re: How deep does your pool need to be.

Two and no basement

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Two and no basement

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Half as tall as your house times 2. Be sure you have water in your pool.

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you can do a belly flop off of a 500ft tower into a kiddy pool and be just fricking dandy because of the surface area you project.

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I don't think you know how science works.

Ok Ok. So I was exaggerating a whole lot. There is a lot of sciency shite though to increasing your surface area and that decreasing the require depth.

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You would break bones doing a belly flop at 50 ft.

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nope

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You would break bones doing a belly flop at 50 ft. Much less 500

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The propensity is absolutely there, but this isn't a given by any stretch.

Depends how tall your house is. For a normal single story house you would probably be fine with 4 feet, but I would prefer 5-6 feet at least. You really don't need that much. I've done this before... when I was an irresponsible teenager.

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How wide does your pool need to be.

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FIFY

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Ok Ok. So I was exaggerating a whole lot. There is a lot of sciency shite though to increasing your surface area and that decreasing the require depth.

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And when you increase velocity and surface area then you increase the force that you impact the water. Because of the surface tension of the water it would be like hitting concrete at enough height.

I go deeper than 4 feet jumping off the side.