>> ^residue:

whoa, what happened at 3:49? is that guy going as fast as it looks like or am i imagining things?


Are you're talking about the skiing? He's (most likely) ski base jumping; it's one of the latest extreme skiing crazes, and how notable skier Shane McConkey died a couple years ago.

edit: you can tell when he pulls the chute, his skis kick forward suddenly

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Free Climbing, Steph Davis, Free Solo, Base Jumping, Castleton Tower' to 'Free, Climbing, Solo, Steph Davis, BASE, Castleton Tower, Pervertical Sanctuary' - edited by SlipperyPete

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Free Climbing' to 'Free Climbing, Steph Davis, Free Solo, Base Jumping, Castleton Tower' - edited by littledragon_79

For 22 minutes of even more jaw-dropping awesomeness - skydiving, speedriding, BASE jumping and windtunnel - here's the full Skywalkers 'This is the shit' video: http://vimeo.com/18098824

8 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

I believe this video is a dupe of this one.

I'd say that, technically speaking, base jumping would be an experience of exactly One (1) gravity.

>> ^geo321:

discard. Top notch investigative work on this Detective @chicchorea.

Another one
http://videosift.com/video/First-Jokke-Sommer-Video-BASE-Jumping

yeah, I guess you wouldn't want to trust one that is left up there for you or something.

>> ^sme4r:

Read the info on yt, they say that base jumping is much more dangerous and the pack gets tiring and fucks up your movement.>> ^bamdrew:
@5:30 "no quick way down" ... no OSHA emergency basejumping certification?

Read the info on yt, they say that base jumping is much more dangerous and the pack gets tiring and fucks up your movement.>> ^bamdrew:

@5:30 "no quick way down" ... no OSHA emergency basejumping certification?

Type *discard into the comment box. That should do it. Nice video.

In reply to this comment by dan8mc:
My bad, didn't take the time to read the rules. Anybody know how to take down a video?

>> ^shinyblurry:

I don't believe the government should regulate our personal lives. It's a fine line. Take the heroin example. Heroin is so dangerous, and so deadly. Overdosing is not hard, at all..and I personally know a lot of people who would probably become heroin addicts rather quickly if it was easy as picking it up in the convenience store.
An incontrovertible fact is, if heroin is legalized, people are going to die from it who wouldn't have otherwise. Is it worth lives to make a dangerous and deadly drug available to masses under the pretense of liberty? Why can't we be rational, and reasonable instead..and say, well the cause of liberty should outweigh the harm..but we will collectively decide that some of these are just so dangerous that it is worth impringing on our liberty to keep them illegal.
The bible says that everything is permisable(besides what is explicitly forbidden) but not everything is beneficial. Likewise, though liberty is valuable it is not always beneficial to the whole. Remember, when liberty is taken to the extreme you have anarchy.


Know what else is dangerous? Sky diving, bungee jumping, base jumping, some parkour, motorcycle racing, f1, trick motorcycle jumps, you fucking name it, we do it.

In my own personal opinion, it is not the place of a government to act as my mummy, taking dangerous toys off me, reprimanding me for doing something hazardous to my health. Human kind has lived for many long long years without that kind of omnipresent babysitter.

It is not government's job to say what you can and can't do with or to your own body as long as you are not directly harming anyone else in the act of doing it. Part of being free is having the responsibility for the effects of your actions on yourself and on the people you love.

(inb4 drugs harm others) The only reason drugs harm others right now is because they are illegal.

Edit:
Whoops i forgot to add - ron paul continues to say things that make absolute perfect undeniable sense! Can he come over here and run a political party please? I want to see/know more.

I agree.. have been there many times myself.

didn't know you were in town.. we should grab drinks and base jump.

>> ^dag:

Just passed Over this bridge a few hours ago on the way to Santa Cruz. It's a pretty spot.

In Soviet Russia base jumps you.