Types of Bungee Jumps

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Ways to Jump

• Body Harness
• Leg Harness
• Arm Harness
• Swallow Dive
• Back Dive
• Railing Jump
• Top of Cage
• Bat Drop
• Thrown
• Cutaway
• Tandem
  Two jumpers jump at the same time. This is actually pretty dangerous since it's very easy to bang heads at the bottom or just get tangled up in each other. Plus the weight of two people is not the 'norm' that clubs are used to dealing with so there can always be errors made when selecting cords and harnessing.
• Sandbagging
  This is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS, you really shouldn't try this, but I'll explain it here. You jump holding a heavy weight, once you get to the bottom of the drop you let go of the weight, all the extra elastic energy the weight put into the cord is now transferred to you making you fly MUCH higher than the place you jumped from.

  It's important to consider that you will fly back toward what you jumped from which is usually pretty solid. hence you could fly back into the platform at great speed! If you jump from the opposite side of a bridge (opposite to the side the cord is attached) you may bounce back above the bridge (if you are lucky).

  You need to account for the weight of you and the sandbag when working out what cord to use. Since subsequent rebounds will be just you, on a cord designed for a heavier weight, they will be pretty harsh. You must make sure you can hold onto the sandbag until the end of your first drop.

  Some people actually use another person as the 'sandbag', Dropping the sandbag/person early or late has even more serious consequences in this scenario. As demonstrated on an MTV show where they couldn't hold on the whole way and the sandbag guy dropped early (Bungee'd without the cord) and broke his ribs and arm.

Types of Bungee

• Bungee Jump
• Catapult
• Twin Tower
• Bungee Run
• Bungee Rocket
• Snow Bungee Canoe!

Things to jump from

• Cranes

  the cage is on the ground
  jumper is connected to cord which is connected to cage
  sometimes jumpmaster holds the coils of the cords
  the crane lifts up the cage and jumper
  jumper jumps from cage and bounces
  crane slowly lowers cage until jumper is close to ground
  ground crew catch jumper
  crane lowers cage to the ground
  

• Bridges

  jumper is at top of platform or bridge
  jumper is connected to cord, cord is connected to bridge
  jumper jumps from bridge and bounces around
  either:
  

  1. a static line is lowered to the jumper who clips it on and jumper is pulled back up to the bridge/platform
  2. the cord is pulled up via a static line a short distance, disconnected from the bridge and then the jumper and cord is lowered to the ground at the bottom of the bridge
     

• Buildings (with platforms)
• Towers
• Hot Air Balloons
• Helicopters
• Cable Cars

Related but not quite Bungee

• Bridge Swinging
  Called 'puenting' in Spain
• Scad Diving
• Zorbing