So you think you can fly??

Check it out :o:wow:
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vi...
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I think that wingsuit flying or whatever its called has to be a serious contender for most extreme activity ever.

I got one! Let do pass the wing suit! Who's first?..............aj

LOTS of people have died at this !
The 1st 7 who tried did ! I think ?

This is one of the most disturbing videos I have ever seen.
Don't watch this video if you are squeemish ! :wow:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvjgvXcxMsU

Kind of makes paragliding look like a sissy sport

That's not flying ....more like control falling


and heck yea! I'll give it a shot:wee:

Those guys are frickin nuts....that part where he's buzzing the road...totally insane...now that's what I call an Extreme Sport!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BUJ3VbyIHE :wee:

Totally nuts! I Caught up with an old friend of mine from Montana the other day and found out that wingsuit jumping is his new sport! He is on the US team and everything. Makes kiting look a lot less extreme.

at what point does "extreme" become "stupidity"? :dunno: I just shake my head at this stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpm0m6bVfrM

I'd do the wingsuit in a second before I'd climb that wall with no belay. Where do I go to practice for that wingsuit stuff? Oh you mean youi just go jump off a cliff and figure it out on the way down? Ahhh. Might as well do a backflip for style then.

the guy in the climbing video (FG) was climbing wayyyy below his ability -- I've soloed a bit -- nothing like that -- on climbs I know well and it feels solid, like climbing a ladder! You do have to be in the groove, tho, climbing lots and in shape for it, also in the right mental space. Dan Osman (the guy in the video posted by FG) pushed himself by doing long rope jumps and eventually killed himself by making a mistake with the rigging for his jumps -- that said, nobody in the climbing community knows exactly what happened on that last jump!

that said, I doubt I'll ever jump off a cliff with a wingsuit -- that's one expensive way to get excited...

..and I thought that wingsuit video was intense....that solo climb video was pins and needles stuff..

though what he did was amazing and he had to have been one of the bravest people that ever lived...I just keep thinking about his daughter that had to grow up without a Dad...

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Darwin: Darwin's Theory of Evolution - Natural Selection While Darwin's Theory of Evolution is a relatively young archetype, the evolutionary worldview itself is as old as antiquity. Ancient Greek philosophers such as Anaximander postulated the development of life from non-life and the evolutionary descent of man from animal. Charles Darwin simply brought something new to the old philosophy -- a plausible mechanism called "natural selection." Natural selection acts to preserve and accumulate minor advantageous genetic mutations. Suppose a member of a species developed a functional advantage (it grew wings and learned to fly). Its offspring would inherit that advantage and pass it on to their offspring. The inferior (disadvantaged) members of the same species would gradually die out, leaving only the superior (advantaged) members of the species. Natural selection is the preservation of a functional advantage that enables a species to compete better in the wild. Natural selection is the naturalistic equivalent to domestic breeding. Over the centuries, human breeders have produced dramatic changes in domestic animal populations by selecting individuals to breed. Breeders eliminate undesirable traits gradually over time. Similarly, natural selection eliminates inferior species gradually over time.

Lesson learned: if you are not BUZZLIGHTYEAR and dont have wings, don't fly

i'll stick with kiting.....just looking to have some fun,push the envelope a little--not get killed!

I wonder what windsurfers were saying about kiting 10-20 years ago when the idea was first being toy'ed with.

".I just keep thinking about his daughter that had to grow up without a Dad... "

Yep, just like Bindi Irwin...

On a lighter, scaled-down note... I still think this guy's stuff, especially a few of the last stunts, are some of the most amazing I've seen (in my normally couch potato existence!)

Feinberg skating

I can't even understand how someone's brain could allow them to do something like that. It's like any sense of self preservation has disappeared. That being said, flying squirrels have been doing this for years.:o

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Originally posted by nwsurfwakeskate I wonder what windsurfers were saying about kiting 10-20 years ago when the idea was first being toy'ed with.

I was thinking it looked really cool, but I'm glad I waited to try it now that lots of kinks have been worked out and the equipment is really good. Really, windsurfing has gone through a transformation (again) and really cool stuff is available now. It's all a natural process of improving design. I wavesail a sandbar 1 1/2 miles offshore in 6-10 mph on a SUP! This ocean swell just collides w/ bar at midtide and it goes off!! Use just enough power to position and me and 2 others that do this are grinning ear to ear!! The weird part is no one believes us. oh well....!

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Originally posted by lad ".I just keep thinking about his daughter that had to grow up without a Dad... " Yep, just like Bindi Irwin... On a lighter, scaled-down note... I still think this guy's stuff, especially a few of the last stunts, are some of the most amazing I've seen (in my normally couch potato existence!) Feinberg skating

Well at least this guy wears a cap for head protection. He is jumping off buildings after all.

Speaking of leaving little daughters behind...
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Extreme skier McConkey dies in jump in Italy

By The Associated Press 7 hours, 9 minutes ago

Extreme skier Shane McConkey was killed jumping off a cliff with a parachute while filming a movie in Italy. He was 39.

His sponsor Red Bull confirmed his death Thursday.

McConkey was in Corvara, Italy, on a ski-BASE jump when he had a mid-air malfunction, Red Bull said in a statement. Italian emergency responders arrived within minutes and pronounced him dead at the scene, according to the sponsor.

“Shane loved life and innovated both sport worlds he touched, skiing and B.A.S.E. Jumping,” Red Bull spokesman Patrice Radden said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the sport he pioneered also carries inherent risks.”

McConkey founded the International Free Skiing Association and had grown popular in recent years for his BASE jumping competitions and big-mountain film exploits.

During his career he won the IFSA world tour of freeskiing in 1996 and 1998, and finished second in the 1999 Winter X Games Skier X competition. In 2001, Skiing Mag listed him as the top skier in North America, and Powder magazine readers voted him skier of the year three times.

McConkey lived and trained at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village south of Truckee, Calif. He is survived by his wife, Sherry, and 3-year-old daughter, Ayla.

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Originally posted by furbowski that said, I doubt I'll ever jump off a cliff with a wingsuit -- that's one expensive way to get excited...

YES, I'm waiting until the old wingsuits with poor safeties and bad flying characteristics go on sale second hand so I can get in to the sport real cheap ! I only want to have to buy one wingsuit and am growing so I'll buy the biggest size possible and grow in to it. Screw lessons, how much skill does it take to jump off of a cliff !

I think I can see where this sport is going ;-)


SO SORRY to hear about Shane. What a way to go.
I understood he grew up around Vancouver ?

I would totally try this wing suit deal. How much$ does it cost?

ps get busy livin or get busy dyin'