Rope jumping makes bungee jumping look completely sane and kinda cute. There's no flex: The whole "not dying" part is determined entirely by where you anchor the rope—and where you jump.
Posted on 03/05/2009 6:00:51 AM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
Rope jumping makes bungee jumping look completely sane and kinda cute. There's no flex: The whole "not dying" part is determined entirely by where you anchor the rope—and where you jump.
Leave it to the nation who contrived Russian Roulette to come up with rope jumping. It looks totally simple and straight forward, until you just think for a second about the physics involved. If you jump straight down, you could dislocate some important part of your body, or worse, you could snap the rope and keep on falling. The key is to jump so that you swing across the underside of the bridge, and to trust that your rope is attached to something that ain't going nowhere.
And you'd better be coordinated when doing it in groups of, say, 54—like above—lest someone on their backswing hits you as you're heading down.
Still not dangerous enough? Well, according to English Russia, rope jumpers like to up the ante by jumping...
...when there is no water under the bridge but raw firm ice, also they use to jump at that same moment when the train is going thru the bridge.
None for me, thanks, but good luck to you. [English Russia; Russos]
Saddam Hussein was a rope jumper!
Mad Russian selfping
Ok, so what the heck else ya gonna do in that third world toilet?
Not surprising when you realize that early on, airborne soldiers in the Soviet Army relied on snowbanks rather than parachutes.
Whoah! That’s MENTAL!
Is Black Jack Ketchum their patron saint?
Winter is so bad in the Rodina that many wealthy Russkis go to Maine for the winter balminess.
Winter is so bad in the Rodina that many wealthy Russkis go to Maine for the winter balminess.
British Officer : “We want your men to do a surprise attack. We’ll drop your men into the sea from 600 feet.”
Gurkha Officer : “No, no that’s too high.”
British Officer : “It’s risky but I suppose we could drop you from 450 feet.”
Gurkha Officer : “No, that’s still too high”
British Officer : “Well, how low do you want us to drop you?”
Gurkha Officer : “100 feet”
British Officer : “We can’t, your parachutes will never open in time”
Gurkha Officer : “Oh, you want us to use parachutes?”
How much vodka is required to play this game?
Indeed a classic. I went to my officer advanced course at Ft. McClellan with a Nepalese Ghurka in my class...if he was representative of the breed, they are indeed, a tough lot...
“Ok, so what the heck else ya gonna do in that third world toilet?
Don’t worry. Obama will have you living in a third world country before you know it.
That’s how Dan Osman met his end. The guy was a world class climber but found he liked to fall more than climb. I guess he died doing what he loved to do...Fall in terror.
I get my thrills just walking onto an icy sidewalk to pick up the morning paper... in my slippers, no less! ;-)
Life on the edge, eh? You daredevil, you! :-)
Yeah, and if I get REALLY crazy, I carry my coffee with me. ;-)
It kinda sucks, though, when you start sliding down the hill, then rotate until you’re sliding backwards — coffee and paper in hand. Yep, another daredevil sliding down the neighborhood walkway in his PJs and slippers...
He was one swingin’ dude, man.
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