When you feel depressed, your classmates ask you to go bungee jumping together. Will you go?

Bungee jumping, also called machine rope jumping, is called stupid pig jumping in vernacular. Bungee jumping originated in New Zealand and is a rite of passage for Maori. Now it has developed into an extreme sport that is popular all over the world and deeply loved by young people. This is a very exciting outdoor leisure activity. The jumper stands on a bridge, tower, tall building, crane or even hot air balloon with a height of more than 40 meters (equivalent to 10 floor), ties a long rubber strip with one end fixed to his ankle, then opens his arms, puts his legs together and jumps upside down.

The benefits of bungee jumping

1, exercise courage

Bungee jumping requires athletes to jump at a height of more than 40 meters. If you have no idea about this height, you can imagine the height of the 10 floor. This height is still the lowest height. It is called the sport of the brave, which can greatly exercise your courage.

2. Let you overcome difficulties and fears.

Bungee jumping can challenge difficulties and fears. When you encounter difficulties in your daily life, imagine your courage in bungee jumping, which is nothing.

3. Exercise your heart rate

Bungee jumping requires high endurance of the heart, as well as the cardiopulmonary function of people. If you bungee jump often, you can better exercise your heart and lung function and keep you away from the diseases of heart and lung organs.

Step 4 decompress

In bungee jumping, you can release the usual pressure and scream boldly. No one will laugh at you.

5. Prevent incurable diseases

Medical research shows that human body will secrete antibodies after being stimulated and frightened, which has a positive effect on preventing diseases, such as heart disease, hypertension and cerebral palsy. Of course, if you have heart disease, you can't bungee jump.

However, bungee jumping brings people more than "good hi!" Experience, which brings benefits to human body, certainly has some hidden dangers. Let's take a look at the dangers that bungee jumping can easily cause:

1, temporarily blind

Temporary blindness caused by rupture of subretinal capillaries when falling usually can be recovered within a few days.

2. Injury to human joints

Damage to human joints, from fractures and quadriplegia to permanent disability.

3. Potential sports injuries

Because bungee jumping is a new sport, many potential sports injuries have not been fully studied, and it is likely that other potential injuries will not be discovered and confirmed.

4, bungee jumping equipment and training security risks.

The bungee jumping equipment lacks maintenance, improper debugging, extended service, or the staff lacks necessary training and experience.

5. Qualifications for running bungee jumping groups

Clubs or companies that operate bungee jumping fail to comply with the necessary safety regulations, and even play this life-and-death game without obtaining legal operation qualification at all. These are the root causes of the accident.

Who can't bungee jump?

1, bungee jumping is absolutely forbidden for people with bad heart or high blood pressure.

2. Some people with poor health, such as those with joint pain, those with lumbar disc herniation and those with fractures, should not bungee jump.

3. People with eye diseases, such as glaucoma and deep myopia, do not advocate bungee jumping. Because lowering the head for a long time will increase the intraocular pressure, which will seriously cause retinal detachment.

Even very strong people have to abide by some restrictions before bungee jumping. First, the age limit is below 15, and people over 45 years old had better not bungee jump. Because the nervous system of minors under 15 is not fully developed, this sudden fright may affect their normal growth and development in the future. However, middle-aged people over 45 years old have aging internal organs and hidden heart disease and cerebrovascular disease. Under the action of gravity, it is easy to induce the above diseases and accidents. Second, people with poor psychological quality had better not forcibly test their will. For example, people who are usually timid, even those who are frightened and nervous when they hear some loud noises, even if they are in good health, it is best not to bungee jump.