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Title: just amazing....
Post by: FALCONWING on February 13, 2009, 09:13:15 PM
i get a lot of goofy emails from my friends but this one was just awesome...watch til the end...for all of us who wish we could fly....

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

give it a few seconds to load...the second half is the best part....made me want to cry..wish i was younger without responsibilities...i would be in Norway in a heartbeat

enjoy :salute
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: opposum on February 13, 2009, 09:47:45 PM
i get a lot of goofy emails from my friends but this one was just awesome...watch til the end...for all of us who wish we could fly....

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

give it a few seconds to load...the second half is the best part....made me want to cry..wish i was younger without responsibilities...i would be in Norway in a heartbeat

enjoy :salute


omg I think I know where I am heading for vacation :D

Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: Sincraft on February 13, 2009, 10:52:23 PM
i get a lot of goofy emails from my friends but this one was just awesome...watch til the end...for all of us who wish we could fly....

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1778399&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

give it a few seconds to load...the second half is the best part....made me want to cry..wish i was younger without responsibilities...i would be in Norway in a heartbeat

enjoy :salute

I feel your pain.  There was that threshold that you learned to stretch and enjoy, at times you got bumped and bruised (some of us a bit worse) but thought nothing of it.  Now adays you probably feel those moments every day just a little bit, even more the older you get. :)  I can't remember what I did, but at times I do something that reminds me of what I did and it's happy time.

I would probably still do that even to this day, hell I would even get into serious shape to do it, But I don't think I would fly that close to ANYTHING. 


THINK ABOUT IT...the guy probably flew that route a bunch of times and had helicopter footage etc.  And then eventually got the guts to fly a certain pattern.

Now imagine that overnight wind, a bird, rot, animal climbing etc - bends a tree branch down to an area that he didn't expect -

THAT would hurt!.  I think these guys use the chute as a false sense of security, when you are going sideways toward a wall, a chute is only going to cover some of the guts so that it's still youtubable. :)

Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: texasmom on February 13, 2009, 11:38:11 PM
I didn't even push play. Got to the paused picture at the beginning & closed it. I'm too much of a wimp to watch stuff like that.  ;)
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: redman555 on February 14, 2009, 01:03:33 AM
god no, i would poop my pants lol


-BigBOBCH
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: Scotch on February 14, 2009, 01:11:15 AM
That video was posted on here a couple weeks ago. There's a few more really good ones floating around youtube and vimeo.
I'm hoping to try doing this, at the beginner level, next summer or fall (2010).

Btw there's a video on youtube of one of them getting too close to the cliff, opening their chute, and crashing. Getting saved by getting entangled in a tree on the cliff side with only a broken leg. They helicopter him out.
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: Chalenge on February 14, 2009, 01:33:24 AM
I think this is the fourth time in about two years this has been posted BUT this is the best quality video of it yet.
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: AWwrgwy on February 14, 2009, 01:51:20 AM
I think this is the fourth time in about two years this has been posted BUT this is the best quality video of it yet.


Shall I post the one who got too close to the wall again?



wrongway
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: FireDrgn on February 14, 2009, 02:57:05 AM
If i wasn't married with kids right now I would get back into skydiving...Looks like they are have in a blast.

some of the best times I had were skydiving.

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Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: lazydog on February 14, 2009, 08:40:11 AM
1 word amazing
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: FALCONWING on February 14, 2009, 09:36:57 AM
sorry if this was posted before...didnt know...BUT I still freaking love it and the music rocks!! :rock
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: oakranger on February 14, 2009, 09:45:19 AM
that looks like so much fun. 
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: Anaxogoras on February 14, 2009, 10:06:20 AM
I've seen that video before.  I told my wife I wanted to take up the sport and she wasn't impressed. :lol
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: Wingnutt on February 14, 2009, 10:10:57 AM
yea those videos are awesome and you want to try it, right up until your stumble across the one of the guy hitting the bridge and getting ripped in half.  :uhoh
Title: Re: just amazing....
Post by: Ratpack1 on February 14, 2009, 10:28:07 AM
You think those are amazing. Watch the video of Joe Kittenger! Google him. He is insane has the biggest cojones ever! :salute