California stuntman crashes to the ground as human cannonball act goes horribly wrong, video shows

Terrifying bystander footage shows the infinitesimal an experienced stuntman’s enactment went awry successful beforehand of a shocked assemblage of onlookers astatine a California just earlier this month. 

Chachi Valencia, whose signifier sanction is The Rocketman Valencia, was performing his death-defying quality cannonball enactment astatine the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival successful Indigo erstwhile a beardown gust of upwind blew him disconnected people connected March 2. 

"Taking it time by time with my faithful pup by his side," David Valencia wrote successful an update to Chachi’s GoFundMe page. "Grateful for clip to heal and soak up each the emotion and snuggles. Here's to brighter days ahead." 

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Chachi Valencia flies done the aerial seconds aft being launched from his 35-foot quality cannon astatine the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival successful Indigo, California connected March 2, 2025.  (Michael Betzler via Storyful)

Footage from the mishap shows Valencia, a sixth-generation circus performer, sailing done the aerial aft being launched from a 35-foot quality cannon. As helium falls to the landing spot, a gust of upwind blows him toward the broadside of the net, causing him to bounce into the aerial and smash into the factual crushed below. 

"Right earlier the shot, I deliberation the upwind moved and it started a crosswind, and that's what happened—the upwind caught maine and threw maine disconnected to 1 side," Valencia told Fox 11. 

Valencia tin beryllium seen laying motionless connected the crushed arsenic employees rushed to telephone exigency responders. 

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Chachi Valencia’s stunt goes horribly incorrect arsenic a gust of upwind veers him toward the broadside of the net, causing him to bounce into the aerial and onshore connected the factual astatine the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival successful Indigo, California connected March 2, 2025.  (Michael Betzler via Storyful)

"I don't retrieve thing until I was successful the ambulance connected my mode to the hospital," Valencia said.

Riverside County Fairgrounds did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

The daredevil sustained aggregate injuries from the incidental - including a breached wrist, cracked ribs and a lacerated liver - and was rushed to the hospital, wherever helium was discharged conscionable a fewer hours later. 

"I'm truly sore. It's hard for maine to determination around—it's mostly due to the fact that of the cracked ribs that I have," Valencia told Fox 11. "I besides person a breached wrist that's not bothering maine truthful bad."

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Chachi Valencia flies done the aerial seconds aft being launched from his 35-foot quality cannon astatine the Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival successful Indigo, California connected March 2, 2025.  (Michael Betzler via Storyful)

Before each launch, Valencia indispensable determine if the conditions are harmless for him to perform, and helium admits to weighing the enactment of backing retired owed to the fairground’s windy conditions soon earlier the accident. 

"You spot each the radical who are waiting for you to bash your thing, and they're truthful excited, and you cognize I conscionable couldn't cancel, you know?" helium said.

Valencia has 23 years of acquisition performing his quality cannonball stunt, appearing astatine the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremonial and assorted sporting events passim the United States, according to his website. 

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But earlier Valencia tin instrumentality to the entity to proceed his two-decade-long career, helium indispensable absorption connected rehabilitation and healing from his injuries, portion reevaluating his risk-tolerance for his gravity-defying stunt. 

"I volition decidedly not instrumentality arsenic galore risks, arsenic galore chances, particularly erstwhile it's windy," Valencia said.