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Today, we're at our super slow pool.
Look at how crisp it is.
- Very nice. - Very deep too.
( rolling r's) Crisp. ( laughs )
Remember those back flop posts we did?
Yes.
( splash )
- Ow! - ( laughs )
( screams )
We'll try belly flops today.
- Okay. - But, with a difference.
Instead, we've got, like, a forklift truck.
We got a big ruler here that goes up to 15 feet.
I mean, I've jumped from 15 feet, but I don't know if I can intentionally belly flop from 15 feet because that's gonna kill.
- Your brain may not let you.
- Oh. ( sharp exhale ).
Today, we're doing something we've never done.
We got a Phantom underwater.
Underwater slow-mo looks lush.
So, even though Dan is a big pasty fleshy mess, it still should look good.
- Excuse me? - What? Nothing.
Oh! Why are you wearing those?
- What? - I got-- we had these.
Yeah, but, I've got to limber up, these are my...
We can't show that.
These are a more streamlined look.
That's more aerodynamic, but...
But we have to-- to budget now.
We gotta increase the budget to blur that out.
These are these are tight.
I feel like, the forklift might have been a waste of money.
Well, look all right.
I don't remember the last time I intentionally belly flopped.
I don't remember how much it's gonna hurt.
- Okay. - All right, and it might look good enough from this height.
- Okay, yeah.
- So, there might be no need for me to go for 15 feet.
Maybe not. You're in total control on this one.
- All right. I'll warm up as it were.
- Okay.
- Ready? - I have to remember how to belly flop now.
Your mind will tell you no.
So, I guess I just starfish, right?
But your body will tell you yes.
Okay.
Oh, man, I'm nervous already.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
- ( screams ) - ( splash )
Uh, it stings so much already.
Your little yelp.
( screams )
Gav: Here we go, from one foot up.
( scoffs, laughs )
Dan: I just wanted to test the water, literally.
Gav: Literally test the water.
Dan: Literally test the water.
That's just a really bad dive.
Gav: Yeah, you just really front flopped.
Dan: That's the sort of dive that someone at the pool would go, "Ooh, that looked like it hurt a bit."
- Yeah. - But that was a bit of a poor dive.
So, how did that one hurt, was that painful?
- Oh, it hurt, yeah. - Yeah?
I mean, a belly flop hurts, right?
( water splashing )
- Gav: Ooh, hands. - Dan: Oh, that looks wicked.
Look at how cool it looks underwater. Ah.
Gav: You're actually just dragging down a big pocket of air and then...
- Dan: That's really cool.
- Gav: And then it all seals back up.
- That was from this high.
- Yeah.
So, what are your thoughts? How are you feeling?
Let's just bring it to ten and get it over with, all right?
- Bring her up. - This is why I love working with Dan.
Bugger me.
Bugger me!
There's no way someone's gonna belly flop from that height.
That's mental.
People belly flop from... well, accidentally usually from a lot higher.
What if I, like, get winded, and it, like, kills me.
I will fish you out.
( laughter )
There's a net somewhere.
You'll send my remains home, yeah?
I'll be repatriated.
- ( laughter ) - Yeah?
- That's good to know. - Yeah.
- This is so dumb.
- Oh. - Dan: This is so dumb.
It is. It really hurt.
This is the hardest thing I've had to do, I think.
- In the whole our history?
- Dan: Yeah.
Just think about how much it's gonna hurt.
All right, sorry about this.
I'm literally wasting thousands of but, you know, hours of people's time in total here.
Just standing at ten feet above.
There's a guy underwater there like,
"Just get on with it, mate."
It's all right, you gotta psych yourself up anyway.
All right.
Oh, ( bleep )!
- ( splash )
- Oh! ( laughs ) - Ah!
- ( bleep ) - Come over here.
Oh, God.
You absolutely soaked me.
Hang on. ( sharp exhale )
- Did it wind ya? - ( sharp exhale )
I think my tongues fell off.
That was also to my eye, looked absolutely flat.
You're right.
That really hurt.
Did it feel good? Exhilarating?
- Huh? - Exhilarating?
- No, not exhilarating. - ( laughs )
- ( sharp exhale )
Are you glad it's over?
Is it over?
Let's have a look at the footage.
Gav: Dan, let me ask you a question.
What were you thinking...
here?
Dan: I think I said it out loud.
Gav: The splash was colossal.
- Dan: That is a big splash. - Gav: It went, it covered me.
Dan: I barely went a foot in the pool.
Gav: Well, yeah. It's the equivalent of pulling a parachute.
Look at the splash there. It's gone huge.
- ( Dan groans ) - ( Gav chuckles )
Gav: You are dragging so much air down.
Dan: Look at that. Oh, man.
I do actually get quite deep.
Gav: That looks so surreal, doesn't it?
That looks so cool, I just...
I love watching water in slow-mo.
This underwater camera is really cool.
- Oh, all right, all right. - ( laughs )
Hopefully you enjoyed watching that post, and we'll see you in the next post of "Slow Motion Stories"