Bungy+Jumping

= = = = = = =by Josh and Kanishk= =Commercial Bungee Jumping was invente **d by AJ Hackett in 1988. Bungee jumping is a way of jumping off buildings, bridges and mountains. **Commercial Bungee jumping is paying to do a bungee jump. **AJ Hackett had his first jump in 1986. He soon bungee jumped all over the world and made other people interested. He opened the first permanent Commercial Bungee Jumping site in Queenstown. AJ Hackett made a certain type of bungee cord that is used everywhere today. The first bungee jump wasn't really a bungee jump, a lady from Vanuatu was escaping from her boyfriend. Her boyfriend kept hitting her with sticks. One time when she was escaping from him she climbed up a tree, her boyfriend went after her. She tied vines to her ankles and jumped off the tree. Her boyfriend, thinking she jumped to her death, jumped after her. She didn't die, she stopped before she hit the ground, her boyfriend fell to his death. People in Vanuatu still do this now, it is a ritual called land-diving.****** =

=Oxford students in England got an idea from these land divers. They got an elastic cord and tied it to their ankles and jumped of a crane in 1985. AJ Hackett heard of these students and tried it himself. AJ Hackett jumped of the Eiffel Tower. Here is a video.=

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= **Now Commercial Bungee Jumping is really popular and has lots of bungee jumping areas around the world, including Sw**eden, France, America and lots of other sites too = = = = = = = = = = = = = media type="youtube" key="lAZIxuxjogI" width="425" height="350"

=Here is a link to a bungee jumping site.= = = =[|Bungee Jumping]=