Massive Crane Jump

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Nick Jacobsen's massive crane jump at Table View Bay near Cape Town has gone viral. SBC Kiteboard editor John Bryja caught up with Jacobsen to find out more about this seemingly crazy crane jump.
Kiteboarding Crane Jump Interview

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Originally Posted by sbckiteboard

Nick Jacobsen's massive crane jump at Table View Bay near Cape Town has gone viral. SBC Kiteboard editor John Bryja caught up with Jacobsen to find out more about this seemingly crazy crane jump.
Kiteboarding Crane Jump Interview

Thanks for posting John, it is good to get some of the perspectives directly from the rider. He filled in some details that were lacking. From eyewitness observations and rider comments via others in Zanzibar, there may be more to the story or at least the jump part. This was the Photo of the Day" on here a few days back. At least he admitted to not doing much planning!

Originally Posted by RickI

http://www.stefanvanderkamp.nl/





Strange things going on in Zanzibar. A lucky fellow, hope he played the lottery.


How did he get up there? He climbed, with a board, kite flying, meteoric winds ripping with a nice soft steel deck and derricks for absorbing impact errors of judgment.


http://www.stefanvanderkamp.nl/


You can see a sequence of still shots including Nick climbing up and jumping off the derrick at: http://www.stefanvanderkamp.nl/#TB_i...g_autoviewer63





and some background from the local shop, http://www.kitecentrezanzibar.com/:
"kitecentre Zanzibar 17 hours ago
Just talked with Nick;
It was an impulse action he said, with struggels he could grap the edge of the boat and climb on it, after that the plan was just to jump off the boat on the other side, but than he saw the crane and thought, just go for it. With just half a meter on both sides in between the cranes he climbed up, binded the board with his leash behind him, no resque plan. .... At the take off, he was swept away in the wrong direction. He pulled the bar in the loop in the wrong way, he said he thought he would die. Suddenly the kite pulled him the right way again and he finished his jump. ..
After that his camera and all his gear was stolen, just after a beach elastic tow-inn session a hour later...."'





http://www.nickjacobsen.dk/

Nick Jacobsen is a kiter from Denmark. It would be good to get some more specifics but it looks like the jump height was a bit less than two line lengths or perhaps 40 to 50 m high. http://www.nickjacobsen.dk/



If you don't think these things out adequately in advance it is good to be (real) lucky! See he has also done some static kite towups secured to the towline. Poorly thought out and executed stunts have a way of catching up with you. I wouldn't keep relying so much on luck Nick.

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http://fksa.org/showthread.php?t=6089&page=41

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Just came across a more complete video, good luck to this guy!



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