Competitive trampoline bails

Six minutes of some crazy competitive trampoline bails.

In my current situation, with no phone, no laptop, and no TV, I haven't seen much of this year's Olympics in Paris.  But at a restaurant the other day, I caught some of the competitive trampoline event.  Personally, I think this is more entertaining than the traditional gymnastics.  These competitors are bouncing 20 or 25 feet up in the air, doing amazing flips and twists.  But even in the Olympics, I saw two serious bails, one man, one woman.  

The female got bucked on the edge, and did an accidental flip so low that her hair bun skimmed the safety pad on the end of the trampoline.  A couple inches lower, should could have broken her neck.  It was scary to see live.  The guy got a little squirrelly, and came down from 25 feet up and missed the entire trampoline, landing on the spotter's crash pad beside the trampoline, on the floor.  Even for all you Old School BMXers on my feed, 25 feet to flat is gnarly.  I can't find good shots of the bails from the Olympics on YouTube, so here's a compilation of gnarly bails from other trampoline contests.

As a guy who once was a spotter for the American Gladiators and their contenders, I have to say these spotters are all pretty amazing, which is good.