Friday Freakout: Tandem Passes Out - Bro, You Alri...
Hey… hey, bro… you alright? Wwwhhaaat… yeah, I’m good. Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Low Wingsuit Cutaway, No AAD, Ope...
While wingsuits are all the rage these days, it’s often overlooked that — should a series of events go wrong — you’re now falling toward the earth in a straitjacket. No matter how you slice it, a low deployment followed by a malfunction (without an RSL or AAD), several revolutions on your back, a head-down... Watch Video »
BASE 3-Way CRW Stack?? Yup, That Just Happened!
As if BASE jumping isn’t already an inherently dangerous sport… now let’s add some CRW (canopy relative work) for shits and giggles. Congrats to Max Bruffell, Jamie Flynn, and Maria Steinmayr for pulling this off. BASE and CRW go together like, um…. bah, I’ve got nothin’. This is new to me, and pretty crazy/awesome. Watch Video »
Extreme Skydiving: Ironing Clothes In Freefall
Extreme ironing (yes, ironing clothes!) in freefall by Mike Frost and Steve Scott is right up there with solving a Rubik’s cube in freefall, as well as chasing hamburgers out of an airplane, and let’s not forget the skydiving tattoo that set a world record. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever done in the sky? Watch Video »
Guinness World Record Hot Air Balloon Skydives
On February 10th, 2013, Skydive Dubai Desert Campus set two official Guinness World Records… 1) the most skydivers to jump from a hot air balloon simultaneously (25 skydivers), and 2) the most skydivers to jump from a hot air balloon during the same flight (40 skydivers). The third record was unofficial due to technical reasons:... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Sled BASE Jump Almost Ends In Dis...
Instead of a tried and true ski-BASE exit, Dennis Ohlsen opted to ride a sled off the edge of a snowy cliff. Sure, a fun idea in theory… until your sled gets stuck on the edge, sending you off said cliff with almost no forward speed. Dennis comes incredibly close to the cliff in his... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Snag Hazard, Horseshoe Malfunctio...
At a dropzone somewhere in Middle Earth, one skydiver did pitch his pilot chute through a loop of shock cord on his jacket. Holy horsehoe, Batman! With his reserve pilot chute entangled in the risers and the canopy turning, he makes a heroic effort to straighten it out before landing. We love happy endings to... Watch Video »
Solaris Freestyle at World Skydiving Championships
Freestyle is 1,000 percent awesome. We know that seems a bit exaggerated, but the gentlemen of Solaris are quite talented. Gymnastics in the air while donning a top hat? Yup, that just happened. I remember seeing videos of Merriah Eakins when I first started skydiving and I was blown away by what was possible in... Watch Video »
Double Dynamic Duo: 4 Days, 4-Way, 4Speed
The new concept of Dynamic Freefly is all the rage nowadays — flying that’s fluid and always moving through quadrants of the tunnel. Check out world champion VFS flyers, Team4Speed, as they rock some 4-way dynamic freefly at Paraclete XP. It’s like there are two dynamic routines going on simultaneously… separate, but entirely together. COOL. Watch Video »
David Hasselhoff's 5-Minute Near-Death Skydiving E...
Damn this is entertaining. Remember Baywatch? Of course you do! Remember when a single skydive would last 5 minutes? Didn’t think so. Remember when we used to wear hockey helmets for skydiving? Neither do I, but The Hoff can make anything look good. In this Baywatch episode, David Hasselhoff has a near-death skydiving experience. Watch Video »
Stupid Human Tricks: Slackline BASE Jump
Hucking a gainer off a slackline takes practice, and anyone who knows Sketchy Andy knows there’s nothing stupid about this. He’s spent more time on a slackline than he has on the ground. He also helped pave the way for people like the Skyliners, who took slacklining and BASE jumping to the next level in... Watch Video »