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Series: Extreme Sports
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Cliff
Diving - Ultimate Water Sports
Those extreme athletes who enjoy cliff diving
will be the first ones to tell you to beware of the risks involved
and to take this sport seriously. The risks are real
and some can be life threatening in nature. Cliff diving is not a sport
to enter into lightly and with each turn, the diver knows it
could always be their last. Cliff divers exceed 60 miles per
hour in less than three seconds. Regardless of the flips and
turns they do before entering the water when it is time to
plunge, they do so feet first hoping to avoid head and neck
injury. When they are entering the water feet, first they are
doing so with the bodies perfectly still and rigid. Anything
else could cause life-threatening injuries if not death. To
understand the seriousness of this, consider what would happen
if the diver were to fall at the wrong time or judge incorrectly
their landing. It would be equivalent to falling from a four-story
building, head first; you are not going to recover from that
type of fall.
Cliff
divers love Acapulco and the La Quebrada cliffs. When
the spectator’s view the distance the divers make from the
cliffs, it looks as if there is a very narrow finger of the
ocean that comes in to where the cliff divers take their plunge.
In this city, they have been diving off cliffs for more than
fifty years. It is an amazing extreme sport to stand upon the
cliffs and look down at a very thin slip of water that has
a cliff on one side, sharp rocks on the other, and commit to
dive into the middle.
Jamaica is another favorite place for cliff
divers who enjoy the limestone cliffs of Negril’s West End.
The only charge
that applies for these extreme sports enthusiasts is adrenaline.
There is a café for spectators, located 40-feet to 70-feet
on the edge of the cliff.
California has some great places that draw cliff divers.
Gibralter Dam in the Los Padres National Forest has a great
place to cliff dive. Divers have their choice from 40-feet
to 85-feet to dive from with various hazards attached if they
so chose.
Box Canyon has cliffs that range from 15-feet to 65-feet with
varying degrees of difficulty and is beautiful. There is also
a 90-foot jump but the area to run in order to get a good jump
is covered with brush.
Santa Paula Canyon Falls also known as the Punch Bowls that
extreme cliff divers flock too. The jumps here range from 10-feet
to 80-feet. This area is a complex of three waterfalls. These
bowls are located in a very narrow canyon that rests in a sandstone
gorge.
Hawaii hosted the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Tour Final where
the finalists performed their magic jumping from 82-foot cliffs
into a beautiful ocean below. The cliff diving sport in Hawaii
dates back to the 1770s.
Monte-Carlo provided an opportunity for those who visit as
well as live there to see the 16 best cliff divers of the world.
They held a competition for the first time in more than 300
years of cliff diving history. The cliff divers who are the
best of the best have a personality that is very charismatic
and who put their lives on the line with every jump, flip,
and aerobatic maneuver they create.
A professional among cliff divers, Dustin Webster, has been
doing this sport for more than twenty years. Now if you are
wondering exactly how high extreme cliff divers dive from consider
the highest Olympic level and times it by three and you then
have the distance that cliff divers jump from. Once a diver
begins their jump, they have two seconds to perform any stunts
they have designed. In that two-second window, the divers feel
emotions that are on the opposite ends of the spectrum from
excitement to fear to relief that they are still alive. Concentration
and perfect calculation of the dive is a priority or the diver
could receive a fatal if not life threatening injury. To understand
truly how extreme this sport is there are no more 150 professional
cliff divers in the world!
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