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RE: 1 YEAR ON STEEMIT!!!
Jumping off cliffs is scary for sure. I start feeling physically sick and shaky when I'm around the cliffs and get pretty nervous. But when you come up it feels amazing!
Basically one of my molars was the first point of contact in my mouth and when I impacted the water my teeth went together. I didn't even know there was anything wrong with my tooth because my nuts got blasted so hard. Then I was back at our camp site and pieces of tooth were lose and I reached in there and had chunks of tooth I was pulling out. It sucked.
I remember the first time I jumped from one of the higher towers one of the Jamaican guys gave me two lime wedges to bit on, I guess kinda like a makeshift mouth guard, I hadn't really given it much thought at the time though. At Ricks most of the tourists jump from I think maybe 35 feet but there's a couple higher cliffs and a couple trees you can climb and get up to about 100. I'm not that brave but some of these jamaican dudes are nuts doing flips and dives off there. I remember after I got back reading about some lady who broke her pelvis jumping. Didn't realize it was so dangerous. Your right though I love that terrified feeling when your getting ready to jump and then you jjust feel on cloud 9 the rest of the afternoon after you do it. I think its the same area you were at I've seen a couple drunk dudes bust their ass real bad sliding down the cliff side
That is hilarious. You had a makeshift mouth guard. I would be afraid to choke. I usually yell when I jump. Not on purpose but it is scary when you accelerate like that.
100 feet is unreal. Some of the guys now are jumping just stupid heights I never thought were possible to have a good chance of living. But they are nailing them and becoming legends.
A lot of times when I hear about people getting injured on cliffs it is usually girls / women. I know that might sounds sexist but I have never personally seen a woman jump off anything higher than 35 feet and all the stories and a lot of videos of people being knocked out it happens to be women. There have been some bad stories of guys getting hurt really badly as well and even dying. I'm wanting to get a thin neoprene life jacket. Because there have been cases where people's lungs have collapsed or they have passed out and lost all their air and floated to the bottom.
One of the badass jumpers on YouTube wears one of these jackets. He didn't used to but I think it is smart that he started.
Now you have me watching Cliff jumping videos again!
haha that video is awesome. zero fucks given about how they land lol.
Yeah as far as people getting hurt I noticed it was always people who didn't commit to jumping and would run towards the end and then get scared and pull back and try to stop, I saw a few people not be able to stop and bang against the rocks going down.
down by eastern illinois we used to have this little country highway called highway 420, it was just an old dirt/gravel road but if you took that road it led to this little river and we used to go swing from ropes and jump off trees. there was this one tree that kind of curved sideways over the river maybe 35 or 40 feet up. it was the perfect height to where if you stood at the top and just let yourself naturally fall back you would do 2 perfect flips before you hit the water feet first.
there's a quarry or something by indiana university that ive heard has some pretty decent jumps. have you been?
I never went to the quarry by Indiana University but I heard about that as well. I never really researched into it. I was down there a few times for other reason.
Whenever I see people jumping in rivers it makes me worried. Since the water flows enough there could be logs or something under there. That is always my worry. Or sand fills in.