Sorry, this has nothing to do with triathlon, but I found this video today on youtube. I just can’t get my head around what these guys are doing. At about 1:30 this guy is literally a couple feet off the deck going 120mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNU9WIs30Y4
Will
This is what the Lavender room is for.
Sorry, this has nothing to do with triathlon, but I found this video today on youtube. I just can’t get my head around what these guys are doing. At about 1:30 this guy is literally a couple feet off the deck going 120mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNU9WIs30Y4
Will
You have about a 1 in 25 chance of dying per jump.
Jeb Corliss who is in the all black had a wall strike earlier in the year…survived…barely. A few of my skydiving pals went on to base jump. RIP Jan Davis bless her heart.
Ya I hear you. I would absolutely love to experience doing it . . . . but I’m not willing to risk my life for it.
Sorry, this has nothing to do with triathlon, but I found this video today on youtube. I just can’t get my head around what these guys are doing. At about 1:30 this guy is literally a couple feet off the deck going 120mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNU9WIs30Y4
Will
You have about a 1 in 25 chance of dying per jump.
That’s just totally inaccurate sorry. BASE is ~ 1 in 2,300. Sport jumping is ~ 1 in 100,000. Hate to see skydiving get a bad rap by totally baseless stats. BASE is inherently more risky, but not a 1 in 25. I jumped hard 25+ weekends a year for over a decade at one of the busiest drop zones in the world and saw exactly 1 fatality.
Wingsuit is more dangerous than standard base.
Thanks for posting the link. Wow Swimming is twice as risky as skydiving!!! Never would have thought that.
Just out of interest, how do your friends describe the experience of Base jumping compared to skydiving? I’ve done 1 tandem Skydive, but never likely to do it solo or base jump.
Will
Sorry, this has nothing to do with triathlon, but I found this video today on youtube. I just can’t get my head around what these guys are doing. At about 1:30 this guy is literally a couple feet off the deck going 120mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNU9WIs30Y4
Will
You have about a 1 in 25 chance of dying per jump.
That’s just totally inaccurate sorry. BASE is ~ 1 in 2,300. Sport jumping is ~ 1 in 100,000. Hate to see skydiving get a bad rap by totally baseless stats. BASE is inherently more risky, but not a 1 in 25. I jumped hard 25+ weekends a year for over a decade at one of the busiest drop zones in the world and saw exactly 1 fatality.
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/...oth/risk/sports.html
I saw more than that, but the BASE jump statistic (1 in 25) is WAY off. Most of the skydiving fatalities I’ve seen were due to brain malfunction (unfortunately someone else’s brain malfunction sometimes), not a gear malfunction. BASE tends to be the opposite.
I have one BASE jump. It wasn’t all that fun. Then again, the guys I went with were too lazy to climb more than 300 feet (smokers…). A LITTLE freefall would have been nice!
Thanks for posting the link. Wow Swimming is twice as risky as skydiving!!! Never would have thought that.
Just out of interest, how do your friends describe the experience of Base jumping compared to skydiving? I’ve done 1 tandem Skydive, but never likely to do it solo or base jump.
Will
No skydiving is more dangerous b/c of the number of participants and events per fatality. With that said it’s as dangerous as you want to make it.
One guy did maybe 4-5 and bagged it, scared him to death. Another did Bridge Day a single time and broke his ankle.
Holy smokes…Monkey Claw as in Cross Keys??? I used to jump with John Matthews and Colon Berry at ZHills. What a small world…
And I hear ya on brain mals. The only fatality I saw at ZHills was some kid during the winter months fresh out of months w/o any jumps…Minnesota I think? Buried a toggle on something like a Stiletto 97 at about 100 feet and augered in. Ugh. In point of fact what led me out of the sport was the insanity of people bombing in on the new cross braced rockets making it too damn dangerous for everyone.
Sorry, this has nothing to do with triathlon, but I found this video today on youtube. I just can’t get my head around what these guys are doing. At about 1:30 this guy is literally a couple feet off the deck going 120mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNU9WIs30Y4
Will
You have about a 1 in 25 chance of dying per jump.
Not even close. I’ve got a friend that is a jumpmaster and his son does competitive, and they laughed at that stat.
John
I think it would be amazing just to be on the ground when those guys go flying past! There is another video I saw a few months back where they sound like a sports car roaring by! Really cool stuff!
Holy smokes…Monkey Claw as in Cross Keys??? I used to jump with John Matthews and Colon Berry at ZHills. What a small world…
And I hear ya on brain mals. The only fatality I saw at ZHills was some kid during the winter months fresh out of months w/o any jumps…Minnesota I think? Buried a toggle on something like a Stiletto 97 at about 100 feet and augered in. Ugh. In point of fact what led me out of the sport was the insanity of people bombing in on the new cross braced rockets making it too damn dangerous for everyone.
That’s me (Timmy). Ah, John and Colin, great flyers and really good guys! Too many canopy accidents hurt the sport, that’s for sure.
Definitely a small world 
What a riot. Here is a pic from one of my last weekends of jumping b/f I hung it up. John was hurt in the canopy collapse not a year later. You might recognize Tony from TonySuits, that’s John M in the purple/yellow, Colon is shooting during our flock dive…that’s me in the red yellow in Colon’s freaky skinny ass XS suit b/c Tony wanted it to be all Tony Suits! If you knew Colleen that’s her little foot showing behind John.
I actually think we may have jumped off the same deck a few times. Did you ever go to the Carolina Sky Sports Boogies? I think '98 was the last one I went to when they had 3 Super Casas running. Anyway I think a couple of you guys were there for some reason. Dang did we shoot a lot of video that weekend such a blast. Tough to beat 3 Supers for a weekend…as fast as you can pack and pay.
Sorry, this has nothing to do with triathlon, but I found this video today on youtube. I just can’t get my head around what these guys are doing. At about 1:30 this guy is literally a couple feet off the deck going 120mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNU9WIs30Y4
Will
ugh this is weak, dream lines 4 just came out. Those cows were probably like WTF?!
Sorry, this has nothing to do with triathlon, but I found this video today on youtube. I just can’t get my head around what these guys are doing. At about 1:30 this guy is literally a couple feet off the deck going 120mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNU9WIs30Y4
Will
You have about a 1 in 25 chance of dying per jump.
That’s just totally inaccurate sorry. BASE is ~ 1 in 2,300. Sport jumping is ~ 1 in 100,000. Hate to see skydiving get a bad rap by totally baseless stats. BASE is inherently more risky, but not a 1 in 25. I jumped hard 25+ weekends a year for over a decade at one of the busiest drop zones in the world and saw exactly 1 fatality.
http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/...oth/risk/sports.html
I don’t know where people get their stats from but I’m glad, as a fellow skydiver, that you cleared it up.
You have about a 1 in 25 chance of dying per jump.
Sorry, but where are you getting your stats from? Or are you just pulling numbers out of your…?
Sorry, this has nothing to do with triathlon, but I found this video today on youtube. I just can’t get my head around what these guys are doing. At about 1:30 this guy is literally a couple feet off the deck going 120mph.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNU9WIs30Y4
Will
Looks dangerous. Nice enough just flying around the big mountain in asmall plane or helicopter on a nice day for me. I prefer the ski-ing videos off cliffs.
No flying aids in this one, skip over the advert bit that starts it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-oyjdZD-lY
G.