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Inspired by this thread: (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=398180&page=2&pp=15) What is the longest you ever fell without a parachute? I used to think it is cool to jump off of stuff, and I would jump off of Trees, ladders, etc. I twice jumped off my backyard porch, 6 feet high. I used to jump off a board in Florida vacations into the springs 15 feet high.

6-7 feet. Something like that. Jumping out of a tree

I jumped of a big rock into the sea, it was about 30 feet high (I may be over estimating, but t'was pretty high)

Onto land, about 10 feet, I was climbing a tree and the branch snapped!!!

Inspired by this thread: (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=398180&page=2&pp=15) What is the longest you ever fell without a parachute? I used to think it is cool to jump off of stuff, and I would jump off of Trees, ladders, etc. I twice jumped off my backyard porch, 6 feet high.

I dropped off the bottom of my houses sloping roof once (About 14 feet) and jumped out of my bedroom window ( A full jump, as in going up significantly before going down. That was about 10 feet, but closer to 11 at the top of the arc that put me on the lawn). They both hurt, especially the former, fell into a bush and sliced my leg open on a branch.

30 ft from a springboard. :D
Never again headfirst...

I fell 6 feet, 4 inches one time. But thats cause I was standing on Grave n idle's shoulders and I lost my balance.


dont ask.....

i fell off a ruin in carlow, broke my arm. i would fell back wards about 5 and a half feet then rolled off that wallabout another 5, into nettles. that's nearly a 10 foot drop then when we got to the nearest hospital they had no a&e so i had to go somewhere else and they had no orthapaedic doctor so i nearly had to go to another place.

45 ft off of a railway trestle into the Red River

Fifteen to twenty feet, I climbed up on to my school in 8th grade. Climbing down was a bit trickier, so I just jumped. Sprained foot, it sucked.

I fell off a rock and zippered a couple poorly placed nuts before one held. It was maybe 10m before I stopped. Even with the elasticity of the rope, the harness wadded my junk bad enough that I still wonder sometimes if hitting the ground might not have been better.

I fell off a rock and zippered a couple poorly placed nuts before one held.
What the hell?
That sounds extremely painful, but I have a sneaking suspicion I misunderstood...

I fell 6 feet, 4 inches one time. But thats cause I was standing on Grave n idle's shoulders and I lost my balance.


dont ask.....

I fell in love....

I fell from grace....

Not sure which fall was harder. :)

My detachment went to a confidence course last spring, and there was a part that you had to jump off that was about 13-15 feet. Needless to say, there's a method for landing once you get up that high.

I havent fallen from a height, but I did fall from a motorcycle once...

What the hell?
That sounds extremely painful, but I have a sneaking suspicion I misunderstood...

You put little wedges in a rock seam and then clip your line into them. They're supposed to catch and hold if you put weight (read: fall) on them, but the rock was crummy and I was lazy. So I fell a little, then the nut popped out, then I fell some more. It's like getting a bunch of professionally administered wedgies with a healthy dose of mortal terror at each pop.

By the end of it, all of the nuts were misplaced.

You put little wedges in a rock seam and then clip your line into them. They're supposed to catch and hold if you put weight (read: fall) on them, but the rock was crummy and I was lazy. So I fell a little, then the nut popped out, then I fell some more. It's like getting a bunch of professionally administered wedgies with a healthy dose of mortal terror at each pop.

By the end of it, all of the nuts were misplaced.
Aww, I liked my interpretation a lot better...
:(

Aww, I liked my interpretation a lot better...
:(

I'm fairly certain I don't.

Seventy something feet, from a bridge. =)

Into water, 60-65.
On land, 10, and it hurt like a bitch.

What hurt most was probably a 4 foot fall flat on my back

Well, I haven't had many bad falls, however I did go down a tall fireman's pole thing, but didn't hold it properly and was in great back agony and was seemingly unable to walk for a bit.

I can't estimate in feet. Must have been 5-7m.