How to rupture an eardrum

Crash is at about 1:30

This is a co-worker of mine on our kite tube. This hit ruptured his ear drum. We're going to go ahead and get rid of the kite tube. This was shot with a still camera, so the quality isn't great, but at least I know how to use post processing stabilization.

This video will air (or aired) on Spike TV's World's Most Amazing Videos: Wicked Wipe Outs on 2/8/2008

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[745917203views]

It looks stupid since I've now seen four videos of these and in each one the person landed upside down in the water. Maybe it's me, but I don't get the point of it. Looks lame.

[Jebrew]

@745917203views Primarily that's because the successful videos aren't terribly interesting to watch. It's loads of fun to be on this when you get it working correctly.

[Jebrew]

Yeah, it's Granger

[leviterande]

whats the speed?

[Jebrew]

@leviterande The ski's are going about 35-40mph (according to the ski's speedometers), but his speed at impact is a lot higher.

[LAMBOLAC88]

the reason it is so unstable is because you are too far back on it, you need to be leaning up over the clear part. By leaning over the front you can control it form going side to side. I can ride this thing for hoursand never come down if the lake was long enough.

[Jebrew]

@LAMBOLAC88 If only I'd known before we cannibalized it to get the towables from the recall I would have tried that.

[xGu1ltyx]

Hes good just get him a beer, that always helps.

[wipenoutx]

It's a good idea you had a boat and a jet ski driving next to him, cause you know, an extra injury due to being run over is a good idea.

[Orblivion87]

Just perforated my ear drum surfing! Just a small perforation so im hoping it will heal well. Not a nice feeling at all! How did yours heal, has your hearing been affected much?

[Andrewterrorist]

a ruptured eardrum is veeeeeerryyy VEEEERY Painful!!

[newgeorge]

those things are never going to catch on: they're lethal

[Omnio1506]

I love how on all these kite tube videos the first thing people say when people crash is "did you get that?!"

[uberlegonerfkidguy]

Well its his fault! Why didnt he hold on? Lol.

[agabla]

is this granger lake?

[xeon12323]

ohhhhhh ffffffffffffffffff shit