Professional High Diver and Cliff Diver Ginni van Katwijk explains what high diving does to your body Full Episode: • High Diving: Addicted ... #highdiving #diving #cliffdiving #sports #podcast
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? 🤦♂️
@@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
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...
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.
@@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. 🤷🏻
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.
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”
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.
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.
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
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.
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 it. It worked out well, but that's because I was an 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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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."
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. 😂
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.
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.
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.
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 toss 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
@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.
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….
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 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..
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 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.
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 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
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.
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)
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.
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
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
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)
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
😮 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! 👏🏾👏🏾
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.
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.
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
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.
@@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.
God this lady has nerves of absolute fucking steel. I’ve always been a bit of a dare devil. Sky diving, BASE jumping, high speed long boarding, plenty of BIG staircases street skating etc. as well as quite a bit of cliff diving. However, that being said the highest cliff diving I have ever done is about 16 meters, and even after doing all the shit I have, it still scared the absolute fuck out of me. My worst cliff diving fail is @ 15-20 cm short of 14 meters, when one of my feet clipped a rock outcropping while flipping. Not only did I break several bones in my foot, but I had lost all in air balance resulting in me hitting water with my back/head/neck/shoulder area. I ended up in the hospital that evening and was in a neck brace for another 2 weeks, I felt like my whole body had just been shattered for the next 3-4 days, could hardly get out of bed on my own, (maybe a little to graphic here) as well pissing blood the whole next day. Felt like someone had just taken a sledgehammer to my body. I could let imagine jumping from 20 constantly, you are to bound to make some very painful mistakes more than a few times.
I genuinely want to hear some of the Olympic divers talking about “death diving” where people almost belly flop for cool points I guess? Either they’d expose it finally or they’d try to be nice and cement it even further.
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.
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.
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
Someone in a high school a bit away from mine (same district) jumped off a bridge into the river (relatively big river tbf) that goes through/around our city. His friends got worried when he didn't come back up, and he drowned because the sheer impact of the water knocked him out. Shit's scary
@@ogaje4944 lol it was at cedar Creek falls, you can look up a video on people making the jump. And yes it was feet first, was unreal watching in person
Yup. My dad is from Morocco and grew up near the ocean, he taught my brothers and I when we first exploring swimming that diving the wrong way or from too high without tightening your body and knowing How to use your body to slice Through the water it can be the same as diving into concrete the impact and damage it can do to your body, especially your spine. He always had a real life horror story/memory to go with his advice too, I'll spare y'all that part 🙃
Ha I’m not surprised at all. That said I remember visiting my dad as a kid. In the city he lived there was a public pool with an Olympic diving platform. The highest the public was allowed to jump off was 70 feet tall! Yes 7 stories. I was 12 years old. I jumped off the 10, the 20, and so on and when I got to the 70 foot platform I was too scared to look over the edge. So I didn’t look and ran and jumped. It was SO MUCH FUN. it felt like a solid 10 seconds of falling. It was awesome! I also had zero technique. I obviously didn’t dive I went feet first but I remember after hitting the water that it took a really really long time to get back to the surface lol. I was DEEP. I think I jumped off like a dozen times. It was an awesome, awesome 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.
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.
I never knew any of this. I grew up in a town with a reservoir. And it had lots of cliffs. We used to jump off these cliffs non stop almost everyday in the summer. Some of these cliffs were about 50-70 feet high. And we used to jump them all the time.
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..
We jumped off of a cliff 36 meters tall as teens (120)feet, our 100 foot ski rope was nowhere near the water from the top we all felt like we got beat up the next day and couldnt figure it out . Pro divers used to jump from 172 feet in the 80s
As a 12 year old at diving camp, when they opened the tower, most of us would go off it 2-3 times, some went over and over again, and a few kids were brave enough to go off the 7metre.... I didn't think it was that big of a deal other than the courage it took to actually step off. I think it took extra courage for me because when i was 7, a professional diver died at my pool during lessons because he went off the 10m wrong. So when i went off the 5m, i just did feet first and stayed super stiff and straight. I only had the courage to do it 3 times total, but other kids did it like it was a 1m going a bunch of times before the week was over.
If you fall from high enough, the water will feel like concrete. One time when I was still in secondary school, our school had a field trip to an amusement park, I was fat so I couldn't hold on to the zip line that goes into the middle part of the pool, I slipped and let go as soon as 2s into the zip line and landed face front into the water. It felt like I have been punched in the face and chest and arms at the same time. And the burning sensation continued for a while.
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.
