For our last weekend in New Zealand, we decided to jet off
to the beautiful town of Queenstown. Within hours of our plane touching the
tarmac at the airport, we were on our way to jump off tall ledges and do some
Canyon Swinging over the Shotover river.
This canyon swing is the tallest in the world with 60m of
freefall that leads you into the 200m swing. I was actually the first one in
our group to do it, and in all honestly, I wasn’t scared until I got up to the
edge of that platform. 60m is a long way to fall.
We had a few different options of jump styles. I knew I
wanted to do the “Gimp Boy Goes Hollywood”, which is where they position you
upside down and release you while you’re upside down, but my plan was to ask
the guides to help me pick another jump. One of them told me instantly that I
should go backwards, and that I should do that one first so that I have to get myself
off the edge of the platform for the first time by myself. Just to explain,
going backwards is literally just putting your hands behind your head, leaning
off the platform, and plunging towards the ground. It was terrifying, but
incredible. To see the videos of me doing it, click here for my first jump (backwards) and here for my second (“gimp boy goes Hollywood”). I would post
them directly but I just shipped my dvd home to help make room in my luggage
for more stuff. 
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