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Jumping 31-Mar-2005 At 4:14:38 PM Onsight

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On 31/03/2005 LittleMac wrote:
>Weren't Dan Osman's jumps a little bit different than the jumps pictured.

Yeah, totally different. Osman was jumping onto a rope (usually!) whereas the Czech climbers are jumping across gaps. Big gaps. Sounds like that one on the Bluffs.

I saw some of the grade five jumps at Teplice but didn't get to shoot anyone doing them unfortunately (it rained!). The guys who do the really hard jumps are specialists and not necessarily hard climbers. They sometimes wear body armour and steel-caped shoes because these are full superman style jumps to crap landings and apparently when they catch the jugs - or whatever they’re going for - their feet slam in so hard they’d bust toes otherwise…

Apparently there’s a video on the Czech tower jumpers floating around. I’d love to see it.