Archive for 'Respect Your Elders'
No More Nessie?
Say it ain’t so! Apparently, recent sightings of the world’s most beloved monster, er, excuse me, “evidence-challenged endangered species” have it an all-time low, with just one “credible” sighting of the Loch Ness Monster in 2009. Apparently she’s been just as elusive in the two years since this blog post at Gadling.com, and the Scots [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2011 under Respect Your Elders.
Tags: bigfoot, Bunny Man, gadling.com, Loch Ness Monster, Mothman, no more Nessie, no sightings of Loch Ness Monster, Obama, Ogopogo
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The Biggest, Baddest, Sickest Jumps Of All Time
Get ready for some air time! This video has some seriously amazing, if not demented jumping, from planes, ramps and things that make you go Boom! when you land. You might recognize some of these jumps from some of my earlier blog posts. There’s a bit of corporate plugging going on in a few stunts [...]
Posted: January 22nd, 2011 under Air Extreme, BASE Jumping, Inspiring, Respect Your Elders, Skydiving.
Tags: airbourne, crazy jumps, daredevil, Joe Kittinger, lists, Red Bull, sick tricks, wing-suit
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The Highest Skydive, Like, Ever Dude
On August 16, 1960, American Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger boarded a helium balloon at Wright Field, Ohio. For the next hour and 31 minutes, Kittinger ascended into the stratosphere. Then, at 102,800 feet, or 31,333 metres for us metric system devotees, he stepped OUT of the balloon gondola. What transpired for [...]
Posted: September 6th, 2010 under Air Extreme, Respect Your Elders, Skydiving.
Tags: cojones, daredevil, Felix Baumgartner, Joe Kittinger, Red Bull, world records
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Mark Foo, Awesome Life, Creepy Death
This is the stuff of urban legends. Mark Foo was a professional surfer, starting out surfing the south shores of Oahu, and later moved on to big wave surfing at Waimea Bay. In the 1970’s, Foo joined the IPS World Surfing Tour and became a fixture on the international surfing scene. His passion for big [...]
Posted: July 10th, 2010 under Respect Your Elders, Surfing.
Tags: big wave, early death, Hawaii, Mark Foo, Mavericks
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Superheroes Among Us
You’re not gonna see them whipping into a phone booth to don a red cape anytime soon, but there are those among us who do some pretty superhuman things. Guys like Alain Robert, the Human Spider, who’s climbed some of the world’s tallest buildings, including Petronas Towers and the former World Trade Center with only [...]
Posted: June 4th, 2010 under Air Extreme, BASE Jumping, Respect Your Elders.
Tags: daredevil, world records
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D.B. Cooper For Team Extreme
Long before Patrick Swayze made it cool to jump out of a perfectly good airplane with a bag o’ cash strapped to your chest, another extreme skydiver made the leap. For those of you not familiar with the story, Dan Cooper, aka D.B. Cooper, hijacked a 727 in November of 1971 and demanded $200,000 in [...]
Posted: March 29th, 2010 under Respect Your Elders, Skydiving.
Tags: Bodhi, cojones, D.B. Cooper, Point Break
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