The names Choy, Victor Choy (James Bond jump)

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The names Choy, Victor Choy.

You guys remember the movie "Golden Eye" where James Bond is running across this dam and bungie jumps off it, well, I have offically done the Bond Jump, all 220 metres of it. The dam is called the Verzasca dam and is the worlds highest/longest bungie jump (so I was told). The structure was huge and was just amazing to see.

the dam


But lets start from the beginning.

We (Devon, Shane, Evan, Warren, Tracvis and I) left friday night to catch the free train down but had no place to stay so we just camped inside the city. We walk around till we found a sheltered place and just set up tents, was interesting. Warren and I were too lazy to set one up so we just slept on a sleeping back ontop of hte tent tarp.

where i slept



We woke up pretty early Saturday morning to pack up and good and we were quite lucky since it started raining heavily when we finished (Oh, Switzerland is in like a state of emergency or something with sever flooding in Central Switzerland, because of the flooding, the trains are all messed up and stuff). The first place we went to in the morning was Ponte Brolla. This place is known for cliff diving (I didn't do this though). Devon, Shane and Travis went for a swim and do some jumping. At 12 we started heading over to the dam where we met up with Vance, Bernard, Henry and Tommy. We got all prep'ed up and were ready to go.

The jumping order was:
1. Devon
2. Evan
3. Warren
4. Bernard
5. Me
6. Henry
7. Vance
8. Tommy
9. Shane

Unfortunately Travis didn't go.

The jump was really fun, you just step on to the ledge and they count you down, 3...2....1....You instictively just jump (don't recommend stalling, the more the think the worse it is). The free fall was a good 7 seconds maybe (you lose all sense of time) and was an amazing feeling. You can see the damn ahead and to your left just wizzing by, the ground below you shooting up, very very cool. It's like your flying except your only going down and have no control (so I guess it's just like fall :D). After a couple bounces you have to pull yourself up, hook on a safety buckle, and then grab a hook and hook-in and you get pulled back up to the top.

The whole process takes about 2-3 minutes but it was so fun and amazing. I can now saw I've done the biggest comericial bungie.

Getting strapped on


At the jumping point


off i go


On a side note, i forgot to take out Evan's keys and cash from my hoodie when I jumped, but luckily they didn't fall out :) oops.

So the next time someone asks me:
"If all your friends jumped off a bridge (dam), would you?"

I can say yes proudly.

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Peace out.