i laugh watching this cause no way would i do this now..but dang when i was younger i would have... life sure has a way of changing your prespective of fun..lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUjhi4T_BT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUjhi4T_BT0#t=121
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20140523-base-jumping-the-serene-side-weve-never-seen
Watching base jumping films can be a nerve-wracking experience, but this video captures the sport's often-unseen serene side.
Created by long-time base jumper and skydiver, Ossie Khan, and shot over a two-year period, Experience Zero Gravity reveals some of the most stunning base jumping locations in Europe. What makes the film special, however, is that the footage is played in slow motion, allowing you to revel in the splendour of each place while feeling as though you're experiencing the magnificence of human flight.
"There's a really beautiful side to base jumping and to being able to fly through the sky in what becomes a very non-stressful headspace," said Khan, whose goal with his films is to challenge the misconception that base jumping is all about adrenaline.
The video's four main locations are Switzerland's Eiger Mushroom (six seconds in), a 335m-high base-jumping and rock-climbing mecca; Switzerland's popular High Nose jump in Lauterbrunnen (22 seconds in); Norway's 900 to about 2,000m drops from the Fjord Mountains in Lysebotn (30 seconds in); and the majestic mountainsides of Annecy in France (35 seconds in).
Each location has its own special beauty, but for Khan, base jumping is unique because it provides a very different travel experience.
"I am looking at the city from a bird's eye view and jumping directly down ... not many people get to see it from that perspective," said Khan of his experience jumping from the Eiger Mushroom in the Bernese Alps.
For those interested in base jumping, Khan recommends beginning with skydiving, then travelling to jumping points via tour groups such as Stevanger Base Klubb in Norway.
People would much rather watch them crashing into rocks or buildings! Lol
Sarge.. how totally sad... and may be the reason we are in the state we are in here on this rock
sigh
Sad but true. Race fans really only watch the races to see the crashes! Nature of the beast!
Quote from: Sgt.Rocknroll on June 09, 2014, 03:38:26 AM
Sad but true. Race fans really only watch the races to see the crashes! Nature of the beast!
And it seems ice hockey fans go to the ice palace to watch a boxing match, and low and behold, sometimes a hockey game even breaks out!!! :o
There is something fundamentally wrong with people who do this sort of thing. I consider it a form of mental illness.
People get into their cars and drive at 50MPH with no fear, when there are multiple ways that that simple mechanical failure can result in your painful and bloody death, with no fear at all every day, but relying on a parachute, (which is a much simpler and less complicated machine) is considered somehow more dangerous? Or as one poster put it "mentally ill". Sure they have to overcome the body's innate fear of falling, which is unusual behaviour, but mentally ill? Really?
FB.
Quote from: Fruitbat on June 09, 2014, 10:57:52 AM
People get into their cars and drive at 50MPH with no fear, when there are multiple ways that that simple mechanical failure can result in your painful and bloody death, with no fear at all every day, but relying on a parachute, (which is a much simpler and less complicated machine) is considered somehow more dangerous? Or as one poster put it "mentally ill". Sure they have to overcome the body's innate fear of falling, which is unusual behaviour, but mentally ill? Really?
FB.
Fruit, I believe the VI was referring to the people wanting to see blood and gore as being ill, not the base jumpers...
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