Dude's a lunatic, full-on death-wish shit.
I had a vicious fear of heights for a good portion of my life. It sucked. Any sort of lofty view would start my heart pounding, palms sweating. Sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. Reoccurring dreams wherein I’d be hanging off the edge of something high, wake up ravaged from a night of tensed muscles and terror.
Really wish I could write it off to something cool. L’appel du vide. But it was just cowardice. A fear of falling, not fear that I might jump.
Breaking point came during a trip to the CN Tower in Toronto. Glass floor on the observation deck, I stepped out onto it to prove I could.
My mother-in-law thought it would be funny to jump in the air, stomp on said glass floor.
Flipped my panic switch, went into meltdown mode. Shameful behavior on my part.
So I made an effort to beat the fear. Face it where I could. Lean out over cliff edges, jump off shit into water. Took a few years, but it eventually took.
Try and try and try, eventually fear goes away. Always does. Corny as hell to say, but when you face it fear goes running.
I still get butterflies at times, but I’ve learned to love the thrill. Hop off something high up, fun second of falling. Splash. Repeat.
But there’s a line. Beyond a certain height, maybe fifty or sixty feet, shit gets too real. You can land awkwardly, really fuck yourself up. I’m not looking to get crippled, just raise my heartrate.
But some fuckers are crazy. Anthony Booth Armor has been blowing up instagram recently with his guerilla assaults on OC cliff jumps.
Roofs, rocks, whatever. Dude’s a lunatic, full-on death wish shit.
But I’m not judging him. We all make strange decisions. Are driven by complicated needs. And his videos are entertaining as hell. You get to watch him ninja into spots before ceding his carcass to gravity.
All as illegal as hell. Only a matter of time until he got popped. Wore a mask, went for anonymity, but couldn’t resist an insta name, @8Booth, that was close enough to his real one to destroy plausible deniability.
He was arrested yesterday for trespassing.
Hardly a serious offense. But his shit was hip and got a lot of attention and, if I were him, I’d be worried about being made an example of. Property owners don’t want kids going splat. A slap on the wrist ain’t hardly a deterrent.
The height is one thing, but the dude chooses to jump over the jetty and only just avoids a rapid butt-weight-loss program. How do you calculate how far you can jump over 129ft of falling….? Heard a story of some Indian guy jumping and miscalculating and this big hand came and caught him. I’m not sure if just because it says GoPro, that its real anymore…..
Two nights ago there were three unrelated stabbings in Anaheim, but this is who the DA wants to go after–easy catch, high profile.
Jesus, i personally can’t even make it half way through any of your articles anymore. You sound like such a poser.
It’s embarrassing, really. In his podcast he brags about how when he goes out drinking his wife has to stop him from brawling all the time.
Definition of “Meathead”
Cool video, thanks for sharing, is it only a matter of time before GoPro will get sued by the mother of some dumb fuck like the aforementioned when he does go splat! Do these daredevils that post online not secretly crave attention, is he really bumbed to have been caught. Thought he was going to hit the pier there for a moment!
If someone does some stupid shit and a GoPro isn’t there to record it does it really happen?