ROPE JUMP - The Movie

1 year of design and trials, $10000 total invested in equipment (ropes, hardware and cameras) and several close calls resulted in a trip of a lifetime for me...
This video documents the Moab adventure and the culmination of physics, bolt, rigging and rope knowledge to create a 450ft freefall pendulum. This system uses only one 10milimeter climbing rope to arrest the fall and a second in case the first breaks. It is not bungee jumping nor base jumping, but something entirely different that provides an unrivaled sidewall and ground rush for the ultimate thrill.
If you have to ask why, I can't tell you why because sometimes I don't know why. I just did it.

Gavin and Dave, we couldn't have got this set up without you guys. You made this possible!

Hatton, I am telling your mother on you. Stay away from edges.

Shane - Best design partner ever. Let's break the record!

God - Thank you for always watching out for us.

Disclaimer for hippies - All the cans we threw over the edge were cleaned up and the site was left relatively untouched. The tree thrown over the edge was hauled from a nearby campsite that someone had cut down for a fire but left. We gave it a proper burial.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Rope Jump
• audax
• pendulum
• rock climbing
• rope swing
• Movie
• climb
• climbing Fall
• Freefall
• bungee
• bridge swing
• swing
• base
• flips
• flip
• moab
• Utah
• canyon
• kiene
• rope freefall
• dan osman
• slow motion
• exilim
• ex-f1
• 300fps

[jshglass]

Did you guys have to get a permit to drill in Moab? I understand the safety implications of needing bolts, but it seems like you're marring nature without a care.

Wicked awesome stuff, though. Mega props, I would have shit myself silly...

[norwejon]

@jshglass You don't need a permit for BLM, I did end up getting a letter of permission though. We removed bolts after leaving. That aside, "marring" nature is not a primary concern when your life is on the line. Far worse things have occurred to Earth than a small bolt in a piece of rock and life goes on as usual. Thanks for the comment!

[jshglass]

@norwejon I don't want you to think I was condemning you for drilling. I fully understand that a bolt is necessary over a tree/shrub or some other woody desert plant with a very shallow root system. I was just merely curious about what it took to drill into ancient rock.

Totally cool, though. I wish I had the nads to do it myself...

[norwejon]

@jshglass Right on, just trying to clarify for many people who have asked the same question! Thanks dude!

[jonnyboithefish]

@norwejon Actually, marring nature should be a primary concern. The fact that everyone thinks that their fun tricks are more important than natural preservation is what lead to the whole clean climbing and leave no trace movements. You drill a couple bolt holes, some other guy drills a couple, and then the rock is scarred all over and those of us who spend time and money minimizing our impact using clean techniques are doing it for nothing. Your life was not on the line, you put it on the line.

[norwejon]

@jonnyboithefish I'm over it, thanks for caring though. Funny how when you look at the history of climbing, many are hailed for creating aid routes up El Cap with hundreds of bolts.. Simply stop by your local outdoor sport area and take a look around at all the useless hardware, I suggest you start complaining there first if you truly care. As for climbing in itself, it is nothing more than a "trick" as well. You accomplish just as little going up a wall as you do going down. To each their own.

[norwejon]

@Holidats You must be totally awesome then, thanks for sharing. 

[folkmus]

cool stuff. I just hope you picked u the cans when you were done.

[weetotek]

Check Dream Jump.. good work guys :)

[GAF2k1]

world record))) R.A.P.T. - team St-Peterburg Russia

youtube.com/watch?v=ZNXS9L-GWj­M

[sfrance783]

hoha....super ka hadlok ani e try ui...

[tralalalumpeedoo]

You guys are sick but u should have more respect for the natural places that provide you the oppertunity to do this stuff. Dont trash it by throwing ur rubbish in it and spoiling it, ripping trees out is shit too.

Respect it bro!

otherwise, fucking rad video man, that shit is sick, How do you get the ropes across the canyon?

[tralalalumpeedoo]

@ 6.05 and @ 6.58 = extreme littering.

[neverstop57]

It's cool that you guys thought of the safety of others by removing the bolts....Did you take your trash with you? like your Redbull cans at the bottom of the canyon...LNT!

[JoshyXD01]

U R AWESOME

[SirWillOfWeBB]

@jonnyboithefish When clean protection zippers out.... scary thing. I still enjoy a good quickdraw on a recently serviced bolt. Clean protection movements were really about keeping climbers from getting kicked out of national and state parks... lets face it, it works, but bolts will never die. If you are really concerned with nature, remember the microchips from the computer you're posting with, came from a huge mine, witch destroyed tons of rock. Your move captain planet.

[SirWillOfWeBB]

@norwejon Nothing wrong with going up or down, I was born to yo yo, Bolts are good, Can be removed and replaced, I am jealous of this experience, Id probably do a jump like that, but not before standing on the edge for 45 minutes pissing down my own leg, or someone else's leg just to assert a dominant control over the situation.