Jonathan Goodwin....

As you can tell from my David Blaine blog, I am quite in to stunts and impressive feats that involve bravery and quite often stupidity.

I saw a programme on E4 last week called 'Death Wish Live'. In this show, various people performed live stunts on air in front of the general public that were very dangerous. The above guy, Jonathan Goodwin, starred in the show on Monday and Friday. To sum him up, he is a professional escapologist who takes it upon himself to think up various scenarios and then with the help of his dad to set them up, he tries to escape from shackles such as barbed wire, cable ties, rope etc before he: gets burned(by an iron in one case), cut by pins, runs out of air (submerged in water), electrocuted etc depending on what the scenario is.
The beauty of watching this guy and that I saw on the internet, he does not always get it right and it is simply hilarious.

On the Death Wish live show, he screwed up his first stunt. The stunt was to escape from a noose around his neck before a timer went off, pulling him upwards and effectively 'hanging' him. As I said, he didnt escape in time and was there left hanging by his neck some ten feet in the air. Fortunately the accident wasn't fatal but the rope burns around his neck were certainly not desirable.

On the Friday, he came back to do his second stunt. The stunt was called 'Buried Alive' and involved him being tied up and vacuum packed in a plastic bag and locked inside a coffin before being buried 6 feet underground and then being covered over by 5 tonnes of liquid cement! Uh, this obviously sounds crazy! They showed footage of the last person to attempt this stunt, who unfortunately died as a result of it!!!
The tough part of this (apart from untying yourself, getting out of the plastic back and unlocking the coffin - doddle!) was to do all of this whilst having to hold your breath and burrow your way through the liquid cement before it hardens!!! Liquid cement does not take very long at all to harden and I must say, what a way to meet your maker!
Fortunately, this stunt was succesful and very impressive as the whole things was filmed from inside the coffin.

I have since checked out his website and the escape clips are absolutely brilliant. My favourite one is the iron escape. The fact that it went wrong was unfortunate but the whole clip was hilarious!
I would highly recommend checking out this website and this individual who is very entertaining and funny!! The future plans are funny too altho the idea of strapping a toddler to a radio overhanging a bath while being restrained in it is perhaps ludicrous but what a great idea.

Ah, have been very amused by watching these antics. Stay tuned......