Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/08/13/watch-this-fellow-nail-an-abso.html
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…and then casually walk up a wall…sigh…i’m so fat 
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Where is the other guy holding his beer?
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Wow…that is some confidence.
One take?
Serious question…which would be worse, overshooting or undershooting the rail?
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I’d think undershooting the rail would break your lower legs (and possibly kneecaps if you slid down). If you have enough forward inertia, an undershoot could give you a very quick face-plant as your feet hook the railing.
If you overshoot, you end up tumbling onto the floor. There might be some scrapes involved but you wouldn’t be maimed.
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Sometimes humans can do the most amazing things… and then we have trump.
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Unless you overshoot and you are maimed.
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Always feel inadequate when watching people like this. Such amazing co-ordination/balance 
Was an epic struggle for me to even learn to ride a bike (I distinctly remember the green stains on the ends of my handlebars from grass/hedges when learning, it DID NOT come easy. My brother was worse, he never managed it), even now i can be a bit erratic/wobbly on it riding at low speeds.
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One more scenario that sounds awful…slightly undershooting, toes catch the railing, catapulting face into the other side of railing
i just… i mean… holy shit.
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If this were in a film, and it weren’t a superhero, wuxia or Jackie Chan movie, I’d sneer at the lack of realism.
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Over the last few years, ‘truth’ has become consistently ‘stranger than fiction.’
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definitely undershooting. In addition to what others said, you need to keep in mind that undershooting leaves him on the open side of a concrete stairwell. Not only would he fall backwards, he’d fall down a floor. I’d assume serious head injury if he landed on the flat, and possible (probable?) death if his head hit the stairs.
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Truth used to be stranger than fiction. Now it’s just shittier.
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Sadly, that does seem to be the case as well.
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For anyone watching this: it would be in no way less cool if there was a shipping container full of packing peanuts just beneath the frame…
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Well sure. They don’t post the 17 times he died prior to surviving this one take.
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Aren’t we a gory-minded lot; next we’ll be taking bets on whether folks that do these type of things survive until next month…
I think I hurt my legs just by watching this video.
Having jumped similar vertical distances onto grass as a kiddo, that is pretty intense on the knees. I bet whoever built those railings is glad they didn’t cut corners.
