That's living life to the MAX
Superb...
Mega skil required for flying a wing suit to that extreme.
I have done around 120 skydive and did a couple of wing suit sit jumps....
Then moved back to UK and ain't jump in years...
Top shout
To the power of sik!
Cracking way of scouting new trails!
Wow, jealous; muchly. People must have a lot of spare time and money to develop their hobby to that degree... Top skills and huge cojones.
Wow! Amazing stuff, big respect.
Holy zykes Batman, how could this be!
Oh, great, [i]thanks[/i] Jedi! My planned Llandegla and the Ponderosa film rolling tomorrow is going to look laaaaaaaaame now! 😥
mental!!
singletrack in the sky without the need for woodwork (or a bike 😯 )
<EDIT> was expecting you to be posting this..
Really amazing. I like to think I'd try most things... but no way would I have a bash at that. Hats off.
gw, fully rad 🙂
Sick to the power of rad x gnar squared.
From that camera angle they look like they're flying, but then you realise how steep theland is that they're flying over..
Bonkers.
I want a go! I'll see if my nan can rustle up a pair of wings for me out of some old sheets
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Amazing. Loving those wingsuit videos at the moment.
that is absolutely insane
great vid
Just shown my boss who says "photshopped" and walks off
GW that hang 5 to front flip made me say "what the ****?" out loud 😀 Crazy how much riding has progressed to bigger tricks now, when I was riding in about 2004-5 I think flairs (not the trouser variety) had just become very popular in web edits, and hardly anyone was doing front flips!
It is a hobby where you only get to make one mistake I should think. Knew a lad was into base jumping what must be nearly 20 years ago. He lost a few mates over the years I seem to remember.
Does anyone know what the song is btw? [i]Brilliant[/i] video...
Woodkid - Iron
This is still my favourite one of the series
too rad for me
both awesome videos! i salute them!
Sick to the power of rad x gnar squared.
+1 x 150%
O M G !!!!!
That is amazing!
Do they keep their legs apart the whole time because it helps with the aerodynamics, or just because their balls are so big?
_tom_ Yeah BMX progreses a a phenominal rate, it doesn't seem all that long ago DMC was the only one pulling flairs off consistently dressed head to toe in armour in vert comps.
MTB is miles behind BMX although this pic made me go WTF for a bit until I figured out what he'd done.
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[b]"hmmm.. it's a nice sunny day think I'll get rid of my shirt, better take it easy then so I'll maybe just throw a 3 off this kicker or should I pull a backflip? hmm.. I dunno? 3 I think, yeah.. oh I CBA with this, maybe a backflip'd be more fun.. YEAH!! ooops! Now I'm facing the wrong way, s'pose I'd better finish the 3 then.. Hmmm.. SWEET!!![/b]
Damn that takes me back, McCoy was always my favourite rider when first Mirra and then Bestwick were busting the big shit, proper hardcore oldskool, never scared to try.
Awesome. Wonder if the SAS / specials ops do this sort of thing? Gotta be a good way of sneaking behind enemy lines. Not sure I could picture Rambo doing it though. Gotta be in a future bond film though
Oh the the armed forces do this already, it's just that with 120lbs of kit the glide angle is a lot steeper...
gravitysucks - Member
Awesome. Wonder if the SAS / specials ops do this sort of thing? Gotta be a good way of sneaking behind enemy lines. Not sure I could picture Rambo doing it though.
they might be mad but they are not stupid 😉
HALO and HAHO already do the job. + adding tons of eqp might spoil the "fun" of skimming mountain tops and flying down valleys.
recently watched a couple of docs on more4, the 1st about an american wingsuit flyer/basejumper and his exploits blew me away. the footage of his mate hitting the bridge like a guided missle is just surreal and awful. the other about a basejump junkie out most nights in central london really caught my imagination though(i hate heights). a world removed from what most people would call the "extreme" sports of mtn biking snowboarding etc.
this one has a pretty close moment - check shortly after 1.20 😯
(that front flip ^^ is indeed mental)
2 questions - what's the glide angle and what's the air speed? Definitely rad!
Doh - you remember what the documentaries were called?
You never get a 'bloopers' section on those vids do you?
gravitysucks - Member
Doh - you remember what the documentaries were called?
both on 4od, the human bird is part of the daredevils series and the men who jump off buildings.
Niceone cheers fella. I watched the men who jump of buildings a while ago when it was on but well worth another watch
Hoping Cynical doesn't try to make a homemade wingsuit.
[i]Hoping Cynical doesn't try to make a homemade wingsuit. [/i]
he'd be fine - it'd never get off the ground 😉
Front flip 360?
When these guys get bored of wing suits, what next? 😯
I always fancied giving hangliding/paragliding a go, now it just looks like touring on a pashley in comparison.
How do they judge the landings? Surely it'd be way to easy to keep going untill you run out of height? Anyone ever atempted to land into a car/train/truck?
Impressive. Bloke at 1:27 looks like he nearly ran out of air.
Any ideas:
1. What your rate of descent is, how do you map your descent etc?
2. How may deaths per year?
What your rate of descent is, how do you map your descent etc?
IIRC It's about 1:2.5, i.e. if you find a 2000m mountain/valley, you can fly about 5km.
thisisnotaspoon - one assumes a pull-up to convert speed to height, then a conventional parachute.