Jessica Powell was set to free fall 400 feet down and swing between a slot canyon with one of the most extreme rope swings ever recorded. Her boyfriend Creighton Baird came over to offer encouragement, but Powell was worried he might force her to jump.
"I'm not going to push you," Baird reassured her.
But after 45 minutes of waiting, that is exactly what he did.
"I'm breaking up with you!" Powell screamed, whizzing through the air, as Baird rolled on the floor laughing.
The extreme couple ventured out on this Utah adventure with Devin Graham, a filmmaker from Portland, Ore., who records his action-packed life for the Devin Super Tramp YouTube channel.
"She yelled that just because it was in the moment," Graham told the Daily News. "She came up and gave him a big hug and thanked him for pushing her off… Creighton is the nicest guy ever."
In unused footage, Powell actually asked Baird to push her if she hesitated for too long, Graham explained.
Powell and Baird, who have appeared in about half of Graham's videos, did not actually break up — at least, not in the video.
"Sadly, last week they actually did break up," said Graham. "It had nothing to do with getting pushed off the rope swing."
Graham led the expedition two months ago to outdo his previous rope swing stunt, which both Powell and Baird performed.
"This rope swing is the biggest thing we've done. It's a sequel to last year's rope swing video — one of my most popular. I already planned what I'm going to do next year which is must bigger than this one," Graham said. "I want to take insane ideas, make them visually cool and inspire people to go out and live their lives."
Sometimes viewers, however, lament that their lives are not as thrilling as Graham's. But he insists that these viewers completely miss his point: remarkable times are within reach.
Graham described himself as the shy kid in high school whose favorite film was "A Goofy Movie." In that animated picture, Graham found a renewed love of life that drove him to such an exciting lifestyle.
"The character Max (the movie's protagonist) is the underdog. He's a guy who everyone makes fun of but he goes out and takes on the world, pursues his dreams and gets the girl."
Just as Baird pushed his girlfriend toward the most fulfilling jump of her life, Graham wants to push his viewers from boredom to exhilaration.
"I'm probably more afraid than anyone else," he said. "We are all terrified of all this stuff but we face it."
