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10:13 7 Sep 2018


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This is the sport we didn't know we needed

If you're more familiar with the creases in your couch than you are with your running shoes, then you're in luck. Because we've found the extreme sport for you.

It's called ‘Death diving’ and the World Championship takes place in Norway.

The concept is relatively simple – run and jump off a high platform, impress judges with a few creative mid-air flips and then finish with a textbook, face-first donkey-flop, where you aim to make as much splash as possible.

Although the jumps look extremely painful, divers tuck their legs at the last second to ensure their knees break the water instead of their face and stomach which, from that height, could result in pretty serious injury.

Finalists are judged on several criteria: running speed, jump height, jump length, acrobatics, degree of difficulty, originality, holding pose before entry, entry style and splash size.

The video above shows the semi finalists jumps from this year's event... and each one is better than the last.

The eventual winner was Emil Lybekk, who won with a record breaking score with his double-twist corkscrew into a flop.


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