One more injury and this relationship is over. Rory Allen, a 40-year-old jumper from Colchester, Essex, spoke out about his wife threatening to leave him if he breaks any more bones.
In his jumping history, he hasn’t made it out of extreme sports scratch-free. Previously, he broke his foot when the parachute failed and smashed into a cliff. Allen could have been killed in the incident but luckily he got stuck in a tree on his way down and was eventually rescued by the emergency services.
Despite the injuries, Allen is daring and went strong, jumping off cliffs and buildings for years. His leisure activities are taking a toll on his relationships as his spouse is done looking after his health. She wants him to stop for his safety and her sanity.
The stakes are high for Allen since for him, jumping off churches and city skyscrapers brings an unmatched rush. Allen said: “I’ve been a base jumper since 2016, I’d been sky diving since 2007 and always saw videos and thought it looked pretty cool. I wanted to try it and felt confident with parachutes, and it’s the next natural progression.”
His jumping schedule is intense as Allen adds, “I love it, I do it intermittently — whenever I can fit it in. I’ve probably done 100 to 150 this year. A lot of the time you have to travel to do it, so I’ll go on a vacation specifically to jump somewhere and I’ll do three or four a day.”
A South Africa trip made his relationships go further south. “I broke my femur and my ankle in South Africa, it took me about a year to learn to walk again. It took a lot of physiotherapy. My parents hate it and my wife would prefer it if I didn’t do it. We’ve had conversations after my accident in South Africa, my parents would like me to stop but they don’t try and talk me out of it.”
If Allen had it his way, he is ready to face the possibility of death if it meant one more jump. “Death is always a possibility, the other possibility is nothing would have happened — not even the broken foot. People think you can’t survive a base jumping accident but most people in accidents survive.”
However, the wife gets the final say and she’s done with hospital trips. She needs her husband alive to look after the kids. Allen concludes, “I’m one more injury from giving it up, it’s hard to see the future. It’s a hard thing to give up for sure, it provides something that nothing else can equal.”
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/man-rescued-cliff-after-parachute-28331298