Big Boy Pants
Swooper psyched for the Big Boy Pants Swoop Record-palooza at Mile-Hi Skydiving next weekend – I’m going to soak up the dry air, visit some old haunts and of course have a blast watching the big boys and girls go for new big records. That link has the full list of big boys who have been invited and will be there, along with profiles for most of them, so be sure to clicky click it.
But now for the important stuff (vote in the distance poll over there to the right, too >>>>):
Who will set the SPEED record at Big Boy Pants?
- Hans Paulsen (20%, 43 Votes)
- Nick Batsch (16%, 35 Votes)
- Greg Windmiller (16%, 35 Votes)
- Dave Billings (12%, 26 Votes)
- Jay Moledzki (8%, 16 Votes)
- Jonathan Tagle (5%, 10 Votes)
- Sergey Fedotov (3%, 7 Votes)
- Justin Price (3%, 6 Votes)
- Curt Bartholomew (3%, 6 Votes)
- Jessica Edgeington (2%, 5 Votes)
- Ryan Brownlow (2%, 4 Votes)
- Stuart Schoenfeld (2%, 4 Votes)
- Pablo Hernandez (1%, 3 Votes)
- Ian Drennan (1%, 3 Votes)
- Ian Bobo (1%, 2 Votes)
- Justin Thornton (1%, 2 Votes)
- Bryan Buechler (1%, 2 Votes)
- JC Colclasure (1%, 2 Votes)
- Matt Shull (0%, 1 Votes)
- Tommy Dellibac (0%, 1 Votes)
- Edson Pacheco (0%, 0 Votes)
- Dan Raymond (0%, 0 Votes)
- Bart Rogowski (2%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 213
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Taig Khris, the Ramp Warrior
This is, like, totally gnarly, bro. And, yeah, a little old. Whatever. It’s Friday. I love how he gulps a Red Bull just before his death-defying stunt. Radical in a tubular kind of way.
From asylum.com:
In-line skater Taig Khris, the most decorated athlete in extreme sports, jumped from 41 feet off the Eiffel Tower onto a ramp, setting a world record.
Khris (aka the “Ramp Warrior”) launched himself off the first floor of the Parisian landmark onto a ramp, before remaining on his feet for an impressive celebratory skate, then hitting the deck and plowing through a bundle of safety boxes.
The 34-year-old was attempting a new Guinness world record for the longest free fall from a structure onto a landing ramp.
It was also the world’s highest jump on roller skates. After the stunt, the French fruitloop said, “Two years nonstop, I didn’t sleep for nights and nights for that small moment up there and now, as you can see, I made it. So that’s cool. I’ve never had such a strong adrenaline rush.”
The previous Guinness record for the highest jump on roller skates was the 28-foot world record set by American Danny Way.
Hot Girl Wanted and other news
Mirage ad. Thank Ward.
- Mirage Systems has an open call for “a hot, experienced skydiving girl [who] would like to be on a National TV show filming in late July.” <Mirage>
- Judge rules Skydive City, [Freefall Express] must coexist until trial. <Tampa Bay Online>
- Nutty lady claims highest freefall jump, despite … well, every skydiver’s common knowledge. Bonus round – find all the ridiculously funny problems with this backstory article. <AOL news>
- Italian wins that other World Cup. Jump4Heroes was also there with their poppy canopies. <ProBASE World Cup>
- VA Beach firefighters rescue SEALs from trees. <WAVY>
The Science of Red Bull Stratos
Ground control to Major Felix
Last month, we told you about Red Bull Stratos, a crazy cool project that aims to send Felix Baumgartner up high. Really high. Super duper insane high.
The Red Bull Stratos project released a cool video this week about some of the science and technology behind the record attempt. Our good friend Kelly Farrington even makes a surprise appearance!
Enjoy (unless you’re on a Mac, in which case – sucks to be you. Or, you could try this.):
Born to Fly
To Infinity and Beyond!
Felix Baumgartner and Colonel Joseph Kittinger unveiled the Red Bull Stratos project today.
Red Bull Stratos, a mission to the edge of space, seeks to surpass limits that have existed for 50 years. Felix Baumgartner will undertake a stratospheric balloon flight to 120,000 feet and attempt a record-breaking freefall jump that is expected to reach – for the first time in history – supersonic speeds.
Velocity Sports Equipment, maker of the Infinity rig, created the rig and drogue. VSE owner Kelly Farrington says there are some pretty cool features of this rig. Hopefully we’ll get a bit more out of him, and some pictures, for you soon!
World’s Highest BASE Jump: Check
Lots of news covering this jump by Omar Al Hegelan and Nasser Al Neyadi, but this one is my favorite: Man Falls from Burj Dubai – Worlds Tallest Building. Like, whoops, I fell!
Enjoy the video—and particularly MSNBC’s spectacular journalistic reporting of the building’s height as 27,017′ (the smarties at MSNBC changed out the video on us and they’re correct now! – it’s 2,717′):
Some more links to fill up what remains of your Friday workday:
BBC
CBC
Daily Mail
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