Picture Of The Day

You have got to be fucking kidding me. I liked skydiving but it was quite thrilling enough without dangling by one arm like a damn lunatic. Cool pic though...

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Wingsuit Base Jumping

Some of you may remember this fellow from the first few weeks of this blog. Well, his buddies in this video aren't trying to land their wingsuits but they do engage in some total badassery:


(hat tip: PK)

Base Jumping The Burj Dubai

In keeping with the theme of my obsession with this tiny emerate and it's capital city, the video below documents a Brit and a Frenchman setting a world record by becoming the first people to base jump from the Burj Dubai, soon to be the tallest free-standing man-made structure ever built; these boys have balls of solid rock:

Future Skid Mark

The guy pictured above is extreme sports enthusiast Jeb Corliss and the outfit he has on is called a wingsuit. It's a specially modified jumpsuit with fabric sewn between the legs and under the arms that shapes the body into an airfoil which can create lift. The suit slows the diver's fall to 1/3 their normal speed, thus tripling their free fall time. Most wingsuit fliers wear a parachute designed specifically for BASE jumping, which opens quickly at low altitudes when their flight is done.

However Jeb is on a quest to be the first wingsuit flier to land while flying solely under the power of his suit, sans parachute. He claims to need only $2 million to build a massive ramp that will allow him to complete his unassisted landing. So if there are any eccentric millionaires reading this, you just found an outlet for your spending; I'm sure Mountain Dew will throw in for a percentage as well.

Despite the sarcastic nature of the title of this post, I really do hope he succeeds at this. It's something that I would definitely like to see happen. But if he does smear himself all over the place, this is going to seem eerily prescient someday. You can watch some video of him flying and BASE jumping from various famous locations courtesy of The New York Times.