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you don't have that many opportunity to

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run something this big and not

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potentially have something go wrong with

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a lot of risks when it comes to

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waterfalls especially with drop this

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side

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if i approach it like i just want to do

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this once even though it's one of the

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most glorious drop i just want to hit my

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line one and not have to run it again

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that moment when it was time to come

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over it literally looks like you're

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falling off the face of the earth

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my name is dane jackson i'm a

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professional white water kayaker i do

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freestyle i'll be racing a big waterfall

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whatever it is that seemed exciting at

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the time

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i first started kayaking when i was

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about two years old that's when i ran my

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first river when i was born my dad was

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already a professional kayak he got a 92

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olympics and he was also a pro freestyle

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world champion so he made sure to get me

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and follow my sister pretty much right

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away and have a kai mahal

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it's so loud

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over my career i've been fortunate

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enough to have a lot of great successes

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i won a lot of extreme races that won a

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lot of combination events like the white

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water grand prix um but i've also done

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expeditions all over the world

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i got to run the south o'malley

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waterfall in chile which is the second

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tallest job that's been run the drops

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right about 134 feet there's a drop i

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dreamed about doing

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every waterfall was different and had

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their own kind of unique challenges the

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malay waterfall made it really

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challenging but that lip is a it's a

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very fast moving kind of spout of water

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and sometimes that can be really tricky

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to really set your angle because you're

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coming off with a lot of speed

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i unfortunately didn't have the most

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perfect line that i could have i set my

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angle good had a super soft hit but the

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issue was that my skirt had come off my

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boat my boat filled up with water and i

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did have to come out of my boat in the

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boils after in a perfect world i would

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have stayed in my boat i would have

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paddled away and it would have been a

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perfect descent but in the end i was

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still able to get my composure and have

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a good line it was an incredible

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experience that was by far one of the

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second jobs i've ever done that view was

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mind-blowing so when it comes to running

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bigger waterfalls our ultimate goal is

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to land as vertical as possible with our

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bodies tucked up because if you were to

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land flat off of a drop especially a bad

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size there's a good chance you might

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break your back so that is probably the

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ultimate worst case when it comes to

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running something like that a lot of

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people always assume when they see us

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running these big waterfalls that we're

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just the daredevils that don't take any

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safety precautions and just fall off of

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these things without any skill and get

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lucky where in the end there's actually

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there's a lot of things that we have to

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look at before we can make the decision

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that not only can i run it not trust my

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skill to run it but i can be helped if

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something were to go wrong

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in the end there's just so much risk

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with waterfalls that tall that all you

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can really get stoked on is the fact

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that you're able to run it and not get

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hurt

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i love the opportunity to go fall off

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something like sakamale

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i'm simply doing it because i love

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kayaking

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