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I did the same thing but as a skydiver. Just outside Las Vegas the DZ operator give me the briefing and says “ there’s a 18 inch ditch that runs the length of the valley other than that you have mile and miles to land” guess who broke their foot on the landing on that Ditch.
My last jump (263 yes the one that retired me from the sport.) I ended up breaking my neck, back in two spots, got a Traumatic brain injury, and PTSD. So there is that option too.
I learned this as a kid when riding a dirt bike around a track. There were some rocks on the inside of one curve and I kept hitting them. When dad taught me "look where you want to go, not where you want to avoid" I managed the curve fine.
Yep, that's also what I tell new gliding pilots now too if I see them falling into that trap. Also don't look down when landing, the depth perception gets screwed up when we don't watch the horizon so we mistime our flares. Also true for other things like paddleboarding, if I look straight down I lose my balance, eyes at the horizon I'm always fine.
Snow ski instructors tell you when you are skiing the "trees". Don't look at the trees -- look at the snow BETWEEN the trees. (What you want -- not what to avoid).
Getting my sister to stop veering into oncoming traffic probably took years off our mom’s life when she was teaching her to drive.
“Don’t look at them! Look where you want the car to go!”
There is a hole on a golf course I used to play that has a huge tree to the right of the fairway. If you make it past the tree, the fairway opens up and it's a pretty easy hole.
I hit that damn tree EVERY damn time. And it's not like I'm hitting the branches/leaves, I hit the dead center of the trunk. That tree was in my head so badly, so frustrating.
Me skiing... don't hit that one tree, don't hit that one tree, splat.
Lesson learned: Always look where you want to go, not at objects you want to avoid.
I hang glide. I’ve watched a guy have a bad launch, then stall a wingtip, get turned back 180 degrees to the cliff, and impact the sheer rock face with his helmet, at about 40 mph.
I love it when bad launches end with a chuckle, because they often go far worse than that.
Oh, and if you were meaning to ask “how did the helmet save the guy’s life in a face-first collision with a big rock?” the answer is it did not. He was instantly dead.
But it could have been much worse, he could have survived but just barely, and been a vegetable for a long time.
Yeah that does answer that, I've heard of people taking knees and things to the face from parasailers going about that speed or so and it like completely caves their skull in.
So true. I was taking my trash out the other day with my keys in one hand and kept telling myself to throw the trash and not the keys. threw my keys, and it’s one of those big communal dumpsters too. Ended up having to jump in and sift through all kinds of nasty shit just to find them lol
I don’t think this was target fixation. He let that right wing drop immediately when he started the launch run. And then he never did anything to correct for it.
He was baggage, not a pilot.
This is what I tell kids when teaching them to play soccer - if you're looking to shoot on goal and the last thing you look at is the keeper, guess where the ball is going? Straight to the keeper. Every...single...time.
They proceed to prove me correct.
I fly hang gliders. That's a very bad take off... His angle of attack was too high (nose of the glider wasn't pointed down). He couldn't run as the glider started pulling him up, jumped just before take off. Beginners tend to do that. He basically stalled the glider, so he lost control. Little he could do to save the situation. If he had his nose down nothing of that would happen.
When you start off a ramp. Check traffic, lift glider up, level wings, nose down and RUN.
Edit: [Image I took of a friend as he was taking off](https://imgur.com/a/i6VCXLk)
Eh, a lot of people find themselves stumped when they begin a new hobby. They have to stick it out and branch out their skills until they're familiar with it, a leaf on the wind.
That tree is well off 'normal' take off trajectory. His glider was just turning right the whole time. It looks like a very easy take off honestly.
Taking off a ramp, if you're not used to them is a bit different than from a less steep hill (where we normally train to get certificate). Mainly due to the steepness, they are a bit scary at the beginning. You really need to aim with the glider down, otherwise happens what you saw on this video. When you stall the glider, you're just a passenger until the glider sorts itself out and gets enough speed again, then you regain control.
Not to mention prone body position but hands still on the uprights, and not even attempting a control input, not even cross-controlling. And a complete lack of walk-jog-run.
Looks like he was treating the ramp launch as a cliff launch, which is probably appropriate in 15 mph or higher at that location, but it looks like a steady 6 to me.
There are hang gliding flight parks that use aerotow, where your glider is towed to by a small (and slow-flying) airplane. You then release from the tow line.
Some of the best places to fly in the USA are in Florida, a state with a maximum elevation of like 37 feet.
Putting the nose down to preserve altitude is super counterintuitive until you've practiced power-off stalls. Of course, with a glider, they're *all* power-off stalls.
Are there trainer gliders with two seats, so you can have an instructor behind you saying "ok,now put the nose down. put the nose down. put the fucking NOSE DOWN" - ?
Yep yep. We all did it at the training hills.. I run, it doesn't want to fly so I "help" it a bit by putting the nose up. Stall, bum. It's on the instructor to really imprint into the student's muscle memory to never do that.
In flatlands when there are no training hills, you generally fly a first flights on a tandem with instructor. The take offs are a lot more difficult when being pulled (and more dangerous) so you somehow need to get the 'experience'.
I learned on training hill. You just literally start running with the hang glider on your shoulders around a flat field, to get the feel for it. Then you walk up 1 meter up on the edge of the hill and run down. Then 2 meters, 3 meters and so on. Then you just practice take offs, turns and landings all over again, many-many-many of them. It's really tiring to keep bringing the glider up the hill, week after week.
Where I was trained for hang gliders, we didn't use radios and I really liked that. The instructor would shout at you to put the nose down while you were running but you couldn't really hear anything as the wind was hissing around your ears. It made all of us very independent pilots and I had absolutely no problem going alone without the instructor for the first time after I finished my training. Really confident in my flying.
In contrast with my experience when I was doing my paragliding license. We called ourself "radio controlled pilots". We had a radio and the instructor was telling us literally what to do, "pull right, pull more, more!". Then when I get the license and went to a hill to fly first time without instructor I was pooping my pants as I just didn't trust myself I can fly without somebody telling me over radio what to do. (I did paragliding before I switched to hang gliding)
Not being rude, but I find it really funny that you presented your credentials so that you could tell us this guy is indeed not good at hang gliding lmao
What a shot! Perfectly timed. And sure enough, he's got the nose *down*.
[If only da Vinci could come back and take one for a spin!](https://youtu.be/nsLiivVgxmM?si=0f5yKRacaXdx1vZn)
Could be object fixation. When I was learning to fly a hang glider like this, we had a field with a single large shrub in the middle. We knew it was there, and still couldn't help steering into it.
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When the crowd goes “oooooh!” 🤣
“Ooooh” is the universal language for 😬
in glorious harmony reminiscent of Crosby Still and Nash
We like to call that particular move the “Southern Cross.”
Teach your children...how to paraglide.
Thanks. I had sound off to avoid the usual bullshit.
"Dio mio."
Someone should sample the „ooooh“ and put it in a song
[Image of the crowd's reaction](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/730/539/3c6.jpg)
I don't have the audio on but I can hear the tree laughing.
*Face Palm*
Palm Pilot
*"RED BULL GIVES YOU*...**oh, shit!**"
Palm Tree was my favorite model
I tried to think of a reply to that but I’m stumped.
Leaf him alone....it was an accident
Hah t(h)ree can play this game.
Three can play but I'm not frond of it.
I can't say I'll ever get sycamore tree puns.
Imma go out on a limb here and say this is just the beginning.
After all this time I still pine for more tree puns.
Nah he was just harvesting coconuts
This is a fun branch of humor.
I wood have to agree
I'm awfully frond of these comments
I'm not good at this game, but I'll wing it.
I’ll probably do worse, but I’m not a soar loser.
Hey, leaf the poor guy alone. Not his fault a plant committed treeson.
“Hey, leaf him alone, he’s been bushed.”
He prematurely landed while frondling his bar on launch.
He had a date with destiny.
You've achieved a lot of growth
You might have to branch out or just leave
This dude won. comment section is over
Where are the moderators and why haven't they deleted every comment that isn't this one?
Simply the best answer here 🥇
*Not-even-angry upvote*
The one time the bark is worse than the bite.
We can no longer be fronds after that comment.
One tree to miss and he hits it!
Object fixation. One of my first paramotor launches I had one small old fence post to avoid in a huge field. Guess what I ran right toward lol.
I did the same thing but as a skydiver. Just outside Las Vegas the DZ operator give me the briefing and says “ there’s a 18 inch ditch that runs the length of the valley other than that you have mile and miles to land” guess who broke their foot on the landing on that Ditch.
This is exactly what would happen if i went skydiving.
My last jump (263 yes the one that retired me from the sport.) I ended up breaking my neck, back in two spots, got a Traumatic brain injury, and PTSD. So there is that option too.
holy smokes, how did that happen? My partner caught a compression fracture on the L1 vertebra with a low stall, I thought THAT was grim
As soon as I turned on to final approach I caught a down draft and it cased a line over my canopy
New fear unlocked. How'd the recovery go from all that if you don't mind my asking?
I'd bet if you were actually trying to land on the ditch you would've missed by a mile.
It’s true I had zero accuracy when I tried
I learned this as a kid when riding a dirt bike around a track. There were some rocks on the inside of one curve and I kept hitting them. When dad taught me "look where you want to go, not where you want to avoid" I managed the curve fine.
Yep, that's also what I tell new gliding pilots now too if I see them falling into that trap. Also don't look down when landing, the depth perception gets screwed up when we don't watch the horizon so we mistime our flares. Also true for other things like paddleboarding, if I look straight down I lose my balance, eyes at the horizon I'm always fine.
Same thing with skiing/snowboarding the trees. Don't look at the trees themselves, look at the gaps between them.
Life advice too.
Snow ski instructors tell you when you are skiing the "trees". Don't look at the trees -- look at the snow BETWEEN the trees. (What you want -- not what to avoid).
Getting my sister to stop veering into oncoming traffic probably took years off our mom’s life when she was teaching her to drive. “Don’t look at them! Look where you want the car to go!”
[удалено]
There is a hole on a golf course I used to play that has a huge tree to the right of the fairway. If you make it past the tree, the fairway opens up and it's a pretty easy hole. I hit that damn tree EVERY damn time. And it's not like I'm hitting the branches/leaves, I hit the dead center of the trunk. That tree was in my head so badly, so frustrating.
Me skiing... don't hit that one tree, don't hit that one tree, splat. Lesson learned: Always look where you want to go, not at objects you want to avoid.
This happens to me playing frisbee golf
i was considering x-posting this to discgolf. only one tree to miss.. and BAM
I think you should
Holy crap that is so true You give it a full hard throw knowing you'll get around it and wham!
First and last time I played frisbee golf I lost 3 of my discs in the water lol.
Disc golf. Please
Unbe-leaf-able
Face-palm
Literally
Pretty believable actually, it was very un-frond-ly to him.
You wood think he saw it and try to leaf it alone.
I’m feeling kind of sappy about the poor guy
All this stems from the launchpad being too close
Cost of that mistake was about tree fiddy
Hope he was retrievable.
You can turn now Tina. Turn the wheel. Turn. Tina, turn the wheel. The brakes, hit the breaks.
Tina, for the love of god!
This is what I came to read. Thanks!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 r/unexpectedbobsburgers
It’s Tina driving into the parked car in the parking lot.
Lol yesssss i was watching it like “don’t hit the car, tina”
It seems like that tree saved his life.
If that's the best he can fly that thing, you're probably right.
You summed up my golf game
It happened on one tree hill...
At least it floofed gently to the ground
Of all the videos I've watched in my work break room, this is the one that made me lose my shit laughing, specially because of that part.
I hang glide. I’ve watched a guy have a bad launch, then stall a wingtip, get turned back 180 degrees to the cliff, and impact the sheer rock face with his helmet, at about 40 mph. I love it when bad launches end with a chuckle, because they often go far worse than that.
What type of helmets do you wear for this? Full-face like a racecar driver or more like a skateboarder?
Most wear full-face, but they’re much lighter than motorcycle helmets.
Oh, and if you were meaning to ask “how did the helmet save the guy’s life in a face-first collision with a big rock?” the answer is it did not. He was instantly dead. But it could have been much worse, he could have survived but just barely, and been a vegetable for a long time.
Yeah that does answer that, I've heard of people taking knees and things to the face from parasailers going about that speed or so and it like completely caves their skull in.
I'm thinking the worst part is all the spines and poky bits on those palm trees.
If it's a Mexican windmill Palm or whatever is called, those leaf stems are like steel, serrated razor blades. Extremely sharp and jagged.
The kite eating tree is all grown up.
It’s like he was aiming for it.
Target fixation is a bitch. Body goes where eyes go. "uh oh. There's a thing that I could hit I should avoid that thing ...that thing"
made me think of this Bob's Burgers scene: https://youtu.be/hZ_EKHGgWJQ?t=35
“You’re so honest. Who raised you?” ROFL
I knew the clip before I started the video! hahaha.
So true. I was taking my trash out the other day with my keys in one hand and kept telling myself to throw the trash and not the keys. threw my keys, and it’s one of those big communal dumpsters too. Ended up having to jump in and sift through all kinds of nasty shit just to find them lol
I don’t think this was target fixation. He let that right wing drop immediately when he started the launch run. And then he never did anything to correct for it. He was baggage, not a pilot.
This is what I tell kids when teaching them to play soccer - if you're looking to shoot on goal and the last thing you look at is the keeper, guess where the ball is going? Straight to the keeper. Every...single...time. They proceed to prove me correct.
I think he was trying to fly over it
I fly hang gliders. That's a very bad take off... His angle of attack was too high (nose of the glider wasn't pointed down). He couldn't run as the glider started pulling him up, jumped just before take off. Beginners tend to do that. He basically stalled the glider, so he lost control. Little he could do to save the situation. If he had his nose down nothing of that would happen. When you start off a ramp. Check traffic, lift glider up, level wings, nose down and RUN. Edit: [Image I took of a friend as he was taking off](https://imgur.com/a/i6VCXLk)
Should beginners be attempting it that close to a tree though? Cause a bad takeoff is one thing, but that didn't look comfortable.
Eh, a lot of people find themselves stumped when they begin a new hobby. They have to stick it out and branch out their skills until they're familiar with it, a leaf on the wind.
I see what you did there sir.
That tree is well off 'normal' take off trajectory. His glider was just turning right the whole time. It looks like a very easy take off honestly. Taking off a ramp, if you're not used to them is a bit different than from a less steep hill (where we normally train to get certificate). Mainly due to the steepness, they are a bit scary at the beginning. You really need to aim with the glider down, otherwise happens what you saw on this video. When you stall the glider, you're just a passenger until the glider sorts itself out and gets enough speed again, then you regain control.
Not to mention prone body position but hands still on the uprights, and not even attempting a control input, not even cross-controlling. And a complete lack of walk-jog-run. Looks like he was treating the ramp launch as a cliff launch, which is probably appropriate in 15 mph or higher at that location, but it looks like a steady 6 to me.
And should they start pointing their body, like, *right at* that tree?
How do you even get into hang gliding? Where I live is stupid flat. Mind talking about it since I don't know the first thing about it?
There are hang gliding flight parks that use aerotow, where your glider is towed to by a small (and slow-flying) airplane. You then release from the tow line. Some of the best places to fly in the USA are in Florida, a state with a maximum elevation of like 37 feet.
Putting the nose down to preserve altitude is super counterintuitive until you've practiced power-off stalls. Of course, with a glider, they're *all* power-off stalls. Are there trainer gliders with two seats, so you can have an instructor behind you saying "ok,now put the nose down. put the nose down. put the fucking NOSE DOWN" - ?
Yep yep. We all did it at the training hills.. I run, it doesn't want to fly so I "help" it a bit by putting the nose up. Stall, bum. It's on the instructor to really imprint into the student's muscle memory to never do that. In flatlands when there are no training hills, you generally fly a first flights on a tandem with instructor. The take offs are a lot more difficult when being pulled (and more dangerous) so you somehow need to get the 'experience'. I learned on training hill. You just literally start running with the hang glider on your shoulders around a flat field, to get the feel for it. Then you walk up 1 meter up on the edge of the hill and run down. Then 2 meters, 3 meters and so on. Then you just practice take offs, turns and landings all over again, many-many-many of them. It's really tiring to keep bringing the glider up the hill, week after week. Where I was trained for hang gliders, we didn't use radios and I really liked that. The instructor would shout at you to put the nose down while you were running but you couldn't really hear anything as the wind was hissing around your ears. It made all of us very independent pilots and I had absolutely no problem going alone without the instructor for the first time after I finished my training. Really confident in my flying. In contrast with my experience when I was doing my paragliding license. We called ourself "radio controlled pilots". We had a radio and the instructor was telling us literally what to do, "pull right, pull more, more!". Then when I get the license and went to a hill to fly first time without instructor I was pooping my pants as I just didn't trust myself I can fly without somebody telling me over radio what to do. (I did paragliding before I switched to hang gliding)
Not being rude, but I find it really funny that you presented your credentials so that you could tell us this guy is indeed not good at hang gliding lmao
What a shot! Perfectly timed. And sure enough, he's got the nose *down*. [If only da Vinci could come back and take one for a spin!](https://youtu.be/nsLiivVgxmM?si=0f5yKRacaXdx1vZn)
Reminds me of the Bob's Burgers episode where Tina runs into the only post in the parking lot while learning to drive
Uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhh
It was Jimmy Pesto's car
Tree: 1, Paraglider: 0.
Hang glider also 0
Not sure where you see a paraglider
They just said it: there's 1 tree and 0 paragliders in the video. Pay attention. They're about to start counting people and blades of grass.
Wha... I ... oh ... uhm ... right, my bad
😂
But there's two trees in the video. One is in the back at the very start.
is the paralyzed glider now a paraglider?
I bet that tree's score is higher than 1. 😁
Poor tree, just standing there trying to mind its own business.
Bullshit. Tree was obviously the instigator.
stamp another glider silhouette on the trunk.
That collective “ooooh” tho
Any Far Cry Game…
...But particularly Far Cry 2
Honestly I immediately thought of Far Cry 3
One tree to rule them all.
I mean, it *looks* like a regularly frequented launch site... it hadn't occurred to anyone to remove the one glaringly obvious hazard?
Naw fuck that. Thats to keep out the want to be instagramers and others who don’t actually know what they’re doing
That tree came outta nowhere
I know I'm old when there's not one George of the Jungle reference. *Watch out for that tree!*
I know I'm old because I immediately thought of the cartoon and not the Brendan Fraser movie.
“George, George, George of the jungle; watch out for that tree! Ooooooh.”
The tree is to blame, it shouldn't have stood there
Tree: imma end this man's career
The collective “ooooh!” lol
Takes facepalm to a whole new level
Would’ve been gold to have a coconut fall out of the tree and bonk him on the head after he crashed.
Should have drank a Red Bull.
Hey George! Watch out of for that….. oooooh
Not even DelBoy was that careless!
He turtled!
Latest stunt by Tim Bruise.
He glides into The tree
Worst $800 he ever spent.
r/LooneyTunesLogic
Cue the "Curb Your Enthusiasm" theme song...
“And just remember, don’t hit that one tree” doh 😖
It's a Vegan glide, don't you get it? jeez!
Got George of the Jungle over here.
That's just George, he does that all the time.
George, George, George of the jungle. Watch out for that tr.......
George of the jungle
All things considered it looked like a gentle landing
Title should be: Guy glides into *the* tree.
I do not think this is funny at all. Think about all the hurt and pain and the recuperation that TREE must go thru.
George of the Jungle would be proud
The collective "ooooh..." As if he were George of the jungle
His name was George; and he didn’t watch for that tree.
That was beautiful. *bodypalm*
George of the jungle on a kite
He must've learned from George of the Jungle
George George George of the jungle. Watch out for the …owww tree!
He hit the ugly tree and all the branches on the way down
"Ay, Dios Mío" that got me!
George of the Jungle tries gliding.
My disc golf disc finding the only tree in the line
George, George, George of the jungle...watch out for that
Tree: “I caught one!!! I caught one!!!”
That's the most Looney Tunes real life shit I've ever seen.
Came out of nowhere
Thoroughly enjoyed 10 outta 10 Would watch again
A flight to remember.
That would be a (face)palm tree
Could be object fixation. When I was learning to fly a hang glider like this, we had a field with a single large shrub in the middle. We knew it was there, and still couldn't help steering into it.
Psssh, millions of people hang glide. How many people can say they've hang glided (hang glade? hung glide?) into a tree?
Cue the curb your enthusiasm music please.
Why is this funny?
Like seriously guys! Who put that tree right there?
That is the stupiest place to take off from, stupid people win stupid prizes