With the right skills, a 10-meter fall isn’t that bad. From Gymnast’s Skills Save Him in Fourth-Floor Fall:
A British junior gymnastics team member fell from the fourth floor of a Ljubljana hotel but suffered only a broken ankle after putting his gymnastics skills into practice, the Slovenian press reported Tuesday.‘Probably my gymnastic knowledge and experience saved me,’ the Slovenske Novice newspaper quoted 17-year-old Steven Jehu as saying.
‘There was a big window that could be opened. I leaned out over a metal bar, but the bar suddenly broke. I couldn’t do anything. I fell,’ Jehu said.
The gymnast did a somersault while falling from the window, which was more than 33 feet from the ground, and braced himself for a regular gymnastic landing.
Jehu, whose favorite discipline is the rings, is one of five British junior athletes who traveled to Ljubljana last week for the European gymnastics championships on April 15-18. ‘I got away with it all right, although the European championships for me ended before they even began,’ he said.