Tag: cojones
Dean Potter Crosses Yosemite Falls On a Highline
Dean Potter just keeps being Dean Potter. The American climber, mountaineer, BASE jumper and general alpine bad-ass has done some freaky things over the years. He slack-lines, he climbs mountains without safety equipment and he base jumps, including this record setting jump with a wing suit.
Turns out Dean’s not one for sitting on his [...]
Posted: August 21st, 2011 under BASE Jumping, Get a Rope!.
Tags: alpine bad-ass, cojones, Dean Potter, Gilligan's Island, slack-lining, wing-suit, Yosemite Falls
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Two Brits Kite Surf the English Channel
Most people either fly across the English Channel or do the chunnel in a high-speed Eurostar train. This is a video of two Britons, Wayne “Worsil” and Tom “Tiny Tops” who, like many Brits to each year, flew the distance from England to France. What’s different about these guys? They braved some seriously choppy waves [...]
Posted: July 9th, 2011 under Kite Surfing.
Tags: Bodhi, cojones, English Channel, kite-surf the English Channel, Point Break, Richard Branson, Richard Branson kite surf the English Channel, two brits kite-surf the English Channel
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BASE Jump the GM Building
I honestly think that beavers and BASE Jumpers have a lot in common. A beaver looks at a pond and thinks “I am so gonna dam that pond.” A BASE Jumper looks at a huge building and thinks “How quickly can I jump off that bad boy?”
Of course, the bigger the building, the better the [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2011 under BASE Jumping.
Tags: BASE Jump GM Building, cojones, Detroit, Ford, GM, GM Building, Mustang
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Guy Skydives Without Parachute
I thought I’d seen it all. I’ve blogged about wing-suits, kissing sharks, glacier surfing and plenty other neat ways to get your rocks off. But this one takes the cake.
I’ve only seen this attempted once before, in that 1991 classic Point Break, aka the best movie of all time. Evidently Travis Pastrana felt a little [...]
Posted: February 27th, 2011 under Air Extreme, Skydiving.
Tags: cojones, Red Bull, skydive without parachute, Travis Pastrana
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Speed Flying By Halvor Angvik, Norwegian Daredevil
After watching this video I realized three things. First I am glad to have Norwegian ancestry because if YouTube is correct, Norwegians have mastered the art of skiing and BASE Jumping and have cojones big enough to fit in a dump truck. Two, this video, of Norwegian daredevil Halvor Angvik speed flying (if that’s what [...]
Posted: December 29th, 2010 under Air Extreme, BASE Jumping, Skiing, Why Categorize it Cause it's Just Freakin' Awesome.
Tags: cojones, daredevil, Halvor Angvik, Norway, Wengen Switzerland, wing-suit
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Amazing Rope Swing to Base Jump
Name your fix. Some people drink. Some buy shoes, others eat chocolate. Heck, some people watch self-help videos to feel alive. Then there are those, such as this guy who feel alive when jumping off a cliff – and God bless’em for it. This is one sick video. To be honest, I can’t believe people [...]
Posted: October 6th, 2010 under Air Extreme, BASE Jumping, Get a Rope!.
Tags: cliffjumping, cojones
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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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Crazy BASE Jump off Bridge
Leave it to them crazy cats at Red Bull to come up with the sickest, most hardcore stunts ever conceived by someone on, well, Red Bull. This one’s beyond hardcore. In this video, Ueli Gegenschatz jumps from a moving truck on the Ataturk aqueduct and dives straight into oblivion. While there’s obviously a corporate plug [...]
Posted: July 23rd, 2010 under Air Extreme, BASE Jumping.
Tags: cojones, daredevil, Red Bull
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Swimming at Mt Everest. Yes, Swimming.
Anyone ever tell you to take a cold shower? I’m not sure if anyone ever told Lewis Gordon Pugh to cool off that way, but it seems he’s done one better than that. Well I wouldn’t say better, but a lot colder. Last week, Gadling.com reported that Pugh successfully swam a kilometre of arguably the [...]
Posted: May 27th, 2010 under Swimming.
Tags: cojones, Mt Everest, 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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