Group Rope Jumping

Posted by Johnny Cat in Everything Else on October 2, 2009 at 2:54 pm


Photo by Russos

Photo by Russos

No, not Double-Dutch, and not quite Bungee jumping.  The kids these days and their fads- EnglishRussia has an interesting series of pictures of the group rope-jumping craze sweeping the country.

As illustrated above, a group simultaneously jumps from a bridge (as a train bears down on them), clinging to ropes that swing them up towards the other side.  No details on what kind of injuries this involves, but the line tangles don’t look encouraging.

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11 comments to "Group Rope Jumping"

  1. SenorMysterioso
    October 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    This sort of followed bungee jumping in the states about a decade ago but died out just as fast

    There's a video of a group whose rig breaks and they fly into the water that gets shown on all those "extreme video" shows. I think there was a broken back and some internal injuries.

  2. FishBottleT
    October 2nd, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    It probably did not get popular in the US because the second that you did it the police would be all over you. And it does not look all that fun other than the sheer number of people.

  3. Vertexavery
    October 2nd, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    As they're all probably 5 to 10 feet away from each other on the bridge, tabgles wouldn't be a concern. And you couldn't hit the underside of thr bridge thanks to the ole' Law of Conservation of Energy. But getting down might be a pain.

  4. Vertexavery
    October 2nd, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    *tangles...damn fingers

  5. Alex
    October 2nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Previously on Neatorama here: http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/07/group-bridge-jumping/

  6. Johnny Cat
    October 2nd, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    Lijit search wording fail on my part. Terribly sorry!

  7. Miss Cellania
    October 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 pm

    I can't find anything using lijit.

  8. Alex
    October 2nd, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    Ah, dupes happen. I posted a lot of them myself, but thank you for bringing the issue of lijit up - I'll email them to see why "group bridge jumping" didn't bring up the post.

    Update: actually it did - I don't know what happened there at first ...

  9. lansing wedding photographer
    October 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm

    at least they're wearing helmets!

  10. Tim Giachetti
    October 2nd, 2009 at 10:31 pm

    No one likes to die alone I guess.

  11. Johnny Cat
    October 3rd, 2009 at 12:21 am

    How ironical, Tim.


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