Man dives into 12 inches of water from 36 feet - sets record

[FnG]magnolia · 17 Mar 2011 at 00:43

I'm normally one of the first to get peed off when people link and run so I'll try not to do that.

Have a look at this article in The Sun (yes, The Sun, I know). How is that even possible? Why isn't he breaking any bones? How do the physics/sums work?

:confused:

Viper² · 17 Mar 2011 at 00:43

Fail.

edit: Isn't it just one massive belly-flop? Bet it stings like mad.

Kristoph · 17 Mar 2011 at 00:47

But Darren admitted: "There are a couple of foam mats underneath the pool, but believe me, jumping and landing as flat as possible in 12in of water is tough enough as it is."

Well it's not 12 inches of water then is it! It's 12 inches of water and 6-12 inches of foam!

muon · 17 Mar 2011 at 00:47

Anyone want to calculate the peak impulse on his body?

Zefan · 17 Mar 2011 at 00:50

ghost101 said:
Anyone want to calculate the peak impulse on his body?

1.21 gigawatts.

mithrandir · 17 Mar 2011 at 00:50

I saw a headline about this earlier today. The dude is a nutter, no way would I even belly flop 6ft into a pool let alone 36ft into 12 inches.

Puzzled · 17 Mar 2011 at 01:13

Kristoph said:
Well it's not 12 inches of water then is it! It's 12 inches of water and 6-12 inches of foam!

Still pretty damn impressive though!

Wonder how high he will end up going before saying "thats it!"

Dj_Jestar · 17 Mar 2011 at 01:19

This guy has been doing those belly flops for years, maybe decades.

Raymond Lin · 17 Mar 2011 at 01:23

Kristoph said:
Well it's not 12 inches of water then is it! It's 12 inches of water and 6-12 inches of foam!

I bet I can do 1 inch of water and 12 ft of foam.

shifty_uk · 17 Mar 2011 at 01:54

I was going to say 'worst case scenario, the fat bugger misses the pool' but there's so many variables and things that could go wrong, it would be rather useless pointing out just one

tigerstyle · 17 Mar 2011 at 02:22

Kristoph said:
Well it's not 12 inches of water then is it! It's 12 inches of water and 6-12 inches of foam!

You jump from 36 foot onto 12" of foam then?
Still a crazy weird/impressive feat!

GothicCorpse · 17 Mar 2011 at 03:16

Diss miss me

semi-pro waster · 17 Mar 2011 at 07:51

I'd really like to know how you discover you've got a talent for that? And how many people try it and discover that their talent doesn't match up to their aims?

Cosimo · 17 Mar 2011 at 07:58

LOLBellyFoamFlop

Craig1981 · 17 Mar 2011 at 08:33

Zefan said:
1.21 gigawatts.

Great Scott! :eek:

~>Dg<~ · 17 Mar 2011 at 10:12

ametuer tbh

no form or pike

willhub · 17 Mar 2011 at 11:46

I'd jump into a pool with 0" of water in

Nexus · 17 Mar 2011 at 12:32

Did you see the colour of his hands at the end?

He clearly took the brunt of the slap with them, as if you watch, right before he hits the water he actually looses his fully flat form.

apatia77 · 17 Mar 2011 at 12:56

Sooner or later he will not land flat and seriously injure himself or even die.

And this video is not all that impressive.

RoyMi6 · 17 Mar 2011 at 12:58

Saw this last year on Time Wrap (brilliant show http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/time-warp-whats-hot/).

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/time-warp-professor-splash.html - Annoyingly I can't find the full 10 or 15 minute segmant on it with different angles and them going into explaining the mechanics in details but Nexus, you're spot on: "To make a high dive into a kiddie pool, diver Darren Taylor moves his hands to both protect his face and change his downward motion into forward motion."