Has a waterslide ever scared you?

[Luka]

I went to Cultus lake for the second time a month ago, and I finally rode something.

 

First of all, I jumped in line for Freefall, the 70ft drop. I was shaking and twiching so much because of the fear. Once I got on I just let go and flew down. The first second of the drop is isane since your back is barely touching the slide and then it gets slammed back down again.

 

I wasn't really scared of anything else in the park but my favourite slide was the tube fall "Valley of fear"

 

http://cultus.com/

The website has videos and pictures and everything.

[Cygnus12]

I'm a little afraid of speed slides that use a mat now ever since I jammed my arm really badly coming into the spash pool on one. I'm sure I'll ride one again though; it's hard to pass up the airtime those slides give during the large drops they typically have.

 

Another one that scares me a bit is the Cannonball at Mountain Creek in NJ. It's this pitch black speed slide that winds down a hill and dumps you out some 10 feet above the pool. The pool is made from a natural ravine, is cold as heck, and is about 25 feet deep. I think the pool might be scarier. lol

[SFAfan#1]

About 5 or 6 years ago, at Wet n Wild in Orlando, I was in line with my sister and dad for a big purple slide I think called Storm. (you went down a body slide into a giant funnel thing, then you spun around the sides of it until you fell through the hole in the center into a deep catching pool. By the time I could see that you fell into that catch pool, I turned around and left. So did my sister!

[Bolliger&Mabillard]

Speed slides don't scare me, but when they're enclosed it's hard to tell when they end and I always end up with water going up my nose!

[coasterstud522]

I'm usually very good about not being scared on water slides, but here was one that got me. Your at the top of the tower at you get in this little thing like a phone booth. Then, a attendant hits a switch and the floor below you opens up at fall straight onto the slide (which is going straight down). It also gives you a major wedgie at the bottom. My friends snickered when they came down because they heard me cuss (Which I don't do much) when I was dropped

 

 

 

This was a couple years ago and I completely forgot the name of the park and the ride. If this sounds familiar to anyone, please tell me what the name of the ride and the park name is. Thanks!

[coasterstud522]

I'm usually very good about not being scared on water slides, but here was one that got me. Your at the top of the tower at you get in this little thing like a phone booth. Then, a attendant hits a switch and the floor below you opens up at fall straight onto the slide (which is going straight down). It also gives you a major wedgie at the bottom. My friends snickered when they came down because they heard me cuss (Which I don't do much) when I was dropped

 

 

 

This was a couple years ago and I completely forgot the name of the park and the ride. If this sounds familiar to anyone, please tell me what the name of the ride and the park name is. Thanks!

[Kalepi_Konei]

Well, the first time I rode Summit Plummit I was scared out of my head, it was about 1 year ago, and it was my first speed slide ever! (the tallest and fastest one had to be my first of course... ) And I never thought these things were safe and by the time I sat down I was shaking really badly, and the really cold wind didn't help either. I came off of it with a huge wedgie and my back hurt so bad, I'm never riding it again.

 

Also the Wave Pool at Typhoon Lagoon, I was in the bobbing waves and I was stuck in this spot next to the wall where a wave would come on my left hit the wall and come back on my right (or vise-versa I don't remember) anyways it got to the point where I was so tired out the water was flying above my head and these waves DIDN'T stop coming and they just got bigger and BIGGER. Well I screamed for the lifeguard cuz' I was basically at a stop-loss, and she couldn't hear me, well about 12 screams later I started to drown and this guy yelled for the lifeguard a few times, I was FINALLY saved by the heroic lifeguard (hooray you answered my 12 calls ) and ever since then I am not going back in that Wave Pool. I know I sound like a sucky swimmer but I'm not, I was just stuck in the worst spot possible in that pool.

[digidude18]

I am a member of the group that's rather freaked by water slides in general. I usually only ride water slides that have rafts. I remember one time I was at a local water park for an 8th grade school trip. I was riding this body slide and the first time down was a lot of fun. The trouble was on the second time down. I don't know if I did something wrong or what, but I couldn't breathe the whole way down and I was freaking out. I try and stay away from body slides now.

[Rollerman87]

I was terrified going on Venom Drop at SFMM's Hurrican Harbor. The fact that you don't see the middle is really freaky. And yet, I went to Ragin Waters in San Dimas this past weekend and Drop Out was scary, but I was just kinda nervous

[doublex98]

I freaked out last time I rode one of the really twisty body slides at Oceans of Fun. There were cracks in the slide that hurt your back really bad and I felt like I was going to flip over the sides. I even had to slow myself down at some points, because I was really close to flipping over the edge!

[socalMAN123]

Summit Plummet. Something about not being able to see the bottom of the slide freaks you out a little bit.

---Brent

[PointeBreak]

First Tornado slide (at an Aussie water park) (oh and that's the one with the funnel shape)... SCARED me. the operator at the top made me go down backwards. and i got drenched as hell.

 

Other than that there was an enclosed slide in darknessand I was so scared and pissed off cos I thought I was going to fall out to my death! LOL

 

but most slides scrape up my back so i worry less about dying and more about scars.

[jamesdillaman]

^ How can you fall out of an enclosed slide?

[Rct3man777]

^You "fall out" when the slide is over!

[Ryan462]

I was too scared to go on summit plumet at Blizzard Beach when I was younger because I thought that if didn't keep my legs crosed like they tell you too, one of my legs might get chopped off and I didn't think it was worth the risk !

 

But now I can say I am over that

[PointeBreak]

^ How can you fall out of an enclosed slide?

Fall out of the tube my bf and I were in. Not the slide.

[Kalepi_Konei]

I was too scared to go on summit plumet at Blizzard Beach when I was younger because I thought that if didn't keep my legs crosed like they tell you too, one of my legs might get chopped off and I didn't think it was worth the risk !

 

But now I can say I am over that

 

First and only time I went down Summit Plummit I was thinking in my head redundantly "keep arms and legs crossed." And started going down the slide and noticed I didn't cross my legs and was like "SHOOT CROSS!! CROSS!!" I though the exact same thing about the whole leg slice dying kinda thing. Man did that freak me out.

[Gnome]

at the Wet N Wild that used to be in Vegas, there was 2 very tall slides, probably the tallest I've ever seen or been on. One of them you slide yourself over the edge and the other you sit inside of a boothe and wait for them to drop you. I did the one where you just slid yourself over, but at the time I was way to scared to do the other. Its to bad its gone cuz I really wish I had done it now.

[Martyn88]

^^ I had a similar experience the first time I rode Summit Plummet. I was mainly worried that I wouldn't fit through the hole (Seriously that gap looks tiny when you reach the top). Anyway I have pretty big feet and I did have a momentary lapse of intelligence and I thought "Maybe the ends of my feet will get chopped off!"

 

But after I went on I thought it was incredible and got straight back in the line ... My friend did not however as he forgot to cross his legs and spent the duration of the drop spread eagle with his swimming shorts making a navy seal style incursion into his anus. Needless to say he found the slide substantially less entertaining and refused to go back on.

[rcdude]

I used to be scared of any slide that was fully enclosed and you went single. I would only do those rides with a double tube but now I like them.

 

Usually, if I go on a slide that is unlike anything else I have been on, I am somewhat scared. I don't get too scared by new slides that are similar to ones I have done previously.

[Cygnus12]

This was a couple years ago and I completely forgot the name of the park and the ride. If this sounds familiar to anyone, please tell me what the name of the ride and the park name is. Thanks!

 

Was is the 'Bomb Bay' slide at Wet n' Wild Orlando?

www.wetnwildorlando.com/Files/Press/BombBay.jpg

[astroworldfan1]

The Soda Straws at Schilitterbahn New Braunsfeld.

 

-Tatum

[WildWaves100]

I forget what the name of of the waterslide was, if it even had a name, but it was at Wild Waves in WA. I went 2 times this summer, and the first I was scared of it badly, but the second time I went on it and loved it.

 

BTW it's basically a black tube then a nearly strait down slide... it gives a good rush.

[King of The Flumers]

KING OF THE FLUMERS The action park looping waterslide by its very appearance is a "Home made job" as the flume tube is not constructed in the way modern waterslides are and appears to be made from drainpipe sections that were cobbled together in a way obvious it would never work.

[snoflake15]

This was a couple years ago and I completely forgot the name of the park and the ride. If this sounds familiar to anyone, please tell me what the name of the ride and the park name is. Thanks!

 

Was is the 'Bomb Bay' slide at Wet n' Wild Orlando?

www.wetnwildorlando.com/Files/Press/BombBay.jpg

 

Bomb Bay is the only one I've ever chickened out of. Went on its neighbour which has the same drop but there was something about the noise it made and the lack of control that stopped me going on it.