Topic: falling on the side of a building

[HollyWoodAPK]

okay i know this sound stupid but i was playing spiderman 3 on my xbox 360 today and i jumped off the empire state building and didnt use the webs but i pushed the joy stick towards the building and he like slid down the wall slowing him down enough to live through the fall....now i know i am not toby mcguire and i am not a video game but it sliding down a wall and landing safely possible??? if so i want to start trying it but i do not want to with out at least 20 people to say yey or nay

[Drew H]

Sounds cool. I will too wait for more experienced people to reply so I don't my break my neck trying it...

[Newby]

well there would be nothing keeping you against the wall. if it helped you it might be minimal. there was a thread like this about doing a tic tac while dropping. that seemed like a better bet for me.

[Drew H]

well there would be nothing keeping you against the wall.

Momentum

[Spencer B]

well there would be nothing keeping you against the wall.

Momentum

You're sliding though... SO either you would get some terrible brick rash, or you would stop and fall.

[Drew H]

well there would be nothing keeping you against the wall.

Momentum

You're sliding though... SO either you would get some terrible brick rash, or you would stop and fall.

Ya, but if you NEEDED to slide I think brick rash would be worth it to not die...

[Spencer B]

You're sliding though... SO either you would get some terrible brick rash, or you would stop and fall.

Ya, but if you NEEDED to slide I think brick rash would be worth it to not die...

Brick rash... I don't know... I envision flesh scaying (Just made that word up BTW! Combination of scrape and flay! [And it sounds better without an r in it.{IMO|Of course|}] ) all the way down to the bone... *shudders*

I don't think it would be worth it.

[hardcoretraceur]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKIItQctEYI

[Will Solomon]

i've seen someone do that in a video sort of, the guy jumped off a building onto a wall perpendicular to the buildind and pushed off, it didn't look like it helped to much and he still rolled

[HollyWoodAPK]

im not talking about like your full body against the wall i am talking about like draging your shoes down it

[ZacharyCohn]

There is no force pushing you into the wall.

Physics says you are wrong.

There is no joystick in real life...

[hardcoretraceur]

check the video i posted, there are a few instances of sliding down walls, jackie chan did something similar as well.

[Drew H]

There is no joystick in real life...

YOU LIE!

Quit crushing my dreams...

[Spencer B]

check the video i posted, there are a few instances of sliding down walls, jackie chan did something similar as well.

They were all angled. And Jackie Chan slid down with support from three walls.

[Chris Salvato]

what you are describing is physically impossible unless the wall is slanted...and has a significant gradient.  The amount of friction necessary to keep you at a reasonable speed is impossible to generate otherwise...thats just physics.

[hardcoretraceur]

this thread is dumb?

a pseudo-possibility argued against an impossible semantic, everyone loses.

the penguin says slide

[HollyWoodAPK]

okay this morning i tried it off of the first story part of my school, which is about 15feet...it was still Dewey outside so i slid a little but it did slow me down enough to not have to roll...only problem with this is the shoes and trying to get the right distance away from the wall...the shoes are kinda thrashed now, and if you get to far away from the wall its useless and if you are to close you want to hold your hands against the wall which is a really bad idea..but it your just touch the wall as you slide down to help stabilize your self it really helps



NOTE: you should always roll out of a drop to not put to much pressure on your back and legs, i did not roll to see if it actually slowed me down enough to help

[max eisenberg]

its not possible, this is exactly what i was talking about in the military thread.

[ZacharyCohn]

okay this morning i tried it off of the first story part of my school, which is about 15feet...it was still Dewey outside so i slid a little but it did slow me down enough to not have to roll...only problem with this is the shoes and trying to get the right distance away from the wall...the shoes are kinda thrashed now, and if you get to far away from the wall its useless and if you are to close you want to hold your hands against the wall which is a really bad idea..but it your just touch the wall as you slide down to help stabilize your self it really helps



NOTE: you should always roll out of a drop to not put to much pressure on your back and legs, i did not roll to see if it actually slowed me down enough to help

[HollyWoodAPK]

its not possible, this is exactly what i was talking about in the military thread.

have you tried what i am talking about...it is possible..so before you go and talk know what your talking about bro