Talk:Bungee jumping

Mexicans invent anti-gravity device

"A similar practice, only with a much slower pace for falling, has been practised as the Danza de los Voladores de Papantla or the 'Papantla flyers' of central Mexico" Amazing !--Tumadoireacht (talk) 11:36, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Wow, this was pointed out 10 years ago, and left in place despite being impossible and unsourced? I'll remove it finally. IAmNitpicking (talk) 11:54, 8 June 2020 (UTC)

Wikilink added here, also called "pole flying". That article does describe a slow descent, albeit unclear. This video and this show how they descend a 30-50 m drop over several minutes by unwinding their ropes from the pole, converting their gravitational energy into rotational energy (13 rotations) and air friction, with very little translational vertical kinetic energy. Here is a physics paper. Whether that is related to elastic fast descent is a different discussion, but this article says "certainly resembles".

Neither article implied any anti-gravity - that is only the poster here making that connection, possibly a joke. TGCP (talk) 11:09, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

Section bloat

Bloat in section Safety and possibly injury

Some sections of this article are getting out of hand (WP:UNDUE comes to mind). The first is Safety and possible injury. We shouldn't try to list every injury and death, any more than we would list every football player injury and death in a football article. For each major class of injury (and death), one example would be plenty. Comments? --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 20:51, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Bloat in section In popular culture

Another section that has gotten bloated is In popular culture. I'm pretty sure there are many more examples than those listed, but the current list is already too long. I'd propose keeping two or three. Comments? --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 20:51, 30 June 2017 (UTC)

Is there such a policy saying there should be a limit to entries in popular culture sections? Why not just remove the ones that aren't cited? 2605:E000:2E42:A3F0:4D42:9109:9B6D:9E (talk) 16:44, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

I was referring mostly to WP:UNDUE, as above. In other words, the amount of coverage given to a topic should be proportional to its importance. I'd say that a popular culture section isn't important enough to merit more than a couple of sentences. From what I've seen, there's no consistency in Wikipedia. Some articles have ever-growing popular culture sections; other articles have had their sections pared down dramatically. What do you think?

Oh yeah -- about the citation issue. That's a good point, but I've never fully gotten my head around what's required for movies. I have the vague impression that it's acceptable to cite a movie itself as the source for non-controversial stuff (e.g., title, cast members, location, plot). As a result, I've kind of avoided the issue, but if you feel only movies with references should be included, that sounds good to me. --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 17:43, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Status update

Changes have been made per the above discussion. --Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 03:39, 3 July 2017 (UTC)

Frayed cord in main picture?

The main picture for the article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bungee_jumping#/media/File:Bill%27s_Bungy_Jump.jpg, appears to feature a rather frayed cord. As a complete newbie to the subject, the picture made me shudder in fear. Just wondering if that is a normal variant of a standard bungee. Imboomshesaid (talk) 08:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)

Geoff Tabin self-claiming to have "invented" bungee jumping in Oxford, England

I recently came across quite by chance a hard-copy dated June 1987 where it is stated that Chris Baker invented this as part of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club group.

In the PBS show cited, Geoff Tabin himself self-claims to have "invented" bungee jumping in Oxford, England in exchange for beer .

I don't know whether PBS is recognised as a reliable source and similarly whether someone making an otherwise-unsubstantiated verbal claim in 2017 relating to 40 years earlier is acceptable, but I don't care to undertake down-time research on this small point as I surmise some of it to be amateur. Similarly, the date of the event showing him wearing a white tux for a jump is unclear when compared to the WP prose (looks like a US-setting).

The 2014 BBC piece cited states that the first jump was in April 1979, but does not mention Chris Baker. Would Geoff Tabin have been present in (or prior to) April 1979? Would he have been involved from 1979, but made a jump wearing white three years later? I've looked at his professional bio and there are no dates whatsoever.

I don't propose to change any of the prose presently (there is insufficient evidence he took part in the first jump), which interestingly asserts he was an experienced mountaineer who tied the ropes (presumably from this ref, which appears to be permanently deadlinked http://library.thinkquest.org/C0123122/historybungee.htm), but I will place here for posterity the 1987 citation (from a companion/sister magazine to Motor Sport).

References

--Rocknrollmancer (talk) 13:12, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Car in bungee jump

Refs: [1] [2] [3] TGCP (talk) 09:59, 10 June 2020 (UTC)