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Originally Posted by Brush Okie
As long as he does a good PLF he should be fine  |
I did an eighty foot fall when I was teaching rappelling back in the eighties ... the belay man lost the line on a belayed fall .... After yelling falling I laid back in a reverse swan dive and waited for the belay man to stop my descent ... and waited ... and waited. Was counting the windows going down and got to the second floor window (It was a fire tower we were using to teach rappelling) and I thought to myself -- this is going to hurt! I went into a PLF position and hit the blacktop. Got lucky and hit nothing but soft tissue until the force of the fall snapped my head back and my skull hit, giving me a knot on my head and a concussion.
First thing I heard was a student yelling, "You're not going to make me do that!" I got up and, of course, had to do it again to weather the shock (I changed belay man and he didn't lose his belay on the second demonstration). The pic of me sitting on the parapet was taken that day before the "accident" ....
Now, would I like to do something like the 25 grand hop and no pop ... I think not ....
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