Human Slingshot...wtf is wrong with people?

BaggedLancer
BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
edited January 2007 in The Clubhouse
Looks dangerous, but sign me up. Imagine that in your backyard:

http://www.evilchili.com/mediaview/8490/The_Insane_Human_Slingshot


Rediculous.
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  • PolkWannabie
    PolkWannabie Posts: 2,763
    edited January 2007
    Cool ... This is the first back yard version I've seen ... They do have these in some amusement parks ...
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  • SLOCOOKN
    SLOCOOKN Posts: 704
    edited January 2007
    HOLLY sh*&^&*^ What a rush just watching
    :eek: From the bottom it looks like a steep incline, From the top another down hill slope of mine.:mad: But I know the equilibrium's there!:cool: .."Faith No More" :D
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited January 2007
    Imagine them trying them to explain it to the first person....
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    Ok so who is gonna be the first polk forum member to make one for their kids?
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited January 2007
    HOLY **** was that awesome.....lol........with as much spring as there is in those ropes though, she could just have easily been 3 feet in the ground......

    Still very cool to watch.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2007
    I don't get how they make sure she doesn't just smash into the ground....
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited January 2007
    Oh, now that is cool!!!

    Hell yeah, I'd do it. Twice. No, three times.
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  • Holydoc
    Holydoc Posts: 1,048
    edited January 2007
    No thank you.
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  • TennesseeOutlaw
    TennesseeOutlaw Posts: 414
    edited January 2007
    bobman1235 wrote:
    I don't get how they make sure she doesn't just smash into the ground....

    That's exactly what I thought... Some kind of Faces of Death video!! Girls head snaps off from impact to ground.. That looks extremely stupid and very dangerous! SIGN ME UP!
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited January 2007
    I was shocked as hell to see exactly how far back they pulled her, but based on that amount of distance from the support poles, her trajectory wouldn't get more vertical on takeoff and spring back until her momentum decreased fairly significantly
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  • TennesseeOutlaw
    TennesseeOutlaw Posts: 414
    edited January 2007
    How far ya think she wouldve flown if those cords snapped??
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2007
    I would love to see one without the front of the harness. Just shoot her off into the distance.... :D
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    bobman1235 wrote:
    I would love to see one without the front of the harness. Just shoot her off into the distance.... :D


    Yea, it would be even better if it was Kim Bauer
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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,137
    edited January 2007
    Remember what Wille Coyote looked like after one of those trips?
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  • Mike682
    Mike682 Posts: 2,074
    edited January 2007
    That must be a huge rush!. Don't know if I would trust those ropes though:eek:
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited January 2007
    bobman1235 wrote:
    I would love to see one without the front of the harness. Just shoot her off into the distance.... :D
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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited January 2007
    **** like that can detach your retina's very easily. I wouldn't be the first to try... not even the second.
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited January 2007
    I did something like that in Old Town Kissimmee Florida, but it's straight up and down a reverse bungee if you will. There's one like this on I drive (International Drive for you tourist) that I pass on the way home, it's looks like about 16 stories or so. I can say it's a RUSH BABY :D

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  • michael_w
    michael_w Posts: 2,813
    edited January 2007
    They have them at a lot of amusement parks but not horizontal ones. The ones at the parks give you no chance of hitting the ground, short of the cables breaking. It does looks like a ton of fun but I'd be worred about a bad release and it throwing you straight up or a little too horizontal to the point where you'd hit the ground.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited January 2007
    Wow. Insane, for sure. No way I'd do it. No way I'd even wanna watch someone else do it.
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  • BaggedLancer
    BaggedLancer Posts: 6,371
    edited January 2007
    haha found an even better link. Look at this guy:

    http://www.break.com/index/catapult_skydiver.html
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited January 2007
    hearingimpared wrote:
    Remember what Wille Coyote looked like after one of those trips?

    Yeah...but he would have slingshotted himself right into the face of a cliff or a tree.

    ...or just as he got all the way back... both poles would come out of the ground and coldcock him simultaneously before landing on top of him and pounding him into the ground.

    Now THAT would have been cool to watch!
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited January 2007
    BaggedLancer wrote:
    haha found an even better link. Look at this guy:

    http://www.break.com/index/catapult_skydiver.html
    I saw that last week and thought that's what you had originally linked.

    There's a much bigger rush to the first link........even just watching it..........
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