“First, it took about a year to work through what we wanted people to experience in terms of emotional, physical, and intellectual processes. “We started designing it in earnest three years ago,” says van Asch. “At one point I stretched the bungee out between two big bridges and did a similar thing,” says van Asch of the inspiration for today’s mechanism. Before he and Hackett became the bane of nervous parents everywhere, they were bungee jumping through France. The idea for the catapult, has been on van Asch’s mind for longer. Hackett Bungy New Zealand, the company behind the new thrill ride, and which first introduced commercial bungee jumping 30 years ago. But once you are secured into the Nevis Catapult “you’re kind of committed,” says Henry van Asch, co-founder of A.J.
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On a bungee jump, it’s your decision when and how to step off the elevated platform and let the thick elasticized cord yank you back up-requiring you to push past your nerves. It’s not for the faint of heart, or those with a fear of heights, necessarily. There’s now a “catapult” that launches participants almost 500 feet into the air at a speed of up to 60 miles per hour. In Queenstown, New Zealand, the stakes have been raised in the adrenaline experience market.
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