 Hi, this is Chichu. Welcome to my channel. Now, what I like to do in this video is talk to you about cliff-jumping. Specifically, the do's and don'ts of cliff-jumping. The odds are I'm going to give you a handful of stories that I remember that have stuck around with me that sort of remind me of some of the do's and don'ts of cliff-jumping, right? And the reason I'm putting this video together is because first of all, I don't believe in prohibition, right? A lot of people say cliff-jumping is dangerous and a true cliff-jumping can be dangerous. So can anything else, right? If you don't really think about it. So I don't think prohibition works in general. So I'm more, you know, I sort of lean towards education, sharing of information instead of prohibition. That's one of the main reasons that I'm doing this. I want to sort of share my experience of cliff-jumping. And the other reason is because I want to, well, we're going to put a set of videos together for ASMR and math, possibly collaboration with another ASMR artist, at least one of the videos anyway. So I wanted to give you, you know, create a sort of a video as an intro to the ASMR and math, the videos coming up, which are going to be coming up in slow motion. Collaborations usually take a long time. So they're not going to be coming up right away. But I promise I'll have these videos up before the 2017 jumping season starts in the northern hemisphere anyway. And if you're in the southern hemisphere, maybe we'll get it done before your summer's over, right? So there's a sort of a set of videos coming up about the mathematics of cliff-jumping, really, right? Kinematics, which is sort of physics being applied mathematics in large part, right? And what I'm going to do is sort of give you a few of the, you know, bits of advice that I have if you're going to do cliff-jumping. And then I want to share with you some stories that have stayed with me, that stuck with me, that remind me of what some of the do's and don'ts of cliff-jumping are. The way we sort of, I think the way it's going to work out is, there's going to be one video coming up where my nephew is jumping off a cliff. And this is a place that I've gone to for a long time, right? I've been cliff-jumping basically since I was 11 years old or so and got into serious cliff-jumping when I was like 14, right? My first 60 footer was when I was 14 years old or so. Okay, 14, 15 years old. So I've been cliff-jumping for a long time. And the place where we're going to go to is a location that I've gone to for, well, since I was basically 13 years old, 12, 13, well, not 11, 11 I started jumping off somewhere else. But since I was 13, 14 years old, I've been going to the spot and jumping. And there's multiple levels. Like a really good jumping spot usually has, you know, from small to very large, right? So you can, you know, everybody has something they can do. If, you know, people aren't into jumping very large and a lot of people aren't into jumping very large, they can jump off the little one and swim around and stuff like that, right? So it's a nice place for everybody to hang out. So what we're going to do for the sort of the first video is take a look at this jump that my nephew takes. And we assume it was a 60 footer. We always call him the 60 footer and there's a couple of different names for it as well. What we call sort of the 60 footer. And I guess two, three, four years ago or so, I think this video is probably about three, four years ago. And, you know, we did the calculation on it when you did the jump, just me and him, to figure out how high the jump was, right? So what we're going to do in the first video is calculate the height of the first jump, which is the 60 footer, 60 footer quotation marks. We'll find out exactly how high that jump is, right? And then what we're going to do in the second video is go to one of the other jumps in this location and we're going to calculate how high the jump is that I take and I take that jump, right? And what we're going to do in the second video is calculate some additional, I guess, variables, I guess some of the additional physics of that jump, right? You know, it could be kinematic energy, potential energy, the momentum or whatnot. You know, we haven't sort of figured that out yet. Most likely that's the video that's going to be a collaboration with another ASMR artist. And for the third video, what we're going to do is we're going to take the information we learned from the second video and we're going to do all those calculations for that first jump that my nephew made, right? So we're going to figure out some of the variables, some of the forces, some of the properties that we can find from that jump, from the 60 footer and figure out what it really means to jump off a cliff, right? So that's the mathematics aspect of things. As far as the advice I have if, you know, you do plan on cliff jumping and again, this isn't a video telling people to go cliff jump. This is basically some of the things that I've learned, some of the things that I pay attention to when it comes to cliff jumping, some of the dos and don'ts that I do when I cliff jump, right? As far as the first thing that goes, I sort of printed off some stuff. I made it into sort of point form. I got 20 points here basically that I'm going to go through with you basically, right? But the first thing that I jot it down here is start slow, right? Start small. If you're not used to cliff jumping, you don't have to go off a really big one and jump. The odds are it's not going to end well. And the odds are that's probably going to be your last jump because you're really going to get hurt and you won't want to jump off a cliff again or you won't be around to jump another day, right? So start slow, start small. You sort of definitely do want to be around to jump another day, right? Point number two, the jumps always look smaller when you're looking at them from the side than when they do when you're at the top. The jump always, always looks higher when you're looking at it from the top down, okay? Be ready for that. And if you're not going to commit 100% to that jump, then don't do it. Don't do it at that moment. You might come back later in the day. You might come back half an hour later, an hour later or something like that. Or next week or next month to do it. But if you can't commit 100% to a jump, then don't jump. Yeah. One thing that I've noticed that I've gone to cliff jumping with people is a lot of people don't appreciate what cliffs are. So one of the things I do when I take someone there brand new that they've never jumped with me or sometimes I do this every year, right? When you go to the cliffs, slap the walls, slap the rock, slap the cliff, right? If you want a little bit hard, right? It's not going to move. If you slap it hard enough, it's going to hurt, right? Keep that feeling in mind. Just imagine what it would be like if you were hitting that thing when free falling, okay? That's what it means if you don't make a jump. Fourth bit of advice, listen to people who've been there before, right? Listen to the locals who jumped there. They'll tell you where to jump, tell you where not to jump. Don't challenge them. Don't challenge them until you become a local in that area, until you learn the terrain and what's going on. One thing you should always do is if you're going somewhere new or if you're going somewhere for only the second or third time or something like this, check the water, right? And the depth. Climb down to where you're going to land. Swim around. Take a look around, right? Put on goggles and look around. Make sure there's no little outcrops in the water that, you know, mounds of rock that are coming up, right? Look for floaters, sort of logs that are floating under. You know, there could be logs floating a little bit below the water, right? Especially in lakes. Lakes are prone to this, right? So swim around below where you're jumping. Make sure you get familiar with the area, familiar with where you're jumping. Figure out where you're going to land, right? Make sure you remember when you get up top, where it is that you were swimming around and where it is that you're supposed to land, right? Really important. Basically, check out where you are, right? When standing on a cliff, and I've seen people do this, they stand on the ledge of the cliff and then when someone's talking with them, they turn around and have their back against the cliff. Wow. Seriously. Very dangerous, very dangerous. So in general, well, not in general, never, when you're standing on the edge of a cliff, never turn your back on the cliff. If you're going to turn your back on the cliff, make sure you kneel down. You have one knee on the ground and you have one hand on the ground as well to sort of give you a, you know, stabilize you, right? Never turn your back on a cliff, especially when you're standing. When it comes to number seven, overhead cliffs are the best, right? If you're going to a cliff and there's overhanging, right? So it's overhanging the water where you know there's nothing under you. Those are the best cliffs to jump off of, right? And if you can't, you know, you don't have access to overhanging cliffs, make sure when you're standing on a ledge, right? You could be standing on a ledge where the cliff goes straight down or the cliff might be sloping towards the water a little bit, right? So you do need to clear that little zone. So make sure you push off the cliff, right? Make sure you push off as far as you can in general, unless you're jumping in a canyon or something where if you're jumping from this wall to this wall, then you can't jump too far because you might hit the other wall. I've done these and I only did it twice. I should know a couple more times, but I never went off a high one when there's a wall. I have to avoid on that side and I have to clear this one, right? Where there's a small little puddle here that you're supposed to land. Very dangerous, very dangerous, right? So in general, you want to jump off somewhere where there's no walls across from you and you're going to try to jump off as far as you can and clear as much as you can, okay? Just regarding that, one more thing regarding that. When you're standing on a ledge, and I've seen people do this, don't just drop off the ledge, right? Don't just fall, push, okay? I just want to really emphasize that because I've seen some people jumping off cliffs where my heart really pounded at, looked down to make sure they came back up again, okay? One other thing I've seen is people going cliff jumping that don't know how to swim well. If you're going to go cliff jumping, make sure you know how to swim well because it's not just normal circumstances of you sort of dipping, going in slowly and swimming around the water. You're going, you might go deep. You might be far away from the rocks. You might have to swim around to where you can climb up, right? So you have to be a good swimmer. If you're not, make sure you're only jumping off little guys close to where you can get off and get up again until you learn how to swim well, okay? If you're just starting up, first of all, this should be obvious. Don't go for big ones and medium ones, start-offs, little, but even if you've been jumping for a while, don't, in general, don't go jumping off really high cliffs or even medium cliffs solo, have backup, right? I've seen things go wrong with some pretty much pro-jumpers, right? I've had things go wrong for me after jumping off the same cliff multiple times, right? So in general, if you're going, you know, medium to high, you know, higher end of medium to high, make sure you have backup, just doing the solo, okay? Nature can be brutal, nature can be brutal, and in general it is if you give it the opportunity, right? In general, and this is one thing I've learned how to do over the years, right? I used to be pretty gung-ho, and if I saw people jumping off a cliff I would generally do, you know, I would check it out and stuff like this, but one thing I've tapered off in jumping life, I guess, jumping career, I don't run. I don't do jumps where I have to do a pretty good run to clear rocks in the bottom, right? If I'm doing jumps in general, I just want to do jumps where I'm taking, you know, with two steps you can clear a lot, right? If I have to do more than three, four steps to clear a jump, in general I try to avoid those because you never know, you might do a misstep, you might trip, and if you trip on top of a cliff just before you do a jump, you're coming straight down and you're not going to clear anything, right? So in general, for me personally, I don't do jumps where I have to clear, I have to run, I have to have a running start to the jump. When you're jumping, okay, when you've done the jump, basically, you know, your arms, you wiggle your arms, you sort of try to balance, right? If it's really windy, that might throw you off, so in general, if it's really windy, be careful with really high jumps, right? But when you're jumping, you know, your arms are pretty loose, you're trying to balance, and it's all about the core, really, right? If you're not a professional diver, of course, right? If you're not doing loop-to-loops and stuff, but if you're just jumping, you're going to land with your feet, you can use your arms and legs just to balance yourself out, but before you hit the water, tighten up, it's all about the core, you keep your core tight, right? Suck in your muscles, keep your head straight, looking, you know, before you hit the ground, make sure you're looking straight ahead, right? You can look at the water as you're going down, trying to look at the location where you're jumping, right? And that's a pretty good idea, to look at where you're going in the water, but before you hit the water, before the impact, do not, do not continue to look at the water, especially from high jump, because your face is going to get a pounding. So just before you hit the water, what you want to do is tighten your stomach, you should be tight anyway, but tighten up even more, either put your arms beside you, right? Well, you put your arms beside you, even straight, either straight down by your legs, or tighten up, right? Make sure you're tight, and make sure you're looking straight ahead with your head being centered above you, okay? Don't see people do this. Don't put your hands in front of your face before you hit the water, do not hold your nose, right? Even when you're about to hit the water, right? So basically, you don't want to have any obstacles in front of your face when you're about to hit the water, because if you're jumping from medium to high, that impact is pretty solid, right? We'll do the mathematics, we'll do the physics, but that impact, that, you know, it's going to be pretty hard, you don't want kickback, you don't want your hand, your fist, your nose, anything hitting your face when you're hitting the water at the same time as well, right? So make sure you clear your face, and I, in general, I don't, even from the high jumps, I don't protect my private parts, the sensitive areas, in general, I'm pretty tight, so I hit the water. I don't, again, I don't want kickback coming in when you do any damage, right, or cause any pain. Wearing jumping shoes is a pretty good idea. At times, over the years, I've either used old running shoes or swimming shoes, right? Swimming shoes, if you're going to swim around in the water, are way easier to swim around in the water. If you're going to use all sneakers and stuff, take off the inside linings and whatnot, make it as light as possible, okay? As far as jumps go, the order of danger for me, my experience, and I'll share some of the stories with you, for me, rivers, lakes, and oceans, that's the order of danger when it comes to where you're jumping, okay? Rivers I find the most dangerous, okay? Lakes are second to me in oceans or the least dangerous place. It doesn't mean because rivers really depend on the season, right? Depends on rain, depends on what the dam is releasing, so river water varies a lot. You can go to a river where the river water is really shallow, or you can go to a river where the river water is pretty deep, sometimes the current is really strong, so it's hard to predict from day to day. So in rivers, I do, there are areas I've gone to and I still go to every now and then and jump and swim around a little bit, but in general I like the ocean, okay? As far as lakes go, I have jumped in lakes and I do jump in lakes, but not often, okay? And I really check out lakes because lakes tend to have floaters where logs get dislodged if they've fallen down and if you go to most lakes you'll see a ring of, if there's a forested area and where I am, sort of a temperate rainforest, so there's a lot of trees around the lakes, so with lakes there's a lot of trees in my area anyway, around the lakes so they tend to fall down, they fall down and they rot, they go down and then sometimes they float out, they get dislodged. So in lakes I found that, you know, closer to the shore there are times where logs have shifted so I really check out lakes before I do anything, before I do any jumps and murky lakes are more dangerous of course because you can't see as far. So for me 99% of the jumps I do are ocean jumps, we have awesome coast here to do jumping in. I covered this before, but basically don't look at the water just before impact center your head, look straight out, make sure you're tight look into the horizon just before you hit the water arms on the side and during impact either straight down or if you're going to put it beside you do not put it like this don't go into the water like this not a good idea if you're doing it from a high jump because if the impact is hard enough you're going to get hit if you're going to put it beside you, and this is one thing I tend to do I go like this beside me, I protect my rib cage like boxing basically but I don't hunch over, I'm straight out straight out one other thing I want to emphasize 4 more points again I want to emphasize this if you're doing medium to high jumps the impact is hard recuperation time may be long or may never be you might not recoup from a jump I'll cover this with you in the story and the anecdotes I guess but be careful be careful there are multiple ways point number 18, there are multiple ways to get winded you can even get winded on medium jumps this is extremely dangerous because when you're winded you lose you can't really swim all you can do is hold on so if you end up getting winded and you can get winded multiple ways you can be on your side you can be tilted back it's your back knocks out all the air from you and the side as well there are multiple ways to get winded if you get winded head straight to the nearest rock where you can hang on if you're with someone if they realize that you're winded and you should make this agreement if you're hitting the water straight out to the rock and you're holding on that means you're in trouble if you're with someone that person better be in the water when they notice you being winded because recuperating from being winded might take a few minutes and if you're solo in the water you don't have a good grip you don't have anywhere to go to that might be your last jump point number 19 when you hit the water when you're in the water open up open your arms slow yourself down in general you don't want to go as deep as possible sometimes as fun as long as you know it's clear I do that every now and then places I know where it's 100% clear but in general when I jump when I hit the water I open up I slow myself down and I curve my legs facing this way I open up I slow myself down one other thing I'd like to mention is I mentioned that rivers, lakes and oceans that's the order of danger of cliff jumping for me but the most dangerous jump that you can do are rope jumps or ropes that are tied to trees sometimes they do it on cliffs but rope jumps trees that are overhanging you hang a rope and people go swing or swing jumps jump out I've seen some nasty hits on those I've seen pros pros meaning people who've done the rope jump multiple times I've seen some nasty hits on those I don't do rope jumps I don't do swing jumps anymore I can't just my two cents now those are 20 bits of advice that I can give you regarding cliff jumping as far as just stories I've got seven little stories here they're not stories it might be just something someone's done but these are the ones that have stuck with me actually there's eight of them I'll tell you the eighth one right away because that one is it blew me away told me, it explained to me why some people are scared of cliffs some people that have seen them do crazy stuff when I take them to the cliffs they get scared so basically take these stories that I'm about to share with you take them to heart this is things that have actually happened the first one is like I mentioned I've taken people to the cliffs I've taken hardcore skateboarders that do jump I don't know how many stairs they've done I've gone to cliff jumping with people who have broken their arms, legs wiped out hardcore and they still continue to do the activity that almost killed them but when they get to the cliffs they're hugging the cliff they're moving really slowly they don't when they're doing the jump you can feel how scared they are right? and one of my friends explained to me why that's the case why he did that is because in the city if it was skateboarding, if it was biking if it was doing jumps from one crazy location to another the reason that cliffs scared them was because cliffs are unpredictable nature is unpredictable like and nature is unpredictable it can be extremely brutal but when you're in the city man-made structures you know where things are like that's the reason why some people might be comfortable doing some stuff which you wouldn't do but you happily jump off a cliff right? keep that in mind when it comes to self-preservation we're all different never force someone to jump off a cliff if you think they're they're able to do it okay? let them go their own pace in the advice that I gave you I mentioned that I don't do in general I don't do rivers anymore I don't do I don't do cliffs where there's another wall here on the side and let me tell you a story of when I was younger when I was a teenager when I was a first 3-4 years of me doing cliff jumping I was always going to the location that we're going to do the ASMR videos for do the do the mathematics of it the kinematics of it but I was always going there I would bring friends there one of my friends liked jumping in rivers so he asked me to go with him to this one place he wanted to jump he wanted to make sure someone else was with them so I agreed I went there he told me some of the things I should do some of the things I shouldn't do so we climbed up to the cliff it was a long cliff it was a pretty big cliff it was like a 50 footer and we got out there and I noticed that we're up here and I noticed that the wall is over here and we're kids when you're younger you don't really so he told me you want to jump in this area he pointed it out don't jump too far then you hit the other side and I was like what make sure you jump far enough where you're clear so you want me to pinpoint that little area then you're going to jump I said ok I've been jumping for a while now 3-4 years at least on a regular basis multiple times a week so I felt pretty confident so he took the jump he landed in an area and swam off and I said ok so I took the jump now one thing my friend forgot to mention was and it didn't occur to me because I was always used to jumping in the ocean and the ocean is basically high tide, low tide and high tide, low tide in the ocean is a fair bit but if you're jumping in a clear area that you know you're safe to jump in that little bit is nothing compared to how much clearance you got below that because high tide, low tide it could be meters it adds a lot to a jump rivers aren't like that rivers in general if you're jumping it means you know there's enough water to jump in but my friend forgot to mention to me and it didn't occur to me because I was young and stupid but when I hit the water to open up and slow myself down I did it like I was jumping in the ocean and when I jumped I hit the ground wow wow wow that was my first time where I took a jump where I came out and I went I can't believe that just happened right I was lucky enough I had slowed down far enough that when I hit the ground my knees gave a little bit and my ass touched the bottom but it wasn't you know no damage was done as soon as my legs hit the bottom I pushed up as hard as I could and my knees crumbled a little bit and I pushed up right that's one of the reasons I don't do big jumps and rivers anymore and one of the reasons when I cliff jumping with people brand new I look at them in the eyes and I explain to them exactly what it is they should be careful with sometimes they listen, sometimes they don't but I try to cover as much as I can ok that's one story I was lucky this one time I went cliff jumping and again it's the same location that we're going to do the mathematics stuff actually almost all of these stories are from that same location because I've gone there a lot two years ago I went to we're jumping in this spot and there was a couple of teenagers there that were doing the 60 footer the one that you're going to see while they were psyching themselves up for when we got there it took them about an hour to get psyched up and they came down and did the middle jump where we were jumping, where you're going to see me do the jump and then they went up and the 60 footer was and they were they felt powerful and they were talking they were loud very excited and stuff like this was fun it's fun to see people jump actually but one thing they did was they swam around in so this area we're at sort of a mound up and then there's a sort of a little bay going in and in general you don't want to jump in areas where the cliffs are coming into a shore area where there's like a beach going like this sort of a small bay I forget what the names are you want to go to the edges where the outcrops are and jump off those but these kids jumped off the 60 footer big jump straight on to open ocean basically and then they swam around came out to the bay, climbed up this area and went to another cliff which was about 60 feet as well a little bit less 50 feet and they were going to jump into the bay area and I've been going there since I was like 12 years old I've been going there for 30 plus years and I knew that you can't jump from there you kill yourself so I was waving my arms and yelling across I mentioned don't jump there try to convince these two kids not to jump there and they weren't listening they've been drinking a little bit and in general don't it's amazing having refreshments in the sun but don't go above a limit where you're willing to risk your life for a jump make sure you're able to maintain okay so I was waving my arms yelling telling them don't do that you won't make it and they kept on coming up and one of them actually took a running start and stopped they thought they could run and go across so after about 15 minutes I was trying to tell them not to do it and a couple other people got involved and told them not to do it as well they weren't listening and they were lucky that some guy with a canoe was coming along and he saw us trying to convince these kids not to jump for 15 minutes I was telling them not to do it and it was very difficult to convince people not to kill themselves but the canoe person came down and looked at them and said what are you kids crazy what are you stupid and he brought out his paddle and went down and hit the ground and the kids looked and the canoe guy kept on saying and the kids kept on arguing saying oh we can do it finally after about 5 minutes 10 minutes these kids finally realized that's a bad idea very bad idea so listen to people who've been there don't risk your life and they did some things in that jump which in the advice they didn't even check the water they even though they spammed through that area they didn't look down to see what the clearing was as far as it comes to being winded ok we went to this jump with there was a bunch of us going there and there was a friend of ours that was for the first time doing this 60 footer jump and we've been going there for weeks the previous summer he'd come with us as well and he hadn't done the 60 footer and he finally was solid enough he'd been going to the gym the previous year or so because you have to be solid if you're doing serious jumps so he had become more solid he felt more confident and this was his first really large jump the previous one to that was a 20 footer right 20 foot to 60 foot huge difference huge difference in terms of mathematics physics and in terms of what you need to do ok so I taken I knew he was going to do the jump and it seemed like he was going to do it so I took my jump I haven't done the 60 footer for a number of years now I don't feel strong enough to do it that's how hard of a hit a 60 foot jump is so I've been doing the 30 footer so I jump did my 30 foot jump I hung around the water and waited for him to do the 60 footer and I sort of chilled on the rocks when I was taking too long and stuff like this and he finally did the jump but what he did he landed with his back right he didn't land straight he landed with a tilt and the water hit him in the back and he got winded and he came back up and he had his hand on his back and his face was like like he was in pain not only you get winded but you're in pain and I saw him try to take a breath and he couldn't take a breath so I swam over there and he was smart enough not to resist and I did the I don't know what it's called the lifeguard thing I put my elbow around his neck and I swam him back and I just told him take it easy relax relax I got you it's okay and I mentioned that a few times so he wasn't scared right and he was able to get a little bit of air in while I was taking him back and when he when we got back to the rocks I was there making sure he wasn't going to slip down and climb onto rocks and stuff like this at the time I he said thank you and at the time I sort of brushed it off because I didn't want him to get scared of what had happened I didn't want him to be scared of jumping I wanted him to learn from the lesson because this happened to me as well right so that's one thing that can happen if you see someone if you know someone if you're going with someone they're going to do or you're going to do a big job you've never done before make sure someone's in the water to save you just in case it's needed now on the same cliff as you can tell a lot of people get hurt on this cliff on the same cliff one year we went and there was a guy who was standing on the ledge and was looking down we were doing our jumps and this guy was standing there looking down on this jump for 15-20 minutes he was holding on and was looking and we weren't sure what he was going to do if he was going to jump or not I had my doubts I didn't think he was going to jump because I've seen a lot of people do that before and they back away smartly back away but finally this guy what he ended up doing was jumping because I was wondering why he was just standing there right but what he wanted to do was do a flip off of it and that's what he did he instead of kicking off he dropped off and during the drop he went right he went he tilted head first and then the rotation landed with his legs right but he landed sideways and you could hear it the sound is it's unmistakable you know someone it's not a nice landing so his friend was in the water with him too because I guess he knew he was trying to do something you know flip and then the guy climbed back up and he was going past us and we said wow it sounded like it hurt he goes yeah that hurt I saw him a year later I didn't see him again that year I saw him a year later and I said hey you're the guy that the flip how did that turn out it was a hard hit he goes yeah it was a hard hit it took me months to recoup right so it hit from a large fall it can take you months to recoup and it took this guy months to recoup he came back the following year I didn't see him do the big one anymore I didn't see him too many times after that but he didn't I didn't see him do the big one the first time I took the 60 footer okay I was 14 years old and we were jumping off another area and we were young we were 14 in Canada 14 year old's pastime you go out to the beach you drink a little you do whatever right you're having a good time in the summertime friends right and we saw we were jumping from about a 25-30 footer 25 footer 20-25 footer actually it wasn't even 30 20-25 footer right and we saw these people jumping from the 60 footer and they were like long hair much older they were in their mid 20's and stuff were 14 years old wow okay someone you can actually jump off that so me and a friend jumped from the 20 footer and climbed up went up top right looked down really the difference between 20 footer and 60 feet is huge huge and we looked and those guys knew they're sitting there they're doing the same thing we were during their mid 20's right they've been coming there a lot longer than we have and there were you know there was one part where you can run and jump and we're we're there right there's you know 20 year olds there going 14 years old you're up here doing your thing and we're like no way me and my friend talked was in no way we can do this crazy talk right and we both turned around to go climb back down in shame right and we both went and we turned around and jumped both almost at the same time I turned around and I looked up and he was his legs were here a couple of meters away did the jump boom hit the water now when you're jumping from a 20 foot you can be loose see seriously you can be loose you should tighten up because even from a 20 footer if you're lying wrong it's not going to feel good but you really don't have to focus on being tight when I landed the 60 footer I hadn't tightened up and my legs were not solid I hadn't locked them you don't have to lock your knees you have to lock your legs in position and I hadn't right I probably had gone over my limit when it came to refreshments right when I landed I was lucky because my legs were a little bit separate and what happened was my knees buckled my knees buckled and both of my knees came up right here they skimmed off my cheek now just imagine if my legs were closed and my knees buckled it would have knocked out like it would have knocked out all my teeth probably sent my nose into my brain that would have been my last jump most likely I would have been a statistic I learned a lot on that jump I learned to really know my limit when I go to the rocks they're unforgiving they're unforgiving and I've seen other people get hurt because of that okay and that comes into the advice that he gave make sure you're solid you don't want that jump to be your last jump another one another a couple of other things that I've seen I've seen this happen I don't know how many times now but and this happens on the 30 footer on the 60 footer the damage is more I've seen 60 footer and 30 footer jumps through this to people is when they hit the water they're looking at the water and what happens is when they hit the water they either rip their lips separate I'm laughing it's not funny but their lips separate and I've seen people rip their upper lip on the inside and rip their lower lip on the inside and they bleed it heals hopefully I've seen some people have some pretty big gashes I'm going to check back with them to see if the gash is still there there's a wound mark still there this goes to a point that I made I don't even know how many people have seen do this it's very common for people to do this they look at the water their bottom lip goes up and they come up after a jump to go that was bleeding right so close your mouth when you hit the water don't have your mouth open don't look at the water and when you're hitting the water if you're worried about water going up your nose just when you're tightening up right you do breathe out you do have to breathe before you take a hit remember you're taking a hit right and the last story I have I haven't witnessed this but someone I care about told me this and it's something they did and I've heard of other people doing this and it's something I told them not to do but they ended up doing it when I wasn't there was basically jump off bridges and bridges is another thing that people jump off of obviously right I've done it once and I didn't do it again and I did a very small bridge and I didn't do it again it just seems sketchy but this person told me that they didn't listen when I said don't jump off a bridge and they went somewhere that wasn't in my area and they were walking across a train bridge and it's hot summer and they decided to jump off and they jumped off the bridge and they jumped off the bridge and when they went into the water they went you know it was a fairly long jump at least 30 footers I think 30 or 40 foot they said they went into the water and they looked they opened their eyes and they landed between pillars right so they went in and beside them were two pillars so they landed between pillars and they were like 2 meters this way they would have hit the pillar 3 meters this way they would have hit the pillar wow very dangerous very dangerous so if you're jumping off bridges make sure you know the bridges make sure you check that stuff out and that goes down to the advice that I gave check out the water you don't want to get hurt by that jump to be your last jump ok so those are sort of my anecdotes, my stories some of the things I've learned from cliff jumping and this isn't a recommendation or anything for you to go out and cliff jump but just sharing some information and what we're going to do following this video the odds are we'll put out 3 videos again one video of my nephew you know jumping off a 60 footer we're going to figure out how high he was and then we're going to figure out how high I was when I was doing the jump figure out the height of the cliff that I jumped off of and we're going to figure out some of the other parameters some of the other variables we're going to do some physics energy potential energy momentum velocity velocity would be awesome to figure out how fast I was going when I was hitting the water and then what we're going to do is we're going to come back to my nephew's jump the 60 footer we're going to figure out exactly how high it is and we're going to figure out the same parameters that we did for my jump we're going to figure out for the 60 footer and we're going to try to figure out if my nephew was out of his mind taking a 60 footer jump alright this should be fun this should be fun and again this is going to be slow motion I'm not sure when these will come out but they will be done in the next few months and they will be ready for the northern hemisphere anyway for the 2017 cliff jumping season for the start of it anyway I hope you enjoyed I hope you take some of the things I said to heart and I hope you're careful I'll see you guys in the next video bye for now