Belly flop every time. They need a new diving coach.

Aren't all competitive divers gay??
Srs'ly, congratulations Tom, let go and let em talk smack, assholes are assholes and are always gonna be that way.
Celebratory 90 meter belly flop!!

Hilarious. Perhaps the best such compilation I've ever seen. So many WTFs uttered. I mean, free fall into a folding chair from the bleachers? How did you expect that to end well?

However, a few were rather tame -- knocking over a Christmas tree, for instance. And I think the belly flop into the wall at 8:10 went exactly as intended and probably didn't hurt much. Likewise for the PVC hanger thing destroyed in the lawn at 3:34. The snow bank (unintentional?) wheelie was frankly awesome. The guy who failed the fence flip at 7:12 was even laughing at himself. These things are still funny, but "extreme idiots" seems a bit harsh.

Who WANTS to belly flop? Ouch.

I've heard about belly flops. That sounded like a back flop.

Also very impressed that he got such height, he paused in the middle but then kept flipping....

>> ^harlequinn:


Shouldn't Spiderman land on all 4 limbs then....?


Heh, fair point, although he does have to keep one arm free for rapid fire web blasting and generally looking cool. =)

>> ^Payback:


The request was for "proper super-hero landing" not real world. I also merely admited I liked it. Something about a nano-tech reinforced belly flop from 25 stories speaks to me.


It wasn't a specific critique of your post, I just find it funny how the conversation surrounding things like this inevitably drifts to how it's impractical because of real world limitations... ; )

My personal fave is the first one (from the Animatrix).

>> ^Asmo:

Pro-tip:When the concrete craters around the person/character leaving them unharmed, 'real world physics' has fucking nothing to do with the fantasy world they exist in... = P
It's just a flashy way to arrive for someone unconcerned with stealth (because a large crater making explosions is typically hard to cover up.br>

The request was for "proper super-hero landing" not real world. I also merely admited I liked it. Something about a nano-tech reinforced belly flop from 25 stories speaks to me.

>> ^westy:

>> ^hermannthegerman:
Ouch, only the real fall wasn't 350 feet, since the Rope snapped on the way back up, but still ouch...and crocodiles..yikes..

Yah I read about this lol its one of those things that media hyps till the point its 100% bullshit
as you say she probably fell less than 20m easily survivable even if you belly flopped it , as for the crocodiles the water was fast flowing and she was in the middle so it sunlikely they would have gotten her.
the only really remarkable thing about this is that the bunjee rope broke in the first place and that she was lucky she didn't drown / the water was deep enough to brake her fall.

Idk, it looks to me that the cord snaps pretty much as soon as it takes up tension. No doubt it would have slowed her down a bit but I can't imagine by much considering that it was only holding her weight for a fraction of a second.


As for the Crocs, well yes, I agree. The more significant risk was drowning, especially if she had been knocked unconcious from the impact. I'd say it was a pretty close call that didn't really need hyping up.

>> ^hermannthegerman:

Ouch, only the real fall wasn't 350 feet, since the Rope snapped on the way back up, but still ouch...and crocodiles..yikes..


Yah I read about this lol its one of those things that media hyps till the point its 100% bullshit

as you say she probably fell less than 20m easily survivable even if you belly flopped it , as for the crocodiles the water was fast flowing and she was in the middle so it sunlikely they would have gotten her.

the only really remarkable thing about this is that the bunjee rope broke in the first place and that she was lucky she didn't drown / the water was deep enough to brake her fall.

That's definitely the belly flop from hell. I'm glad to hear he will be OK. Relatively speaking.

A belly flop from 900ft, that's gotta be a world record right?

In any case, that was a superb belly flop.

You're going to die?

Spider-Man belly-flopped and all you can think of is yourself.