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  • you don't have that many opportunity to run something this big and not potentially something go wrong with a lot of risks when it comes to waterfalls, especially with drop this scythe e approach it like I just want to do this one, even though one of the most glorious drop I just wanna hit my line one and now I have to run it again.

  • Oh, that moment when it was time to come over, it literally looks like you're falling off the face of the earth.

  • My name.

  • Dane Johnson, a professional Whitewater kayaker, freestyle racing, a big water phone.

  • Whatever it is, that seems exciting at the time.

  • E first started hiking when I was about two years old.

  • That's when I ran my first river when I was born.

  • My dad was already a professional contact Donna 92 Olympics and was also appropriate double champion, so he made sure to get me while my sister in a pretty much right away, have a cotton ball left.

  • Hold on you.

  • So wow!

  • Over my career, I've been fortunate to have a lot of great successive.

  • I want a lot of extreme races.

  • I've won a lot of combination events like the Whitewater Grand Prix.

  • But I've also got expeditions all over the world.

  • I've got to run the salt O'Malia waterfall in Chile, which is the second tallest drop has been run drops right about 134 ft.

  • It was a drop I dreamed about doing.

  • Every waterfall is different has their own kind of unique challenges.

  • The Mallee waterfall, what made it really challenging.

  • But that lip is a It's a very fast moving kind of spout of water, and sometimes that can be really tricky to really set your angle because you're coming off a lot of speed.

  • E, unfortunately, didn't have the most perfect line that I could have.

  • I sent my angle good had a super soft hit, but the issue was that my skirt to come off my boat.

  • My boat filled up with water and I did have to come out my both in the boils.

  • After in a perfect world, I would have stayed on my boat, I would have paddled away, and it would have been a perfect descent.

  • But in the end, I was still able to get like a poster and have a deadline with incredible experience.

  • That was by far one of the second top I've ever done that you was mind blowing.

  • So when it comes to running bigger waterfalls, our ultimate goal is to land as vertical as possible with our bodies tucked up.

  • But if you wanna land flat off a job, especially a bad size, there's a good chance you might break your back.

  • So that is probably the ultimate worst case when it comes to running something like that.

  • A lot of people always assume when they see us running these big waterfalls that were just the daredevil that don't take any safety precautions.

  • And it's fall off of these things without any skill and get lucky where in the end there's actually there's a lot of things that we have to look at before we can make the decision that not only can I run and I trust my skill to run it, but I could be helped if something were to go wrong.

  • In the end, there's just so much risk with waterfalls that tall, that's all you could really stoked on it.

  • The fact that you're able to run it and not get hurt, I love the opportunity to go fall off something like Santa Molly.

you don't have that many opportunity to run something this big and not potentially something go wrong with a lot of risks when it comes to waterfalls, especially with drop this scythe e approach it like I just want to do this one, even though one of the most glorious drop I just wanna hit my line one and now I have to run it again.

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