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Ten Meter Tower (Video at link)
NY Times- The Opinion Pages ^ | January 30th, 2017 | By MAXIMILIEN VAN AERTRYCK and AXEL DANIELSON

Posted on 02/01/2017 5:32:01 PM PST by Third Person

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Well worth the watch.... funny and thought-provoking.
1 posted on 02/01/2017 5:32:01 PM PST by Third Person
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To: Third Person

I jumped off a number of towers and rappelled from helicopters in the Marine Corps. Absolutely not now. I do not care for heights but for some reason I had no problem with in while in service.
Who can forget Louganis hitting his head on the platform in 79?

Check this out if you like heights:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFMHjDqHL_Y

Here’s a job:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1D7znR7Zk4

My friend flying a helicopter. He is a former Marine too. Oddly, the Corps was not interested in him flying:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMh4kGFSj-c


2 posted on 02/01/2017 5:48:32 PM PST by rey
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I jumped about 75 feet into a quarry at a place called Lost Lakes near San Bernardino 35 years ago, and dove 37 feet into the Schuylkill River in Pennsylvania. Today the 3 meter board is my limit.


3 posted on 02/01/2017 5:55:59 PM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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Yep, when you’re young you're 10 feet tall and bulletproof.
4 posted on 02/01/2017 6:05:26 PM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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I jumped off a number of towers and rappelled from helicopters in the Marine Corps.

How high was that fake ship side that we had to jump off of in boot for water survival training? It wasn't ten meters, but it was up there.

I used to skydive and did the whole rapelling thing, no more for me, either.

5 posted on 02/01/2017 6:08:09 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: rey

WOW. Thanks for the links.


6 posted on 02/01/2017 6:09:57 PM PST by Third Person
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To: Freestate316
This is the jump I made in 1964. Scranton PA, Nay Aug Park. Don't know how high it is but my stomach had time to jump twice.

 photo 4682661862_89379a299e_zps0izul5fz.jpg

7 posted on 02/01/2017 6:11:03 PM PST by Stentor
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Not my picture.


8 posted on 02/01/2017 6:12:00 PM PST by Stentor
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That looks pretty high. I just remember going so far underwater that I was out of air by the time I surfaced. I also remember that it was important to keep your feet together.


9 posted on 02/01/2017 6:17:11 PM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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That looks pretty high. I just remember going so far underwater that I was out of air by the time I surfaced. I also remember that it was important to keep your feet together.


10 posted on 02/01/2017 6:17:26 PM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: MCF

But with age comes wisdom!


11 posted on 02/01/2017 6:18:43 PM PST by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Third Person

I learned that “OK” is a somewhat universal expression.


12 posted on 02/01/2017 6:19:14 PM PST by stayathomemom ( Read Shadow Men, The Progressive Virus, and The Marxist Playbook by Dr. Anthony Napoleon)
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I also remember that it was important to keep your feet together.

I was advised to point my toes and let my legs bend. Stopped fairly quick. Did it once and had a 6 pack of Stegmaier. That falls used to freeze over. Bright blue ice.

13 posted on 02/01/2017 6:27:19 PM PST by Stentor
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...when you’re young you're 10 feet tall and bulletproof.

Ain't that the whole truth and nothing but the truth. lol

Nowadays I bang my knee gettin' in the car and it hurts for a month.

14 posted on 02/01/2017 6:37:20 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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And they didn't even have to walk out on a springboard.

Where did they find these people?

15 posted on 02/01/2017 6:39:13 PM PST by Elderberry
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You remind me of me, except that I was in the Army. No sir, no more repels for this old fat ass.


16 posted on 02/01/2017 6:43:21 PM PST by GingisK
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I wonder how many women loss their bikini tops.

I wonder if you can get a wedgie from this.

17 posted on 02/01/2017 6:46:00 PM PST by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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We paid each of them the equivalent of about $30 t

Huh? What does that mean? Did they pay them in Pesos or something?

18 posted on 02/01/2017 7:06:41 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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It was filmed in Sweden, so they probably paid them the equivalent of $30 USD in Kroner or Euros or whatever they use now.


19 posted on 02/01/2017 7:18:46 PM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Third Person; stayathomemom

That was great, thanks for the post!

I am a former swimmer / diver and have done platform and cliff diving (age 17-21 about), much higher, 20-30 meters, but the water was so deep that you could not see the bottom — abandoned Missouri stone quarries — which ironically helps some to not make it seem so high.

At pools with clear water 10 meters really seems like 15 meters into a hard looking pool floor. It definitely seems higher than it is to the water.

It has been years, but I could still get the fluttery feeling thinking about it watching this fun video.

It was the same thing as this movie at the great place we cliff dove from, especially at the really high cliffs with groups of mixed older high school and college people. People thought a lot about it before jumping. It was like serious golfers trying to decide how to hit a difficult lie in the rough. You wait patiently while they pick their club. Sometimes they just chip out to the fairway. It was no shame to climb back down sometimes.

It was interesting that even people who had dove many times before, would have bad days where they would climb up and could not dive or could not do a certain more risky dive on certain particular days when it just felt bad.

And I love the comment above by “stayathomemom” about “OK” being a universal word now! Great observation! The subtitles make this all the more fun and exotic, especially with that “OK” word thrown emphatically into the mix. Americanisms!


20 posted on 02/01/2017 7:43:05 PM PST by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communofascism!))
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