Norwegian skier Fred Syversen was doing some helicopter skiing in the French Alps when he took a wrong turn and plunged 381 feet off of a cliff. He survived with nothing more than a bruised liver as he waited for his companions to dig him out of a six foot deep hole he created on landing.

“Breaking or trying to stop was no longer an option. It simply went too fast. If I had tried that I wouldn’t write this. So that left one choice: go for it, and do it right.”

He's alive because he didn't panic and controlled his flight.

I could relate, because when I was eight years old, I "accidentally" when off a ski jump at Jay Peak in Vermont. I was airborne and down so quickly, I really didn't have time to panic, and I landed on my skis and my ass, also no worse for wear.

I don't have video though.

H/T All Voices

Dad used to take my my brother and I to the dump and shoot cans with a .22. Probably not what this guy had in mind when his .40 caliber pistol slipped out of his pants while using a Carl's Junior restroom.

No reason--I just thought it was cool.

OK, there is a reason. I've been fascinated with archery since I was a child, often making my own crude bows with sticks and kitchen string. In my early thirties, I actually got serious about it and bought the equipment and learned to shoot. I shot competitively briefly, but just didn't have the time to devote to it between my work and family.

I decided to pick it up again last year, and bought new equipment (which is vastly improved over the stuff I had been using...). With a few weeks of practice, I had by shooting form back, but was chagrined to learn that I can't see the target anymore. Next week I get my first pair of bi-focals, but it will be nice to see 20/20 again.

The next video is Korean. The Koreans are to archery what the U.S. is to basketball. Shooting soy beans from 30 meters is pretty impressive. The "Robin Hood" at the end of the sequence? Not so much. If you look closely, you can see that the nock--a plastic piece inserted at the end of the arrow that pinches and holds the string--has been removed. That makes this shot much, much easier.

I've shot a few Robin Hood's in my career. I still have the first one because it was still common to use aluminum arrows back then, and the arrows would "tube"--essentially nest one inside the other, and preserve the accomplishment. With modern carbon arrows, you get splinters. Its a more common phenomenon that you might believe among better archers, which is why they shoot five spots at closer ranges, rather than the classic single target.

If that's more than you ever wanted to know about archery--I apologize.