> By the looks of it the victim was held at the legs. We can expect a bad concussion.

If the victim had hit the ground, we can anticipate worse.

Agreed, grip strength and reaction speed were the most impressive parts of this feat. His teammate anchoring him deserves about half the credit for non grip related strength.

"Turning momentum against the wall" needs actually more force than just stopping the faller. If the faller initially falls with momentum -p z (where I will denote the unit vectors of the coordinate system with x, z, and p is the magnitude of the momentum) and turns that into p x, then you need an average force of Favg=deltap /t= sqrt(2)p /t, while just stopping would only be Favg=p/t, where deltap is the total change in momentum and t is the duration of the stopping.

The reason for that is, that momentum is a vector and so you need to supply force in along each of the coordinate axis individually.

You're assuming a 90 degree turn. It doesn't take a 90 degree turn, however--they were probably still heading mostly down when they struck the wall. The wall (and the falling person) would absorb most of the impact. Not good for the faller but far better than keeping on going.

The link below has video with audio of the victim crashing against the wall during the catch, and it certainly sounds like he got a pretty bad knock.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6426086/incredible-moment-fire...