25 years of bungy jumping, the most adventurous game
Bungy jumping (also known as bungee jumping – bungy jumping) is a thrilling game in which players jump down from a high structure while their feet are tied to a rope.
Bungee Jumping, an exciting game that has been around for a quarter of a century.
Bungy history has recorded that there were small groups performing bungy jumps in a few places such as England and America (around 1979, 1980), but the first systematically organized commercial activity of bungy jumping
On November 12, 1988, AJ Hackett, a carpenter, textbook salesman and snowballer, and Henry van Asch, a farmer and speed skier, opened a company.
`The place to receive guests at that time was just a small table` – Hackket recalls.
AJ Hackett (right) and Henry van Asch are the two people who discovered and expanded bungy jumping.
Since opening with a jump from a height of 43 m, the company’s business activities have quickly gone up.
Since its appearance, an estimated 4.5 million people around the world have bungy jumped and this sport has spread globally, from Australia, France, Germany, Indonesia to Macau, where the record is held.
Hackett’s idea of bungy jumping came from Vanuatu, an island nation located off the Pacific Ocean in the Southern Hemisphere.
About 100,000 people each year take part in bungy jumping in New Zealand, which is still considered a mecca for this heart-pounding game.
On November 12, 2013, AJ Hackett and Henry van Asch met in Queenstown, New Zealand, with 400 people holding a meaningful 25th anniversary celebration.
Over more than two decades, Van Asch has jumped about 600 times and Hackett more than 1,000 times, including illegally jumping from the Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) in 1987 and many times from helicopters.
The writer of this article personally tried bungy jumping in Chiang Mai, Thailand at a height of 50 m from a crane, with a deep pond below.
The only experience is to take a breath and take a dose.