Sports Illustrated: Palouse Falls Footage
Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009
Tyler Bradt, 22, kayaked over the 186-foot Palouse Falls in Southeastern Washington on April 21, breaking the waterfall world record by 59 feet. Sports Illustrated released footage of the drop yesterday.
Footage shot by Bradt’s production company, Revolutionary Innovations, for the upcoming film Dream Result.
“I’ve never had that feeling before of going from zero to a million miles an hour in the course of a 15-20 foot lip,” Bradt told John Grace from Lunch Video Magazine. “So I lined it up, came down the lip and was right where I wanted to be … That sensation of free falling and then being like, ‘OK, it’s impact time,’ and that moment goes by and you’re still free falling is an absolutely wild experience. … It was amazing amazing experience, definitely one of the best days of my life.”
Bradt exited the water with a sprained wrist, some winded lungs and a broken paddle.
For the full audio interview, check out Lunch Video Magazine’s audio conversation between John Grace and Tyler Bradt.
Awesome. Wonder who will run the first dory?
Whoa, that was impressive.
Awesome.
dswift: Water skis.
So the guy going off the water-fall also owns the production company that is filming it. Conflict of interest?
How would it be a conflict of interest when it’s your own head on the line? If I’m dropping 186 feet I would want to own the video rights to help fund my next adventure or at least pay for the coffin. Congrats Tyler.
I’m sure Jamie Pierre could give some advice on owning the rights to a record breaking huck.
Well hey a little research might be in order. It’s not the “Pay”loose falls its the “Pah”loose falls–anyone around here could have told him that!
Hope this stunt isn’t followed by copy-cats–those who do body recovery in the Snake River have a very hard time finding anyone until way too many days have gone by. This kid was lucky to survive a stupid stunt.
Stunt? Conflict? Conflict would be if the production company tried to convince him to do it so they could make money, but they are his people, and truth be told no one is getting rich here. It’s Tylers life and I think the fact that he comes up in his boat shows that he is really good at what he does. Never befere has anyone thought that was runnable. He obviously was qualified to make the call.