Wim Hof | Bridge Jumping

Hey have a time guys.

Hey puenting!

Oh 'puenting' man.

The way that all began.

This was the first bridge…

And I could not do it the first time.

I was not able to jump from that bridge.

though I was prepared.

That was because my ex wife

Olaya.

The mother of my four children.

She jumped from an eight story building.

And that made me...

I couldn't do it.

I was absolutely paralysed.

And I’m a guy who’s climbing without gear

And going under the ice.

I was blocked at that moment.

This was one or two years...

…after she died.

Oh not even...

Five years after she died.

Five years after that it was of course still there.

This thought of how she actually jumped...

...down.

That is...

Too much to handle inside.

That trauma came to live there at the bridge.

The first time I was not able to do anything.

Ok have a time guys.

Hey look at that.

It’s a big swing.

Feel like a child man.

Here I had overcome the whole thing.

So then it’s ok.

Then it’s going to be playful

Since then I’ve done it hundreds of times

from many bridges.

In different ways

But in those days this was very unknown.

We began to do this shit.

All of us.

Me and my friend.

And we had calculated it all.

You know like mathematics.

You’re almost touching...

Yeah almost touching the water.

You see that?

Yeah it’s quite an experience.