SALTARIAS DE UN PUENTE? // WOULD YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE? [Sp/En]

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Creo que sólo imaginarnos la idea puede generar dos reacciones, o un rotundo “si” si eres lo suficientemente aventurado, o “de ninguna manera”.
Bueno, mi caso la verdad es el primero. La altura nunca fue un problema para mí. De hecho entrené por años acrobacias aéreas y ahora despues de varios años estoy volviendo a ellas. Incluso ya había vivido la experiencia de tirarme en un paracaídas en tandem.
Pero saltar de un puente… definitivamente es una experiencia aparte. No sé, al hacer acrobacias aéreas uno tiene el completo control de su cuerpo en relación a un elemento. Tirarse de un paracaídas en tándem significa estar amarrado a otra persona con experiencia que toma el control de la situación. Pero saltar de un puente… aquí eres tú la persona que debe subir unas escaleras que te llevan al abismo. Nadie más que tú puede tomar la desición de dar el paso que primero te eleva y en milésimas de segundo, por la fuerza de la gravedad te desciende al vacío. Por más cuerda y arnés que lleves puesto, creeme que aunque no sufras vértigo y por más aventurero que te conideres un hormigueo te recorre el cuerpo y te hace dudar.

Cuando llegamos a Baños, en Ecuador, yo ya sabía de la existencia de este Puenting, llegué con la idea fija de vivir la experiencia, pero cuando ví por primera vez las dimensiones de ese puente y me imaginé la sensación de tirarme, ahí sí que conocí el vértigo. Se trata de una caída libre de 50 metros (la mitad de la altura del puente) y un pendulo de 80 metros.

ENGI think just imagining the idea can generate two reactions, either a resounding "yes" if you are adventurous enough, or "no way”.
Well, my case is actually the first one. Height was never a problem for me. In fact I trained for years in aerial acrobatics and now after several years I am returning to it. I even had the experience of jumping in a tandem parachute.
But jumping off a bridge... it's definitely an experience apart. I don't know, when doing aerial acrobatics you have complete control of your body in relation to an element. Jumping from a tandem parachute means being tethered to another experienced person who takes control of the situation. But jumping off a bridge... here you are the person who must climb stairs that lead you into the abyss. No one but you can make the decision to take the step that first lifts you up and in milliseconds, by the force of gravity, brings you down into the void. No matter how much rope and harness you wear, believe me, even if you don't suffer from vertigo and no matter how adventurous you feel, a tingling sensation runs through your body and makes you hesitate.

When we arrived in Baños, Ecuador, I already knew about the existence of this bungee jumping, I arrived with the fixed idea of living the experience, but when I saw for the first time the dimensions of that bridge and I imagined the feeling of jumping, then I really knew vertigo. It is a free fall of 50 meters (half the height of the bridge) and a pendulum of 80 meters.

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Día tras día visitaba el puente sin atreverme a tomar la desición. Tanto es el respeto que impone esta aventura que no fue hasta el último día en Baños que decidí que no podía irme sin hacerlo, despues de todo, cada día había visto gente saltar el puente, no podía ser tan arriesgado. Además, cuándo volvería a estar allí? quizás nunca. Entonces tomé coraje y decidí que lo mejor sería, una vez allí, no pensarlo demasiado. Pues había notado que las personas se ponían cada segundo más nerviosas mienrtras demoraban dar el salto.
Entonces así fue. Subí las escaleras, tomé aire y salté…
Qué sentí? Que la tierra se detenía. Todavía recuerdo la imagen de las montañas al frente mío cuando salté. Sentí que la voz no me salía. Esa milésima de segundo, para mí duró horas. Entonces el vacío te absorbe, y sientes como si la piel se resistiera a caer. El grito por fin aparece como soltando toda la adrenalina que el cuerpo genera. Sale con potencia, insostenible. Y otra vez se percibe el tiempo eterno, como si no fuese a alcanzar el aire para gritar hasta terminar de caer… Y entonces, algo te detiene. La imagen que ves de frente se aleja, es que algo te lleva hacia atrás como un péndulo. Y ahí sí. La carcajada. La risa como sintoma de que el cuerpo se relaja. El cuerpo por fin entendió que era sólo una pasada. Como un experimento.

ENGDay after day I visited the bridge without daring to make the decision. So much respect is imposed by this adventure that it was not until the last day in Baños that I decided that I could not leave without doing it, after all, every day I had seen people jumping the bridge, it could not be so risky. Besides, when would I ever be there again? maybe never. So I took courage and decided that it would be best, once there, not to think about it too much. I had noticed that people were getting more and more nervous every second as they were delaying the jump.
So that's how it was. I climbed the stairs, took a breath and jumped...
What did I feel? That the earth stopped. I still remember the image of the mountains in front of me when I jumped. I felt like my voice wouldn't come out. That thousandth of a second, for me it lasted for hours. Then the emptiness absorbs you, and you feel as if your skin resists falling. The scream finally appears as if releasing all the adrenaline that the body generates. It comes out with power, unsustainable. And again you feel the eternal time, as if you could not get enough air to scream until you finish falling... And then, something stops you. The image you see in front of you moves away, something takes you backwards like a pendulum. And there it does. The laughter. Laughter as a symptom that the body relaxes. The body finally understood that it was just a pass. Like an experiment.

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Si me gusto? Me encantó! Y lo haría de nuevo. Algo en esa experiencia de sentirse al borde del abismo sabiendo que todo estará bien me hace sentir viva. Me encanta la aventura. Siento que es como vivir diferentes vidas en una vida, que suma páginas a nuestro archivo de historias para contar.

Y tu? Te atreverías?

ENGDid I like it? I loved it! And I would do it again. Something about that experience of feeling on the edge of the abyss knowing that everything will be okay makes me feel alive. I love the adventure. I feel like it's like living different lives in one life, adding pages to our archive of stories to tell.

DARE YOU?
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