HOLY FREAKING MOLY! CHECK THIS OUT!

[V. Barbarino]

HERE

WOW!

[endymion]

That was a stunt that was the subject of an entire half-hour episode of "Stunt Junkies", called "Human Catapult". You should Tivo it, it's pretty cool. That entire series is very cool.

The successful jump didn't happen until minutes before they were about to run out of time due to the sun setting. A test launch earlier that day with a crash test dummie completely destroyed the crash test dummie. Pretty intense.

There is another Stunt Junkies episode about a German guy who jumps a motocross bike off a cliff into a rock quarry and launches a parachute using a compressed-air rocket. If the rocket failed then his survival chances were zero. He had already had one prior rocket failure during a similar stunt jumping off of a bridge over water that left him seriously injured in traction in a hospital for months. Yet he still had the confidence in his rocket invention to test it by jumping into a rock quarry that would have definitely killed him if it failed. He came within inches of paralysis when his canopy opened because he almost hit a rock ledge. You watch his quick reaction in slow motion and it's just awe-inspiring.

[endymion]

Originally Posted by techjunkie

That was a stunt that was the subject of an entire half-hour episode of "Stunt Junkies", called "Human Catapult".

Sorry I think it was called "Human Slingshot", but my girl and I agreed that it's actually a catapult and not a slingshot because it uses inelastic cables that pull with counterweights, rather than elastic bungee cables.

[Bling]

u got to be fuckin kidding me.... these guys are insane.... hell even the jackass guys may back out of doing that lol


umm maybe not lol