The veteran Kent all-rounder must have thought he had added at least four runs to his total when he middled Patel towards deep midwicket, but Evans, stationed around 15 yards inside the rope, leapt high to take an outstanding one-handed catch above his head.
One image – taken by Magomed Bamatkireev, 14, who lost a leg during military operations in Chechnya – shows a smiling girl with a jump-rope leaping high against a blue sky.
There's nothing for it, I tell myself, but to take a deep breath, stiffen my loops of climbing rope, and leap … Ever since I arrived in Kerala, there had been reminders that this moment was coming.
Bopara goes to smash Van Beek out of the ground, and instead, picks out Seelaar on the rope, who leaps, pouches, steps quickly, and wobbles to intimate difficulty.
The show's daredevils on single wheels are the monocycling Wuqiao Acrobatic Troupe, hurdling across bodies from one wheel to another, skipping rope or leaping from a vehicle to a cyclist's shoulders and somersaulting off.
The desultory pace of a largely uneventful day quickened significantly at 10 45 p.m. when four hostages slipped out of the darkened windows of the cockpit and, using an emergency rope ladder, leapt to the tarmac and ran to a hangar where police officers were stationed.
The difference between "some undiscovered beetle testing hypotheses" and some human being discovering a cure for a disease, or between the song of a California marsh wren and a Mozart sonata, is the difference between jumping rope and leaping into the stars.
With the bills still stapled to their foreheads, both Bobby and Kato both proceeded to scale the ropes and leap off of them onto each other.
Shot in 16-millimeter black and white, each documercial features a creative risk taker: Mark, the roadie; Janette, a struggling D.J.; Whylee, the motorcycle courier; Adam, the painter; Ndidi, the silversmith; and John, below, the structural surveyor, who is the most courageous: he straps himself into a harness and ropes and leaps off a bridge to assess any construction damage.
Thankfully, my own feeble attempts to play Cut The Rope using the Leap Motion Controller weren't recorded on camera, but we did film a short demo by Vice President of Product Marketing Michael Zagorsek.
