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Cliff Diving

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Swampy
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I went on Saturday for the first time and it was pretty fun. We jumped off some like 25 ft cliffs a bunch and I did some flips and junk off a like 7 ft one. Then I decided to try to jump from the highest part, it was i think like 45ft high, I got like 4 seconds hang time when I jumped off. Well anyways I guess my teeth weren't all the way together or something because when I hit the water off the highest part it made my teeth slam together and it sorta hurt but I didn't really make anything out of it, I was fine. But when I got home and ate something it kinda hurt, and I looked, it turns out I chipped/cracked it, oh well. It was really fun, I want to go again.
Jul 30 2006 10:18PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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wow, its pretty hard to hurt yourself off a 45 that sucks, go bigger
Jul 30 2006 10:24PM
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BigJew
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I was doing misty and lincoln off a 10ish footer and I'm too much of a pussy to do it off anything bigger or try a backflip or gainer. I was jumping off cliffs in Idaho like a week ago.
Jul 30 2006 10:33PM
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mad_540_trix
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a 45 foot drop gives you approximately 1.66 seconds of hang time, not 4 seconds. to fall for 4 seconds, you'd have to jump off of a 78.4 metre (or 257 foot) cliff, and you'd hit the water at 141km/h (or 88mph).

Jul 30 2006 10:37PM
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mad_540_trix
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78.4 metre (or 257 foot) **high** cliff
Jul 30 2006 10:39PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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no man my bro jumped a 76 foot and we timed 3.5 seconds
Jul 30 2006 10:42PM
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Kornn101
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thats obviously a lie.
Jul 30 2006 10:50PM
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Liam.
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post that in the fucked up grill thread
if u already havent
Jul 30 2006 10:52PM
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fillup
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well maybe he is light and jumped up
Jul 30 2006 10:53PM
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hurrisun
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i went and dove off a r50 footer (that was scary) and reg jumped off a 75 it weas nuts
Jul 30 2006 10:55PM
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hurrisun
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when i did my 75 it was atleast 3 i counted 3 and a half mississippis it was crazy
Jul 30 2006 10:56PM
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RAnderson
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i just got back from sum bridges and cliffs today i learned how to spin while doing gainers and got a gainer 1260 off a like 15-20footer
Jul 30 2006 11:12PM
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Swampy
Posts: 547 - Karma: 90
Ok, then it was probably 70ish feet, I know I was in the air at least 3 seconds, we counted, I'm not too good at estimating distances lol. But anyways my tooth wasn't chipped or damaged really, all it did was scrape some fake enamel off of a previous dental repair.
Jul 31 2006 3:12AM
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seine_Dudeheit
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What the hell... 76ft.? you guys are crazy!
Jul 31 2006 3:50AM
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nkimmes_40
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i jumped a 65 footer like a week ago. im going back there today
Jul 31 2006 7:48AM
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iskindiana
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biggest ive done, is like 50-55 and it was at a lake inbetween whistler and vancouver and like there is this cliff there with a plaque at the top that says some dude died there.
Jul 31 2006 8:23AM
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Cam
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well, you get the idea:
Cliff jump
Jul 31 2006 8:51AM
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steevner
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theres a 45 ft(ish) cliff i straight air off of, and a 20-25 ft cliff that i dive, spin 10's, and flip off of, it's quite fun
Jul 31 2006 9:13AM
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-=koLLac=-
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haha, if you paid attention in physics class you'd know weight has no effect on the speed you achieve
Jul 31 2006 9:18AM
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-=koLLac=-
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ht eonly person on NS who gets close to 4 seconds of hangtime is Jamie Pierre
Jul 31 2006 9:20AM
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=Worf=
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in central pa we got mad cliffs to jump i have my pick of like 8 places with in like 20 minutes of my house ranging from less than 10' all the way to 85'

and you mad's right exxagerations on thing but 3 and 1/2 second hang time is well over 76ft, i dont know about mad's math there but i d know that a good estimate is 1second for every 50 ft.
Jul 31 2006 9:54AM
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norbastradamus
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some kid im my city died jumping of soem cliffs, he slipped on some algae and fell down onto the rocks bellow, I think it was around 50 feet. Pretty messed up
Jul 31 2006 10:06AM
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Benzoate
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sucks to be him
Jul 31 2006 1:46PM
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PLJaCks
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this was a fun jump...only about 35-40 feet though...

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the highest i've done is about 65-70 feet...i love cliff jumping
Jul 31 2006 1:57PM
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BigJew
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Has anyone here been to that really small lake near the emerald part of whistler? With the crazy rope swing?
Jul 31 2006 1:57PM
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skiSU
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physics was a lonnng time ago for me, but i think, in the first second, you fall 5m in the second you fall 10m and in the third u fall 20m, so in 3 seconds youed fall 35m, which is a lot more than 45 feet
Jul 31 2006 2:31PM
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newschooler7
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around were i live there is a 50-55 cliff and there is a rope swing that hangs over the edge. its so fun
Jul 31 2006 3:13PM
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sacchettiadam
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you obviously have no idea what your talking about because a 45 ft. cliff is a desent sized cliff.
Jul 31 2006 3:54PM
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Chris862
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guys.no. pierre's cliff huck (255 ft)was 4 seconds in the air. i guarantee you just think you were in the air longer cuz thats just what happens when ur the one jumpin. or maybe ur just counting too fast.
Jul 31 2006 4:11PM
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underflipped
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true, go get a stop watch or something and see how fucking long 4 seconds actually is. theres no way
Jul 31 2006 4:25PM
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tBatt
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i was supposed t go today w/ a bunch of hot chicks but i never made it :(
Jul 31 2006 4:26PM
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PLJaCks
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that sucks...cliff jumping with hot girls is so fun
Jul 31 2006 4:29PM
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jsof9
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redrocks??
Jul 31 2006 5:11PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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obviously you are a fool i frontflip 45 regularely in vt
Jul 31 2006 5:31PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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yes sir
Jul 31 2006 5:32PM
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eLevate
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hahahha vt represent. redrocks is sick. my friend fuckin double gainer'd the 80ish footer there. it was intense.
Jul 31 2006 5:38PM
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4frntSkier
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its so much fun
the quarry in dorset vermont is amazing
Jul 31 2006 5:45PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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holy shit yo im too scared to jump that, id rather frontflip the 40
Jul 31 2006 5:46PM
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eLevate
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yeah man, me too. i stick to the mistys and rodeos off the 40
Jul 31 2006 5:47PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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dont try the 60 x you will die no doubt, do the crows nest below the 76 its 60 ft
Jul 31 2006 5:52PM
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ski8990
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that is more like 20-25ft. Most people here saying 75 ft are probably actually jumping 55 footers. They always seem higher than they are.
Jul 31 2006 6:35PM
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wAy2sTeEzY4u
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no dude its not an estimation all the cliffs at the place we are talking about have been measured off with rope
Jul 31 2006 7:25PM
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mad_540_trix
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something tells me you were counting too fast. that something is physics.

75 ft = 22.9m

d (when falling from a rest) = 0.5*a*(t^2)    (a is acceleration for you non physics people)

manipulate that equation to solve for time and you get:

t = (2*d/a)^0.5

t= (2*22.9/9.8)^0.5 = 2.16 seconds

also, that's provided that it was actually 75 feet. people often overestimate by quite a bit.
Jul 31 2006 9:48PM
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BillyGoteMan
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You forgot to factor in that when people go cliff diving they don't fall off the cliff and let themselves fall entirely with gravity. They normally jump up, so you may need to recalculate.
Jul 31 2006 9:51PM
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Bloom.
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but it seems like you are in the air so much longer than you actually are. i think i went off of like a 50 ft but thats all
Jul 31 2006 10:11PM
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CooksCorner
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You wear shoes?
Jul 31 2006 10:19PM
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Beamer12
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cliff diving is fun as hell..i dont acually dive but just jumping from 50 feet at calfs pen in lake george ny is enough for me

Jul 31 2006 10:22PM
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skiierman
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There's not much choice of height at my first cliff jumping place up in Plymouth. I was told that the jumps are 20ft., 30ft., 70ft., and 110 ft. The 110 is off the top of an old bridge, but I only jumped off the 20 and 30, gainering a few times off the 20. It was fun.
Jul 31 2006 10:31PM
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prosnurfer
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cliff jumping is the shit. biggest iv jumpoed is 80 and biggest iv flipped is like 50. mad funn stuff
Aug 1 2006 1:51AM
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pbandj
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you forgot air resistence, which depending how fat you are, can make a big difference, you can't use kinematics solely when dealing with high speeds
Aug 1 2006 2:01AM
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jd_1260
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that place is so dope. I go there whenever im up in whistler during la summa
Aug 1 2006 2:03AM
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