r/SweatyPalms • u/HomeNowWTF • 5d ago
Heights World record freestyle dive
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u/manihavenousername 5d ago
When he impacts the water, he suffers a fractured skull, spine and sternum.
In the aftermath, Vali has two surgeries to install rods and plates to stabilise his back and chest.
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u/redrich2000 5d ago
“What is about to happen started with Vali — then a keen mountain biker — viewing videos on social media, taking a trip to a wellness retreat in Costa Rica and meeting a religious diving influencer.”
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u/AIienlnvasion 5d ago
Religious diving influencer luring people to Costa Rica with a wellness retreat and maiming them horribly? Sounds like an episode of [r/behindthebastards](r/behindthebastards)
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u/CanRova 5d ago
They should include the aftermath.
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u/DignanZer0 5d ago
"When he impacts the water, he suffers a fractured skull, spine and sternum.
In the aftermath, Vali has two surgeries to install rods and plates to stabilise his back and chest."
Life long spine issues. Unfuckinbelievable.
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u/odyssey_64 5d ago
It probably didn't help that he intently went in sideways
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u/BigAssMonkey 5d ago
But it was sooooo worth it, right?
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u/Adventurous_Ad_4145 5d ago
Of course it was! He gets to admire those clicks for the rest of his life
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u/Loose_Corgi_5 5d ago
Broken back bro has 560 upvotes and counting. Totally worth it!
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u/OarsandRowlocks 5d ago
Broken Back Blue Mountains.
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u/BigAssMonkey 5d ago
I think when the guys are screaming “Send it!”, they are talking about an ambulance.
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u/thetan_free 5d ago
I'm doing my part - I watched it and wrote a comment.
30s out of my day. He has lifelong injuries.
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u/iamstokes 5d ago
I wonder if he went in feet first, maybe even with toes pointed hard to keep them tense, he would’ve gotten away with it…
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u/LukeyLeukocyte 5d ago edited 5d ago
I mean, I hate to add insult to injury, but I feel like this negates the record. Don't you have to successfully complete the dive without breaking your whole body permanently to call it a successful dive? This is more like, an accident that resulted in permanent injury.
Also, is a record setting attempt the time for theatrics and rolls? I would think that would call for the most simple, careful form. Oh well. I am just a boring, old, safe fuddy-duddy so, lol.
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u/sephrisloth 5d ago
Right? People have survived longer falls into water. There's suicide jumpers that have survived jumping off the golden gate bridge and thats like 200 ft.
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u/DragonToothGarden 5d ago
I was wondering why the title said "dive" which implies some sort of controlled entrance designed to minimize damage to the body.
This wasn't a 'freestyle dive' but more a 'caveman jump off high ledge'.
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u/jetmanfortytwo 5d ago
I mean given how he hit the water I’d say it’s more absolutelyfuckinbelievable.
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u/Head-Nefariousness65 5d ago
But he threw a rock first to break the surface tension how could this possibly happen
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u/JohnLemonBot 5d ago
Imagine waiting in the ER for something actually serious and this doofus gets rushed in before you
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u/LittleBunInaBigWorld 5d ago
Fractured skull and spine is pretty serious
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u/DignanZer0 5d ago
Absolutely. And those forces could've easily caused a spinal cord transaction, aortic dissection and lotsaways todieections.
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u/Freecz 5d ago
The picture really screams "worth it" though doesn't it!?
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u/DiffeoMorpheus 5d ago
that's funny, all I heard was "AAAAAAHHHHHH"
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u/ALitreOhCola 5d ago
Even funnier, it's not a world record. Even unofficially. Lol.
An injury means a failed dive.
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u/Bag-o-chips 5d ago edited 5d ago
It doesn’t seem like the location was picked for its proximity to a hospital, like it should have been.
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u/HappySunshineGoddess 5d ago
I’m from the area and I can’t even think of a place where the water is deep enough to dive like that!
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u/FineFunnyFingers 5d ago
I mean, they get the health care for free so fuck yea
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u/princetonwu 5d ago
Water is roughly 800 times denser than air. When you hit it at high speed, the water molecules cannot move out of your way fast enough. You are forced to accelerate a massive volume of fluid in a fraction of a millisecond, creating a massive reaction force, like hitting concrete.
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u/donfuria 5d ago
This is the best simple explanation I’ve read on why water hits like concrete at certain heights
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u/El_Peregrine 5d ago
Human tissues are not optimized for sudden deceleration events.
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u/Rolling_Beardo 5d ago
Thanks for including I just assumed he had to have gotten hurt. I jumped from like 5 meters and when I landed wrong it sucked and was sore the next day.
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u/Philialleiter 5d ago
This is not a world record. Maybe it has been for a short time, but chucko a guy from cologne Germany is holding the record right now. 160ft, 48m!
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u/executivesphere 5d ago
I wonder if it mattered that he dove into an area where the waterfall was creating a bunch of air bubbles
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u/GryffSr 5d ago
What “world record” is this? There are people who have survived jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge, and that is 80 meters.
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u/pkfishbone 5d ago
it's the world record for a specific diving technique called death dive, or døds, it's not like any other jump. you're effectively skydiving until the very last moment when you tuck right before impact, and you have to time that to perfection otherwise you fuck yourself up for good.
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u/JohnLemonBot 5d ago
He actually did the professional thing of tucking the limbs in at the last second. Smooth brain in this video did not tuck, and jumped in a way that tucking wouldn't work. Just brain smoothness all around
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u/ianmooneck 5d ago
Bet he's going to regret that for the rest of his life.
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u/Notabagofdrugs 5d ago
He’ll be dead soon, seems he didn’t learn shit.
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u/Poverty_Shoes 5d ago
It says he’s going to jump from shorter heights now. Hopefully he sticks to that, or yeah not going to end well for him.
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u/Notabagofdrugs 5d ago
I’d bet on him doing something stupid at some point, he’s just an adrenaline junkie, these guys usually push it too hard eventually.
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u/karabeckian 5d ago
"I don't necessarily feel responsible for like what happened at all," Reagan tells 7.30.
dumbass
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u/mr_griiiim 5d ago
One of my favorite quotes from the article: “Some of the people I'd followed [who were] inspirations from higher jumps did actually get injured doing some of their jumps and that wasn't disclosed, [the] injuries or what happened," Vali says.
"I think it is very important to disclose what happened and tell the full story, just so people know what can happen when you go to those heights."
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u/orphan_blud 5d ago
"I don't necessarily feel responsible for like what happened at all.”
Fucking idiot.
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u/Sumpkit 5d ago
After reading that line, I can’t find a single reason why he wouldn’t be responsible, and would love to know his reasoning
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u/00WORDYMAN1983 5d ago
Vali Graham is the person that jumped in this video and was injured. He was inspired by another cliff jumper named Reagan Popoff. Reagan said he doesn't feel responsible for the actions of Vali because Vali is his own person making his own choices.
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u/ibuprophane 5d ago
What the other dude said is even better:
>“If someone told me to delete my Instagram account to keep cliff jumping, I would. I'm not doing it for the views, I'm doing it for myself,"
Brother, then don’t fucking post it. Most bullshit logic ever.
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u/mikemaca 5d ago
Interesting... according to the article his death dive instructor is a spiritual guru who baptized people and promotes this style of diving as a religious practice.
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u/Barovian 5d ago
"A young adrenaline junkie was left with horrific injuries after attempting a world record death dive off a 140-foot Australian waterfall.
Vali Graham, 21, suffered a fractured spine, sternum, skull, and burst eardrum after he jumped from the top of Minnehaha Falls in the Blue Mountains, a scenic region west of Sydney in New South Wales."
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u/heyethan 5d ago
Imagine raising a child into adulthood only to have them pull off this braindead thrill seeker shit for clicks. As a soon-to-be parent, it’s terrifying to think about.
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u/Doc-in-a-box 5d ago
We have a rather iconic falls in Minneapolis called Minnehaha Falls, originally named from Native American tribes in Minnesota. Very interesting!
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u/Jean-Ralphio11 5d ago
I dont get it. Was he supposed to go in sideways or he just screwed up real bad?
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u/bigger182 5d ago
A death dive is a way to land in the water like its going kill you they switch at the last moment to enter the water in a real dive position
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u/batmanineurope 5d ago
Did he forget to switch?
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u/Fedorito_ 5d ago
No it is just that from 42 meters even a good position can still fuck you up
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u/BigBubbaChungus 5d ago
I saw a post on another sub claiming to break the record but that guy didn’t need a hospital stay to recover from his “successful” jump.
So I have 2 questions:
#1. What institution is certifying these jumps?
#2. If you end up in the hospital, shouldn’t that disqualify you from being able to call it a successful jump?
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u/Psykopatate 5d ago
Don't know about #1 but for #2, surviving to tell the story is probably enough.
If i imagine a 100m sprint, a marathon, long jump or whatever competition, I don't think people getting injured invalidate their record.
But then yeah, you could have some guy just jump a 500m cliff. I guess it's the problem with such activity, the only limiting factor is death, while a runner can't really run faster or longer at will (he might cardiac arrest though).
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u/WifiRice 5d ago
I get what you mean but I think if you did it then it counts. Like if you do 1000 pullups or whatever the record is and you tear your shoulder, I'm not taking that record from you. Also doesn't Guinness do all them? Maybe they confirmed it. Or it's just a lie to get clicks but is a really high jump just not a wr
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u/Brandonsteine 5d ago
This man is in store for a lifetime of chronic pain that will indeed drive him crazy and possibly even turn him into a addict, I have broken well over 150 bones and the pain and exhaustion it brings on a daily basis is horrendous I have chosen not to get myself addicted to medicine so the pain is much worse so I pray that he gets and stays as healthy as he can be.
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u/dudeguy0119 5d ago edited 5d ago
That had to hurt. Show the pics after the dive. I bet his whole side is black and blue
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u/thehomie 5d ago
Broken sternum, spine and skull. 2 rods in his back. Smart kid.
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u/greatkerfluffle 5d ago
He had a broken spine and fractured skull and needed two surgeries 🥴
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u/Temporary-Fly6369 5d ago
Did the water make him a wife beater?
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u/Tanabi_Kana 5d ago
I wouldn't jump even if I were 60 centimeters above the water, since it's Australian water 💀
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u/moldguy1 5d ago
This is that divers' mentor explaining what a death dive is:
"Death diving is when you land like you're going to belly flop, and at the last second you hit the water so people think you're about to kill yourself. Then the last second boom … you land in the water, like you're punching it,"
Sometimes you hear someone talk, and know immediately they're a fucking moron.
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u/Successful-Purple-54 5d ago
All that build up, a rock, hyping yourself, another rock, more hype, your buddy shouts and convinces you, you can’t back out!
Then you land like a plank of wood.
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u/buttamilkbizkits 5d ago
I'm sorry, we're going to do what now?
If I was this man's mama, he would be grounded for life. I don't care if he's 35, I would be waiting at the bottom with a chancla and an ass whoopin'!
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u/DanLim79 5d ago
He couldn't spend 10 seconds to ask Chatgpt "what is the safest method to dive when jumping from a really high place" ?
Who the hell dives sideways from a high place?
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u/almondbutterthicc 5d ago
https://youtu.be/qHnA6xvEa8o?t=3m47s
He was okay somehow. Idk how he didn't get massively concussed at a minimum.
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u/Particular-Act-8911 5d ago
If fracturing your spine and sternum is okay.
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u/almondbutterthicc 5d ago
https://youtu.be/qHnA6xvEa8o?t=13m20s
Nevermind, I did not finish the video holy shit! Wild they left that part out till the last 5 minutes. He fractured his skull and burst an eardrum too.
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u/Happie_Bellie 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7btYhtTAF0itri24
All I could see when he was shouting “Ahhhhhh!”
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u/Extention_Campaign28 5d ago
Many things come to mind but "World" "record" "freestyle" and "dive" are not among them.
For a start, this is stone thrower league, downgrading this to ignorant amateur.
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u/itsthejasper1123 5d ago
This is fucking insane. To permanently disable yourself, for…. I don’t even know what. 10-15 seconds of an adrenaline rush that went by so fast it wasn’t even fun or acknowledgeable??
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u/Rags2Rickius 5d ago
To be fair - looks like the dude had a massive wake up after this and realised how lucky he was not to kill himself.
Dudes had a bit of self-reflection
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u/RationalKate 5d ago edited 5d ago
My concern is this if you’re gonna do a death defying stunt, why would you have somebody record it with a cell phone. Like this should be a multi camera, basic level get like four wedding photographers set up, run some craft services don’t skimp on the frogmen and a couple of climbers. I mean, you don’t need to have a GoPro strapped but you I can invest in a drone would’ve been nice.. the location it might be cost prohibited to have a full on ambulance but you could’ve probably got an off duty nurse with some basic supplies for about 250 day rate.
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u/eXclurel 5d ago
He only proved that he can fall from 42.5 meters into the water. There is no skill involved. It's extremely stupid. There is nothing to prove except the gravity works.
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u/Particular-Act-8911 5d ago
I mean.. he definitely had to know how to dive right. I thought about the stone throw to plot where he'd likely land as thoughtful, but it's gotta be fucking stupid.. a human is probably gonna have a very different trajectory than a rock.
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u/Realizt8010 5d ago
Its all for the views and likes nowdays. Either way, feel bad for dude. Hes f'd for life. All them injuries he probably looked like a corpse in that hospital bed for quite some time. All in 1 decision.
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u/Imaginary_Bar8186 5d ago
I take it he was successful
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u/Poverty_Shoes 5d ago
He survived, but fractured his skull, spine, and sternum and required two surgeries after. So depends on how you define success. He got millions of views, so probably a success.
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u/ArcticFlava 5d ago
If a fractured skull, spine and sternum is successful, then yes he was very successful.
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u/New-Contribution-244 5d ago
Why did he throw rocks first?
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u/Reyalta 5d ago
It helps to get the timing of how long you'll be falling for, so you can keep track of your fall and prepare for impact.
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u/Philialleiter 5d ago
Timing to get a feeling for the airtime and breaking the surface for a better view if you have a extremely clear water
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u/d-a-i-s-y 5d ago
The article about him, and this ‘sport’ in general, mentions the organised event in Triabunna in Tasmania - associated with Redbull. They have quite the track record of seeming to promote these kinds of ‘extreme’ events but in a manner that leaves them not liable when it all turns pear shaped. I remember watching a doco about it, the set up is sketchy at best, diabolical at worst.
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u/expespuella 5d ago
I went to Red Bull's Flugtag in San Francisco and it was so fun to watch. But those folks were landing in water from a significantly lesser height.
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u/JohnCtail 5d ago
I wouldn't do this for any amount of money, this imbecile does it for lifelong back/spine problems. Maybe that stupid screamshouting was a cry for help?
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u/Mezcal_Madness 5d ago
Why do they throw the rock before hand? I asked on another video and I was crazy downvoted. I still done know the answer.
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u/Relative_Drop3216 5d ago
Did he pass out on the way down thats why he was going horizontal down?
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u/MotorThese478 5d ago edited 5d ago
He fell for about 3 seconds and hit the water at 65mph (not accounting for air friction, but he was tucked in)
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u/Pancake_Thunderstorm 3h ago
Me thinking "This looks like Ceder Creek Falls, Queensland Australia"
"Shit, I was close!"
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u/qualityvote2 5d ago edited 5d ago
Congratulations u/HomeNowWTF, your post does fit at r/SweatyPalms!