in san diego. we have a lifeguard and a boat, so we had somebody in the water. we had a lot of friends. we ended up doing this stunt. from the time the ramp was on the bridge to off the bridge it was four minutes, 30 seconds, i believe. it was pretty quick. and we were just hoping no policemen would drive by in that time. since what they are doing falls somewhat outside general traffic safety rules, they move quickly. love you brother. but, of course, the unforeseen obstacles are the one that is complicate things. in this case, it is something called speed wobbles. speed wobbles are when your board is not adjusted properly. maybe your settings are a little too loose and you are not prepared for speed or your weight is distributed unequally. in this case, the rope pulled me forward and off of my axis and
we would literally have, at most, a couple of minutes to get pedro out of the water, so we needed to be ready for him to be unconscious and to be able to get him out of the river if he were unconscious. contingency plans are in place. pedro is ready to go and ben has his camera in hand. pedro was extremely confident right before the run. he had a feeling that everything was going to go extremely to plan. as we were waiting for pedro to come around the corner, come out of the trees paddling, i was nervous. i was anxious, i was excited, i was worried. it was definitely high anxiety for me. it was all i could do to stay focused on the task at hand, capturing pedro s decent on tape. ben does just that. he catches pedro approaching the falls, goes over and disappears. i get a fairly steady hand he would shot all the way to the base of the falls and then just had to wait and wait and wait. so for probably 20 seconds i m just scanning the pool at the base of the falls waiting to see
skateboarding better. he puts the plan into motion choosing the mission bay bridge in san diego. we have a lifeguard and a boat, so we have somebody in the water. we had a lot of friends. we ended up doing the stunt in the time the truck or the rarp was on the bridge to off the bridge it was 4:30, i believe, so it was pretty quick. and we re just hoping no policeman will drive by in that time. since what they re doing falls somewhat outside general safety traffic resumes they move quickly. come on. but, of course, the unforeseen obstacles are the ones that complicate things. in this case, it s something called, speed wobbles. speed wobbles are when your board is not adjusted properly. maybe your settings are a little too loose and you re not prepared for speed or your weight is distributed unevenly. in this case the rope pulled me forward and off of my axis and
could knock him out and we might not be able to get to him in time. we would literally have, at most, a couple of minutes to get pedro out of the water so we needed to be ready for him to be unconscious and to be able to get him out of the river, if he were unconscious. contingency plans are in place. pedro is ready to go and ben has his camera in hand. pedro is extremely confident right before the run and he got a feeling that everything was going to go extremely to plan. as we were waiting for pedro to come around the corner and come out of the trees paddling, i was nervous. yeah. i was anxious. i was excited. i was worried. definite high anticipation and high anxiety for me. it was all i could do to stay focused on the task at hand which was capturing pedro s dissent on tape. and he does just that. the camera catches pedro as he approaches the falls. goes over and disappears. i did a fairly steady
death-defying ride is brazilian, pedro olivia. he was competing for the brazilian national team and i was filming for a company that produces kayaks here in the united states and he was tell meg about these amazing rivers and waterfalls? brazil. a year after meeting, the two planned a ride that would push them close to the danger zone. our hope is to establish a new world record for the tallest waterfall run in kayak. the previous record is for 108 feet and to beat this, they look for the perfect falls and come upon this fall in central brazil. we looked hat does defense of waterfalls that were potential candidates. from the time that pedro first saw the falls, he says that it was the perfect falls. he knew in his mind right then that he was going the run the falls. he felt that this was one of the most beautiful places he d ever seen. he felt like this was a heaven