Spillway at Lake Avery near my house. Thanks for your support! If you want to see it in real life, here is a place to stay: www.airbnb.com/h/thecoloradoc...
@@dakyno it’s not a huge damn. Turbulence probably ain’t all that much. Really though. If you know for a fact there ain’t no metal sticking up and the water ain’t shallow and the turbulence ain’t bad and ya got a friend or two with ya it oooks fun as hell
Not only is there a danger from exposed metal objects on the concrete, but there's also a risk of deadly hydraulics at the bottom, as seen with low head dams.
PSA, dont do this, exposed metal or even a bump in the concrete can hurt you real bad, not to mention the turbulence at the end of the spillway can hold you down and drown you.
Don't tell people what to do just because of your own stupidity. That's like an old lady who can't walk telling people they shouldn't use stairs.. People that aren't as blind and stupid as you are will simply check first before they do it.
He's in the US, a country with a 61% vaccination rate. Not exactly known for life-preserving decisions, as the below-80 life expectancy shows. But apparently scraping your bum off on concrete is fun, so that's all right.
@@nomadMik Dont forget. China has only had 100,000 reported cases of covid and are not even in the top 100 countries ranked by covid cases. But hey, listen to the government and what they want you too do. ignore all critical thinking skills you have and take a shit on common sense. The government will tell you how to think. Trust them to have your best interest at heart ❤ Only smarties are vaccinated and low iq people are unvaccinated. Are you a smartie or a dumbie???
I remember my buddies and I doing this at a much safer smaller spillway, it’s nice until a nut, nail, or someone’s lost fishing hook sticking out grabs your butthole and hooks on your tailbone and rips you a new ass.
Everyone's pointing out the danger of exposed metal -- But that green slime just waiting to enter a cut or abrasion, plus a two-hundred-foot butt-slide on sandpaper -- Bacteria be looking at his skin like "It's free real estate"...
@@Sawyerbivens Aight, if you say so. Looks super fun, don't get me wrong -- I just try to stay away from green slime when abrasion is involved. But if the concrete is smooth enough, I guess...
Everyone is saying that this guy is dumb for doing this but I actually think he's pretty smart. He knew that it was safe because he made his friend go first
The best part is when he lands and says “oh, it’s perfect” like well I didn’t checked out if there was anything on the way that could heavily injured me or killed me but … YOLO
Sketch . I was hiking a waterfall that is also a water treatment plant called green valley falls in California. I jumped in and was inches away from hitting some metal piping they had at the bottom . Could’ve went horribly wrong for me .
@Лошадь lol people like you act like you’ve never done anything reckless or stupid before.Cmon dude, you bleed the same as everyone else,I promise you.
What happens at the bottom is way down the list on the sketchiness of these situations.. The first fact is that there’s no way to know it’s all good until someone sucks it up and goes down it. So who’s the idiot that you all conned into hitting it first? One snag or sharp spot on the concrete and you could rip yourself a new one.. literally. Maybe less likely to happen on the bottom.. but still highly possible. Even actual water slides have snag spots on them where the sections of tubing connect. Likeliness of that concrete being one continuous pour with no cracks like you see on the sidewalk? Zero. Then we get into the side walls.. which 100% have sharp spots all the down on both sides.. All that said.. I still would have been egging you on to hit it.. Probably why everyone I know has suffered major injuries while I’ve escaped with only minor ones.
Yeah and maybe he checked, but you never know. Maybe there's a piece of Steel sticking out of the concrete? Maybe some rocks in the water at the end? He's pretty lucky. That could end badly
I remember a slide made out of concrete. I also remember my completely ripped shorts from constantly sliding on it. That slide tears through fabric like Doom Guy to zombies. Don't do it unless you want an exposed butt for everyone to see.
The last spillway i tried to slide down left me with huge scrapes on my forearms, shins and knees. It was so course it was like unfinished concrete. The only reason i didn't get it a lot worse was because i was trying to go down it on a boogie board.
I once ripped my swimming shorts and scratched my butt on a concrete water slide (which was an actual slide into a pool at a hotel). Luckily there was no one around to witness me running to my towel while my butt was sticking out of my shorts.
Please, PLEASE do not do this! Those “slides” can have all manner of things under the water at the bottom of them that can cut, bruise, entrap, or otherwise seriously hurt or kill you!
@@abnnuzzinicholasclay686 shut the fuck up bro. I don't like masks or vaccinations but these are literally basic safety procedures. Why do you have to bring politics into everything? Wouldn't life be so much easier if you just shoved that shit aside? I don't understand you people one bit, and I'm Republican!
This looks fun, but avoid it for your own safety. Fun fact, the turbulence created at the bottom is called a drowning machine. The flow in this case looked slow enough to be safe, but there are other things like debris and metal objects to worry about.
Very dangerous watched a friend do the same thing on a smaller scale slid down fine till he hit the bottom and a piece of rusty rebar under water sliced his leg wide open if I remember right he had about 100 stitches and one hell of an infection
@@Chadius_Thundercock These kinds of situations are more common than you might think. Unfortunately this guy’s friend’s experience is not something unusual at all.
I didnt know anything about how dangerous this is or even what “this” is but my first thought was “isnt he gonna get road rash from sliding down concrete?”
I've seen a lot of hate and worrying in the comments. I've also slid down this spillway. I did it all the way back in the early 2000s. Here are my 2 cents on it. Regarding the comments about exposed rebar or rough concrete: this is pretty easy to check for at Lake Avery at the water level shown in the video. Additionally, most of the spillway is covered in algae and river weeds which is pretty soft and slippery. When I last rode down the spillway there was one patch of bare concrete toward the bottom of the spillway that could give you road rash after a couple of passes, but most people who slide this spillway do so on saucer sleds, blue tarps, or ratty jeans to mitigate this, or align themselves to descend on the left or right side of the spillway where there was algae coverage. Regarding the hydraulic at the base of the spillway: there were comments made about lowhead dams and drowning machines, aka submerged hydraulic jumps. While that is absolutely worth considering, the hydraulic jump at the base of this spillway is NOT a submerged jump. My experience with it was that once you hit the bottom you got spat out downstream of the spillway in a few seconds. At no point did I or anyone I slid with get trapped in the hydraulic as would likely be the case if it were a submerged jump/drowning machine. Regarding comments about garbage or dangerous debris in the plunge pool, or intake pipes for hydro power or other uses: those are definitely worth thinking about and people have. I myself dove down about 10 feet into the pool and saw nothing that posed a risk. Additionally, Lake Avery is located in a State Park in the White River National Forest in the very rural northwest corner of Colorado. There's very little in the way of pollution and dumping up there. The dam was built for fishing and recreation (and flood control and irrigation?) and does not have intake pipes in the plunge pool. Regarding Access Restrictions: when last I slid down this spillway in the early 2000s there were no posted restrictions on access to the dam (that I can recall), and no one that I spoke to had ever heard of anyone being cited by the local Rio Blanco Country Sheriff or the Park Rangers. That may have changed, but that was my experience. Additionally, given the rural nature of the area, a number of people engage in spillway sliding here as there isn't much to do in Rio Blanco Country besides, hiking, fishing, going to the shooting range, hunting, swimming in the White River, etc... Bottom line: a spillway is NOT meant to be a waterslide, and many would be dangerous if not outright deadly to slide down. However, there are cases like Lake Avery where spillway sliding is possible for those who are competent swimmers and who go out with safety devices and full knowledge of the risks of that particular spillway. There are people out there who will engage in this sort of activity no matter what they are told. To those people I say, do your homework and make sure that the risks you are taking are within your abilities to manage so that you don't end up fined, jailed, hurt or worse.
@@bigwixenergy Thanks! I can imagine it's not recommended during spring runoff. I'm guessing that's when the remaining 3/4s of the spillway with the stairs activates? Too much water then. And COLD and a crazy hydraulic at the bottom. I wish I could find photos or video of the spillway then.
My cousin did something like this and a concrete metal tie was sticking out less than an inch from the concrete but it cut her foot down to the bone and a deep cut from her outer knee to her bum and she need 4 yards of string to stitch her back up. Play safe
Gosh that's horrible, exactly the kind of thing I was expecting to happen in this video though! Sliding at high speed down something like that not designed as a water slide just seems like such a dangerous idea
Yes,more problematic because we can't protest because they aren't meant for it,so it's obviously our mistake.And people can keep any sharp object at end,they can't imagine that someone is sliding at it.
@@XixiGoing I can't find the video I'm about to talk about to save my life, but trust me, it could be worse. If you can find it there's a video out there of this kid trying to jump a canal with his bicycle where he doesn't make it and lands in the canal. Sounds typical, right? Apparently there was a jagged section of a rusted-out truck frame under the water just enough to not be able to see it. The kid's leg was split wide-open from his calf all the way up to his hip; you could see his pelvis through the wound it was so deep. I mean, I feel bad for OP's cousin, but I'm willing to bet that kid probably lost his leg from infection or because the injury was so severe.
One time when i was a teen about 27 years ago. Me and my step bros were cliff jumping at the sand pits. I jumped first then one by one they all followed. When Timmy the last one landed in the water then came out screaming bloody murder. He had the bottom half of a broken Budweiser bottle sticking out of his foot. We had to carry him back and rush him to the emergency room in the back of my step dad's truck. He was leaking all over the place and I legit thought was gonna die. There was blood all over. He had a bunch of stitches though and was crutches for a while. I seen him a few years back and we laughed about it. Good times 😃
The water over time probably made this concrete smooth enough- but concrete with any appreciable roughness will tear through skin like nothing. I was wet sanding a concrete table and it took about ten minutes to realize that I didn’t have a fingerprint left on one of my fingers. That’s the last time I wipe concrete without gloves on.
@@maticz3923 I definitely felt it, just not right away. Feel free to try it out for yourself. And they come back, it’s not like you lose your print forever.
@@maticz3923 I’ll even give you clear instructions: Pour some concrete Wet sand to 200 grit Take your left hand Rub it around, putting pressure on the pads of your fingers, until you feel pain You will notice that by the time you feel the pain, your skin is already gone. The reason I was dumb enough to do this was that it felt smooth enough to the touch, and I needed to wipe away the wet concrete dust so I could see what I was sanding.
Both responses so far are those of half wit morons. They can’t even comprehend basic danger possibilities.. instead they just say shit like oh there’s algae. No doubt they got the experimental gene therapy, thinking it was a vaccine. Probably thought it was totally safe and effective too. No thanks, way too smart for all that
@@itsazim4434 OMFG lmao you're kidding right? Man algae is not going to cover your &@**#* a$$ in case there is a pipe line or a crack in the concrete, man obviously it makes concrete slippery but it does not justify such a stupid risk, and still there are better ways to have fun as well to suicide
@@austinirwin9347 no, how would something be fun if you know you can die doing that thing? I mean for some people maybe it would be fun, but not for most I think.
Metal objects and potential death aside, wouldn’t the concrete be super abrasive on skin and clothes? Even if it was safe, it’d probably be uncomfortable to slide down
Nah actually thanks to years of continuous water being rushed over it its naturally eroded to be about as smooth as a water slide. Plus lined with algae for extra slipperiness. But god fucking damn its still a miracle that didn't go horribly
That never crossed this dude’s mind, not even for one second. I have a friend just like these idiots.. Dude dove into a wave straight into a sand bar and broke his neck. He said there, paralyzed, floating face down until my other buddy ran and grabbed him. Use some common sense people
@@hapahapahappy Not really, people do more dangerous things on daily basis and nobody is bltching about it. Im pretty sure that most of people whining here are city dwellers who cant even swim and only saw damn in TH-cam video ^^
Oh man , that was back in the late sixties . i think it was off interstate 80 , in between Roseville and Rocklin . it's all filled in with houses now so it probably doesn't exist .
This reminds me of a local attraction called "shooting the tube". A small stream runs under the freeway in a 200 foot long 7' corrugated metal pipe with a concrete floor, so one person blocks the entrance with plywood sheets until the water fills up, while everybody else gets on sleds inside the pipe. Then the one person pulls the dam out and it shoots everyone else through the tube. Everyone else I know who's done it has also gotten hurt, but it doesn't stop anyone.
Yeouch! Looks fun, but I’d want an inner tube under my rear. I don’t feel like having concrete take off my skin, even if there’s algae growing on the slide.
My friends and I would do this all the time. Pro tip: wear old jeans if you're making multiple runs because there IS friction and you're going to need a sacrificial layer hahaha
THIS WAS IN 2015??? Wow. 2015 was honestly the best year ever. It was a lot of fun. But too bad we're stuck in 2022. (It's actually 2021) We're in a pandemic right now. I really wish I was there in that water slide. :((
@@matthewmaillette Hey that’s no big deal, in water parks you pay with money, on social media you pay with your data and here you pay with injuries or life. It’s all good and normal
With constant water running over it, it’s covered in a layer of extremely slick moss still I wouldn’t trust it imagine you hit a big patch that isn’t covered and skin your backside
never slid down a spillway but ive almost drown because of some intense rapids cause by downed bridge in a river. scariest thing ive ever done. rebar poking everwhere and holes in places that couldve been up to 12 ft deep with small places you could get sucked under and killed. i was just trying to cross a river ahead of it all but i stepped in a hole that looked shallow but was up to my thigh and got swepped in.
Well it's not a water slide... this dope just has a wish to be seriously injured.. I'm sure they passed many sign that said no trespassing and no swimming.
I would eventually do it if he double checks the bottom of the slide and goes down the slide with an plastic sled thats made for winter fun. But even then this is hardcore.
I was more worried about just the possible rough seams in between the concrete. Unless it’s all one solid piece, I’d at least go down on a floaty or something
I know water on cement is slippery but, it *_is_* still cement, how does he not have road rash all over his backside by the bottom? *does looks heaps of fun though! 😃
I’ve slid down dams before, and I believe it’s the constant water flow over the concrete for years at a time that actually polishes the surface incredibly smooth. Combine that with a little lubrication from the water and it feels just like a plastic water slide
Hats off to this man
😂
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literally
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Just imagine a bolt coming out of the concrete in mid way down
Damn dude that’s brutal lol
Urg, just the thought of a 1/2" jagged peice of rebar poking out.
Imagining that catching your ball sack is making me wince.
@@dancoulson6579 omg i- im like half dead reading ur reply...
Edit: changed *"comment"* to *"reply"*
@@dancoulson6579 wtf lol
@@dancoulson6579 You just made it even more darker..
That’s a fun destination that can turn final destination real quick
I WILL DRINK FROM YOUR SKULL
@@hughmercer8352 and I will from yours bud, stay humble my lad 🙌
We’d be watching this on live leak
Funal destination. Badum tsss*
Yea destination fucked
A lot of people have died doing this because of the turbulence at the bottom keeping them underwater. Aside from that… looks fun😂
.... 😃
Well the cameraman never dies so that explains it
@@dakyno it’s not a huge damn. Turbulence probably ain’t all that much. Really though. If you know for a fact there ain’t no metal sticking up and the water ain’t shallow and the turbulence ain’t bad and ya got a friend or two with ya it oooks fun as hell
@@jessecarpenter6434 and you would know that how
@@jessecarpenter6434 im
i was just joking man...
This is one of the most dangerous things I have ever seen
U really a good portrait of the soft generation today
@@ihelpyouwitheverything4720 it’s more that the entire slipway could’ve been riddled in sharp shit or hydraulics at the bottom
Stfu
@@ihelpyouwitheverything4720 not wanting to die in agony, pierced through the spine by metal rebar = soft
@@ihelpyouwitheverything4720 he is sliding on a dam that could have a rebar sticking out at the bottom and the hydraulics at the bottom as well.
@@ihelpyouwitheverything4720 why are you the way you are?
Not only is there a danger from exposed metal objects on the concrete, but there's also a risk of deadly hydraulics at the bottom, as seen with low head dams.
Hopefully this guy has a good knowledge of the whole surface he is sliding down and also predetermined that the bottom is safe.
@@dirkhoekstra727 what makes this so cool is that its not safe... its high risk.
If you want safety go to a water park and wait in line.
Hindu Goat because injuring yourself is so cool.
@@hindugoat2302 Or spend a lot of money renting a whole water park just for yourself
delta p
when it gets ya,it gets ya
PSA, dont do this, exposed metal or even a bump in the concrete can hurt you real bad, not to mention the turbulence at the end of the spillway can hold you down and drown you.
Don’t worry he’s the cameraman
Don't tell people what to do just because of your own stupidity. That's like an old lady who can't walk telling people they shouldn't use stairs.. People that aren't as blind and stupid as you are will simply check first before they do it.
Not to mention all the slime on the concrete 🤢
@@switchlaserflip9243 fine, then risk a bolt splitting your back open if you want
@@switchlaserflip9243 bro are you good?
Disclamer: do not try this at your local dam, or any dam, this is dangerous.
He's in the US, a country with a 61% vaccination rate. Not exactly known for life-preserving decisions, as the below-80 life expectancy shows. But apparently scraping your bum off on concrete is fun, so that's all right.
@@nomadMik Dont forget. China has only had 100,000 reported cases of covid and are not even in the top 100 countries ranked by covid cases.
But hey, listen to the government and what they want you too do.
ignore all critical thinking skills you have and take a shit on common sense. The government will tell you how to think. Trust them to have your best interest at heart ❤
Only smarties are vaccinated and low iq people are unvaccinated. Are you a smartie or a dumbie???
@@ashinstinct354 bruh what the fuck is your point of bringing up china? Or with the rest of that horseshit?
Oh shut up, pussy generation, always crying about "danger"
@@AverageAlien I can’t tell if this is satire or a lack of brain cells.
The guy knew that being the cameraman would ensure that nothing bad would happen to him
underrated comment
@@cviator_real stolen comment
We call it a pro gamer move
@@melancholymakk this video is one of thr reasons the meme exists th-cam.com/video/sTPJJCjvYQs/w-d-xo.html
Son, the films of cameraman who have died filming were never released.
Man didn't think anything about his future of sliding down there 😂
Lol🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember my buddies and I doing this at a much safer smaller spillway, it’s nice until a nut, nail, or someone’s lost fishing hook sticking out grabs your butthole and hooks on your tailbone and rips you a new ass.
@@levy5808 Speaking from experience?
@@mynamejeff3545 No thankfully I still have 1 ass LOL
😂 😂😂😂😂
Everyone's pointing out the danger of exposed metal --
But that green slime just waiting to enter a cut or abrasion, plus a two-hundred-foot butt-slide on sandpaper --
Bacteria be looking at his skin like "It's free real estate"...
What are you going on about??
We have been going down that spill way for years. I think even my dad went down it as a kid. It's fine.
@@CerealExperimentsMizuki ... I just know from personal experience that green slime likes to infect open wounds...
@@Sawyerbivens Aight, if you say so. Looks super fun, don't get me wrong -- I just try to stay away from green slime when abrasion is involved.
But if the concrete is smooth enough, I guess...
@@ineedabetterusername7424 no I mean that I didn't see any green slime or anything dangerous.
Everyone is saying that this guy is dumb for doing this but I actually think he's pretty smart. He knew that it was safe because he made his friend go first
Do you actually wear long John's?
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Cinema Summary Moment
LMFAO
Its always nice to have someone who would test it before yourself 😂
and land directly on the old refrigerator at the bottom surrounded by barbedwire fencing and a 72 barracuda
I see we’ve both been to Disneyland
@@matthewmaillette 🤣🍻
ooooooh Barracuda!!!
@@mr.nobody9697 I knowww take that thing out and restore that baby!!
That barracuda at the bottom of the pool remembers when Nixon was in office.
The best part is when he lands and says “oh, it’s perfect” like well I didn’t checked out if there was anything on the way that could heavily injured me or killed me but … YOLO
🤣🤣🤣frrrr
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How do you know he didn’t check tho
@Dartgame 340 you seriously think he scoured the surface of that ENTIRE thing feeling for anything sticking out?
It's not projection, it's just logic.
They don't call Dams "Drowning Machines" for no reason.
i thought they called them "dam, niggas dead"
@@oogabooga2581 yes, why aren't they called like that
They don't call them "Drowning Machines" period
@@dazza2350 they do, you just haven't heard it.
I’ve never heard that
"Alright we're going spillway!" is something you should never have to say willingly.
Was he also going bareback?
Now that's a real superhero.
Sketch . I was hiking a waterfall that is also a water treatment plant called green valley falls in California. I jumped in and was inches away from hitting some metal piping they had at the bottom . Could’ve went horribly wrong for me .
That’s what a depth check is for
Treatment plant? The fact it was a treatment plant should've been the first reason to check for piping that took waste away from the plant! LOL
@Лошадь lol people like you act like you’ve never done anything reckless or stupid before.Cmon dude, you bleed the same as everyone else,I promise you.
That pipe would have turned you ghey in that moment of penetration
What happens at the bottom is way down the list on the sketchiness of these situations..
The first fact is that there’s no way to know it’s all good until someone sucks it up and goes down it. So who’s the idiot that you all conned into hitting it first?
One snag or sharp spot on the concrete and you could rip yourself a new one.. literally. Maybe less likely to happen on the bottom.. but still highly possible. Even actual water slides have snag spots on them where the sections of tubing connect. Likeliness of that concrete being one continuous pour with no cracks like you see on the sidewalk? Zero.
Then we get into the side walls.. which 100% have sharp spots all the down on both sides..
All that said.. I still would have been egging you on to hit it..
Probably why everyone I know has suffered major injuries while I’ve escaped with only minor ones.
That’s insane without a thick wetsuit or a mat under you...
I was thinking the same thing. Seen too many with rough concrete at the bottom 🤣
The slide is covered in Algea
Its actually soft and very slippery.
@@johnmillard2931 then some rebar, a screw, or chuck of concrete rips you in half lmao
Yeah and maybe he checked, but you never know. Maybe there's a piece of Steel sticking out of the concrete? Maybe some rocks in the water at the end?
He's pretty lucky. That could end badly
True but we are men. When did you guys forget.
I remember a slide made out of concrete. I also remember my completely ripped shorts from constantly sliding on it. That slide tears through fabric like Doom Guy to zombies. Don't do it unless you want an exposed butt for everyone to see.
he's lucky it wasn't exposed muscle after the clothing and skin was torn off if that concrete was like a cheese grater
UwU lmao
The last spillway i tried to slide down left me with huge scrapes on my forearms, shins and knees. It was so course it was like unfinished concrete. The only reason i didn't get it a lot worse was because i was trying to go down it on a boogie board.
I once ripped my swimming shorts and scratched my butt on a concrete water slide (which was an actual slide into a pool at a hotel). Luckily there was no one around to witness me running to my towel while my butt was sticking out of my shorts.
So your boogie board was completely shredded and the concrete started grinding on you?
Please, PLEASE do not do this! Those “slides” can have all manner of things under the water at the bottom of them that can cut, bruise, entrap, or otherwise seriously hurt or kill you!
Are you quadrupled vaccinated and do you wear at least 4 mask inside. ?
@@abnnuzzinicholasclay686 Are you on a ventilator?
@@JamesThompson97 you Dont have to upvote your own comment
@@JamesThompson97 pathetic you gotta do that
@@abnnuzzinicholasclay686 shut the fuck up bro. I don't like masks or vaccinations but these are literally basic safety procedures. Why do you have to bring politics into everything? Wouldn't life be so much easier if you just shoved that shit aside? I don't understand you people one bit, and I'm Republican!
I’m always scared of intakes being in those kind of waters, especially because it looks like a spillway from a dam.
@BeanCloverGaming what do you mean ?
@BeanCloverGaming wow, damn… that must be traumatising… I’m sorry for your friend
@BeanCloverGaming 😂
@BeanCloverGaming this man is on the fucking grind
nice cap beanclover
This looks fun, but avoid it for your own safety. Fun fact, the turbulence created at the bottom is called a drowning machine.
The flow in this case looked slow enough to be safe, but there are other things like debris and metal objects to worry about.
This man just did something most thinking people wouldn't.
That is indeed the best water slide thank you TH-cam algorithm
Agreed. Yes, Skydiving sent me here.
Exploding whale, road kayaking and now best waterslide. What a time to be alive.
fuckn drugo
@BUTT-HEAD dehoimanoi
"Oh it's perfect"
Very dangerous watched a friend do the same thing on a smaller scale slid down fine till he hit the bottom and a piece of rusty rebar under water sliced his leg wide open if I remember right he had about 100 stitches and one hell of an infection
Crazy! Must have been awful
@@andesarcher7559 if his comment was real
@@Chadius_Thundercock These kinds of situations are more common than you might think. Unfortunately this guy’s friend’s experience is not something unusual at all.
Holy fuck this video is actually more terrifying than i thought
Now imagine that instead of hitting his his leg it hits his balls
I didnt know anything about how dangerous this is or even what “this” is but my first thought was “isnt he gonna get road rash from sliding down concrete?”
My guess is algae build up causing it to be slick? Or he just lost most of his a$$ 😂
Either that or someone used very posh concrete to build that thing
I'm like, obviously that's nasty industrial water why would you even touch that sht
I've seen a lot of hate and worrying in the comments. I've also slid down this spillway. I did it all the way back in the early 2000s. Here are my 2 cents on it.
Regarding the comments about exposed rebar or rough concrete: this is pretty easy to check for at Lake Avery at the water level shown in the video. Additionally, most of the spillway is covered in algae and river weeds which is pretty soft and slippery. When I last rode down the spillway there was one patch of bare concrete toward the bottom of the spillway that could give you road rash after a couple of passes, but most people who slide this spillway do so on saucer sleds, blue tarps, or ratty jeans to mitigate this, or align themselves to descend on the left or right side of the spillway where there was algae coverage.
Regarding the hydraulic at the base of the spillway: there were comments made about lowhead dams and drowning machines, aka submerged hydraulic jumps. While that is absolutely worth considering, the hydraulic jump at the base of this spillway is NOT a submerged jump. My experience with it was that once you hit the bottom you got spat out downstream of the spillway in a few seconds. At no point did I or anyone I slid with get trapped in the hydraulic as would likely be the case if it were a submerged jump/drowning machine.
Regarding comments about garbage or dangerous debris in the plunge pool, or intake pipes for hydro power or other uses: those are definitely worth thinking about and people have. I myself dove down about 10 feet into the pool and saw nothing that posed a risk. Additionally, Lake Avery is located in a State Park in the White River National Forest in the very rural northwest corner of Colorado. There's very little in the way of pollution and dumping up there. The dam was built for fishing and recreation (and flood control and irrigation?) and does not have intake pipes in the plunge pool.
Regarding Access Restrictions: when last I slid down this spillway in the early 2000s there were no posted restrictions on access to the dam (that I can recall), and no one that I spoke to had ever heard of anyone being cited by the local Rio Blanco Country Sheriff or the Park Rangers. That may have changed, but that was my experience. Additionally, given the rural nature of the area, a number of people engage in spillway sliding here as there isn't much to do in Rio Blanco Country besides, hiking, fishing, going to the shooting range, hunting, swimming in the White River, etc...
Bottom line: a spillway is NOT meant to be a waterslide, and many would be dangerous if not outright deadly to slide down. However, there are cases like Lake Avery where spillway sliding is possible for those who are competent swimmers and who go out with safety devices and full knowledge of the risks of that particular spillway.
There are people out there who will engage in this sort of activity no matter what they are told. To those people I say, do your homework and make sure that the risks you are taking are within your abilities to manage so that you don't end up fined, jailed, hurt or worse.
Respect 👍
@Onouphrios so you read or acknowledged none of it. Determined to be ignorant, aren't you?
@Onouphrios bet you wouldn't have the balls to slide down the spillway even after the all the information that was provided.
Thanks for explaining buddy! I’ll add from experience the single greatest risk is doing it during spring runoff. Not recommended.
@@bigwixenergy Thanks! I can imagine it's not recommended during spring runoff. I'm guessing that's when the remaining 3/4s of the spillway with the stairs activates? Too much water then. And COLD and a crazy hydraulic at the bottom. I wish I could find photos or video of the spillway then.
My cousin did something like this and a concrete metal tie was sticking out less than an inch from the concrete but it cut her foot down to the bone and a deep cut from her outer knee to her bum and she need 4 yards of string to stitch her back up. Play safe
I for sure thought this was going to be a "tragedy film" and he was going to catch some imperfection on the way down!
Gosh that's horrible, exactly the kind of thing I was expecting to happen in this video though! Sliding at high speed down something like that not designed as a water slide just seems like such a dangerous idea
Yes,more problematic because we can't protest because they aren't meant for it,so it's obviously our mistake.And people can keep any sharp object at end,they can't imagine that someone is sliding at it.
@@XixiGoing I can't find the video I'm about to talk about to save my life, but trust me, it could be worse. If you can find it there's a video out there of this kid trying to jump a canal with his bicycle where he doesn't make it and lands in the canal. Sounds typical, right? Apparently there was a jagged section of a rusted-out truck frame under the water just enough to not be able to see it. The kid's leg was split wide-open from his calf all the way up to his hip; you could see his pelvis through the wound it was so deep. I mean, I feel bad for OP's cousin, but I'm willing to bet that kid probably lost his leg from infection or because the injury was so severe.
Wow, you guys measure cuts by the string length in Europe? Here in the United States we measure in amount of stitches. Very interesting.
Looks fun. Just remember, it's all fun and games until someone tears their taint on a jagged piece of concrete. Be careful
@@RealSavage7 the cameraman looked exactly like the kind of guy to do down that without checking it first
Not everyone thinks 1st. Just saying
This is what I was thinking. Didn't even go down with a mat or anything else lol.
Lmfao all these comments
Best water slide indeed. One way road to heaven.
On top of what others have pointed out, spillways often have dentates to help slow the flow down and reduce erosion
One time when i was a teen about 27 years ago. Me and my step bros were cliff jumping at the sand pits. I jumped first then one by one they all followed. When Timmy the last one landed in the water then came out screaming bloody murder. He had the bottom half of a broken Budweiser bottle sticking out of his foot. We had to carry him back and rush him to the emergency room in the back of my step dad's truck. He was leaking all over the place and I legit thought was gonna die. There was blood all over. He had a bunch of stitches though and was crutches for a while. I seen him a few years back and we laughed about it. Good times
😃
My high-school physics teacher said that they did this in dry spillways in LA wearing 5 pairs of jeans.
That’s fucking metal
@@JakefromStateFarm292 salutes king, it's your kingdom still hollow?
@@Kiwi-hv8fg i eat the bird called kiwi. It taste nice. Yummy yum in my tummy
@@Kiwi-hv8fg yes
@@named746 oh yeah, gotta love breaking international law by consuming an endangered species of bird
It's perfect landing
Mogus
fifth
@Big Homie Steve The Metal Head Because it's perfect landing
No, not really if there's a hydraulic at the bottom he'd get sucked under
@Big Homie Steve The Metal Head perfect landing = lucky
The water over time probably made this concrete smooth enough- but concrete with any appreciable roughness will tear through skin like nothing. I was wet sanding a concrete table and it took about ten minutes to realize that I didn’t have a fingerprint left on one of my fingers. That’s the last time I wipe concrete without gloves on.
Nah man. You cant just erase your fingerprints without feeling it
You made this up
@@maticz3923 I definitely felt it, just not right away. Feel free to try it out for yourself.
And they come back, it’s not like you lose your print forever.
@@maticz3923 I’ll even give you clear instructions:
Pour some concrete
Wet sand to 200 grit
Take your left hand
Rub it around, putting pressure on the pads of your fingers, until you feel pain
You will notice that by the time you feel the pain, your skin is already gone.
The reason I was dumb enough to do this was that it felt smooth enough to the touch, and I needed to wipe away the wet concrete dust so I could see what I was sanding.
@@jadencm4862 Is this an effective way of getting rid of your finger prints permanently?
@@Patop2002 I don’t think there exists a good way to remove your fingerprints permanently
I'm impressed that dude has lived as long as he has
😅
Oh my god no mat or board? Isn’t that concrete?
Water makes rock/concrete very smooth and slippery, If you find like a cliff that goes into the water. The part under water is slippery
There’s algae
Both responses so far are those of half wit morons. They can’t even comprehend basic danger possibilities.. instead they just say shit like oh there’s algae.
No doubt they got the experimental gene therapy, thinking it was a vaccine. Probably thought it was totally safe and effective too. No thanks, way too smart for all that
@@itsazim4434 OMFG lmao you're kidding right? Man algae is not going to cover your &@**#* a$$ in case there is a pipe line or a crack in the concrete, man obviously it makes concrete slippery but it does not justify such a stupid risk, and still there are better ways to have fun as well to suicide
@@FLyAgaric421 what are you on about
If that was actually safe it would be extremely fun, sadly it is actually not that safe lol
things that arent safe cant be fun?
@@austinirwin9347 they can be until they're not
@@NinjaThatLongboards wise words
@@austinirwin9347 no, how would something be fun if you know you can die doing that thing? I mean for some people maybe it would be fun, but not for most I think.
@@sregginetahi999 skydiving
Metal objects and potential death aside, wouldn’t the concrete be super abrasive on skin and clothes? Even if it was safe, it’d probably be uncomfortable to slide down
Nah actually thanks to years of continuous water being rushed over it its naturally eroded to be about as smooth as a water slide. Plus lined with algae for extra slipperiness. But god fucking damn its still a miracle that didn't go horribly
@Taki Tachibana I’d rather live over risking my life on such a thing.
I didn't see the beer that our intrepid waterslider was asking his companion to hold while we watched this. But, metaphorically, it was there.
yeah, bet no other water slides split you into 5 different pieces when you get dragged into an intake
That never crossed this dude’s mind, not even for one second. I have a friend just like these idiots..
Dude dove into a wave straight into a sand bar and broke his neck. He said there, paralyzed, floating face down until my other buddy ran and grabbed him. Use some common sense people
@@FLyAgaric421 He obviously knows the place, you are the idlot here. You and your imaginary friend.
@@psychotropnilachtan8869 cope.
@@psychotropnilachtan8869 dude even if he "knows the place" this is still always an insanely idiotic thing to do
@@hapahapahappy Not really, people do more dangerous things on daily basis and nobody is bltching about it. Im pretty sure that most of people whining here are city dwellers who cant even swim and only saw damn in TH-cam video ^^
i use to do that on a similar ramp outside sacramento . we used inner tubes for chusioning and xtra speed . super scary but fun.
That's pretty broad area, can you be more specific? Ill check it out on google earth.
Oh man , that was back in the late sixties . i think it was off interstate 80 , in between Roseville and Rocklin . it's all filled in with houses now so it probably doesn't exist .
@@siriosstar4789 How old are you
76 , this coming Feb.
He’s got a straw hat on thats about as good as a helmet 😂
This reminds me of a local attraction called "shooting the tube". A small stream runs under the freeway in a 200 foot long 7' corrugated metal pipe with a concrete floor, so one person blocks the entrance with plywood sheets until the water fills up, while everybody else gets on sleds inside the pipe. Then the one person pulls the dam out and it shoots everyone else through the tube.
Everyone else I know who's done it has also gotten hurt, but it doesn't stop anyone.
That sounds fun haha
This is the most shortest but most dangerous video I’ve ever seen on TH-cam
Imagine some steel sticking out the concrete
Brutal
First thing you learn in swimming school: never jump into unknown waters.
This guys : but sliding is ok, yes?
Playing in spillways is super sketch but this is near the uploader's house, he probably does know the conditions well
Dam, that looked fun!
reminds me of a spillway dam near Hunt, TX, wish there were more spillways that were like this.
Yeouch! Looks fun, but I’d want an inner tube under my rear. I don’t feel like having concrete take off my skin, even if there’s algae growing on the slide.
A few inches of fresh concrete is enough to wear your shorts and your skin off
@@captainobvious8037 Thank you
@@user-ellievator My pleasure
No mat? Did your shorts make it? 🤣
You made it! Congrats on 1K.
Lets gooo! Thank you!
My friends and I would do this all the time. Pro tip: wear old jeans if you're making multiple runs because there IS friction and you're going to need a sacrificial layer hahaha
Hey you, you're finally awake
That fall looked pretty bad
Half expecting when the camera hit the water for a Skyrim meme to pop up when he got topside 🤣🤣🤣
hey you you're finally awake
Literally same hahaha
THIS WAS IN 2015???
Wow. 2015 was honestly the best year ever. It was a lot of fun. But too bad we're stuck in 2022. (It's actually 2021) We're in a pandemic right now.
I really wish I was there in that water slide. :((
Looks fun af
i would be really scared about some sharp objects protruding under water. With this speed it can be very dangerous
The best part is that it's totally free!
And no life guards!
The only thing not free is the cost of your life lol
@@matthewmaillette Hey that’s no big deal, in water parks you pay with money, on social media you pay with your data and here you pay with injuries or life.
It’s all good and normal
@@starstencahl8985 exactly
@@matthewmaillette definitely free
This man would slide down the middle of an escalator even though there would be metal spikes. Mad lad
Hats off to this guy
I like how nobody talking about his hat falling off
its not that interesting tbh
...Or the deterioration of the concrete retaining wall on the left....
Why the hell would anyone talk about his hat coming off? Idiotic comment
Well hats off to you for spotting it
@@DrMbutu Why are you talking about his hat? =P
Is that concrete under the water..? that would hurt quiet badly...
With constant water running over it, it’s covered in a layer of extremely slick moss still I wouldn’t trust it imagine you hit a big patch that isn’t covered and skin your backside
never slid down a spillway but ive almost drown because of some intense rapids cause by downed bridge in a river. scariest thing ive ever done. rebar poking everwhere and holes in places that couldve been up to 12 ft deep with small places you could get sucked under and killed.
i was just trying to cross a river ahead of it all but i stepped in a hole that looked shallow but was up to my thigh and got swepped in.
Hats off of this man 👏👏
That looks like a very fun waterslide
You can tell by the way he feet move at 0:36 that he's having second thoughts
Says that was perfect through gritted teeth at the end and cut the video straight away before he screams in agony
Jfc that looks like a painful slide. You seem like your having fun haha that's awesome
Dam this water slide is Cool
Love this channel
this man went down with his hat and tried to keep it on going down and plunging into the water.. Legend.
GREAT video😃👍
What a banger bro.
Now of he were on a toboggan, or a doughnut, that would be sick! I'd go sledding there in winter too, although I'd probably freeze
His soul gonna reincarnate in other people's body
Perfect!!!!!!
Best water slide + Worst cameraman = TH-cam Algorithm says “Yes Please!”
This might actually be the tallest waterslide in the world which is 49 meters and this looks way higher
Well it's not a water slide... this dope just has a wish to be seriously injured.. I'm sure they passed many sign that said no trespassing and no swimming.
Imagine if the hat would have been stringed to him
😂😂😂😂
That was cool, no cap.
That looks like fun
RIP hat
Yeah
I would eventually do it if he double checks the bottom of the slide and goes down the slide with an plastic sled thats made for winter fun. But even then this is hardcore.
Представлю, если там будет острый бугорок, или торчать маленькая арматура.
Тоже об этом подумал)
I was more worried about just the possible rough seams in between the concrete. Unless it’s all one solid piece, I’d at least go down on a floaty or something
My mind works differently while watching such videos. Damn you final destination movies.
One of my favorite fishing spots
This guy, as emphatically as he can, illustrates what NOT to do EVER!!!
Everyone in the comments: and I know for a fact that he didn’t inspect any of this before doing it
Right?? Lol, everyone wants to insert their judgment these days, despite having absolutely no actual knowledge of the situation.
Ah yes, nothing more relaxing than a water slide
Wow is an instant slide :)
That is so unbelievably dangerous due to the stuff that could be stuck to or sticking out from the concrete. Does look hella fun tho😆😂
I know water on cement is slippery but, it *_is_* still cement, how does he not have road rash all over his backside by the bottom? *does looks heaps of fun though! 😃
I’ve slid down dams before, and I believe it’s the constant water flow over the concrete for years at a time that actually polishes the surface incredibly smooth. Combine that with a little lubrication from the water and it feels just like a plastic water slide
Also i think that algae make surface slipper
@@X1XBlackbirdX1X i dont know if thats true but i believe it
U can see how he was slower than the waves then had the same velocity and then he was faster , that was nice
This dude rad👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
*sits 15 feet back and spends half the video scooting to the edge*
Its a calculated approach, very important to a successful slide
And the video is a grand total of 48 seconds long. You that busy?
Imagine there's a nail or something sticking out from the concrete
I mean yes, but also concrete sticking out from the concrete would be enough to cause some serious burns
@@soulchorea just a burn is honestly quite a lucky outcome.
amazing camera work...
Who else is getting this recommended 6 years later
U r crazy bro
I can't believe not a single comment is talking about potential metal protruding from the concrete.