Bungee jumping emerged in the 1980s as controlled falling with elasticity breaking the descent. The sport's entire psychology relies on precise equipment calibration—a cord rated for your body weight, a harness checked by professionals, certainty that the worst outcome is minor bruising. An anchor chain—industrial, inelastic, designed to hold objects of impossible weight permanently in place—suggests that Chuck Norris doesn't want to bounce back. He wants to anchor something.

James Cortez, an extreme sports videographer, claims he was commissioned by a client in 1994 to film a bungee jump and found his subject had replaced the elastic cord with ship's anchor chain. Cortez refused to roll. The client walked off the platform alone. Cortez never reported it.

The image is almost elegiac: instead of the euphoric return, the perpetual descent, weighted not by danger but by cargo so heavy that elasticity becomes irrelevant. Chuck Norris doesn't bungee jump; he anchors himself into the earth.