Scream bungy!
To city visitors Ohakune may seem like !a sleepy place in summer. But if you head for the Hapuawhenua Viaduct over the holiday period you will hear shrieks from people who are definitely wide awake.
Two new Waimarino entrepreneurs AJ Hackett and Chris Allum, who started up the New Sensations Supply Company last winter, are offering their bungy jumping alternative sport to visitors this holiday season. The jumps proved enormously popular in the latter part of the ski season, drawing people from far and wide to try the exhilarating experience. A bungy jump in- • volves much calculatiing to work out the correct length needed mm for the oversized rub-
ber band, to make sure the jumper is pulled up short of touching the ground. "Accuracy to within 10 centimetres can be attained," according to a promotion brochure. "An object can b e picked up off a table and launched back into the air with the jumper." During the spring jumping season many hundreds tried the new sport, some more than once! And it seems likely many more will be drawn to the area for a fling off the bridee this summer.
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Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 269, 22 December 1988, Page 3
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193Scream bungy! Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 269, 22 December 1988, Page 3
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