GoPro Presents: Bomb Squad Balloon Backflips
Check out JT Holmes, Suz Graham and the GoPro Bomb Squad as they come together for this backflippin’ drop from a hot air balloon. For today’s encore, check out Suz Graham’s “Malaysian Invasion” for the women’s BASE jumping world record. Watch Video »
Friday Freakout: Skydive With Massive Umbrella! Wi...
GoPro athlete Eric Roner channels his inner Mary Poppins… and discovers why umbrellas don’t make great parachutes. This stunt is definitely up there with the world’s first skydive using plastic grocery bags as a parachute. What d’you think: win or fail? Watch Video »
Double Rollovers + Cutaways = Big Smiles
Whoa, whoa whoa. So full of surprises, my heart is still beating fast! A beautiful moment in a hot air balloon above the clouds, double McConkeys (a.k.a. rollovers) into canopy flight, and then… well, you’ll have to watch and see. Magic! Watch Video »
Happy... Happy... Birthday Balloon Jump
Never made a balloon jump but want to? Check this one out. This video takes us through the whole balloon jump experience — from all angles and all jumpers. Put it to some chill music and, just like exiting off the side, you get a peaceful little compilation with fun flipping. Happy balloon jump birthday! Watch Video »
Rise And Shine, The Hot Air Balloon Is Ready!
Sure, I love skydiving. And balloon jumps are always fun. But I’m usually still dead asleep at 6am. Just sayin’. Here’s a short moody edit by Jarno Cordia of Fly Like Brick on a sweet balloon jump during the 2012 wingsuit competition and boogie in Siofok, Hungary. Watch Video »
Wingsuit, Meet Hot Air Balloon.
No, this isn’t a Friday Freakout, but rather, some pretty sweet footage a la foot cam of a wingsuit flying by a balloon. The only thing that would’ve made this better? Footage from the balloon so we could see just how fast he whizzes past. Watch Video »
Don't You Love Balloons?
Don’t you just love balloon jumps? Check out the other perspective just a few seconds later from this same balloon jump at Skydive Perris. Photo by Juan Mayer Photography. View Photo »
She Can Fly: Hot Air Ballon Fly-By
There’s nothing hotter than a hot French woman flying by a hot air balloon in a wingsuit. Except maybe wearing a wingsuit on a hot day. Following the “I Believe I Can Fly” documentary about highlining and BASE jumping, director Sebastien Montaz-Rosset just finished shooting this documentary about professional female BASE jumper Géraldine Fasnacht. Watch Video »
Bye Bye Balloon
Skydiving photographer Juan Mayer captured this perfect shot of a balloon jump recently at Skydive Perris. Photo by Juan Mayer Photography. View Photo »
Dodging Dozens Of Hot Air Balloons
Luke Aikins and Jeff Provenzano of the Red Bull Air Force dodging dozens of hot air balloons before swooping the crowd at the 29th annual Quick Check Balloon Festival in New Jersey. Photo by Luke Aikins. View Photo »
High Altitude Balloon Jump Over Boulder
A cool skydiving photo from inside the basket of a high altitude balloon jump over Boulder, Colorado. Photo via Douglas Tippit. Douglas also submitted another hilarious skydiving photo, “That’s My Oh Face!“, which I posted a few months ago. View Photo »
Red Bull Swooping at Balloon Festival
A great shot of Jeff Provenzano of the Red Bull Air Force as he swoops in front of the crowd — nearly 120,000 people — at the 29th annual Quick Check Balloon Festival in New Jersey. Photo by Luke Aikins. View Photo »
World's First Skydive Using Plastic Grocery Bags A...
Mary Poppins has nothing on Burke “Bruno” Schnedl – the man who set out to do the world’s first skydive using plastic grocery bags as his “canopy.” Burke wanted to answer the question, “What will 300 grocery bags jumped out of a balloon do?” So he did exactly that… strapped hundreds of plastic grocery bags... Watch Video »
Hot Air Balloon Jump at Frontier Skydivers
A fun balloon jump by Patrick, Xavier, Christian, Joe, Jason and Leeann from Frontier Skydivers in Newfane, NY. When and where was your last balloon jump? Watch Video »
Crazy Low Pull on Balloon Jump
Now THIS is ground rush! Watch this nutter with a BASE rig jump from a balloon and pull very, very low. He’s wearing a BASE rig, but jumping from a balloon… so let the debate begin: is this considered a skydive or BASE jump? Watch Video »