Posted Feb 7, 2017, 9:23 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Vancouver
Posts: 1,484
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Do whatever you want, but if you do it without proper care and attention, and expertise, you are stupid. If you do it and harm others because of your stupidity, you are criminal. If you fall on my head, I'll kill you if you haven't killed us both. If you fall harnessed in, you will go home that same night.
Speaking of dying; someone will die from one of these stunts, and probably a few more, and the thoughts about this activity will shift. Once one of these guys gets to watch his friend fall 150m, and then deal with the aftermath, he will realize that his mind had become corrupted by the emotive states danger fosters, and that his buddy dying young, no future, no kids, no partner, no million other experiences, will clearly show that it was not worth it.
Unlike rock climbing, mountain climbing, backcountry-whatever, slack lining . . . thing done in the wilderness, this activity, on private structures is by definition renegade. I can accept a bit of renegade - base jumpers, tower scalers, tight rope walkers; but you had better really know what your doing, and not using modern safety tackle is 99.99% really stupid. Its like free climbing, except that this is done by super experienced, super talented athletes - and by very very few of them.
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