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00:00I was on a wild journey to learn how to cliff dive.
00:04Ay, güey!
00:08And my adventure took me here,
00:10to Macau Falls, California,
00:12where I was about to face my ultimate challenge.
00:16If you look down here,
00:19you kind of see this ledge.
00:21That's where we're going.
00:23No!
00:25Doing a backflip from that height with those rocks?
00:30How was I ever going to do this?
00:39Okay, we're getting close.
00:41Now we've got to get more focused.
00:43Yeah.
00:46Hello, guys!
00:47What's up, Ellie?
00:48What's up, homies?
00:50How are you guys?
00:51How's it going?
00:52Nice to meet you guys.
00:53It was time to meet the rest of the team.
00:55Ellie's friends were experienced cliff divers,
00:58experts at staying safe in these cold waters.
01:01Me and Robert and Scott are your safety crew for the day.
01:05Thank you, guys.
01:06Of course.
01:07And our plan is we're going to be in the water with wetsuits,
01:09just to make sure that you have a good entry
01:11and everything goes really smooth.
01:13How cold is the water?
01:14It's cold.
01:15It's going to wake you up.
01:16I'd recommend using your wetsuit.
01:17Okay.
01:18Do you guys happen to know the exact altitude of this jump?
01:23We actually took a tape measure to this yesterday,
01:25and it's exactly 35 feet.
01:27Scott is a firefighter paramedic.
01:29I'm going to be in the water with my flippers and everything.
01:32Tough flip and a bad entry.
01:34Things can go bad quick.
01:36The worst-case scenario is, you know, getting knocked unconscious, right?
01:40And then the bodies tend to stink right off the bat after that happens.
01:43Listening to them talk about how easily things could go wrong
01:47was seriously terrifying.
01:50There was one other thing I wanted to talk about safety,
01:53and it's just the climb up.
01:55But I just want to make sure that you have good handholds
01:57and good footing when you're climbing up,
01:59and know that the rocks are slippery.
02:01I hadn't even thought about how slipping on the climb up
02:04would mean falling straight into the jagged rocks below.
02:07And this isn't the main challenge.
02:10I'm going to get my suit on
02:12and get ready for safety, so I'll see you down there.
02:14We'll be waiting in the water.
02:15All right.
02:16My heart was pounding,
02:18knowing that my next stop would be the actual cliff.
02:21I followed Ellie along the uneven rocks,
02:23taking the most careful steps of my life
02:26as the safety team took their positions in the water below.
02:33Good? Good, yes.
02:34Okay, be careful. It gets a little slippery.
02:36Okay.
02:37Okay.
02:38Careful here.
02:40Now just make sure you're breathing,
02:42and you're keeping yourself calm.
02:44Okay.
02:45Ah.
02:47What do you think?
02:49Shhh.
02:59Looking down, it felt like the water was impossibly far away.
03:05Josh, you come here really quick.
03:08You see Brandon?
03:09He's sitting on rocks right now.
03:12Turn around backwards and I'll hold your hands.
03:14Yes.
03:15Right here?
03:16Yep.
03:17I was frozen with beer.
03:18If I jumped and I didn't make a full rotation,
03:21I could break my neck.
03:23I actually wanna feel my feet.
03:25My shoes kept slipping against the rough cliff face.
03:28So, I decided to ditch them.
03:34I might just do it.
03:35It's up to you.
03:37Let's do it.
03:38Shh.
03:43The most important thing is being patient.
03:47All right.
03:48Are you ready?
03:49I'm ready.
03:50Okay.
03:51Is that okay?
03:52Yep.
03:53All right, Ellie.
03:54This was it.
03:57I needed to trust that my training prepared me to avoid disaster.
04:00I am in position.
04:01You got it.
04:09Three, two, one.
04:11The mountain my feet left that cliff.
04:13The world stopped.
04:14Every sound faded into the rush of wind in my ears.
04:18I could see the water below surging up to meet me.
04:21And then before I knew it.
04:23Woo.
04:24Woo!
04:25Woo!
04:26Woo!
04:27Woo!
04:28I'm gonna get better.
04:29Yeah.
04:30Let's go.
04:31Let's go!
04:32Go on!
04:34Whoa!
04:35Woo!
04:36Woo!
04:37Woo!
04:38Woo!
04:39Woo!
04:40Woo!
04:41Woo!
04:42Woo!
04:43Woo!
04:45Woo!
04:46Woo!
04:47Woo!
04:48Woo!
04:49Woo!
04:50Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo! Woo!
04:51It was such an unbelievable experience
05:03that I couldn't resist doing it one more time.
05:05Once.
05:07This time, of course, a tandem with my coach, Ellie.
05:12You're officially equipped, Guy Bird.
05:14Yeah!
05:14Woo!
05:16We did it!
05:17Yes, you did it!
05:18I think it's good.
05:19You did it.
05:20Going into this journey, I was terrified
05:23to even stand on a 10-meter platform.
05:25Oh, this is 10?
05:27And by the end, I was throwing myself backwards
05:30off a cliff higher than that.
05:32Cliff diving tested my fear of heights,
05:35but the next challenge would push it and me...
05:39What?
05:40...to the absolute breaking point.
05:42This time, I was going to be 100 feet up
05:49with nothing but cold, hard earth beneath me.
05:56This challenge would test my agility, balance, and nerve
06:00high above the ground, where even the smallest shift
06:03could be fatal.
06:07Slacklining.
06:08Slacklining is a death-defying sport.
06:12Athletes balance on a flat line suspended between two points,
06:16sometimes hundreds of feet in the air.
06:22Ay, no, Juan Pablo.
06:24With every single step, you're balancing over a line
06:27no wider than your thumb.
06:30One slip, and there's nothing but open space far below.
06:34No, no, no, wey.
06:37No, no, no, Juan Pablo.
06:39Si, wey.
06:41Slacklining may look peaceful, even graceful,
06:44but it is a minefield of hidden dangers.
06:48That safety rope?
06:52Yeah, not a guarantee.
06:53And even if it holds, falls can still result
06:57in broken bones, concussions, or worse.
07:21Less than 72 hours to learn something
07:23that usually takes months.
07:25Day one, train my body to find balance on the line.
07:29Day two, train my mind, doing the same thing,
07:31but 40 feet up.
07:33And day three, the true test.
07:35Put it all together.
07:36My goal is to walk in the light suspended
07:39a hundred feet in the air.
07:41Esto es algo lograble,
07:43o si estoy destinado al fracaso.
07:46Sin embargo, si hay una sola persona
07:48que me puede contestar esa pregunta,
07:50es el triple campeón del mundo,
07:52atleta Red Bull, Jan Rose.
07:55He is a slackline athlete from Austria,
08:01known for his mastery of high lining.
08:04This guy has crossed some of the toughest lines
08:06on the planet.
08:08He holds the record of the longest walk,
08:113,640 meters connecting Italy to Sicily.
08:16And now, he has just three days to teach this Mexican.
08:19Asà que vamos a conocerlo y ver de que lado más caliguana.
08:24Hey, how are you?
08:26What's up?
08:26Oh, my God.
08:28Good to meet you, man.
08:29Is it possible, in this span of time,
08:33to actually learn how to slackline or no?
08:37We'll see how good you are at making steps for three days?
08:41It sounds like little.
08:42All right.
08:43Awesome.
08:44Let's go.
08:45Slacklining began in the early 1980s
08:47in Yosemite National Park
08:49when climbers began balancing on nylon webbing
08:51strong between trees and rock formations.
08:54Over the next decades,
08:55the sport leapt from climbing camps
08:57to the world stage,
08:58with slackliners pushing the limits of height,
09:00distance, and daring tricks.
09:03Hey.
09:04Good morning.
09:05Hi, John.
09:06How are you?
09:07Pleasure.
09:08I'm John.
09:09John Lindquist is a seasoned slacklining instructor
09:10and our on-site safety expert.
09:12He was responsible for every critical detail,
09:14anchor lines, ratchet system, and tension points.
09:17In the sport, even if one element fails,
09:21there are no second chances.
09:24It's got a pulse.
09:25Is that a positive indication?
09:27It means it's got a good tension.
09:29It's not too loose, and it's not too tight.
09:31Time was short, so John broke it down for me.
09:33First, I'm gonna have to learn
09:34to balance on the slackline.
09:36Then, I'm gonna need to be able
09:37to stand up onto the line
09:39and finally learn how to recover from a fall.
09:42Common question.
09:43But how do I see where I'm stepping?
09:45Yeah.
09:46Same way we're walking on the ground.
09:47We are not looking down.
09:48View is straight.
09:49That's where I want to get.
09:50Okay.
09:51At the end.
09:52But I'm focusing on the step
09:53and not trying to make a huge step.
09:55When you try to reach far away with the feet,
09:57you throw your balance off.
10:00And as you notice, he jumped up
10:01and then pressed down on the line.
10:03So I always tell people
10:04when I'm teaching them,
10:05I quote Bob Marley,
10:06get up, stand up.
10:07So he's jumping up
10:08and then he's standing on the line.
10:10I thought you were gonna say,
10:11don't worry about it.
10:12Well, that's part of it too.
10:14To start my training,
10:16I used a two-inch wide beginner slackline
10:18designed for stability
10:19and building confidence.
10:22Our goal right now is to just get you
10:24finding your balance.
10:25All right.
10:26Breathe.
10:27Relax.
10:28Stay focused on where you're looking.
10:29Okay.
10:30That's it.
10:31Okay.
10:32That's it.
10:33Try and keep your arms a little higher.
10:34That's it.
10:35Wow.
10:36Whoa.
10:37So try not to lock your knee.
10:38Okay.
10:39There you go.
10:40It was fully trembling.
10:41And it was just a few centimeters
10:43above the ground.
10:44I couldn't even think about
10:46how this was gonna feel
10:4730 meters high.
10:48Gently lift off with my hands
10:50and try and gain balance
10:51all on your own.
10:52Okay, okay, okay.
10:53Shh.
10:55Nice.
11:10Okay.
11:11Yes.
11:12This line is just inches off the ground.
11:14But those falls can hurt.
11:16Sprains and twists are common.
11:17And little by little,
11:18I stayed up there longer each time.
11:21That was really good though.
11:23Yeah.
11:24I was slowly getting confidence
11:26in the two-inch line.
11:27So it was time to raise the bar
11:28onto a slightly smaller one-inch line
11:31made for pros.
11:33Most of people prefer to mount the line
11:35by chungo mounting.
11:37And chungo mount looks this way.
11:38Bringing the leg on the line.
11:40And the second leg is just hanging here.
11:42Push with the back leg.
11:45Okay, so I'm here.
11:47There you go.
11:48You shift your weight back.
11:49Yeah, there you go.
11:50Just like that.
11:51Shift your weight back.
11:52I am not flexible enough.
11:53Kick towards me.
11:54Come on.
11:55Kick towards me.
11:56There you go.
11:57Whoa!
12:01Even though I was just a few feet
12:03off the ground,
12:04my bruises were stacking up.
12:06Nice save.
12:08Nice save.
12:09Nice save.
12:10As long as your head
12:11doesn't hit the ground,
12:12it's good.
12:13Amazing.
12:14I had to bounce back
12:15and keep working
12:16on the chungo mount
12:17until I finally managed
12:19to pull that off
12:20with support from John.
12:22That's it.
12:23That's the chungo right there.
12:24So .
12:25Madre.
12:26That's not good Mexican words.
12:27I know it's not.
12:28Let's get to the final goal of today.
12:30Learn how to roll back
12:31to the top of the slack line.
12:33So I'm hanging here.
12:34Now I need to bring my legs
12:36on top of the line,
12:37like this.
12:38Swing all the way over.
12:41So I'm right here.
12:42Yeah.
12:45Okay.
12:46Heels.
12:47Mm-hmm.
12:48Yeah.
12:49This goes here.
12:50Kick towards me.
12:51Come on.
12:52Kick towards me.
12:53There you go.
12:54That's it.
12:55Beautiful.
12:58Nice.
12:59Nice.
13:00That looks much smoother.
13:01For otro lado siento que
13:02no tuve tiempo realmente para
13:05clavarme en cada una de ellas.
13:06Me emocione.
13:07Tengo nervios de que me van a
13:09poner mañana.
13:11Tengo nervios de que me van a
13:11poner mañana.
13:20Job and I drove a couple of hours
13:21outside of L.A.,
13:22outside of LA, where I was gonna move up to a highline.
13:25A slackline rigged high above the ground.
13:28Second day, highline.
13:31Yeah, imagine.
13:33But I wanna say that most of the time
13:35while practicing highlining,
13:38it's about falling into the harness.
13:40And knowing the right technique moves to climb up again,
13:43that's what allows us to practice it again and again
13:46and not get tired too quick.
13:52Okay, now it gets off-roady.
13:55We hiked into a secret location
13:57that John did not want to disclose,
14:00worried that a copycat might come here and get hurt.
14:04Right here.
14:05Right here?
14:06Above us.
14:07What?
14:10Yep.
14:11Yeah, huh?
14:12Let's prepare the gear.
14:13It was so much higher than I had expected.
14:16About 35 to 40 feet up,
14:18we're gonna be setting up a highline,
14:20and then about six to seven feet above that,
14:22we're gonna have a two-strand overhead safety system
14:25that will also have some training wheels for you to hold on to
14:28since myself and Jan can't be right next to you
14:30to kind of give you high fives and taps.
14:32All right.
14:33It sounds like a plan.
14:36John was beginning to rig the slackline
14:38between two huge rocks.
14:40The bolts that are placed here are climbing bolts.
14:44They're all rated to 5,000 pounds.
14:46This felt way more complex than yesterday.
14:53So much expectation.
14:55I don't know if it's working with me or against me.
15:00This is very similar to the one that you skydived with.
15:02Very similar.
15:03I was truly nervous,
15:04but the one saving grace was knowing
15:06I was gonna be attached to an overhead safety system
15:09by my chest harness.
15:11All right.
15:12As I looked down,
15:16I couldn't get it out of my head
15:18that if one of the hundreds of pieces of equipment failed,
15:21I would fall straight down onto the jagged rocks below.
15:24Be careful.
15:25Okay.
15:27That's it, Wampa.
15:28You're doing great.
15:29Walking on a line just one inch wide,
15:3240 feet up is pure terror.
15:34Remember, look up at me.
15:35That's it.
15:36And with the safety line,
15:37your brain screams one wrong step.
15:40It's game over.
15:41We've seen him up a little.
15:43Okay.
15:43There you go.
16:00Falling so fast and by surprise
16:02it was something I had never felt before
16:05and it was terrifying.
16:07And if that wasn't enough,
16:08now I had to get back on the slack line.
16:11Those 40 feet felt more like a hundred.
16:16Be ready for the ladder to come to you.
16:19With so little time,
16:20we used a ladder system to get me back on the line fast
16:23so I could keep practicing.
16:25Strong.
16:26Strong.
16:27There you go.
16:28This was harder than I could have imagined,
16:30both physically and mentally.
16:32I think you forgot something.
16:33To breathe.
16:38Even though I was still falling.
16:40Hey!
16:41Nice.
16:42I was slowly finding my balance on the line.
16:45Remember, you don't have to always
16:47keep both feet planted.
16:48You can have your non-dominant foot helping flag.
16:52Yeah.
16:52Whoa!
16:53The problem was,
16:54I was relying on the training wheels too much.
16:57And if I kept racing myself with them,
17:00I'd never actually learned to balance myself.
17:02Wonpa, do this for a moment.
17:04Okay.
17:05Relaxed arms.
17:08All right.
17:11So Wonpa, for the last hour,
17:12we've seen you have been suffering,
17:14but at the same time succeeding.
17:16From shaking, now you are able to hold for three seconds.
17:19Thank you, guys.
17:20Let's send him out on a leash with a highline.
17:22No overhead safety system.
17:23So...
17:24My safety line would no longer be attached overhead.
17:27This time it was clipped to this light line itself,
17:29no harness, just like a prowl.
17:30Now the fall would be brutal.
17:32Get your legs up.
17:34Yeah, roll.
17:35Ditching the full harness and relying on just the belt clip,
17:36there was nothing left between me and the fall,
17:39but a thin rope.
17:40The goal was to pull myself back onto the line.
17:42So, let's go.
17:43Oh, let's go.
17:44Okay.
17:45Let's go.
17:45Let's go.
17:47Let's go.
17:48Let's go.
17:49Let's go.
17:50Let's go.
17:51Let's go.
17:52Let's go.
17:53Let's go.
17:54Let's go.
17:55Let's go.
17:56Let's go.
17:56Let's go.
17:57Let's go.
17:58Let's go.
17:59The goal was to pull myself back onto the line,
18:02the same drill I practiced on day one.
18:05Let's go.
18:06Only now, I was dangling 40 feet above the ground.
18:11I was fighting with every ounce of strength I had left.
18:14My muscles were totally exhausted.
18:17Yeah, now you have space between your body and the line.
18:20Yeah, now you're not sitting on it.
18:22Okay.
18:24Now you can lean forward in order to put your leg.
18:29I felt a lot of fear, a lot of anxiety, a lot of pressure.
18:33I don't know, it's like if I had received a hit of adrenaline,
18:38tension of muscles and thoughts in like three seconds.
18:45Piss!
18:47Woo!
18:47Oh, no!
18:50Now you can lean forward.
18:52There you go.
18:53Now you're getting into your jungle.
18:56Nice one.
18:58Woo!
18:59Holy shit!
19:00Holy shit!
19:01Oh my God.
19:02Uh-huh.
19:03Dios mÃo.
19:04Wow, wow.
19:05Es de las cosas más espeluznantes que he viviendo en toda mi vida.
19:12Y la caÃda está cementada en mi cabeza para siempre.
19:15O sea, me acuerdo de cada segundo de esa caÃda.
19:18O sea, una cantidad de de adrenalina y pánico que yo nunca habÃa sentido.
19:25But now you still need to get up.
19:26Oh, shut up, man.
19:27I'm freaking coming, okay?
19:28You think you got another one or are you done?
19:29No, we're done, baby.
19:30I have to be honest.
19:31experiencing terror on this profound level shook me to the point of calling it quits for
19:38the day.
19:39Holy moly, my guy.
19:40I felt like training kept moving forward, but I wasn't.
19:41I still couldn't do the one basic thing about this sport, just staying in balance.
19:46Tomorrow the height is more than twice what it was today.
19:48For the first time, I thought about quitting the challenge.
19:51Well, me estoy sintiendo cómodo en la lÃnea.
19:54Siempre consideré que estábamos trabajando hacia aprender el arte de balancearme.
19:58No hay tiempo, no hay entrenamiento.
20:01Siente en esos tres dÃas para que un ser humano, para que un ser humano, te llevo un
20:05This time, I thought about quitting the challenge.
20:23That was insane.
20:25Like, one of the craziest things I've ever experienced,
20:28for sure.
20:29I don't know if I have enough to attempt it tomorrow.
20:35I think what we can do is, let's go there tomorrow,
20:40and I will be fully honest about what I feel in the moment.
20:46Okay.
20:47Me pareció lo más sensato cuestionarme en este momento
20:51si vale la pena seguir trabajando hacia un lugar
20:55donde no sé si vamos a llegar o no sé si siquiera quiero llegar.
21:01Buenas noches. DÃa dos terminado.
21:03Wow.
21:13After that horrifying last fall yesterday,
21:16I couldn't imagine feeling any worse,
21:19but, oh, boy, I didn't know what I was about to see.
21:23Wow. See the view?
21:25Yeah.
21:26From the left to the right.
21:29It's in the middle of the clouds.
21:42It's higher than the clouds.
21:43No way.
21:45From here it feels already impressive,
21:47but when you're down there,
21:49Yeah.
21:50Yeah.
21:51In the middle.
21:52Okay.
21:53Aquà atrás está el slackline final.
21:56Como pueden ver, está saliendo de esa piedra.
21:59Cruza a más de 100 pies de altura y se conecta con otra piedra.
22:04Estamos más o menos a kilómetro y medio sobre el nivel del mar.
22:08Hoy voy a tomar la decisión.
22:10La realidad es que estoy dudoso.
22:13Estoy en un 50-50.
22:15Y creo que no importa qué suceda,
22:17por lo menos hasta ahora,
22:19lo que he aprendido y lo que hemos vivido
22:21ya ha valido la pena.
22:23Con eso dicho,
22:25ya tengo mi arnés.
22:26Es momento de subir.
22:28Asà que me despido de ustedes.
22:30Chao.
22:36I still didn't know if I could go through with it,
22:39but I had to see what it looked like from up there.
22:42Even before reaching the slackline,
22:44we had to scramble up steep rocks,
22:46testing our balance right from the start.
22:49Woo!
22:51Top of the world!
22:54Oh, you get an echo.
22:56Mountain top moment.
22:57Top of the world.
22:58Yeah.
22:59This was a moment of truth.
23:03Standing at the top with a view that took my breath away.
23:08But at the same time,
23:09a drop that made me sick to my stomach.
23:15Everyone was waiting.
23:17And I knew I had to choose.
23:47Well done.
23:50Well done.
23:52Ok, y'all.
23:53Ya tied.
23:54Now we could get your breath away.
23:55Well done.
23:56So I knew I had to pick up my heart and feel.
23:57Is that right.
23:58Yeah.
23:59We can get your breath away.
24:00Thanks for seeing.
24:01I'm going to go through with my heart.
24:02Let's see.
24:03Yeah.
24:04Okay, what do you think I can do?
24:05I could take a moment of truth with my heart.
24:06I can't do, but don't be a little.
24:07I think there's a little bit of truth with my heart.
24:08You can take a moment of truth with my heart.
24:10What has happened to think?
24:12I can be quite a little bit of truth with my heart,
24:13you can make a little bit Magoo.
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