I have seen some crazy shit, but these guys are just asking for it.

Looks cool, but no sympathy from me when they inevitably eat some rock.

Yeah, yeah! Trying to link a video from a website and failing in real time.

No embed yet, just the link.

https://izismile.com/2019/08/0...your_life_video.html

That’s a big bucket of nope for me. Those guys are nuts.

Okay, I have to ask, WHY?
Rod

Don't try this at home.

Entropy will rule the day, just not that day.

Gravity, nature, and random chance are inexorable. They always win, it's just a matter of time.

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Originally posted by sig sailor:
Okay, I have to ask, WHY?
Rod

You just watched the answer to that question. The video is all that matters to these knuckleheads.

Jim

Looks fake to me.

Actual video of speed flying under a high aspect ratio ram air canopy:

https://youtu.be/Mc6VabRenn0

I never understand why people like to do things that have a high likelihood of eventually taking their life.

I don't know that there's any likelihood: there's a possibility and there's a risk, but likely? No.

I don't see any likelihood of the participant taking his or her own life. It's not suicide. Like wingsuiting or jumping in general, it's a sport. Depending on the participant, it may be an ill advised sport, or it may be one with a greater potential for injury than other sports.

If I were younger, it would interest me more. I think some who do these activities tend to feel bulletproof, which is certainly an illusion. Several decades ago I woke up in intensive care following a parachute malfunction into a cliff face, and while I appreciated the hazards prior, it was far from academic for me, after. I did not, however, stop jumping, skydiving, etc.

Some see such activity as unwise or suicidal. I prefer to view it as celebrating life. There's more to life than length. There's quality, depth, and given that we only get a single pass, some prefer to sample what they can as deeply as possible, rather than look back and wonder what might have been.

Jeb Corliss had a mishap a number of years ago during a wingsuit descent along terrain at Table Mountain, South Africa, in which he hit the terrain and was badly injured. He said afterward that while he was not going to stop, his view was tempered and it gave him a lot of pause to think. At no point in my life would I have done what Jeb did (though I'd certainly have loved to), but I don't fault him for his choices.

https://youtu.be/1hKhofOF_zo

There are old flyers and there are bold flyers. There aren't any old bold flyers........really seems true.

"It'll be just like Beggar's Canyon back home!" Luke Skywalker to the soon to be dead Biggs Darklighter.

There really are old bold flyers. Otherwise you'd have a boat and a bicycle as your only options.

Not all the bold flyers make it to be old, however.

Growing old isn't all its cracked up to be, either.

Red is a good choice for the parasail as the blood stains won't show as much.

How do you train to do these things? That to me is the most dangerous part of it. Ok, GO, don't die.

Guys who get into specialty jumping start out like everyone with skydiving, and gravitate toward wingsuiting, base jumping, etc. There is instruction available, mentoring, and a small, but dedicated community for some of these disciplines.

Prior to reaching a point where terrain proximity is a possibility, jumpers have already become very experienced in freefall, body flying, freestyle, wingsuit, etc. Most all of them are riggers. Most of them have been free fall photographers, jumpmasters, and so forth.

When I read the title I was like how? Paragliding is actually very safe. What these guys are doing is wingsuit flying with a canopy instead of the suit. Similar results.

At least their impact speeds with a wall or the ground will be less than wing suiting so the remains will be easier to identify.