Dean's World

pumpupthemovie.com used to have a game based on this, but even with Flash upgraded I can't see the site. Try it and see if it's just my setup.

I actually worry a bit when I watch this. I wonder if the girl didn't hit her head on the rim. She seems to be clutching her head a bit and the guys seem to be too preoccupied to noice. I hope she was okay. But I'm hoping it was no big thing and that otherwise they wouldn't have used the footage for the movie.

Still, really, that girl might really have hurt herself. If the back of her head had hit the rim at exactly the wrong point it really could have hurt her bad.

Not trying to be a party-pooper. I'm just saying, it doesn't seem like the guys were being quite protective enough of their partner in this affair.

It would be monumentally stupid to really try to do this. Like potentially fatal. I bet Rosemary's right.

Obviously if the girl and the guys were willing to do this, they were going to have to take some chances. The one thing they should have done was get a neck support strap. Because if she actually had went directly down into the hoop while hitting the back of her head, it might have disconnected a vertebrae or caused hematoma to the autonomic centers of the brain that controls breathing. But since her back hit the rim first and skidded, it removed some of the instantaeous force for when her head hit the rim as well. So it was a good thing for her that she was slightly inaccurate and that she had in fact, a horizontal component to her speed as well as vertical.

The back of the neck, the ganglia that connects to the brain, is one of the critical spots. People are lucky to get whiplash syndromes if they get injured on that spot. Unconsciousness and stunning, if unlucky.