a decent cliff diving culture. Some of our cliffs are over 15 meters. We would dive atleast a dozen times. We could barely move the next day. Its so intense
15 meters was my one and only jump. No coordination, no balance, just dead weight falling in the water, I couldn't even tell which side was up once I fell in. I just swam towards the light and when I came out I was like "piece of cake, everyone should do it" lol.
There are cool cliffs near me over 15 meter only part that really makes your muscles ache is climbing up you should try wearing flipflops while jumping so you feet dont get busted
@@Lymbe06everything needs to be tight 🌚
Yeah theres this one cliff here about 45 feet high, i remeber being a 13 year old kid and doing 10 - 15 jumps absolutely wrecked the nect day. Still fun though.
Check out "døds" (deathdiving)
After hearing her say this it makes sense, but I hadn’t thought about it before. You often hear that people who die plunging into water often die from the impact. The water is an incredible force.
It’s basically physics. If you hit water fast enough and it can’t get out of your way(displace) you might as well be hitting concrete..
Jumped off of an old bridge into a river once, my arms were out away from my body, as soon as I hit, my arms flung up over my head and I lost full rotation on both arms for several weeks, could barely put on a shirt or wipe my ass. Some time later, some drunk guy jumped off the same bridge, water was forced up his ass and tore right through his intestine. He needed several surgeries and was in the hospital for a while, recovering and fighting infection. That was maybe 20 feet off the water MAX. 20 METERS is scary as fudge. Super dangerous, even if you know what you are doing, mistakes happen.
I jumped from high up as a teen (I'm not even sure how high it was) as a dare.
I had enough sense to tense up but as soon as I hit the water it bent my straight legs backward and nearly broke my back like a twig so she is NOT lying.
Anyone who thinks I'm over exaggerating the pain and anguish equaling a near broken back can kick rocks because it HURT so bad I screamed underwater. 😅
Water is not soft!! Damn, glad you survived that.
Summer before freshman year of highschool I dove off the high dive atthe pool got more aire than I intended hit the water smacked my calves on the surface felt my back bend as ifforcefully leaning back I surfaced and couldn't feel or move my legs for 30 minutes legit thought I was paralyzed
@@veronicadavanzo2064Romans 10:9-11 says, "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved".Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone. 18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works. 19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
@@tylerhall3860Romans 10:9-11 says, "If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved".
I did something kind of similar but head first. I didn't keep my hands together and arms rigid properly to cut into the surface of water, so they crossed on impact and the top of my head hit the water, instead. It felt like having a cinder block dropped on my head. The next day, I could barely sit up and I couldn't turn my head to the right at all. A decade later and I'm still dealing with the damage I did to the disks in my neck.
It's like hitting concrete, until you break the surface tension of the water if you jump from a high enough height it'll actually split you apart like jumping off a skyscraper and landing on concrete, that's why so many people jump off the Golden gate bridge. It's an instant stop
So sad...😔
I heard that, too. And I ask myself how is it their feet dont brake?
Horrendous.. so sad many people feel so hopeless.. 😢 my only hope is in JESUS.
@@e.n.6079shut up. You’re being disgusting by trying to preach and say these people wouldn’t have killed themselves if they found Jesus. You sick f*ck
The GoldenGate bridge is 67meters some people survive some don't. When they were building it they said to toss your hammer ahead of you while you falling to break the surface tension.
I wonder if there are any surviving reports of that working? 😮
I did a cannonball off a harbour wall once. It was probably about 5 meters. Unexpected seawater enemas are really not fun. They are in fact, quite painful. 😂
In fact.., as if contrary to popular belief 😂😂😂😂😂
New fear unlocked 😂
Certain waterslides cause similar injuries in women that require SURGERY to repair!
@@claudjarodnezNew fear unlocked.
@@claudjarodnezYes happened to someone I know (at Busch gardens tampa) she also got (in today's money) $25,000
the POV from on top of the diving board made me realize I’m afraid of heights 😂😂
You're not scared of heights, you're scared of falling. 😉
What’s POV?
@@biggieyorke8415Point of view.
😮 Seeing from the divers' high perspective above the pool has changed me from spectator-in-amazement of their form-to-entry, to now having deepest respect for their fearless bravery. This is incredible! 👏🏾👏🏾
We need more and more professional divers giving us lessons on diving from how high you’re jumping from. It may seem easy or fun to do so but in reality, jumping from that high can hurt you. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to learn new things everyday.
Good, today let's learn that "every day" is almost always two words.
Every day = 7 days per week. "I used to go to the gym every day. I eat garbage every day."
Everyday = adjective that means typical. This word is not as commonly used. "These are my everyday clothes. This was an everyday occurrence."
@@AdelicowsSo, there's nothing wrong with trying to learn new everyday things. 😊
If you fall into water from high enough/with enough velocity, it feels like slamming into concrete.
Yes but most places that train olympians have a bubble system to lessen the impact greatly and i feels like she isnt utilizing it
And the sky is blue, we get it
@@xXMc1ovinXx why train under conditions that you won't find in a competition?
@rambo-cambo3581 Because the important part of the jump are the twists in the air, not the physical impact of the water, they can train that last as thats the easiest to fix lol, who would do more complicated jumps? someone who jumps 3 times a day or someone whos able to practise up to 15 because the impact is closer to 0 and 20x less impactful or painfull if they fail the jump.
This way they can practise very hard maneuvers with lesser impact on the body, we can even look at distance running as an example, why do zone 2 training instead of going all out every single run? same principle
50m is about 95% fatal. That is way less height than most people expect. Dude who did the 58.8m record had a helmet on, bubbly moving water and they still had to pull him out of the water, because he was out for a few good seconds.
As a young soldier, went Cliff Diving in Cyprus. Did not know the risks ... when you're on the edge and people are watching you shut up and jump/dive.
Holy Mother of God, I will swear to this day, that someone took a hefty board and smacked me on the head. I saw stars, and then did that 5 more times to prove that I was an Idiot.
Got a great response from onlookers, yet I was dumb to continue on. The physical fatique that followed beached me. Ego ... till head smacks water. Ouch.
🧐😳😲🤯🤠🤣🤣🤣🤣😵💫🥴💥
I used to do cliff jumping to water, I loved it, and once I was feeling kinda iffy, but still did the jump (I shouldn't have), I got scared in the middle of the air and tried to get straight before I should and my body went out of control, I ended up entering the water in and outside down "L" body shape and my upper body hit the water full force. I ended up giving myself a barotrauma, and in the emergency room.
Where I jumped was in a deep river pond (like a small lake) created by a beautiful waterfall in the mountains. The waterfall generated waves. The impact was so strong that I was temporarily disoriented, and couldn't understand where was up and down and then the waves kept pushing me in all directions. Lucky, my husband noticed something was wrong and helped me get out of the water, onto a rock. I swear, that rock felt like marshmallow, from how disoriented I was. I had to keep taking medicine for a month, to heal due to the pressure of the water hitting my internal ear, and nose channels. (Doctors said no more jumping for me 😅)
I'm not sure how high was that cliff to the water, I doubt it was 20 meters, maybe like two stores hight. Ten-ish meters. And it hit hard. Water.will.destroy.you! (If you don't attack it)
@@losk.s6555was that necessary to comment? It’s an interesting story related to diving and the dangers of it. So childish
@@losk.s6555 she literally did, what comments are meant for.
Nevermind the dire warning of our impending destruction if we do not deliver a preemptive attack against water!!
I have already set traps under all my faucets as well as thoroughly beating any bottle of water before drinking them.
Next I will drive to the ocean and empty a few mags in it. That'll teach that H2O to stay the f away from me. But just in case, I always carry a towel with me. Now it all makes sense
I remember when Greg Louganis had his own show at SeaWorld in 1986.
He was diving repeatedly throughout the day off of very very high dives that they built exclusively for his use during the show. I have never been so thrilled and yet terrified before in my life! Watching somebody do this and I have to say such an incredibly skilled diver.
I've never seen anyone as smooth as him since. He was one of a kind. God bless him.
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He died
@tearsintherain6311 wtf are you talking about?!?! Greg Louganis is very much alive, super healthy and still an incredible athlete.
@@SympetrumHe never did the Triple Lindy
@spikenomoon nope only Rodney can do that.
I jumped off only a 3 meter diving board without warming up and ended up getting a concussion. Had trouble driving and focusing for 2+ weeks, so I can imagine how scary and dangerous 20 meters would be!
I have a persistent neck injury from a simple mistake I made on a 12 foot (3.5 - 3.6 ish meter) dive over a decade ago. It doesn't take a whole lot of height for water not to be so soft anymore.
Could you explain, what exactly you tried to do? And how it ended? Also how trained you were before?
@@_theaven_5907 For sure!
So I was never in any sense a diver. It was something I did recreationally for fun when I was swimming in water deep enough to allow diving and there was somewhere to dive off of.
I was at a lake with friends who had a covered boathouse. The upper deck was about 12 feet above the surface of deep water (20 - 30 feet). It was not the tallest thing I've ever dove from, but it was the last tall thing I ever dove off of.
I had had maybe a half dozen (give or take) smooth, head-first dives that afternoon, so I went for one more. I was putting my hands together, one over the other so that the palm of the hand on top was pressed against the back of the hand below, with my arms raised above my head so that my fingertips cut the surface of the water.
On that final dive, I was already a little bit tired and cold, and I dove before I was really ready. This time, when my hands hit the water, the impact made my arms cross and fold slightly out of the way, away from guarding my head and cutting into the water. The top of my head hit the surface of the water, breaking the surface tension rather than my fingertips.
The moment I hit the water, I felt like I had just slammed head-first into a brick wall or like I'd been cracked over the head by a baseball bat. My vision lit up like a Christmas tree. Once I was out of the water, I could already feel my neck wasn't right, but between the water being cold and the top of my head hurting a lot more, I didn't fully feel the extent of the neck injury until the next day, when it became excruciating to turn my head at all or sit up.
That was a little over a decade ago, and that neck injury still gives me trouble now and then. I love water, swimming is one of my favorite things, but I don't dive off of anything more than 6 or 8 inches above the water. I had my fun, and now I've got the injury to show for it, so no more for me.
@@lasharael thank you for telling your story, makes me think twice before doing anything like that again
@@_theaven_5907 I'd just say learn good technique, don't dive tired, have some safety guidelines in place for yourself, and always always always respect water.
@@lasharael thank you, that’s a very good mindset to have. I’ll be careful
A neighborhood pool in my hometown removed the diving boards after a guy hit his head and flayed his scalp and skin off his back.
A couple of decades later, a woman drowned in the diving area because the water was so turbid from people's sunscreen, the lifeguards could not see the bottom. She was discovered only after the pool closed and her friends could not find her. They thought she'd gone home, leaving before them, but when she couldn't be found, they searched the facility. Now the diving area is closed when the water is cloudy.
Wow omg
That is CHILLING
Sounds like they need to do a better job of maintaining that pool, which can also include limiting the amount of people allowed in it at any given time.
@@Iluvpie6 yes. And open more municipal facilities. Calls to close the ones they already have puts significant additional strain on existing infrastructure.
That is horrific
That laughter 😂 diabolical!!!
I jumped from 65 ft last year and completely fucked my knee. I am so pissed at myself because I was extremely fit and never had physical limitations. DON'T CLIFF JUMP if it looks higher than 30 feet.
Aw man that sucks. Sorry about that. It’s a shame it took a permanent problem to learn the lesson. Unfair, even
@@stevenandrews5050 Yeah man it really sucks. I made a lot of promises with some graduating college buddies to climb some of the 7 summits and I was the most prepared, now I'm too embarrassed to really explain how bad it is. It will hurt if I walk around for an hour, I just hope it's healing but will take a long time.
@@stevenandrews5050 Also thousands on rock climbing and mountaineering gear just rotting in my closet now. Which was a shit load of work to pay for that stuff and it's so damned expensive
@@c4yourself319 shit, sorry man. Genuinely I wish you the best in your healing and recovery. I wonder if physio would help, and if it’s even an option for you..
What happend to ur knee exactly
I remember being flung off a tube while tubing when I was young, my feet slammed into the water as if I was stomping onto the ground type of motion(due to how I was flung off the tube) and it felt as if my pelvis was in my throat, I was fortunate to be able to have a quick cry/grown under the water moment before they turned back around to get me. So I can only imagine what 20-25m feels like
Same thing happened to me except I smacked the water and slid across the surface on my nuts 😭😭😭
@@jackfrost8043 good lord! 🤣
@@B1gBossMan And it was only last summer 😂
@@jackfrost8043why are both of you named Jack Frost??
@@jackfrost8043I smacked my ballsack once off a 10m jump, needless to say that shit hurt. I’m still very willing to go on a limb and say I’d do a jump off a 20m but it won’t be anything spectacular.
My ass clenched so damn hard at the opening and it's not giving up anytime soon.
I once jumped of a rock from 12 meters in curaçao, falling flat on my tummy because I essentially suck. A very dumb thing. The water feels like a brick. Under water I had to just endure the pain a bit before I decided to surface. Luckily no injuries except a red tummy 😅 because at that height you can break things.
I learned something that day. Won’t do it again unless I train for it.
Imagine 20 meters….
I once tried to dive from like a 5 ft diving board and for some reason my legs went over too much so I basically did a front flip and landed right on my back. It hurt so bad I can’t imagine messing up a 20 meter dive
That must've been fun to watch 😂
I've literally never in my life messed up a dive from a 5ft board. 😂
A statistic I will keep for life due to me not having the balls to dive in from any higher than the edge of the pool. 😂
I bet you cry to your mother when you have a tough day
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbiden I haven’t cried in years lol
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbiden that supposed to be an insult? A dude who has that type of support, openness and emotional maturity is living the dream
Years ago at a diving competition, a diver had someone shout something during her entry causing her to lose her form & belly flop. She wound up in the ICU, nearly dying, because of it.
my brother once landed wrong jumping off a 3M tower, lost consciousness and needed an ambulance. his body was a mess. i dont wanna imagine what 20M could do to you..
Yeah, I jumped off a cliff in the outskirts of Austin TX at 18yo. It was my first Summer home from college. I don’t actually know the height of the cliffs, but it was well over 15 feet. It was my first & last major jump.
I just tried to do a standard jump, feet first but the length of time it took for me to even reach the water sort of freaked me out. By the time I reached the water, I ended up bending my legs up so I hit the water in a sitting position. I just so happened to be wearing jean shorts; they split at the pocket seems because of how hard I hit that water & my tailbone hurt for a long time after that. My tailbone frankly still hurts a bit once in a while, I am 40yo.
Lesson learned: jumping into water from tall heights, especially anything above 10 feet is very dangerous & should be worked up to so as to ensure a safe entry into the water.
You must mean over 15 metres not 15 feet.
@@Usernhhh77776 15 feet can still screw you up
I had to see if it wasn't me who hadn't written this comment cause it's exactly how i tell everyone how it happened to me.
They told me to have my arms and legs straight and next to my body at all times, but because i was in the air for so long, i panicked and landed in a sitting position as well.
I tell everyone i got butt raped by the water before i learned it's actually called enema or something
@@Usernhhh77776 15 feet can still suck
15 feet is a mere 3 meters and I can tell you that hitting the water the wrong way at 3 meters can hurt bad and possibly break something if not knock the air right out of you.
Jumped off the cliffs at Huntington Gorge in VT decades ago. This Gold ring I always wore eventually bent into the natural shape of my finger due to the impact, even holding a tight position feet first. Gorge no longer safe due to an extreme flood changing its entire path and no longer accessible. Prior to this event, a local TV filming at the Gorge because a double roped and tightly secured specially trained water rescuer attempting to save a college/university student trapped after a major rain storm, in this river’s waterfall section filled with rocks. We all watched as he too was dragged under and no matter how hard everyone tried both died. Afterwards they blocked off any and all places available to park.
Jumping off cliffs in other locations still happening and already one unfortunate incident occurred this year.
Struggle knowing young adults who believe they’re invincible, but make it patently clear their very close friend at 15 became a quad due to similar dangerous circumstances and hope🤞 think twice.
💚🍁802!💚
I feel like the scariest part wouldn't even be the jumping part, but the part when your underwater because you go down SO DEEP 😭
There ist a limit of how deep you can reach though. I think it's less then 5 meters
Thalassophobia 😅😅😅
People talking about 3-5 meters deep like it is ‘nothing’. It’s a lot!! I once jumped from 4m high, and I got scared. The altitude doesn’t sound like much, but it is. The scariest part was when I didn’t calculate how much air to ‘take in’ before going into the water. I got probably 2 meters deep that it felt like 6! I was missing all the oxigen while I was swimming up to the surface as fast as I could. The longest seconds of my life! It was my first time doing it, and I know I made some mistakes when jumping but I got so scared that I never wanted to try again 🙃
@Bea-bw5lx Never thought about the amount of oxygen you need to take in to swim to the top. Very good point!!
Na, it's definitely the jumping part
Flopping off 3 meter leaves me purple and blue. The confidence and SKILL here is insane
The kids at the local bridge: 😂😂😂😂
Professional divers fighting the water during dives would make a badass anime
I remember jumping from a high platform into a 12ft pool. It wasn't 20m but it was high. When I hit the water a jolt of pain shot up from my feet through my legs, back and neck. It was SHOCKING. Scared the shit out of me and made me realize the impact water can have and can literally paralyze you.
This stuff is common knowledge, it shocks me that people go so far through their lives not knowing this
Really, really stupid to jump off something that high into water if you don't understand this, this shouldn't have been how you learned
@rambo-cambo3581 I was 16yo and I knew jumping from high would hurt I just didn't know what little distance was required to make it hurt as bad as it did.
At 12ft? That never happened.
Over 20ft maybe
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidendepending how calm the water was. I could see 12 foot being able to hurt in a slow day.
I remember cliff jumping as a kid, I had jumped off of tall fences before, and diving boards. Point your toes, arms by the side, pencil dive, no problem.
The first time I jumped off a high cliff, (50 feet, 15 meters) The thing I didn't expect to feel, was having to fight the air resistance to keep my arms down. I remember trying, them being pushed up, and then having to force them to my side just as I entered the water.
Turns out, the same lake 40 years ago, my mom had jumped off a cliff called "The 151" (151 feet, 46 meters) landed wrong and to this day still has chronic back pain due to that injury.
Jumped from a cliff into a quarry about that height, wasn't straight when I hit the water and had a bruise about 10in diameter on my thigh from impact with a varicose vein
Same here, into a gorge in valle maggia (switzerland), a few years later they had a red bull cliff dive contest there.
Happened to my gf. She landed into the water in a seated position because of the nervousness 😆 good size bruise on underside of both thighs. Had to be a 30 ft cliff jump too
Maybe 50ft
Around 20 meter
@@seantheguy 30ft is less than half of 20 meters
Interesting. Would love to watch even a full vid on this.
You in luck then my guy. There's a link in the description for the full video
As a former platform and springboard diver, and having knocked the wind out of myself multiple times in over rotating or under rotating a dive - this is seriously the truth 😮
The amount of pressure that you feel from jumping is unbelievable. I agree with her I could only do three. I was a professional swimmer for 10 years Dove for three. For fun I would do lots of bridge jumping. And my training for that was three only.
There's a video on Instagram where a indian guy did a high jump from a bridge and crashed into the water. He surfaced snd floated like a dead log for a bit then started to move flopping around with no direction. His head was going under or up just a painful thing to watch. Then he eventually stopped flopping and started floating away like a dead log. What a way to go. The guy broke his back he was in his early 20s (yes he died)
When i was in college, my friends and i went to the cove. I had never cliff jumped before, and they were all doing it. I jumped off a small one (maybe 12 feet) after about an hour of everyone else. After climbing up again, a bunch of them went over to the highest spot and were jumping from there. I got pressured into doing it too, and the only risk i understood at the time was making sure you dont hit rocks. I jumped, and the last 3rd, i pulled my legs out straighter in front of me to avoid rotating back. When i hit, it echoed 3 times around the cove. People thought a boat had wrecked. I spread out in the water and didn't move as I floated back to the surface, even though the breath was mostly knocked from my lungs. I gently swam back to the edge, and over the next 24 hours, white whip marks, red marks, and DARK purple bruises covered my legs from my butt down. I was extremely lucky more damage wasn't done, especially to my girl parts. Turns out the height I jumped from was 60+ feet, according to locals.
I literally almost fell in my bed when the camera panned over the edge 😳 😬😟☹️😱😫😫😫
😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂 right.... that's very high up 😅
I know I couldn’t be an Olympic diver cause I’d take one look at that and climb back down
😂😂😂
The 1st person POV is terrifying
What’s POV?
Deeper pool some air hoses connected to a perforated mat anchored in the water that “sprinkle air bubbles” The air bubbles will make the water bubbly, allowing for safer jumps without damaging your body or brain that just get completely squashed in scull when slowing down in the water.
The first time I tried a backflip, I was around 7-8 meters. My neck hit first and I'm lucky I didn't break anything. I was in a load of pain for a week.
Everything needs to be tight
everything
@@Fujhipngffeverything
😂😂
I was about to say the same shit gawdamn
Shit gonna get blown out
I watched a documentary on high diving back in the ‘80’s. Dudes jumped from 58 metres! The injuries were sometime pretty spectacular.
Yesterday I stood on the 1m board, and I was shivering with how scared I was🥲, so props to her. ( I am 17, and actually I am overwight so that added to the fear)
LOL omg I flinched and moved back when this video started.
Ooo I never thought of this before. This is so insightful!
“You need to attack the water before it attacks you.” Words to live by.
This makes me appreciate divers so much more. Im not even a swimmer at all. Im so ignorant about diving, i didnt know it hurt 😂😅
jumped off my first considerably high surface this summer at a dam and that shit is so much different than a 10-15 foot diving board bracing for impact is one thing but adjusting to how long you’re underwater afterwards is wild
As someone who’s only jumped the Mostar Old Bridge I can confirm the water fights you back😂
As someone who is severely scared of heights (as in, I get weak knees when getting on the third step of a ladder), the beginning of this video is insane to me.
How deep is that pool? 25’???
Just that beginning pic got me feelin
There is a device which releases a ton of air to break surface tension and "soften" the landing. I wonder hpw quick that can be deployed.
I dove in college, D3 so we only competed 3m. Sometimes we got a chance to go to a D1 school and try out their 10m platforms. It was freaking terrifying. The impact was pretty substantial, even if you landed correctly. I can't even imagine trying 20m.
10 meters is crazy intimidating the first time, felt like I wasn’t gonna get back to the surface in time to breathe lol
You can only hold your breath for 5 seconds?
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidenI bet you never dived deep enough into the water to know how it feels to have the pressure on your body and lack of sense of depth.
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidenyou’ve clearly never dove into very deep water.
I've always bee impressed by the skills of divers. Not just the grace as they're going down but also the ability to enter the water from those heights and come out with no injuries.
So glad to hear other divers speaking on this. I limit all of my 30 meter dives to 4-5 dives per week.
Crazy what about the guys in acapulco who jump 30-40 meters into ocean where the water is said to be only 16 to 6 ft deep 😮 off a cliff this just made it way more impressive hearing this
6 foot is actually impossible
I wonder what long term issues will surface?
It’s not football or boxing by any means but I’m sure there’s some concussion issues
A lot of stress on the ankles
@@profoundlypointlessnot really
Also knee problems
She is so correct. It makes such an impact on the body. If you think about it, it's a critical fall, and a huge majority of people would not survive it. Yet she does it all the time... amazing..
This is true. I did a high cliff jump in Jamaica and knew nothing and hurt myself
"Hurt" yourself
Meaning you got no injuries but felt a slight amount of pain for a moment
@@joeloweryourexpectationsbidenit doesn't mean that, like at all.
This is what high level show jumping and puissance equestrians do too. We limit how much we school at height with the upper level horses between competitions in order to preserve both our joints and theirs. I know of some puissance (the competition where you essentially try to jump as high as possible) riders who don’t ride over fences more than a handful of times a year. If you know your horse has enough scope to clear height and you focus on good technique and strength training through flat and lower height but more complex exercises (ie combinations, adding/removing strides and extensions/collections, tall singles, cavaletti, and roll backs/quick turns) you don’t need to constantly ask them for 100% at height and can have a successful horse with more longevity and less risk to acute or stress injuries.
I’ve jumped 20 m a bunch, but I just pencil dive. I cannot imagine flipping the way that they do and possibly land incorrectly it’s always so impressive to watch somebody do it in person
I'm 6'4", 260 lbs, and this woman has more courage in her toes then my whole body. I can admit that.
Why toes
I need the olympics to have more informational segments to explain the insane physics these athletes are doing and why they need to dedicate their full time to training. Like on animal planet how they would explain how strong ants are or something with those crazy 3d animations.
Seconded
I did a jump just under 90 feet in a canyon in BC ... Water feels a bit different at those heights. I went feet first into the water of course with shoes on (idk if that was a bad idea, but with all the hiking we had to do it made sense). That jump drove my legs into my chest so hard and tweaked my back for sure. I was an elite junior athlete that could full squat just over 400lb for reps at 178lb too. This stuff is no joke.
I did a 15m dive and my balls hurt and water shot up my b**t hole and it hurt!
You are supposed to tense your ass muscles as hard a possible, that rush of water going up can kill you.
So, as someone who once did swimming and not diving, let me tell you I have nothing but utter respect for divers. I only went on the 15 meter platform twice “for fun,” and both times, it triggered my brains fear response and I had to force myself to jump off. You think it’s not that bad, until you get up there and are looking down 15 meters and realize “yeah, I’m a little over a story above the water, so I’m jumping off of a house right now, and I have to land upright, or I’m gonna get the shit knocked out of me.” What I’m saying is, I could not be a diver 😂
There are so many people here talking about jumping from cliffs higher than 10 meters....
I've had bad jumps from 5 meters that taught me to never do that shit.
One tiny correction for both the speaker and those sharing their stories here. It's not the "water" that attacks or destroys you - it's gravity. Some of it is surface tension but mostly it's Earth's gravity that is responsible for both the fall and the impact. "Water" (being a fluid) SAVES your life: try jumping from that hight with solid ground below to feel the difference (don't).
Aside from that, I've done a bit of diving myself (never dared approach that hight though). I think it is all about putting your body in a straight line before the entry and "opening" the water with your limbs (either both of your arms if you are jumping head first or your feet if not) rather than anything else. It's the only way to avoid injury.
I used to dive as an extracurricular so I did training and all but I never had any intent to compete or go pro. It was just fun and my trainer was a friend of the family who did it for free so I was never an advanced diver, not even close.
My max was only five meters which I think is a little over sixteen feet. It was scary but doing it and getting that perfect form feels incredible. If you're angle is off its terrible though and if it's way off you can get hurt. I can't imagine a 20 meter dive, how that would feel, staring down at that tiny looking pool you're meant to go into.
Peeople won't believe me but I jumped off a 68 metre cliff into the ocean. I lost consciousness, thank God there were people to rescue me. I actually have it on film too
Well upload it then. This is what UA-cam was made for!
Agreed@@Angel-fz8dr
We all believe you ... Look how many stories there are!!!
I jumped off 15-ish meters up from a cliff into a river and didn't know how dangerous it actually was (college kids on vacation). I ended with a half body bruise starting from my torso to my right thigh. It hurt so much hitting the water my vision went black. I realize now that I was actually lucky all I got was a nasty bruise.
Why would you go in flat-footed? First time I ever jumped off a 50-ft cliff. The first thing I noticed was damn does my feet sting. Second was I can taste water and my mouth's closed
I split open the bottom of both feet jumping off a 50 ft bridge.
Stay protected kids
Flat feet because toes might break otherwise
@@s.p.8803 coming from someone who has never jumped off of anything over 10 ft right? You point your toes unless you want to have sore feet. So your little piggies will stay intact and unbroken. Coming from experience, not opinion.