Nik Wallenda Crossing Niagara Falls on a Highwire

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  • keeponrockin
    keeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    I know he had the harness and all...

    But that was still really cool, he had a view from there that nobody else in history had...
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  • igotid88
    igotid88 Posts: 28,690
    keeponrockin wrote:
    I know he had the harness and all...

    But that was still really cool, he had a view from there that nobody else in history had...

    I think Superman flew around there
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    I really wish he fell especially since he had the harness. I wanted to see how they would have rescued him.
  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    Watched it on the news here. INSANE!! They said the harness was because of his sponsors. He's the 7th generation of tightrope walkers in his family they said, 3 family tight rope walkers having died.
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    morello wrote:
    Watched it on the news here. INSANE!! They said the harness was because of his sponsors. He's the 7th generation of tightrope walkers in his family they said, 3 family tight rope walkers having died.


    All true. My opinion is you can't be a "dare devil" with a safety harness. Let the guy calculate, practice, etc. all he wants but if you want to make it a true "death defying stunt"...let it all hang out.
  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    DS1119 wrote:
    morello wrote:
    Watched it on the news here. INSANE!! They said the harness was because of his sponsors. He's the 7th generation of tightrope walkers in his family they said, 3 family tight rope walkers having died.

    All true. My opinion is you can't be a "dare devil" with a safety harness. Let the guy calculate, practice, etc. all he wants but if you want to make it a true "death defying stunt"...let it all hang out.
    Totally. Stupid fkn sponsors/corporate mutha-fuckers!! Thing is though he's done such things so many times it still counts it's just the stupid sponsors who look like dicks. He still did it IMHO.
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    morello wrote:
    Totally. Stupid fkn sponsors/corporate mutha-fuckers!! Thing is though he's done such things so many times it still counts it's just the stupid sponsors who look like dicks. He still did it IMHO.



    Meh. Do it without the security of the harness.Would he have done it? Probably. But lets see it. :lol:
  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    DS1119 wrote:
    morello wrote:
    Totally. Stupid fkn sponsors/corporate mutha-fuckers!! Thing is though he's done such things so many times it still counts it's just the stupid sponsors who look like dicks. He still did it IMHO.
    Meh. Do it without the security of the harness.Would he have done it? Probably. But lets see it. :lol:
    Meh right back at ya. He did it to me. Harness was for the dickhead corporates. I don't care about them.
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    morello wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    morello wrote:
    Totally. Stupid fkn sponsors/corporate mutha-fuckers!! Thing is though he's done such things so many times it still counts it's just the stupid sponsors who look like dicks. He still did it IMHO.
    Meh. Do it without the security of the harness.Would he have done it? Probably. But lets see it. :lol:
    Meh right back at ya. He did it to me. Harness was for the dickhead corporates. I don't care about them.


    It's like flying a plane for the first time with your instructor in the cockpit. Good job but do it without the safety net.
  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    morello wrote:
    Totally. Stupid fkn sponsors/corporate mutha-fuckers!! Thing is though he's done such things so many times it still counts it's just the stupid sponsors who look like dicks. He still did it IMHO.
    DS1119 wrote:
    morello wrote:
    DS1119 wrote:
    Meh. Do it without the security of the harness.Would he have done it? Probably. But lets see it. :lol:
    Meh right back at ya. He did it to me. Harness was for the dickhead corporates. I don't care about them.
    It's like flying a plane for the first time with your instructor in the cockpit. Good job but do it without the safety net.
    Well, I guess his 'need' for sponsorship outweighed his erm, erm....
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    It's like shooting an apple using a bow and arrow off of someones head who's wearing a kevlar suit from head to toe. Good shot...but no danger.
  • morello
    morello Auckland, New Zealand Posts: 6,217
    DS1119 wrote:
    It's like shooting an apple using a bow and arrow off of someones head who's wearing a kevlar suit from head to toe. Good shot...but no danger.
    yeah but if he hit the apple & not the person he's still done it!
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