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David Fisher, a professional rope jumper and performer, was honored by Westfield, Ind., on Monday after using a jump rope to rescue a teenager who had fallen through an icy pond. By Tim Balk It ...

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In the mid-1980s, Fisher started seriously jumping rope to leap higher, an effort to improve as an amateur volleyball player at Emory University in Atlanta. Fisher was so enamored of his rope ...

Exhausted and stranded on a ledge, he awaited rescue. The Placer County Fire Department’s Technical Rescue Team used a complex rope system to extract him safely. He was transported to a trauma ...

Fisher, who goes by the stage name The Rope Warrior, received the Lifesaving Citizen Award from the town of Westfield, Ind., for using his jump rope to pull a drowning young man from the icy ...

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