[Closed] PSA Tonight: Daredevils: Life on the Edge inc Danny MacAskill and Guy Martin

Nice one. Thanks

i'll bump this with 50 minutes to go.

Nice one, the mrs can turn off that kardashian bull honky and I can watch something reet proper!

Recording.. thanks.

Cool, thank you.

Bloody brilliant, just in time. Thanks.

Cheers for that 😀

Thanks for this PSA! Just managed to program the skymachine 😀

here too....thanks!

Cheers for the heads up 🙂

Watching and recording 🙂 Truly insane.

Cheers

The voice over guy is really annoying! Shut up

Guy Martin on surfers 😆

Zane chuffing Lowe. I wish this fella would do one back to NZ.

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Guy Martin on surfers

Thought that too! He might be off their christmas lists. 😀 Bloody good (motor)bike rider though, isn't he?

Just caught it. Thanks for the heads up. : )

(REALLY, ZANE LOWE?)... : (

There's some good footage on this programme and it's a great way to bring cycling to mainstream TV but I can't help but think it's all a bit, well, cheesy really.

Why are people so keen on over analysing having fun?
That's all it is - we all do it. The only difference is that these guys are better at it than most of us!

@GTTH: yep, just a tad!

Changed the channel, pretty boring.

Would be better if "Come dine with me's" Dave Lamb did the VoiceOver!

Bit of a shame they filmed it just as Danny is recovering from an injury, and therefore can't fully take part.

But otherwise, very interesting, especially to understand about the common misconception about "adrenaline junkies" as they are actually not so.

like a big go ape

Turned it off for the reasons mentioned above, but did catch the surfers bit 😀

I get what they say. I was just saying to Mrs C, I ride for the satisfaction of controlling fear, not letting it control me and preventing me riding stuff successfully. It does mean I can't ride his ^ stuff yet, but it means I minimise my injuries. 😀

I guess if you live in Lincolnshire you can't be expected to know a lot about surfing . . .

I'm watching that slacklining through my fingers! The only thought in my head is What if the end comes out of the rock?! I guess they don't think that cos they know how its fixed.

The TT crash near the beginning was horrendous. Did have a chuckle at the high fiving extreme surfers comment though!

I guess if you live in Lincolnshire you can't be expected to know a lot about surfing . . .

But you may know something about doing a 130mph average speed round the I.o.M ! 😀

As is usually the case with these things the VoiceOver is cheesy/ annoying as hell, but it's some exposure for some minority sports.

Closer to the edge is a far better watch.

Some interesting bits but the 'science' aspect to it is a bit BS. 'people do extreme sports because they get a buzz and that can be addictive, maybe something to do with their genes'. Wow.

And Zane Lowe can do one.

It is interesting that Zane Lowe doesn't actually have to sound like an utter twonk. Why can't he sound like this on the radio!

Would be better if "Come dine with me's" Dave Lamb did the VoiceOver!

Omg are you guys watching random acts with the flying suits?

this programme was great and terrible. great for Danny and his parents.. terrible for the pseudo-science that just about everything on tv seems to have now... why, it's not ok just to appreciate art or sport on their own? The only interesting bit was about adrenalin, and i'm not sure that's even right.

E.B. White famously said: “Analyzing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”

Yep, change [i]humour[/i] to [i]fun[/i] and that's it.

Liked the way it will have made some people realise wingsuit guys will have a ton of skydives/base jumps behind them before they do this stuff. It's showing the progression. A lot of people would look at them and just think they are insane without realising the build up to doing what they do.

Guy Martin 'If you get it wrong you're dead'

Wish he'd stop saying this because he got it wrong big time at the TT a couple of years back and at this years North West and at least one other North West a few years back.

I really like him but wish he'd stop playing the job up.

Pretty disappointing show to be fair.
Did anything actually happen?

Why didn't they film it when he was fit and when it wasn't pretty much winter in Chamonix?

Pretty dull, no real insight... 🙁

schedules at a guess, further adding to the poor execution of this program

It's cheap unimaginative TV.

These videos do well on YouTube so they create a format around it. The format was weak but for the cost of production it will still have pulled okay numbers.

Next we'll see a program about 'Lol' catz. Why do cat owners push there catz to such extreme poses? What's the science behind this strange obsession ?

It's cheap unimaginative TV.

It's Channel 4

I think Guy Martin hit the nail on the head with his derisory comments about what is or is not 'extreme' (although really big wave surfing is pretty extreme).

How on earth did they figure that slack lining was extreme unless they were actually going to do it without a harness? And to be fair, what Danny does is more unfathomable skill than real danger.

Frankly I can't see anything getting close to TT racers and wingsuit/base jumpers. I mean in the TT each year people die - imagine each time you went out for a bike ride you figured you had a 1 in 100 chance of not coming back. That would sharpen the mind.

Hey, it was a bit crap, but it was better than 99% of the shit on TV!

imagine each time you went out for a bike ride you figured you had a 1 in 100 chance of not coming back. That would sharpen the mind.

That sounds a bit sensationalist
No competitor deaths in 2012, don't know the exact number competing but something like 70 per race and as many again for all the practice sessions.

....... and yes I have raced the course, Manx GP 79, 80 and 81

Poor TV, but Danny seems a perfectly normal and likeable chap.

I can't see anything getting close to TT racers and wingsuit/base jumpers

I know where guy Martin is coming from with his comments on surfing but I'd suggest that big wave surfing - where they get towed up to speed by wet bikes to catch the waves & have aquafoils(?) that lift the boards off the surface of the water quite probably has a similar risk of death. I'm sure there must be a fair few other extreme ends of other sports that have a high death toll - climbing Everest for one?

surfing waist high waves, pootling to the shops on a 125, cruising blue runs are not extreme. surfing massive Shipsterns or Teahupoo, skiing the nant blanc or the north face of the triolet, and racing hard in the TT are.

Extreme sports is a bit of a misnomer. You just get an extreme end.

Only saw the first half on 4OD, I was out watching Regina Spektor, who was much more entertaining.