have you ever stood looking down from a high diving board and imagined the water was missing from the pool ? ...... well the highest board is only ten meters high (32ft) absolutley nowhere near 50ft never mind the original 200ft !... now, what do you imagine would happen if you jumped from from that board and landed on on your feet on the tiles at the bottom of the drained pool. ....... ...... at least they could hose the mess away easily


Having just looked at the first two links posted by Mbyte I think it proves an exellent point, most people tend to over estimate the height of things if you look at the first clip the highest jump is from the wall of a "castle" if you freeze the frame and measure the jumper who I estimate average height the wall is about 3.5 times his height or around 20 feet high, the same can be said for the others .... all the major jumps are around a 20 foot drop and they are all onto soft surfaces like sand or grass or flower beds.

Ok, let me try this again. I don't think the guy jumped 200 feet. I don't think the guy jumped 50 feet and simply walked away.

What I think is that AG saw something that looked like the guy jumped fifty feet in AG's one-off, irreproducible viewing situation and circumstances.

BS means he made the whole thing up, or was impaired. OK, I admit he's a botanist who posts a lot about how some of his green buddies can impart a different perspective on things.

But if he says he saw this, then that's good enough for me that he did see something that looked like that. So, it isn't BS. What it looked like isn't what really happened, either, IMO.

I do parkour, and I've seen people jump at 20ft, but without the roll that wouldn't of been possible or you would be in alot of pain. 200ft doesn't sound real, are you sure it was that big? Maybe you can take a picture of the building he jumped off. Even the best people who do parkour could not fall from that high, and get up again to start running.

If it was 50ft, that is possible, you wouldn't have to land on your feet, maybe on your front or back. Your bones could probably handle the impact, so he could of just got up and ran away.

Anyway look at this video people can survive amazing falls, and just walk away. http://youtube.com/watch?v=2_yHFimyRSM
Its not a parkour vid, its about a man in a tornado.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=94vM9b0zGjA&feature=related

Again I'm not saying OP is BS..The situation IS. I understand what your saying...your misunderstanding what I AM saying. A human being CANNOT survive a fall like that. No offence intended to OP at all. Or to you either I believe he saw some 1 drop and run. I am saying a Human (in general) cannot survive such a feat. I hope were on the same page now

Fair enough. We are at peace, mudpuppy.

PEAS ON EARTH

Those thialand guys back flipping of three story buildings didn't roll. They landed on their feet or "flatfooted". Well it's not physics which says if a human is able to or not do something. You could say that it's physically impossible to sit in water -20 up to your neck and only in shorts for a half an hour and be perfectly fine. Anybody would be unconscious after ten minutes and numb after two minutes. I can't even keep my hand in water coming from the cold tap for two minutes. Well a guy called Wim Hof can do it and he has proven his abilities. Standing in cold air is tough but cold water is even more dangerous, it sucks your heat away.

I just saw the pic of 200ft hieght compaired to the man and F***!!! 200ft is high, very high. I think the best answer here is that the guy was black. Only a black guy could land from such a height. What would be the rough terminal velocity when a human falls?

50ft sounds ok. I can't do maths any more but if you could calculate how much you would have to fall in order to reach terminal velocity? Then can a human being live a human velocity fall? If you can then it doesn't matter if you jump off a 1000ft building. You'd hit the ground at the same speed if you jumped off 200ft building. It seems people have lived 10,000 ft drop. I was watching a documentary about a woman who lived such a drop. She fell from the plane her shoot tangled and she hit the ground and lived without a broken bone. A few bruises but nothing serious. I heard a story of another but he was unlucky and boke his back in a few places. Also another guy fell straight from the plane to the ground in a gorilla suit and he lived and they said that the padding saved his life.

Well the documentary was trying to see how it was possible for her to live such a drop. The put her in a wind tunnel and checked various wind resistants in different positions. Oh yea she went unconscious and woke up on the ground. So she she didn't know what position she was in when falling. They talked about cat landings from 5 story buildings. That the cat would have better chance off landing off 5 stories the 2 story building. This lead me to my next question is it better to hit the ground accelerating or at a constant speed. Would hitting the ground be more damaging because of the acceleration or would hitting the ground while accelerating would be the same as if you hit the ground with a lower terminal velocity.

Even from fifty feet he'd still end up a munchkin.

I'd say 50 ft is possible. Thats about 5 stories. Guys can jump off 3 stories. If you have strong legs and you are athletic and well co ordinated under stress then I think you could pull it off. You could probably land once maybe twice and get away with it. Anymore and you'll be doing your legs damage. You already have done damage on the first jump but not enough to effect you.



When sebastian jumps off the bridge on the miltary ship he lands on metal. The height was higher than jumping off the castle. The Castle is actually the walls of Derry in Northern Ireland. I was thinking I posted too many youtube links becasue the last two are are of david belle and he lands on concrete from pretty decently high areas with ease. Most guys would collapse from the lack of strength but as you can see at the end of the very last clip David's legs are raw power. The two last clips are very short.

Its not a matter of how strong your legs are..your joints cant handle the impact of a 50 ft drop..20-30 maybe, but not 50ft. Its elementary physics, its just not possible
With that...I'm thru posting on this topic. Have a good day

Yeah, but people like David Belle have been doing parkour for decades, and hes never had any knee problems, his joints could of hardened up.

Well the explanation for this is quite simple:

The man was pumped with adrenaline, his mind was frightened and he was acting on instinct. When he landed, his mind didn't react to any pain because it was too busy trying to survive.

It's a natural reaction in all animals, "survival of the fittest" - your mind is trying to get you out of the situation as fast as possible.

Regardless, it's still amazing that someone did that.

Superhuman!

Did he fall straight down, or was he doing a sort of somersault thing. It is possible to survive extremly high hights if you know techniques which slow you down using wind resistance. Plus, if he was on an adrenaline rush then it wouldn't have hurt so much

I swear this post is haunted, just when you think its dead it pops back up again

i'm pretty sure there's a video of the skater falling, it knocked either one or both of his shoes off, he was out for about 5 minutes, he managed to barely walk away

You have changed your account completely.

Just like Link from zelda!

I saw a guy on Cops: Honolulu jump off the 4th floor of a hotel and get up and start running with a broken leg. He was on an eightball though.

-Pol

well, I practice the art of Parkour which you should wiki or google...even youtube...it's a way of getting around using your environment to your advantage and overcoming obstacles rather than going around them...
and I know how to jump off a building properly...but jumping 200 ft towards the ground...just y'know...that guy must have had a hell of a lot of luck!




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjQxIRWZu0c...feature=related

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Maybe He jumped from a window from the 200ft or 50ft building. Since Athiest god never saw him jump from the roof, falling maybe 20ft from a window is more likely.

I once saw a dude who scaled a fence just by jumping it. The fence was about 8 ft. high. I mentioned to someone I know, they said "What is he, Wolverine?". Wish I caught that on video....

Dang! I had a friend killed when we were in the Middle East.We were watching for sniper fire comming from some building and he took one in the shoulder and fell 25 feet and broke his neck,mind you it wasnt the shot that killed him or the fall it was the sudden impact that killed him but to jump from 200 feet and land on feet and to run away after that is quite hard to believe,Maby you met SpringJack or what ever his name is.Think about it.

Depending on how he landed on his feet I believe he actually did that. But from 200ft I dont think many people know how to plant there feet and would shatter there leg muscles.

It's not impossible, why just a few days ago a girl was on top of a building for something, anywho she tripped and fell down the chimney which was 15 stories high...I know right, anywho when she landed luckily their was a lot of soot that eased her landing, I think got a few minor scratches other than that nothing

The human body can do a lot of amazing things in shock, but also out of shock. I was in the 'trance' state when I busted my head open, bleeding out cause the log chipped in my head. Any who the doctors were suprised that I was not in shock, but I still felt no pain...it's all the thought

200 feet is a small skyscraper. SEARS tower in chicago is like 1400+ feet

Also, in the Guinness world record book, it says the longest fall survived without a parachute was around 37,000 feet. The lady was a Swiss flight attendant, i guess she fell of the airplane, don't know how, but it said she broke just about every bone in her body. She recovered and walked again.

I once had a mate that told me, he walk outside from the lobby of his appartment building and as he stepped out a jumper went "splat" right next to him.
I thought he was pulling my leg, dont know if its true, but It was freaky to hear about.

I dove 20ft into 4ft of water and only broke my C5 bone and only sustained mild nerve damage as a result of basically falling 24ft. on the top of my head.... I literally walked away and didn't even know for 2 days how close i was from being a quad.



When you don't feel pain from a serious injury you are physically in shock. Perhaps not mentally but your body will often times go into physical shock so you don't feel pain to relieve stress.

Where in our little city did this happen Athiest? I can only guess downtown. If he was running from the cops I can only imagine he was on something and had the adreneline flowing. Interesting.

if he did fall and land without rolling, I doubt he would be running still even while in shock. You can't used heavily damaged muscles just because you can't feel the pain.

he could have been on pcp or another sort of drug like that, that give you super strength/ endurance while your high, like cocain or meth too.

I have a theory. What you saw was indeed, true since the body can achieve superhuman capacities due to adrenaline rushing through a person's body, which is why the person you saw was able to run after a 200m fall, since the person was John Hancock.