2006-10-17 19:41:16 · 9 answers · asked by Dirty Rob 3 in Games & Recreation ➔ Other - Games & Recreation
Dont class the guys in the pentecost islands as bungee jumping as they used a vine , not a bungee rope.
2006-10-17 20:20:03 · update #1
It was the Oxfords dangerous sports club in the 70's that did the first " Bungee Jump" then some Kiwi called AJ Hackett copied the idea and made it into what we have today.
2006-10-19 19:47:11 · answer #1 · answered by Thunderbird 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kiwi AJ Hackett is seen as the modern father of bungee jumping.
He demonstrated his new bungee cord by jumping off the Eifel tower in 1987
His website says that some members of the UK's "dangerous sports club" tried something similar in the 1970s but it was him and his former business partner Henry Van Asch who started the business throwing people off Kawarau Bridge in New Zealand, 1988.
2006-10-17 20:31:27 · answer #2 · answered by BrockleyDave 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First done in Pentecost Islands in the South Pacific, off a bamboo tower with the feet attatched to vines, I remember seeing photos 50 years ago in the National Geographic mag, no names though.
2006-10-17 19:49:37 · answer #3 · answered by Richard R. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Late Fatty Arbuckle
2006-10-18 09:46:06 · answer #4 · answered by Tiberius 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think me... but i wasn't using the bungee rope... just a regular STATIC rope... stupid of me...
2006-10-17 19:43:55 · answer #5 · answered by kwing-kwang 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The fellow who was not very good at measuring, Flathead McGee.
2006-10-17 19:48:19 · answer #6 · answered by LondonNick 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
some nutter in New Zealand.
2006-10-17 20:07:28 · answer #7 · answered by soozwethered 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know..but he must have been very large in the balls department
2006-10-17 20:55:13 · answer #8 · answered by michael b 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont no
2006-10-17 19:45:18 · answer #9 · answered by sandy k 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋