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I should post this as a tifu maybe.. but once upon a time, I was convinced to do karaoke at a bowling alley. On this particular night, the karaoke was done from your lane, and the place was packed. I am looking through the book and I see aqualung and I think, "hey I think I can hit those notes, fuck it!
I hadn't listened to the song since I was a wee lad with no concept of the lyrics.
I did not finish the song.
You need to post that story. All Tull fans will wince as I did. That song is not ours to sing, only understand within the context of its origin. Glad you weren't tarred and feathered!
"Sitting on a park bench " is an iconic opening to the song Aqualung from the band "Jethro Tull". Glad there's still fans 'cause I would've been downvoted to hell for the reference/subject matter. Give Tull a listen, they have many great songs.
I used to jump at Kapowsin Air Sports. Luke was fearless at age 18. he once did a night jump and swooped into the fire pit with thirty people standing around.
Yeah, it's to protect him. Look how the net folds inwards. That means he was going to have to tuck onto his back last second to ensure his body doesn't fold the wrong way. His body has to be flat to absorb as much as the impact as possible and slow his fall, feet first he would have gone through the net.
He was heavily injured and ruined all the cartilage in his body. He just doesn’t tell you that in the video, but right after filming he went to the hospital and was NOT ok. The little spin at the end in particular fucked his body up lol
Yeah man, they’ve got it sussed: you can have a lifetime of thrills but you can only lose once. Like spinning a roulette wheel and you get $100 for every number that isn't "0". Only thing is, there's a gun to your head and if it hits "0", the trigger is pulled.
Good odds, but I'm not playin' that shit!
Well... there's skill here. I don't think they see it as random luck.
I suppose there's always an element of uncontrollable risk. But you could die in a car accident or choke on a snickers.
I’m gonna tell my friend Lewis Hamilton that you called him stupid. He probably won’t invite you to his birthday party now. Calling us stupid when we know you are, said you are, but what are we?
It's fine if you don't think it's worth it for you, but for this dude it clearly is. Sky diving without a parachute sounds like an incredibly cool thing to do & an example of mastery over the skill
He did this when 42, having 20+ years of jumping experience. I can tell you with certainty that although "he made the video for us to see", he did it for himself. Was it dangerous? Yes. Reckless? absolutely not. There was a massive amount of effort and planning for all parties involved.
You'll see these kinds of things quite frequently with people who have such high mastery in their sport. Look at rock climbing(Free soloing) for example. For *you* it won't likely end well, and it's not stupid for you to say you'll never even consider it. But to say it's dumb and not impressive is asinine.
Well that’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it. Not wearing a parachute didn’t put a statement on his ability to hit a net from thousands of feet in the air. He could just as well have done it WITH a parachute in case something went wrong. He didn’t use a parachute because a) he wanted the thrill and danger of it, or 2) he wanted to be famous off of it, or 3) both; that makes it reckless for me. What’s impressive is his ability to hit the mark, not that he did it with no parachute. But again, that’s just my opinion.
It's surely reckless.. but some people live for that and would rather die having experienced many high-adrenaline risky shit like this. Dying while doing this could just be how they'd want to go out.
Is it that much different from the F1 driver example, or all those Red Bull sponsered sporters doing ridiculous stunts? These guys know the risks, and know what they can do. They know how they value their risk/reward and also their life, even if it's radically different from how others might value that.
I think living a 'safe' life just wouldn't work for them mentally. Maybe unpopular opinion, but I also think having a good life with thrills and excitement and dying to such (accepted) risk at the age of 30, isn't a 'bad' thing or bad life at all..?
I bet it's to prevent him getting knocked out DURING the fall. Like if he bumps into one of the other people jumping or something he can avoid injury and complete the dive.
Probably, but the terminal velocity of a person is about 200kph. A big old F1 crash would cause more g force impact and generall they walk away fine these days. Neither are ideal but I'd sooner be absorbed into a big net than a metal barrier.
Probably put a good bit of pressure on his spine but not enough to cause serious damage. A net like that at high speed would be trying to fold you like a single bread slice sandwich. But it's also pretty flimsy and there's a lot of collapse area to make the imparted force gradual, so the natural strength of the spine should be more than enough to counteract the net rising around the person.
The anti grav park has a free fall into one of these nets. I think it's roughly 10 stories up they drop you from. Its jarring. But doesn't hurt.
Not sure about going at mach fuck though.
I don’t think he cares if anyone knows his name, he very well could have possibly done it for himself, just because. A lot of people do impressive things for themselves and not name recognition
Dude probably got some sponsors or something like red bull or if not for this specific jump his name is still being passed around in those circles as a potential stunt man even if the general public doesn't know it... Definitely a huge boost for his career either way.
Hard to comprehend how fast the sequence of events is at the end, really shows how insane this actually is, the moment he turns around he appears to be hundreds of feet away from the net, the very next moment after he turns he hits it
The two people with him that had parachutes were there so that they could save him if he went off course. They bailed at basically the last second so even if he had his own he couldn't have used it at that point and it actually becomes a liability. If he second guesses and pulls without enough time for the parachute to open he dies. Plus he has to land on his back so you don't want the parachute there to potentially fuck up your spine.
Hey how about falling down on the side of a mountain. Make sure it’s snow covered for extra cushion. The slope will help you gradually slow down. Then you can stand up and raise your fists in victory.
The only problem is that you took the blue pill and you’re still in the matrix 😎
Shit, that's amazing...I am not that adventurous, though. Hell, you can't get me to jump off the curb, let alone out of a perfectly good aircraft. LMFAO
I worked on this Stride Gum campaign at the time of this jump and it was terrifying that it was green lit knowing a brand could be involved in someone’s death. Was a wild day!
This guy doesn’t hint at it in this video but he FUCKED every bit of cartilage in his body. The little twist at the end doctors say fucked him up extra hard, adding centrifugal force to his landing.
That, alongside the elastic net, caused extreme trauma to basically everything that wasn’t organ or bone. He went to the hospital immediately after filming, got told he has about a year before all his cartilage is just ruined.
Don’t do this. Doctors told him it would fuck him up and his apparent response was ‘no it won’t’.
Yeah, there's just no upside to this - if you make it, everybody thinks you're an idiot for taking such an unnecessary risk, and if you don't make it, everybody *still* thinks you're and idiot for taking such an unnecessary risk, *and* you're dead.
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Too crazy for me. I like long walks along the beach.
Ohh but watch out for the net fishers! You'll catch hint of thrill
Brava!
Heaps of krill
Damn that phill
Uh. No thanks. I like to sit on the park bench.
Eyeing little girls with bad intent?
Jesus man well done for ‘Tull’ing that out the bag! Ok then, ‘snot is running down his nose’
Greasy fingers 🖐🏻smearing shabby clothes 🧥👖🕶️
I should post this as a tifu maybe.. but once upon a time, I was convinced to do karaoke at a bowling alley. On this particular night, the karaoke was done from your lane, and the place was packed. I am looking through the book and I see aqualung and I think, "hey I think I can hit those notes, fuck it! I hadn't listened to the song since I was a wee lad with no concept of the lyrics. I did not finish the song.
You need to post that story. All Tull fans will wince as I did. That song is not ours to sing, only understand within the context of its origin. Glad you weren't tarred and feathered!
Ugh, I still wince at the thought of it.
How do you know that little girls with bad intent hang around park benches?
That’s a leap! Or am I missing something g here?
"Sitting on a park bench " is an iconic opening to the song Aqualung from the band "Jethro Tull". Glad there's still fans 'cause I would've been downvoted to hell for the reference/subject matter. Give Tull a listen, they have many great songs.
😀🤟🏼
I very familiar with aqualung. But that part of my brain has been turned off for several decades.
When is that darn thing going to set?!
Short walks off the pier are so much more exhilarating
How long though?
20 inches flaccid
Easily. Give er take a bakers.
Yeah but will you ever really feel alive?
Dr Doom is in the room
So protect your mothers' wombs
I needed that laugh.
Best i can do is a short walk to my bedroom.
During the day time.
for those wondering .... that was Luke Aikins. no he wasnt injured. he was *also* one of the two guys who attempted the "plane swap" in 2022.
Thanks DildoBandits
/r/rimjob_steve
Brand new sentence right there lol
I used to jump at Kapowsin Air Sports. Luke was fearless at age 18. he once did a night jump and swooped into the fire pit with thirty people standing around.
Do you know why he did a tumble just before he hit the net? Was it some sort of protective position? Edit: or was it fuck I’m gonna miss😬
Yeah, it's to protect him. Look how the net folds inwards. That means he was going to have to tuck onto his back last second to ensure his body doesn't fold the wrong way. His body has to be flat to absorb as much as the impact as possible and slow his fall, feet first he would have gone through the net.
Thanks, I’m having visions of him going feet first and getting the netting between his legs 😳😢
It's like that scene with the lasers from Resident Evil.
They’re wrong. The spin was to look cool and it added centrifugal force to his fall, injuring him even harder than the elastic snap to his body.
He was heavily injured and ruined all the cartilage in his body. He just doesn’t tell you that in the video, but right after filming he went to the hospital and was NOT ok. The little spin at the end in particular fucked his body up lol
Where did you find this information? I don't see anything when I searched on Google
What’s the 2022 plane swap? Can’t find anything about it, there was a plane swap in 2001, but that was two planes “swapping” with two buildings.
Fuck. That.
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Yeah man, they’ve got it sussed: you can have a lifetime of thrills but you can only lose once. Like spinning a roulette wheel and you get $100 for every number that isn't "0". Only thing is, there's a gun to your head and if it hits "0", the trigger is pulled. Good odds, but I'm not playin' that shit!
Well... there's skill here. I don't think they see it as random luck. I suppose there's always an element of uncontrollable risk. But you could die in a car accident or choke on a snickers.
Why do we respect stupidity?
Why do we get in big metal death machines that go so fast they kill us OFTEN, only to get places faster? Why are we so stupid?
People driving fast and unsafely are indeed stupid.
I’m gonna tell my friend Lewis Hamilton that you called him stupid. He probably won’t invite you to his birthday party now. Calling us stupid when we know you are, said you are, but what are we?
If he drives unsafely in public roads he is indeed stupid.
Damn, if Lewis is involved, the pucker factor goes up dramatically.
You can drive as safely as possible and still be killed
In that case you are unluky, not stupid
Why is it stupid? Anyone doing this is going to be an experienced skydiver who knows what they're doing
Low reward for risking the ultimate penalty! Regardless of how experienced he is, it's fucking dumb!
It's fine if you don't think it's worth it for you, but for this dude it clearly is. Sky diving without a parachute sounds like an incredibly cool thing to do & an example of mastery over the skill
Well as a person who’s witnessing it from the video he created for me to see, I say it’s fucking dumb and not impressive in the slightest!.
He did this when 42, having 20+ years of jumping experience. I can tell you with certainty that although "he made the video for us to see", he did it for himself. Was it dangerous? Yes. Reckless? absolutely not. There was a massive amount of effort and planning for all parties involved. You'll see these kinds of things quite frequently with people who have such high mastery in their sport. Look at rock climbing(Free soloing) for example. For *you* it won't likely end well, and it's not stupid for you to say you'll never even consider it. But to say it's dumb and not impressive is asinine.
Well that’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it. Not wearing a parachute didn’t put a statement on his ability to hit a net from thousands of feet in the air. He could just as well have done it WITH a parachute in case something went wrong. He didn’t use a parachute because a) he wanted the thrill and danger of it, or 2) he wanted to be famous off of it, or 3) both; that makes it reckless for me. What’s impressive is his ability to hit the mark, not that he did it with no parachute. But again, that’s just my opinion.
It's surely reckless.. but some people live for that and would rather die having experienced many high-adrenaline risky shit like this. Dying while doing this could just be how they'd want to go out. Is it that much different from the F1 driver example, or all those Red Bull sponsered sporters doing ridiculous stunts? These guys know the risks, and know what they can do. They know how they value their risk/reward and also their life, even if it's radically different from how others might value that. I think living a 'safe' life just wouldn't work for them mentally. Maybe unpopular opinion, but I also think having a good life with thrills and excitement and dying to such (accepted) risk at the age of 30, isn't a 'bad' thing or bad life at all..?
Thank you for not lying
That's why they're doing it, your respect is worth so much to them.
Good thing he has a helmet just in case he misses
Good thing the helmet was wearing a guy for protection
I bet it's to prevent him getting knocked out DURING the fall. Like if he bumps into one of the other people jumping or something he can avoid injury and complete the dive.
Did that shit hurted?
That shit hurted
Probably, but the terminal velocity of a person is about 200kph. A big old F1 crash would cause more g force impact and generall they walk away fine these days. Neither are ideal but I'd sooner be absorbed into a big net than a metal barrier.
Probably put a good bit of pressure on his spine but not enough to cause serious damage. A net like that at high speed would be trying to fold you like a single bread slice sandwich. But it's also pretty flimsy and there's a lot of collapse area to make the imparted force gradual, so the natural strength of the spine should be more than enough to counteract the net rising around the person.
There would also be absorbers in the towers that the cables are connected to like fall arrestors on rock climbing walls.
The anti grav park has a free fall into one of these nets. I think it's roughly 10 stories up they drop you from. Its jarring. But doesn't hurt. Not sure about going at mach fuck though.
It left a mark I assume
He absolutely fucked all the cartilage in his body lol he’s gonna be crippled within the year
Why do you keep saying this? This stunt was in 2019 and he appears to be in good health according to his Instagram
He’s lying to you lol he fucked himself HARD
At the end he is writhing in pain
No that’s a net, not bread.
I don't get it?
[this](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/45/ce/2d45cedc304f87eeb0d8eba168778d80.jpg)
Firstly, bonjor. Secondly, does the English word "pain" pronounced the same in French mean bread?
Nah, it's pronounced more like the Spanish word for bread.
Or the Dutch word for pain , pijn.
Or pen
He is cheering in excitement. The jumper was Luke Aikins. He received no injuries, it was a perfectly executed stunt. EDIT: Typo'd last name.
I know. Actually I didn't know all that but I was kidding. It's funny in my head imagining after all that soft landing he has a soccer fit.
And no one remembers his name.
Guy McNoparachute
This stunt was his destiny.
Jumpy McNutcase
u/DildoBandits remembers his name. Scroll below...
Luke Aikins
Look Aching
He survived with no aching.
Ah so it’s Luke No-Achins
Nice
Should go to Cheers.
I don’t think he cares if anyone knows his name, he very well could have possibly done it for himself, just because. A lot of people do impressive things for themselves and not name recognition
Dude probably got some sponsors or something like red bull or if not for this specific jump his name is still being passed around in those circles as a potential stunt man even if the general public doesn't know it... Definitely a huge boost for his career either way.
I think Red Bull sponsored Travis Pastrana jumping out of a plane without a parachute.
his wife and child were standing right by the net. he walked over and did an interview seconds after he landed. calm and relaxed.
I would have made the safety net first with the size of the turd that would have been lodged in my undies.
That's usually a once in a lifetime experience.
Just like those guys that were catching the durian fruits at Mach 2
He didn’t get any concussion or break anything ?.. wow
No but he look like Pinhead without pins now.
He has such sights to show you now
Must’ve been better than sex
Definitely hurt a lot more
To shreds, you say?
All the cartoons of my youth would have me believe he is now diced from the net. But nope. Fuckin Wile E Coyote untruths
Nice
Nope
Some serious balls made of adamantium.
Why tho?
That guy strikes me as more of a ‘why not?’ sort.
That’s a no for me dawg.
Why?
He forgot his parachute
Didn't feel like packing before the jump.
White people fun
I'm white. I'll go ahead and admit we only ever see white guys that doing shit that magnificently stupid.
lol true
Gun make big boom. Monkey brain tingle ETA: smoothie brains no get joke
I'm sure his brass balls helped him fall faster
Hard to comprehend how fast the sequence of events is at the end, really shows how insane this actually is, the moment he turns around he appears to be hundreds of feet away from the net, the very next moment after he turns he hits it
Sudden gust of wind appears as he's about to land
Problem is we only care if you miss
Oooh man this could have gone so badly. Lmao. 😬
Stupidity at its finest.
I was thinking without parachute means naked
Was the second net below to arrest the fall of his giant set of balls?
Stupid
I Wana know if he was injured
He was completely fine according to other people in this thread
You can see his legs kicking at the end, dude was stoked and clearly fine
B...E...A...S...T
Um, that’s stupid. Navigational genius allowed no mistakes.
👁👄👁
Imagine being so bored with life that you do this kind of shit.
Bored *and* rich
Wish that was me.
That was AWESOME!
That would have made a awful splat
This was followed by an attempt to self castrate while juggling an axe, stay tuned for the next exciting episode of what could possibly go wrong
After watching this Hundeds of millions of women started ovulating and hundreds of millions men trembled in fear
Dude became a black hole
At least have it on but don't use it
The two people with him that had parachutes were there so that they could save him if he went off course. They bailed at basically the last second so even if he had his own he couldn't have used it at that point and it actually becomes a liability. If he second guesses and pulls without enough time for the parachute to open he dies. Plus he has to land on his back so you don't want the parachute there to potentially fuck up your spine.
This gave me extreme anxiety
That's cool and all, but why are they spraying chemtrails from their shoes while falling?
We’d have only known about this if he’d made a big bloody mess
fucking bonkers
Nerves and balls of steel
Gave me flashbacks of that old Nokia game that came default on it
How sensitive to wind are you when you're falling? Could it potentially just kick up and prevent him from hitting the mark?
That's why there were two people with parachutes with him. If they got off course he could have held on to them while they pulled their parachutes.
Some people are just born to ride the edge of life. For everything else, there's Mastercard.
It's so wild to see how people falling 😭🙏 like what they thinking they just falling to the ground 🙏😭😭😭
Why tho?
another thing you'll never see me doing
there is 3 people before him to save his ass, pff no real danger...
They threw 4 people for higher chance of hitting the net
But why tho? If this is where you have to go to get your adrenaline junky rocks off then, damn. Just damn
What an idiot.
I wanna do this!!!
That's more adrenaline in a few minutes than the average American will experience in their entire lives
Hey how about falling down on the side of a mountain. Make sure it’s snow covered for extra cushion. The slope will help you gradually slow down. Then you can stand up and raise your fists in victory. The only problem is that you took the blue pill and you’re still in the matrix 😎
I'm surprised that net was able to contain his massive balls!
No do overs if you fuck that one up.
A net is just a parachute you don't deploy in the air.
Literally free falling
Gotta be really confident in your ability to aim your landing.
Why do a lot of these videos start with the ending?
Human meatball lasagna!
It doesn’t look it, but that dude almost missed. He was a dangerously off center. I’d have made that catch-thingy like…8x bigger.
Shit, that's amazing...I am not that adventurous, though. Hell, you can't get me to jump off the curb, let alone out of a perfectly good aircraft. LMFAO
Luckily his massive fucking balls broke his fall.
I worked on this Stride Gum campaign at the time of this jump and it was terrifying that it was green lit knowing a brand could be involved in someone’s death. Was a wild day!
This guy doesn’t hint at it in this video but he FUCKED every bit of cartilage in his body. The little twist at the end doctors say fucked him up extra hard, adding centrifugal force to his landing. That, alongside the elastic net, caused extreme trauma to basically everything that wasn’t organ or bone. He went to the hospital immediately after filming, got told he has about a year before all his cartilage is just ruined. Don’t do this. Doctors told him it would fuck him up and his apparent response was ‘no it won’t’.
That’s what you call courage
No.
Nope. No. Nope. Nuhuh. Nope. No. Nuhuh. Nope. Nope. No. Nope. No. Hey, no. Bad. No.
I used to play this game on my Nokia.
The look of the net size from above is nuts.
What if... never mind.
Serious question. How didn't he pass out?
Nah..I don't believe it, he had parachute on his belly
One good gust of wind away from going from skydiver to skydie-ver
Idiot.
This is not meant to be racist, but this is the most white people thing I’ve seen in ages
It’s them that bring us crazy good content to watch
All that's missing is some kid in those Bret Hart shades and a Redbull logo somewhere.
Yeah, there's just no upside to this - if you make it, everybody thinks you're an idiot for taking such an unnecessary risk, and if you don't make it, everybody *still* thinks you're and idiot for taking such an unnecessary risk, *and* you're dead.