Friday Freakout: Swoop Gone Wrong. Stupid Hurts.
Same turn, same place, same height. Or so he thought. A great comparison of a swoop gone wrong and a swoop gone right. Stupid hurts, but those same mistakes can keep us alive if they teach us something. Live and learn everyone! Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Swooper Hits Hard, But Never Give...
“You totally made the gates bro…” Umm, yeah. Totally. Wonder if he made it onto the table with a score of 1 meter. Either way, I’m pretty sure he deserves a nomination to the SoFPiDaRF Hall of inFame – well, only if he downsizes immediately! LOL. Just kidding. Fly safe everyone! Watch Video »
Kickass Swoop Comp Finals at Skydive Elsinore
Great turnout for the ISM 2010-2011 Swoop Competition at Skydive Elsinore. I have swooped this pond MANY times myself, and so to see these guys hitting it with the downwind push… yeah, NOT easy to shut it down and stand up in those accuracy zones (and most don’t)! Distance, now that’s another story… love the... Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Getting Hit By A Parachute Sucks!
Ah, the dangers of standing next to the pond on a dropzone. You’ve got to love how Brent’s friend cares more about the video footage than his buddy who just got clotheslined by some A-lines. On the bright side, at least Brent’s face wasn’t filleted by the lines or the swooper wasn’t clotheslined by a... Watch Video »
Swooping Like A Champ At The Freestyle Festival
Swooping at its best! Sorry to disappoint you if you were expecting a sarcastic title and nothing but PLFs. There’s nothing but pure talent in this old swoop freestyle festival footage. Alright, so you still want your fix of PLFs and swooping fails… this is just for you. Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Swooper Clotheslined By Wire Fenc...
Swooping is fun… until you get clotheslined by a wire fence! Yet another way to add instant brakes while swooping. This reminds me of a fighter jet snagging the tailhook when landing on an aircraft carrier, minus the cool fighter jet and smooth landing. Watch Video »
Look Ma, No Hands... F**k The Toggles
Why use toggles for landing when you can look this good without them! Have you ever tried a ghostrider swoop before? Watch Video »
Swooping + CYPRES Fire = Instant Brakes
Having your CYPRES accidentally fire while swooping is one hell of a way to slam on the brakes! He’s lucky this didn’t happen 50-100 feet higher. Watch Video »
Swooping: Just Add Water
What do you do when your dropzone doesn’t have a swooping pond? Take a handful of skydivers, some high performance canopies, and just add water! Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Skydivers Hitting Water
Want to learn how to swoop the pond? Don’t do this and you’re half way there. Watch Video »
Mad Swooping Skills in Dubai (DIPC)
After two weeks of intense competition (and a few injuries), the third annual Dubai International Parachuting Championship at Skydive Dubai is a wrap. The stakes were high this year with a staggering purse of $775,000! This is Benjamin Forde’s edit from the last day of the comp. Congrats to Curt Bartholomew for taking the overall... Watch Video »
The Swooping Of The Lambs
Extreme sheep herding at it’s finest. I suddenly have a craving for lamb chops, some fava beans and a nice chianti. This reminds me of Jonathan Tagle swooping a camel in the Dubai desert. Watch Video »
Swooping The Pond... With A Hang Glider?!
Ok, so this isn’t a skydiving or BASE jumping video, and it isn’t exactly a pond either. But it was too good not to share. Have you ever seen a hang glider swoop over water like this? I think this guy should challenge Nick Batsch and his JPX Petra to a distance duel. Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Synchronized Swooping Fail
A brilliant display of synchronized swooping. “Just flare when I flare… biff when I biff.” Great team work guys; real friends stick together to the very end. Watch Video »
Swooping Stunt: Trust Your Friend!
How much do you trust your friend to do this… Watch Video »
Skydiver's Barrel Roll Landing Close To Ground
What do you get when using your rears and harness close to the ground on a Velo 90? A barrel roll that scares the shit out of everyone watching. This must be more fun than the dizzying 1080 swoop I posted last week. Some might say Ryan has big balls for trying this, while others... Watch Video »
Dizzying 1080 Degree Swoop
Gettin’ dizzy just watching this skydiver crank out a 1080 degree hook turn while swooping. This reminds me of Nick Batsch’s hook turns on a 2.97 wingload when he was testing the JPX Petra 69 prototype from Icarus Canopies. Watch Video »
Swooping The Skyak by Red Bull's Miles Daisher
More skyaking — skydiving in a kayak — by Miles Daisher of the Red Bull Air Force. This is Miles’ first time swooping his skyak through the rocks of Pillar Falls near Twin Falls, Idaho. Click the ‘LIKE’ button if you like skyaking. Watch Video »
Looong Distance Swooping By World Record Holder, N...
Have you ever seen anyone swoop the length of TWO football fields? Well, now you have. Nick Batsch set a new distance world record of 222 meters (730 feet) with Icarus Canopies’s (by NZ Aerosports) new swooping machine, the sexy JPX Petra 69, during the 2011 PD Big Boy Pants event at Mile-Hi Skydiving Center... Watch Video »
Swooping The Pink Open 2011
Swooping, swooping and more swooping on Day 2 of the 2011 Pink Canopy Piloting Open (Czech and Austrian Nationals) at Skydive Pink Klatovy in the Czech Republic. Congrats to the top 3 competitors — Nick Batch, Jonathan Tagle and Wuzi Wagner — for making the podium. Thanks to Max Kossidowski for sharing this edit; nice... Watch Video »