Espen André Øverdahl - Real or fake?

Real or fake?

Saturday, August 8, 2009 2:11:37 PM

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This HAS to be fake:

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Tamil # Saturday, August 8, 2009 2:23:23 PM

Originally posted by EspenAO:

This HAS to be fake

Reason?

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO # Saturday, August 8, 2009 2:48:31 PM

It says "viral" in the video title.

Also, a dude flying 100 meters before landing in a small inflatable pool? Hm... My theory is that they replace the actor with a doll before the ramp (when we don't see him).

Dacotah # Saturday, August 8, 2009 3:49:09 PM

thobi # Saturday, August 8, 2009 4:32:26 PM

it's fake. we already had this at the news in austria 2 days ago

Charles SchlossChas4 # Saturday, August 8, 2009 4:41:23 PM

hmm how is that enough water to remove that much friction

Knut Remi "DrLaunch" Løvlidrlaunch # Saturday, August 8, 2009 8:20:17 PM

The wetsuit soaks up and drags with it enough water to last to the edge. They calculated the ramp size and flight distance using matematics.
You'll see similar bravery in a circus. The performer just needs to be sure his stage works correctly.

I'm not going to say wether this is fake or real. But I wouldn't do it no matter how good the math behind the stunt was.

RamūnasRamunas # Saturday, August 8, 2009 10:03:13 PM

Fake, for sure.

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue # Sunday, August 9, 2009 9:10:07 AM

I'm too lazy to do the maths required to find the VuClip link

walterbugscout # Sunday, August 9, 2009 10:06:45 AM

Hi,

it is fake, like the intuitive operation of microsoft office and the security of internet explorer

soulcoder # Sunday, August 9, 2009 10:45:20 AM

hehe... but if that would be real... that would be something

walterbugscout # Sunday, August 9, 2009 11:46:35 AM

Hi,

it´s marketing (if the products were as good as told, that would be something)
http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/

imprint
http://www.mach-es-machbar.de/impressum.php5

Caroloperainchicago # Sunday, August 9, 2009 5:45:04 PM

Fake, has to be fake yet refreshing

mistressEVILmissevilat # Wednesday, August 12, 2009 11:56:34 AM

Just got linked to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXXC2etJeZQ
At start you can see they have crash test dummy, so they probably did several test runs before... plus lots of math.
And there are people dumb enough to do this.

I see no reason why it'd be fake... but i'm not saying anything.

Mad Scientist (عادل)qlue # Friday, August 14, 2009 2:18:55 PM

Also, that pool is a lot bigger than it may appear to be! My brother has one and it's huge!

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I'm not saying he didn't break his tail-bone doing such a 'bone-head' stunt though!