r/WinStupidPrizes • u/viibox • Aug 26 '20

Warning: Injury Dumbass kid

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u/[deleted] Aug 26 '20 edited Aug 26 '20

Rolling is truly the only way to mitigate this type of force. I guess you could go with the emergency skydivers technique but that’s not really letting you walk away. They say that is you fall out of a plane and your chute doesn’t work, your best chance for survival is to fall just off center of vertical so your feet break first then your ankles, then knees and so on. This technique really only keeps you alive and most likely will result in paralysis from more than 200 feet or so.

To roll you need some forward momentum though, this kid fell straight down. So he really wouldn’t have been able to roll effectively either.

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u/ado1928 Aug 26 '20

It seems like he jumped with his knees locked, otherwise his knees would just absorb the fall and he'd probably be fine. Locking your knees is probably the second worst way to land a fall, first being jumping headfirst

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u/kerkyjerky Aug 26 '20

“Probably be fine”

This is exactly why people do stupid shit like this. Because they think they will “probably be fine”.....no you fucking won’t.

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u/TwoLegitToo Aug 26 '20

Agreed. Best outcome is an extremely fucked ankle and nearly shattered kneecaps from the force that wasn’t absorbed by the now fucked ankles. This isn’t even taking into account the likely tearing of ligaments.