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Bungee Jumping

Bungee Jumping


Bungee jumping is a sport that has dramatically evolved over the past
couple decades.   Bungee jumping has evolved into a sport of art and thrill.   As
a tribal tradition, the ritual was soon incorporated with a bungee cord.   Bungee
jumping spread rapidly throughout the world, ever-growing in popularity.
Detailed designs and engineering have helped to take bungee jumping to all new
limits.   An array of prices depicts a variety of heights, harnesses, and
locations of sites.   Bungee jumping offers many diverse medical advantages.   New
innovations in the bungee field have led to all new rides and adventures.
Bungee jumping is a sport that enables a person to prove something to themselves,
regardless of age, sex, religion, or race.
Bungee jumping is based on an age-old ritual practiced by the "land
divers" of Pentecost island in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu.   Young
men proved their courage by plummeting off giant towers.   Every spring villagers
there collect liana vines and wind them into long cords.   The men then scale six
story wooden towers, attach the vines around their ankles and jump.   A
successful leap is considered a demonstration of courage.   In 1979, a bungee
cord was incorporated with this tribal ritual.   Members of the Oxford
University's Dangerous Sports Club read about and designed a safe form of the
practice.   Atop the Golden Gate Bridge, dressed in tuxedos and top hats, the
first form of bungee jumping came to existence.   In 1987, bungee jumping moved
to the American commercial scene.   Two brothers, John and Peter Kockelman, began
jumping from bridges over river gorges in the Sierras.   Recognizing the sport's
commercial potential, they opened Bungee Adventures in 1988.
Bungee jumping spread rapidly throughout the world, ever-growing in
popularity.   Bungee jumping became national crazes in many areas.   After the use
of a bungee cord was thought of, the idea first spread through New Zealand.
From here, Australia and France...