What is the impulse on the body with dropping the dude and launching the
dude?
Too many unknown variables, but it's safe to say the man experienced higher
forces on the way up than on the way down.
Well, I think the issue here is semantics again. Mathmatically, the
force of up and down might be the same, but in the real world, I bet the
force of the up, unexpected and all in a tenth of a second was probably
more painful and possibly destructive as the drawn out force, and
bracing on the way down...