A.j. Hackett

 who is A. J. Hackett ?

Alan john  born ( may 1958)

Alan John "A.J." Hackett ONZM is a New Zealand entrepreneur who popularised the extreme sport of bungy jumping. He made a bungy jump from the Eiffel Tower in 1987 and founded the first commercial bungy site (1988).

A. J. Hackett's bungy jump from the Eiffel Tower. Bungy jumping was almost unknown outside New Zealand until 1987 when its inventor, A. J. Hackett, made this illegal jump from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

WHAT DID THEY CALL BUNGY JUMPING?

They called it land-diving and the legend says that it all started when mistreated wife threw her self of a tall tree saving her self with the vines while the husband fell to death.

1990: Jumping 380 metres (1,250 ft) out of a helicopter for the first time Inspired by the Vanuatu ritual called land diving and the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club experimental jumps in the 1970s, Hackett and fellow adventurer Chris Sigglekow, sought ways to make bungy jumping safe. Using a mathematical formula developed by New Zealand's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, he created a super-stretchy elastic bungy cord in the mid-1980s.

A.J.  Hakett