Ride The Lightning With Red Bull’s Cloud Surfers

Has jumping out of planes gotten a little too boring for you lately? What about doing it with a snowboard on? Still not getting that adrenaline rush? Well fear not, Red Bull has just introduced us to the newest form of extreme sport. Jump planes typically stop flying while storms are raging because it would be insane for people to jump out of an airplane into a thunderstorm ... yet in this video Sean MacCormac leaps from 2 miles above Florida with strikes of lightning angrily illuminating the sky. He charges out, feet strapped to his board to surf into a thundercloud with zero f$&ks given.

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According to Red Bull, MacCormac has over 20,000 jumps and has jumped into and through clouds hundreds of times, but those clouds were benign. The jump through thunderclouds is a rare opportunity for his team of "people who had the balls to just go for it."

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