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[buzzy bee]

Hi

I am petrified of hights and edges, but am about to book a bungee jump, good idea or not?

Cheers

Dave

[Rick]

I've heard of better ideas! like buying an old tractor, or riding a monocycle .. but bungee jumping, with the run of luck you've had lately!!!!!!!!!

RJ
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[buzzy bee]

hmmm, maybe you are right, just need to conquer this fear of edges.

[47p2]

My daughter brought me a safety harness complete with grigri and ascender last week for when I am working on the garage roof.
We tied a rope to the garage rafters and climbed a ladder, the height was about 10 or 11 feet above the ground. My daughter then told me to jump off the ladders and the grigri would stop me from hitting the ground..........Not as easy as it looks to just jump.
I froze before jumping and it took a lot of nerve before I could actually let the grigri take my weight and save me from hitting the ground.

If you do decide to do this Dave Let us know how it goes, it certainly will take a lot of nerve....Good Luck
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[peter scott]

Back in 1984 we were on holiday in Chamonix during the summer and for the first time I saw people launching themselves off the top of the ski lift with nothing more than a paraglider that fits in a rucksack. They then proceeded to sail around our heads in the wonderful thermals that exist there.

For me, already hooked by sailing with minimal equipment (windsurfing) the idea of gliding with minimal equipment was electrifying. Back in Blighty I signed up for a paragliding course in Yorkshire but somehow it just wasn't the same. The course was run by a couple of ex-SAS guys who had lots of good tales but we would climb up one hill and the wind speed would be too high, go back down and ascend another hill where the wind direction was wrong. Conditions in Britain just did not compare with the thermals of France.

We did get some flights then a big guy (18 stone +) got caught by a side wind on take off and broke a bone. Well the ambulance crew would not bring their stretcher up the hill so we had to create a make-shift one out of a paraglider but carrying that weight was no joke.

OK, the flights were exciting but the risks were high and I subsequently heard of various people who had had horrific accidents one paralysed from the neck down and it came home to me that the speed and excitement of windsurfing may have its dangers but oh boy! they are nothing to those of launcing yourself off cliffs.

I suspect bungee jumping is safer than paragliding but its not without a few horrific accidents too.

My advice would be to find your kicks with less dramatic risks.

Peter
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[Greeney in France]

I have done 3 so far 2 for motor neurone disease and raised in excess of £2000 the first was 150m second 200m and the last one I did while on holiday in the states from a bridge at 350m, the best was the first as it was a new experience
The safety is second to none and usually the commercial ones are over an air bag or as in London, the Thames.
I would like to do a 10000ft free-fall eventually, its a great experience and something you will never forget and there are more chances of being run over by a bus than hurting yourself, they dont use single ankle straps either but a double ankle harness also attached around your waist, I am built like tank and weigh 100kilos, in all the falls I was attached to 5 bungees, the chance they would all snap is minuscule
You will talk about it forever, every time I have done a jump there has been people of all ages, the oldies was an 83yr old
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[ukdave2002]

you ride a PF on main roads !!! a bungee jump will be nothing

[clan chieftain]

As long as you dont do a Billy Connolly....starkers
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