Bungee Jumping

Tomasz Radzinski,David Edgar,Paul Stalteri,Pat Onstad and Julien De Guzman

Bristol England, from the Clifton Suspension Bridge-on April1st 1979
David Kirke member of the Oxford Dangerous Sports Club

Because the first bungee jumps were done on giant versions of the common bungee cords that people use for everything from keeping an overstuffed trunk lid down, to attaching luggage to a luggage rack. They are called Bungee cords. The first jumps were done on large versions of those cords... 5/8" to-3/4" to- 1" inch diameter. Made primarily for the military for heavy duty applications such as attaching heavy equipment such as tanks to parachutes for equipment drops. So since the cords they did these first jumps from were called "bungee cords" they named the new activity "bungee jumping"

Then about 8 yrs later after "bungee jumping" had caught on and had spread to the U.S. where the first commercial bungee jumping business had already taken off. Down under a New Zealander had decided to get in on the new craze and began trying to figure out a new system of cords to perform the same jumps. He found that you could buy the same latex rubber in bulk, that was the same as the rubber inside the "bungee" cords. It came in long continuous length ribbons. He found a way to wrap it around a spool on each end, round and round and then finally tying it off. The cord was then stretched out and bound with the same rubber in a dual helical binding to keep it from flying apart and the jumper getting caught up in the rubber during the rebound. These cords have different characteristics during the jump than the machine made "bungee" cords. Bungee cords are made with a machine called a braider. The rubber is stretched tight before going through the braider where the machine weaves a braided sheath around the stretched rubber.After the cord is finished the rubber inside stays stretched out tight so the jumps done on these can be made using a longer cord, resulting in a longer freefall. The cords designed in New Zealand are spongier and stretch longer, so a shorter cord has to be used. Since these cords are different from the usual bungee cords that had already existed he felt they should have a different spelling...hence the name and spelling...Bungy

You put the chair on the top of a building or a bridge so you can bungee jump off the chair.

No. It could be extremely dangerous and lead to injury or even death.

no... your hung on a rope or string or something that holds you one of the sports that is illegal is BASE jumping.

Risks? !

None of course, it would make the Adrenaline runs faster nad more in your body, which is great for you heart ,brain, & mucles..

If it has any effect to health.. then its a 100% positive effect!..Enjoy jumping :)

The only Bungee Jumping club in Ohio, or in the Eastern U.S. for that matter is Over the Edge Adventures-Bungee Jumping club, based in Cambridge Ohio. They do bridge bungee jumps from bridges from 100' ft - to 700' ft high -in Ohio as well as in Pennsylvania, West Virginia,New York, Kentucky, and Tennessee. They have been in business since 1989, and have done jumps from Hot air balloons and cranes as well as over twenty different bridges in 9 different states over the last 20 years.

On average about twenty people in the UK die a year. The majority of these are people who do it for an averqage charity cause.

Ropes can be called lines, cables, and cords.

George HW Bush

If you do it at a sanctioned jumping facility. With personnel that are trained. You have a better chance of being struck by lightening twice inside a rubber building. Safety rating is what you should be concerned about. The highest safety rated country in bungee is Japan, followed by Canada and I believe NZ. USA is somewhere in the top 10.

Bungy jumping was invented by the Oxford Dangerous Sports club and first performed from the Clifton Suspension Bridge on April 1st 1979 after an alcoholic lunch in a Clifton restaurant.This and other jumps made by the same group inspired jumps in New Zealand by AJ Hackett and Chris Allum and friends. The same group from Oxford celebrated in the same restaurant exactly 10 years later.

Its fine!! As long as you dont have sex before bungee jumping!

If he did both flips without touching ground he defied the very laws of physics. If not, see basic backflips and frontflips.

USA has many Bungee Jumping Locations .Here is a website listing various places of US for Bungee Jumping :-

http://www.tourstounitedstates.com/adventure-tourism-in-usa/usa-bungee-jumping-and-extreme-sports.html

http://yellowpages.yb.com/yellow-pages/categories/Bungee+Jumping/Sports/MA/P/select-city.html

i think you can go rock climbing pretty much anywhere. You can go on a normal mountin that you have found or you could be on holiday were there are rocks. Even if you go to a rock climbing gym or club you can go there and get good at it and make It a living.

in Norway they mostly say 100kg for tandem, but i know that's no absolute, youll have to discussit with the guy youre doing the tandem with, i think it has to do with his skills, and what landingconditions they have at the dropzone, and what wingload ( canopy to wheight of the jumpers ratio) . if you want to do a skydiving- course i think you can weigh well over 100kg as long as they have a good canopy for you and you are otherwise healthy.