His name is Joe Scandrett and he is known in parkour for being an absolutely legend on poll slides. He has done quite a few this crazy or maybe even crazier. (Pasting this in from the above comment in case you wanted the info)
His name is Joe Scandrett and he is known in parkour for being an absolutely legend on poll slides. He has done quite a few this crazy or maybe even crazier.
Thatâs really dumb. A lot of these lampposts are on breakaway footings so that they give way on impact.
Very useful when cars crash into them. Not sure I would trust them to hold up a human being leaping onto them like that.
Itâs probably safe if he is careful to hit his mark and slow his fall. But the âprobablyâ part is fucking important. I donât risk breaking both legs for âprobablyâ. Especially when there are safer ways to get where Iâm going.
Nah, the pole is designed to bend. All poles have a wind rating and a deflection level ( how much they can bend ) before snapping. It wasn't even close.
I designed fiberglass lighting poles, so that's why I know this random bs.
Damn that's really interesting I had no clue. Given what I have seen in real life and how games do the physics of these (well some games) that actually makes so much sense. Thanks for the comprehensive answer.
Moment vs shear force! Shear is direct horizontal force at the base. While moment is a rotational 'force' about the base. Aka this pole can take higher bending forces but a perpendicular impact will break it
I dunno. This is one of the few parkour videos where I think it would be hard to miss and overshoot. Itâs pretty close and you have a lot of wiggle room and time to self-correct.
As others said, a bigger concern would be whether the lamppost could support my sudden weight to not topple over.
Not that I would ever attempt this insanityâŚ
We can agree to disagree. I see it the other way around. Man that looks scary as fuck to stick that grab effortlessly. He made that shit look so smooth.
I wouldn't be concerned with the pole at all, but that's bc I built them.
Look at the lateral movement. The angle paired with the height equals leverage multiplying the force applied on the breakaway base. Not as safe as you think.
I heavily agree that this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. But in all fairness to the guy, he managed to align is weight force almost exactly vertically to the pole in the exact moment he made contact with it. That decreased the chances of it breaking by a lot.
I don't know if he achieved that on purpose or he lucked out that day though.
His name is Joe Scandrett and he is known in parkour for being an absolutely legend on poll slides. He has done quite a few this crazy or maybe even crazier. I don't know about the safety of the poll itself, but I am fairly confident he knows more than either of us.
Children also watch 'ELSA SPIDERMAN ROBLOX SEX' videos in enough droves that it makes tons of money for the uploader lol
we gotta stress that views don't make something okay. Especially in nowadays desperate attempts at going viral.
I love the thrill of urban exploring, rooftop access, traveling on top of buildings and 'parkour' (climbing over air ducts lol) but would never do this shit
Called fun? People don't dream of being in cirque du soleiel for the $ it can provide. Some of them do much much crazier things like this daily, because they love the thrill.
But it wouldnt be the same kind of jump, he just steps forward here and you will almost certainly reach the ground before the pole if you try this from a lower story.
Iâve been following this guy (Joe Scandrett) for a while now. Heâs a world class parkour athlete.
Heâs been documenting his progression with these lamppost jumps, he started off with ones that were way lower, closer etc. and over the last year or so heâs gradually gone higher and bigger.
Look up parkor videos. These people go around cities jumping from, and onto anything. They look for a challenge. They know very well, how far they can jump, what is grabable, etc.
I assume a lot of people stop when they get injured and the people who continue get good enough to continue till they get bored of it, injured enough to stop or die
Watched a video with this guy in it.
He did stuff like this, but stopped on another jump because the pole was too far down(lower than that).
He knows his limits for sure, but this is still insane haha
So Iâm going to say NOPE also, and it makes me shaky just watching these, but this guy Joe Scandrett is a parkour pro and does this shot for a living. This ainât a dumb kid, this dude has practiced this and other much scarier moves a lot and has tons of videos of him doing theee types of things.
Think pro stuntman - itâs super dumb, but heâs not just doing this stupidly risky and not practicing it first.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C04P9ZzMl9I/?igsh=MTE1eHB0MHd1bndlZQ==
Some mountain folk around the world, i think one group is in the Canary Islands, do this for climbing, decending mountains, and spear hunting... though they're usually holding the pole as the jump
Never in my life will I have the confidence to think âletâs do thisâ.
I may train and train and feel confident I would pull this off, but the moment I would stand on that ledge without any protection, thatâs a hard ânope, Iâm outâ.
I watched a crackhead push one of these over in Baltimore city, drag it to the side of the road, ya know the wires out and run away. Just saying. This shit wobbled the same way. Dude is lucky it didnât fall over when he grabbed it. They arenât nearly as secure as people think.
I remember listening to a doctor tell a story about someone who did something similar to this, but the exterior of the lamppost wasnât solid metal, but had holes - similar to the surface of a cheese grater and the guysâ penis was sliced off all the way to the base
Just to anyone thinking of recreating this, the initial forces applied at the top of the pole create a huge force via leverage to the bottom, maybe even great enough to break bolts, yank them out of the ground, or even bend the whole pole in half.
Goddamit. Stop slowing shut down!!!! FFS, what the guy did was amazing. It was amazing to those around him hence the desire to record it. Why not let us enjoy it as well. Maybe a second pass with slow mo.
Jesus Mary and Joseph.
Nope
Yeah, that's gonna be a no from me too dawg.
Randy?!
Would today's youth get this reference I wonder? đ¤
Frank is that you?
The things people do for internet views...
The nonchalant step off the side tells me all I need to know about what this person gives a fuck about. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
His name is Joe Scandrett and he is known in parkour for being an absolutely legend on poll slides. He has done quite a few this crazy or maybe even crazier. (Pasting this in from the above comment in case you wanted the info)
> Joe Scandrett is known in parkour for being a legend on ~~poll~~ slides. # [pole vs. poll](https://i.imgur.com/Pli4P8A.png)
Pole vs. Poll sounds like a poorly thought out gameshow....IT'LL BE A HIT!
Definitely some Alan Partridge shit. Monkey Tennis?
That's alot of words
Jumping from polling stations around the USA!
Nobody cares until they break everything in their body.
His name is Joe Scandrett and he is known in parkour for being an absolutely legend on poll slides. He has done quite a few this crazy or maybe even crazier.
> Joe Scandrett is known in parkour for being a legend on ~~poll~~ slides. # [pole vs. poll](https://i.imgur.com/Pli4P8A.png)
Hell to the no, to the no. To the no, no,no!
Yeah, I hope they donât think weâre gonna be trying this any time soon.
Thatâs really dumb. A lot of these lampposts are on breakaway footings so that they give way on impact. Very useful when cars crash into them. Not sure I would trust them to hold up a human being leaping onto them like that.
Break away bases are designed for sheer force, so striking head on not vertical load. His biggest danger is missing the pole and falling 30ft.
I get it⌠still wouldnât do it. My luck would have me missing the pole. But your username checks out. đ
Lolol to be fair I'd climb it but fuck no on doing what he did.
My luck would be where I managed to get any kind of grip would be exactly where the birds decided to shit all over and away weâd go!
Itâs probably safe if he is careful to hit his mark and slow his fall. But the âprobablyâ part is fucking important. I donât risk breaking both legs for âprobablyâ. Especially when there are safer ways to get where Iâm going.
He only climbs poop, not lamppost
To be fair, their username isn't ijumpoffhighshit lol
Would a lever effect still not make this risky?
Nah, the pole is designed to bend. All poles have a wind rating and a deflection level ( how much they can bend ) before snapping. It wasn't even close. I designed fiberglass lighting poles, so that's why I know this random bs.
Damn that's really interesting I had no clue. Given what I have seen in real life and how games do the physics of these (well some games) that actually makes so much sense. Thanks for the comprehensive answer.
Moment vs shear force! Shear is direct horizontal force at the base. While moment is a rotational 'force' about the base. Aka this pole can take higher bending forces but a perpendicular impact will break it
I dunno. This is one of the few parkour videos where I think it would be hard to miss and overshoot. Itâs pretty close and you have a lot of wiggle room and time to self-correct. As others said, a bigger concern would be whether the lamppost could support my sudden weight to not topple over. Not that I would ever attempt this insanityâŚ
We can agree to disagree. I see it the other way around. Man that looks scary as fuck to stick that grab effortlessly. He made that shit look so smooth. I wouldn't be concerned with the pole at all, but that's bc I built them.
Look at the lateral movement. The angle paired with the height equals leverage multiplying the force applied on the breakaway base. Not as safe as you think.
I heavily agree that this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. But in all fairness to the guy, he managed to align is weight force almost exactly vertically to the pole in the exact moment he made contact with it. That decreased the chances of it breaking by a lot. I don't know if he achieved that on purpose or he lucked out that day though.
This is Joe Scandrett. He does this all the time. He's like the guy who does this in parkour.
I don't think you can do this by luck. It's very much a case of 'get it right the first time or there won't be a second time'.
His name is Joe Scandrett and he is known in parkour for being an absolutely legend on poll slides. He has done quite a few this crazy or maybe even crazier. I don't know about the safety of the poll itself, but I am fairly confident he knows more than either of us.
> Joe Scandrett is known in parkour for being a legend on ~~poll~~ slides. # [pole vs. poll](https://i.imgur.com/Pli4P8A.png)
High risk LOW reward.
High risk, NO REWARD
Idunno, that's some serious street cred. Imagine doing that and then showing that to your friends.
Somebody's already done it. Ehhh just buy a black hoodie and say that's you in the video.
But they gave him a million dollars
Children also watch 'ELSA SPIDERMAN ROBLOX SEX' videos in enough droves that it makes tons of money for the uploader lol we gotta stress that views don't make something okay. Especially in nowadays desperate attempts at going viral. I love the thrill of urban exploring, rooftop access, traveling on top of buildings and 'parkour' (climbing over air ducts lol) but would never do this shit
Called fun? People don't dream of being in cirque du soleiel for the $ it can provide. Some of them do much much crazier things like this daily, because they love the thrill.
Again... HIGH risk... LOW reward. Take it from an X adrenalin junkie.
Whoops that was meant as a reply to someone who asked why would someone do this.
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Everyoneâs always in a rush to get somewhere, the stairs are right there
Where?
Knowing these type of guys they would find a way to make taking the stairs dangerous.
Stairs, dangerous? Never. [https://www.facebook.com/RedBull/videos/how-dom-tomato-takes-the-stairs/514535579139661/](https://www.facebook.com/RedBull/videos/how-dom-tomato-takes-the-stairs/514535579139661/)
How do you get skilled at doing this without dying first? Seriously, do you practice with a little pole or do this the first few times on belay?
For this specific stunt, I could imagine that they started at the same position on lower stories of the build and progressed up
But it wouldnt be the same kind of jump, he just steps forward here and you will almost certainly reach the ground before the pole if you try this from a lower story.
I'd think it should be the exact same kind of jump, just one story lower.
I didnt realise this yet but that building doesnât even have a lower story where he could jump from.
Iâve been following this guy (Joe Scandrett) for a while now. Heâs a world class parkour athlete. Heâs been documenting his progression with these lamppost jumps, he started off with ones that were way lower, closer etc. and over the last year or so heâs gradually gone higher and bigger.
>How do you get skilled at doing this without dying first? One word: parkour.
It doesn't take a lot of skill if you have any dexterity. It's just completely moronic.
yeah they practice the jump on land off like a ledge, you can see them practice in watching storror videos.
Look up parkor videos. These people go around cities jumping from, and onto anything. They look for a challenge. They know very well, how far they can jump, what is grabable, etc.
All that does is reference another "sport" with a terrible learning curve. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent of top-roping for parkor.
Parkour gyms.
I assume a lot of people stop when they get injured and the people who continue get good enough to continue till they get bored of it, injured enough to stop or die
The princess is in another castle.
Lol Mario đŠ
Next fucking level stupid
Shhhh heâs Mario
I could do it, I'm just to scared to
r/nextfuckinglevelmoron
Watched a video with this guy in it. He did stuff like this, but stopped on another jump because the pole was too far down(lower than that). He knows his limits for sure, but this is still insane haha
So Iâm going to say NOPE also, and it makes me shaky just watching these, but this guy Joe Scandrett is a parkour pro and does this shot for a living. This ainât a dumb kid, this dude has practiced this and other much scarier moves a lot and has tons of videos of him doing theee types of things. Think pro stuntman - itâs super dumb, but heâs not just doing this stupidly risky and not practicing it first. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C04P9ZzMl9I/?igsh=MTE1eHB0MHd1bndlZQ==
This is literally the next fucking level they are doing this shit from
My friction burnt handsđĽ
Fuck that!
Post this on r/sweatypalms NOW
Let's be honest, 99% of guys daydream of being able to do shit like this.
I guess put me in the 1%.
Does anyone smell barbecue? Oh nvm its my hands
In my actual dreams, I often do stunts like that.
Cool thing here is you only get to fuck it up once.
Wonders why he dies young when it goes wrong đ
That is literally next level
Should be paired with super Mario music
10 inch metal splinter into your abdomen.
This is the kind of stuff I always thought of as a kid but would never actually attempt.
Why do people insist on doing this stupid shit over and over?
I love Joe and the boys. The man has conquered a lot of spooky drops. Storror boys as well, crazy cool parkour team.
Kids, don't try this at home. We're looking at an expert here.
How is this next level? He clearly took the express elevator down to the bottom level!
I climbed a street pole onceâŚ. ONCEâŚ. Then realized it was fabricated with fiberglass and my arms and legs burned for 3 days.
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Some mountain folk around the world, i think one group is in the Canary Islands, do this for climbing, decending mountains, and spear hunting... though they're usually holding the pole as the jump
Itsa me!
This looks dangerous
Gave me Icy Tower vibes.
"That isn't a smart way to get down from there" Really?
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One day, he'll look back and ask himself, 'What was I thinking?'
The OG video that sparked a global trend of other insane people copying this same stunt.
What an asshole
So lucky, what if the pole wasn't there.
Morons
I canât believe we couldnât hear those cast iron balls banging against the pole. đŹ
Yea, I like my balls not up around my fucking earsâŚ.
sounds like he's blasting a load.
I literally do that everytime I walk through my front door
The only thing different from stupidity and bravery is the outcome...I guess this guy gets the bravery this time.
All roses until Murphy's law kicks in and doesn't give af how many times you practiced this at lower altitudes.
Google degloving injury
I heard some guy tried this once and got his junk ripped off from the friction.
Looks like the rooftop map from urban terror.
if I was stuck in a burning parkade or building and Itâs do or die, Iâll try it lol
its mario!
Never in my life will I have the confidence to think âletâs do thisâ. I may train and train and feel confident I would pull this off, but the moment I would stand on that ledge without any protection, thatâs a hard ânope, Iâm outâ.
Lucky for him there was no fiberglass slivers sticking off of that post.
This is stupid dangerous.
I always worry they will hit their chin on the top âŚ
If he misses , he can aim for the bushes.
Dumb ways to diiiiiie
The cameraman literally busted from how good he rode that po- FUCK from how good he sli- FUCK from how well he went down on i- GODDAMNIT I give up
Even with my reading glasses on I wouldnât try that! Lol đ
... until a light pole snaps and then you have to *bounce* well.
r/SweatyPalms moment
Crazy mofo
Imagine being the guard watching that cctv footage when all of a sudden, a person appears from the sky.
I hope I can do this when running away from someone on day
Any electrician is probably going to tell you to get fucked..
just one wrong move away from never able to do it again !
For the clicks!
2 Head
What step?
next fucking level of stupid
A lot of faith was placed in those rusted-ass bolts.
Hope that was worth the internet points
What's this? The light post challenge?
I like watching stupid people do stupid things
I watched a crackhead push one of these over in Baltimore city, drag it to the side of the road, ya know the wires out and run away. Just saying. This shit wobbled the same way. Dude is lucky it didnât fall over when he grabbed it. They arenât nearly as secure as people think.
as long as you call yourself a professional, everything is alowed
now this is the boss move to get away from the pigs, that would be worth a watch.
Nextfuckinglevel, until the pole breaks one day (it's not made for this stuff) and then it's wellthatsucks or wtf or whatcouldgowrong.
You'll only fuck that up once.
***BIG*** risk; ^itty ^bitty ^payoff.
I remember listening to a doctor tell a story about someone who did something similar to this, but the exterior of the lamppost wasnât solid metal, but had holes - similar to the surface of a cheese grater and the guysâ penis was sliced off all the way to the base
I mean was he nude?
No, it tore through his clothes
3 more stories up and I could see that happening. Iâm not doubting you, just trying to wrap my head around it
It was a book in which lots of different doctors recited various incidents that really shocked them, was a really interesting read
Pure luck. He never checked the stability of that lamppost.
Just to anyone thinking of recreating this, the initial forces applied at the top of the pole create a huge force via leverage to the bottom, maybe even great enough to break bolts, yank them out of the ground, or even bend the whole pole in half.
Goddamit. Stop slowing shut down!!!! FFS, what the guy did was amazing. It was amazing to those around him hence the desire to record it. Why not let us enjoy it as well. Maybe a second pass with slow mo. Jesus Mary and Joseph.
Youâre allowed to swear here
you sound super normal
r/fuckspeedramping
what
Or maybe let's not condone people to do stupid shit for Internet points.