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all right I'm here at the Karu bridge in
uh New Zealand where the first person
threw themselves off this bridge with
nothing but an elastic band tied around
their legs so I'm going to give it a
shot today and uh find out what it feels
to accelerate down at the acceleration
due to gravity 9.8 m a second
squared now you can tell that I'm
nervous by that cheesy grin in the
idiotic
wave it's a long way down
Derek the worst part of bungee jumping
is the half hour wait before you
actually jump and you have to watch
other people and uh well they don't
always make it look so enjoyable are you
going to do
it so this is the true story actually
when I was about uh 7 I climbed out to
the top of the high diving board in uh
the local community pool and then I got
so scared by looking down that I backed
down um back down the stairs rather than
then jump off the high diving board so
this is uh my day for Redemption are you
accelera
good n you kind
of yeah but it'll be over before you
know it so enjoy every
second so the moment of truth would I
put on a brave
face no there's that cheesy yeah and
there's the
wave there's the wave again
oh just get off the platform you can
hear me count down
here oh my
[Applause]
God
like yep there's the wave again
that was freaking awesome just the
experience when you leap off and you
realize that you're falling and uh see
that water rushing up towards you is uh
absolutely incredible it's over before
you know it so it's not as scary as you
would think and uh I couldn't figure out
what the acceleration was as I was going
down but you know it fell High it fell
very fast very great increase in in your
rate of speed
so oh my God that was fast
loved
it now as silly as I may have looked at
least I wasn't as bad as this
guy a note to first timers jumping feet
first may seem less scary but but it's
actually a bad
idea oh my
God