That makes thehair on ya neck stand up!!

Downwinder said...

What a rush it would be if you had some go in ya and gave it a go ( Help Me Please Mr Wizard )

Mr Wizzard aint going to help you in a deep crack

Scotty88 said...

Seen a doco on this bloke a few years ago when he was flying with his mate and his mate got cut in 1/2 by a bridge cable. Scary stuff and I guess he will die doing what he loves one day. Hope to Christ that doesn't happen but he's doing his best.

Yea I saw that in the kite forum, scary stuff!!

Scotty88 said...

Seen a doco on this bloke a few years ago when he was flying with his mate and his mate got cut in 1/2 by a bridge cable. Scary stuff and I guess he will die doing what he loves one day. Hope to Christ that doesn't happen but he's doing his best.

Jeb knows the story well, he was on the same jump and ended up covered in his mate's blood and guts.

This is the doco:



Fast forward to 5:30 for the time poor

Lost a good mate about 8 years ago to base jumping in Norway, he was a veteran
jumper but his chute failed. These base jumping guys are truly "different" people.

Theres a mataphor that goes when you start BASE jumping you have two jars. One is empty and is labelled "Experience". The other one is full of marbles and is labelled "Luck". Every time you do a BASE jump you move one marble from the full jar into the empty one.

this guys a nut..

Yep , I recon he would have needed a change of undies after that flight!!!!

I pooped mine just watching it !

this dude is lucky to still be alive

Probably going to regret writing this when I re read this in the morning.

The difference between Base Jumpers and old bald guys wearing go pro cameras on their heads paddling a lame Stand Up paddle board across some dirty lake, is:

base jumpers go to more exotic locations;
base jumpers take far more risks;
base jumpers are younger;
Base jumpers are living now;
Base jumpers are way cooler to watch;
Base jumpers probably have rich parents;
Base jumpers don't have wives or children;
Base jumpers don't need a forum to discuss what they do;

I knew I'd regret this post.

Stitch said...

adolf said...

Probably going to regret writing this when I re read this in the morning.
The difference between Base Jumpers and old bald guys wearing go pro cameras on their heads paddling a lame Stand Up paddle board across some dirty lake, is:

base jumpers go to more exotic locations; Nah - they never come to Perth... wonder why???

No cliffs high enough?

base jumpers take far more risks; undoubtedly

Yep!

base jumpers are younger; what happened to the comment about the baldies

deleted it due to the fact I'd probably offend all of the baldies here - it's not their fault that they are old and bald.

Base jumpers are living now; I dunno, sunning yourself in a warm ocean on a board is awesome laid-back living now

debatable

Base jumpers are way cooler to watch; only because you are waiting to see it all go south

probably

Base jumpers probably have rich parents; yeah - I buy that

Yeah

Base jumpers don't have wives or children; probably

Yeah

Base jumpers don't need a forum to discuss what they do; www.basejumper.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi

They don't need it though, sup forums and many other forums do that job for them. I doubt you'd see a topic about sup boarding on that forum!

adolf said...

Probably going to regret writing this when I re read this in the morning.

The difference between Base Jumpers and old bald guys wearing go pro cameras on their heads paddling a lame Stand Up paddle board across some dirty lake, is:

base jumpers go to more exotic locations;
base jumpers take far more risks;
base jumpers are younger;
Base jumpers are living now;
Base jumpers are way cooler to watch;
Base jumpers probably have rich parents;
Base jumpers don't have wives or children;
Base jumpers don't need a forum to discuss what they do;

I knew I'd regret this post.

Define old ? I've got the bald part covered.

DVD? What's that? Aren't all videos now available free on Vimeo or Youtube?

I wonder why he chose that rocky place at Table Mountain to train? If it was the grassy slope in Europe from Grinding the Crack he may have just skimmed the surface and got some grass burns on his knees. Maybe add some kevlar knee pads to the suit and go a bit harder.

Towny said...

Stitch said...

chrisparker said...

Here's his latest adventure...

Hey thats my home town - Cape Town. He is jumping the front face of Table Mountain - we used to paraglide there!

Lets see if he gets back on the horse.

Um, he didnt move much after he landed

Piros said...

Fark me that's so heavy , amazed he still managed to pull the Shute. Talk about pushing the envelope . I bet the US military is looking hard at this , just imagine what the elite teams like Seal Team 6 (the one's that rubbed out Bin Laden) could pull off , these guys are the elite of the elite and do some crazy sh!t with high altitude jumps with seriously low deployment of the Shute , they are probably working on landing without the parachute.

That guy is trying to do just that Piros, there is another youtube vid with some of the build up for it. Alltho he almost did it that time!