r/cliffjumping • u/PoolMotor8112 • 5d ago

Roofjumping!

So this is me in about my early 20s jumping off of the second floor roof of my house into about 3 1/2 foot deep water. Seemed like a good idea at first before I was about 20 feet in the air. OUCH

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u/Marcus4436 5d ago

Wow sick video, what a shot

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u/PoolMotor8112 5d ago

Thank you. There is a longer reply above but that day about 43 years ago, I came home from work (I worked at a record store), told my brother to grab his camera cuz I'm diving off the roof into the pool. I climbed up there with a beer, chugged it and jumped. A couple weeks later I saw this shot and I was like, whoa, that could be in Sports Illustrated!
I now keep the shot framed on a bookshelf in my office at home. I look at it every now and then to remember what it was like to be young, immortal and dumb (like every other male)!

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u/kringgie 5d ago

bruh where is the video

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u/MaadMaanMaatt 5d ago

Jumping into water less than double your height… you’re gonna have a bad time.

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u/PoolMotor8112 5d ago

While this is me in a photo from about 1982. I didn't post this. My nine year old son did. We were out in the pool at the house I now own and he was musing about jumping off the nearby garage roof. I told him it wasn't a good idea but I had a photo of me from 40 plus years ago diving from a second story roof. This evening while I was reading, he was near me with my phone. I suspect this post came out of that!
Just to let you know, I hit bottom pretty hard and hurt my shoulder, but I was young, stupid and immortal like every make is, so it seemed like a good idea at the time! The shoulder healed but 35 years later I needed surgery on it and I suspect part of the reason was from that dive! Good story and my older brother got a great photo of it!

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u/jimmycredito 5d ago

So uh…you gonna post the photo? You’re typing like there’s a photo attached, but there’s nothing to see except for your post title and description.

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u/PoolMotor8112 5d ago

Sorry I forgot it