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Shame on anyone on this forum that knew about Planet Booty and didn't tell me. If you don't know, go check it out. Weird, super fun, dance party. And not like disco or pop.
Anyone who goes up in a hot air balloon has a death wish. Fuuuuuck that shit, dude.
What are your thoughts on skydiving, bungee jumping, and parasailing?
I don't think I would skydive, I might bungee jump, I would probably parasail. Those all seem safer to me, for some reason, like more thought went into them. A hot air balloon is just like "we attached a basket to an open flame and a giant balloon."
Anyone who goes up in a hot air balloon has a death wish. Fuuuuuck that shit, dude.
What are your thoughts on skydiving, bungee jumping, and parasailing?
For some reason I would never bungee jump but I don't think I could turn down a non-expensive skydive, because that shit just looks cool as fuck (+ my mom has done it, so I ain't losin points to my own mom)
Anyone who goes up in a hot air balloon has a death wish. Fuuuuuck that shit, dude.
What are your thoughts on skydiving, bungee jumping, and parasailing?
I have gone up in an air balloon, bungee jumped (regular and superman style) and parasailed. I hate flying and will not go in one to jump out of it but loved all of the other things I did. My brother got his licenses in skydiving and has jumped over 700 times.
What are your thoughts on skydiving, bungee jumping, and parasailing?
I have gone up in an air balloon, bungee jumped (regular and superman style) and parasailed. I hate flying and will not go in one to jump out of it but loved all of the other things I did. My brother got his licenses in skydiving and has jumped over 700 times.
Proving why it's both dope and statistically safe. DOPE!
What are your thoughts on skydiving, bungee jumping, and parasailing?
I don't think I would skydive, I might bungee jump, I would probably parasail. Those all seem safer to me, for some reason, like more thought went into them. A hot air balloon is just like "we attached a basket to an open flame and a giant balloon."
I skydove and everything was groovy. I parasailed and the boat died while i was in the air and I plummeted into the water, hard, and had to detach myself from the parachute so I didn't drown.
my college roommate's dad was a hot air balloon pilot. went up a couple times. it's actually pretty serene and calm. he said the most dangerous things when ballooning are sudden weather changes or high wind. His most dangerous outing was when he let someone BASE jump out of it. Basically the sudden drop in weight in the basket caused the balloon to shoot way up in the air really quickly and somewhat erratically.
I enjoyed sky diving. the wife and I went for my 23rd birthday. we bought the video, but they mailed me someone else's. and when I told them about it, they mailed me another video...that was someone else's. So somewhere I have two DVDs of a couple randos jumping out of planes.
I don't know where my video is, but its pretty much just this...
A family friend jumped with me (my first, 18th bday, his 1000th+) and we got to do the link up and spin in circle thing which was a lot of fun. he also jumped in cargo shorts and a Tshirt, which seemed crazy to me, but like, if something goes wrong it's not like you're going to be, oh no, how will i make it in cargo shorts, so it's probably just a "make this business look legitimate" to have the windbreakers.
*I would love to have done it over some real scenic part of the world, but it was still great in Waller, TX.
my college roommate's dad was a hot air balloon pilot. went up a couple times. it's actually pretty serene and calm. he said the most dangerous things when ballooning are sudden weather changes or high wind. His most dangerous outing was when he let someone BASE jump out of it. Basically the sudden drop in weight in the basket caused the balloon to shoot way up in the air really quickly and somewhat erratically.
I enjoyed sky diving. the wife and I went for my 23rd birthday. we bought the video, but they mailed me someone else's. and when I told them about it, they mailed me another video...that was someone else's. So somewhere I have two DVDs of a couple randos jumping out of planes.
Oh I forgot about this until you mentioned the weather. We actually crash landed when we landed. The weather changed and we had to make an emergency landing. He had us all go to the "back" side of the basket. That was the worst part of the whole experience.
I did the paragliding thing in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, where you strap into a parachute and run off the side of cliff. It ruled. You should absolutely do it if you have the chance to do something similar. The second my feet left the ground I felt very secure and it was just a nice, pleasant ride to the ground.
The best part though was all of the tour guides. Everyone in the flight school was a parachute/sky dive guide, mountain guide, ski instructor, or whatever else to support their passion for BASE jumping. When you're in Lauterbrunnen you can watch those guys jump, like, every couple minutes and just glide to the ground. As I was chatting with one of the guides I compared Lauterbrunnen to Yosemite and his face LIT. UP.
Apparently, all the guides wanted to BASE jump from El Capitan in Yosemite. They'd been scheming on how to do it for years. I mentioned that it's a federal offense to BASE jump in USA National Parks and he got this huge grin on his face and goes, "Ah yeah........................ we'll figure it out."
I really, really hope they pulled it off. I always keep an eye out for news of a group of Swiss nationals getting arrested in Yosemite.
I did the paragliding thing in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, where you strap into a parachute and run off the side of cliff. It ruled. You should absolutely do it if you have the chance to do something similar. The second my feet left the ground I felt very secure and it was just a nice, pleasant ride to the ground.
The best part though was all of the tour guides. Everyone in the flight school was a parachute/sky dive guide, mountain guide, ski instructor, or whatever else to support their passion for BASE jumping. When you're in Lauterbrunnen you can watch those guys jump, like, every couple minutes and just glide to the ground. As I was chatting with one of the guides I compared Lauterbrunnen to Yosemite and his face LIT. UP.
Apparently, all the guides wanted to BASE jump from El Capitan in Yosemite. They'd been scheming on how to do it for years. I mentioned that it's a federal offense to BASE jump in USA National Parks and he got this huge grin on his face and goes, "Ah yeah........................ we'll figure it out."
I really, really hope they pulled it off. I always keep an eye out for news of a group of Swiss nationals getting arrested in Yosemite.
base jumping = illegal alex honnold = totally fine
I did the paragliding thing in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, where you strap into a parachute and run off the side of cliff. It ruled. You should absolutely do it if you have the chance to do something similar. The second my feet left the ground I felt very secure and it was just a nice, pleasant ride to the ground.
The best part though was all of the tour guides. Everyone in the flight school was a parachute/sky dive guide, mountain guide, ski instructor, or whatever else to support their passion for BASE jumping. When you're in Lauterbrunnen you can watch those guys jump, like, every couple minutes and just glide to the ground. As I was chatting with one of the guides I compared Lauterbrunnen to Yosemite and his face LIT. UP.
Apparently, all the guides wanted to BASE jump from El Capitan in Yosemite. They'd been scheming on how to do it for years. I mentioned that it's a federal offense to BASE jump in USA National Parks and he got this huge grin on his face and goes, "Ah yeah........................ we'll figure it out."
I really, really hope they pulled it off. I always keep an eye out for news of a group of Swiss nationals getting arrested in Yosemite.
base jumping = illegal alex honnold = totally fine
If Alex Honnold falls he's not flapping into a family camp site like BASE jumpers are.
Really though I'm going to use this most tenuous of connections to geek out on Free Solo for a minute. Obviously filming in National Parks comes with unique constraints, mainly limited to permitting. But one thing they're really strict on is not letting anyone use a drone. If you see drone footage from inside a national park, it's probably illegal.
So that being said... how did they get some of the beautiful sweeping shots of the climb? Some of the approach shots at the end come from a helicopter they called in when they knew he'd make it. But all the reveal shots that move from the summit to the gap to the ground were not done with a drone like you might assume. They were done with fucking gib.
So that means they marched a 30-foot gib plus all the counterweights to the top of El Cap. I spoiler'd a picture of the filming because it just blows my mind. Plus the camera crew had about 10 pounds of camera gear plus like 40 pounds of climbing rope and whatever other stuff they might need (for example, water).
It's about 10 miles to the nearest road to get to the top of El Cap. Each guy had about 50 pounds of gear on him plus they had to hike in any specialty stuff like the gib (which I imagine they left on top of the cliff for a while during filming). Alex Honnold's achievement can't be overstate but holy shit everyone who made that movie did something pretty incredible.
base jumping = illegal alex honnold = totally fine
If Alex Honnold falls he's not flapping into a family camp site like BASE jumpers are.
Really though I'm going to use this most tenuous of connections to geek out on Free Solo for a minute. Obviously filming in National Parks comes with unique constraints, mainly limited to permitting. But one thing they're really strict on is not letting anyone use a drone. If you see drone footage from inside a national park, it's probably illegal.
So that being said... how did they get some of the beautiful sweeping shots of the climb? Some of the approach shots at the end come from a helicopter they called in when they knew he'd make it. But all the reveal shots that move from the summit to the gap to the ground were not done with a drone like you might assume. They were done with fucking gib.
So that means they marched a 30-foot gib plus all the counterweights to the top of El Cap. I spoiler'd a picture of the filming because it just blows my mind. Plus the camera crew had about 10 pounds of camera gear plus like 40 pounds of climbing rope and whatever other stuff they might need (for example, water).
It's about 10 miles to the nearest road to get to the top of El Cap. Each guy had about 50 pounds of gear on him plus they had to hike in any specialty stuff like the gib (which I imagine they left on top of the cliff for a while during filming). Alex Honnold's achievement can't be overstate but holy shit everyone who made that movie did something pretty incredible.
40 feet of rope, ten pounds of camera and then additional gear
yeah i just was using the opportunity to post that Free Solo extended teaser. i haven't watched the full doc but i've watched that video several times. i agree the way they shot that thing was insane, not to mention the doubts and fear the filmmakers/climbing friends felt about filming Honnold at all, lest they be something that ever so slightly throws him off his mental game.
If Alex Honnold falls he's not flapping into a family camp site like BASE jumpers are.
Really though I'm going to use this most tenuous of connections to geek out on Free Solo for a minute. Obviously filming in National Parks comes with unique constraints, mainly limited to permitting. But one thing they're really strict on is not letting anyone use a drone. If you see drone footage from inside a national park, it's probably illegal.
So that being said... how did they get some of the beautiful sweeping shots of the climb? Some of the approach shots at the end come from a helicopter they called in when they knew he'd make it. But all the reveal shots that move from the summit to the gap to the ground were not done with a drone like you might assume. They were done with fucking gib.
So that means they marched a 30-foot gib plus all the counterweights to the top of El Cap. I spoiler'd a picture of the filming because it just blows my mind. Plus the camera crew had about 10 pounds of camera gear plus like 40 pounds of climbing rope and whatever other stuff they might need (for example, water).
It's about 10 miles to the nearest road to get to the top of El Cap. Each guy had about 50 pounds of gear on him plus they had to hike in any specialty stuff like the gib (which I imagine they left on top of the cliff for a while during filming). Alex Honnold's achievement can't be overstate but holy shit everyone who made that movie did something pretty incredible.
40 feet of rope, ten pounds of camera and then additional gear
yeah i just was using the opportunity to post that Free Solo extended teaser. i haven't watched the full doc but i've watched that video several times. i agree the way they shot that thing was insane, not to mention the doubts and fear the filmmakers/climbing friends felt about filming Honnold at all, lest they be something that ever so slightly throws him off his mental game.
That doc is honestly one of my favorites ever. It takes the time to debate whether or not this is an OK thing to make a doc about and how the camera's presence changes the story. Anyone making a doc needs to consider that and I'm glad they thought that was valuable enough to include.
And yea Alex might be one of the more unique and/or insane people on the planet and the guy's following him with cameras aren't far behind.
Post by piggy pablo on Aug 7, 2019 23:20:18 GMT -5
Real Sports did a segment on Jimmy Chen, the Free Solo film crew, and and other extreme sports photographers, like the guy who shot some of the wingsuit stunts in the remake of Point Break and some surfing photographers. We might scoff at the idea of there being a Point Break remake, but the stunt they show is no joke. They present it as all being the real deal.
The wingsuit guys basically all have died doing it, except for the one featured, they say. The story points out that the camera operators are doing a lot of the same risky shit, but their focus is as much or more on getting the shot as survival, so their risk may be greater.
Free Solo is sick. The thing that I think makes it ethically tenable is that I don't think Honnold needs them to be there to want to do it. He's obsessive and would do it regardless. It's possible that them being there might throw him off, but he practiced with them there, too.
Mickey Avalon was one of, if not the, best worst show I’ve ever been to. He came out with a bottle of Molly whiskey and basically fell off the stage multiple times. Pretty sure he didn’t even finish the set iirc. Fucking hysterical.