No Parachute from 25,000 Feet

**Mazderati** · 07-31-2016, 09:22 AM

Video link edited. Looks like a lot of these are getting pulled so it's likely this will, too.

**::: :::** · 07-31-2016, 09:45 AM

amazing

but not worth it

**Kenny Satch** · 07-31-2016, 09:45 AM

why is my 1st thought
2nd is FKNA

**Skidog** · 07-31-2016, 10:23 AM

Yeah was neat I guess. Truth be told I was hoping for a live splat. Baller though

**MagnificentUnicorn** · 07-31-2016, 10:23 AM

Your linked video is broken, you fail.

KQ · 07-31-2016, 10:26 AM

Originally Posted by AaronWright

Your linked video is broken, you fail.

Here's a link to CNNs story with video. Crazy stuff!

World first: Skydiver plummets 25,000 feet -- with no parachute

**Phill** · 07-31-2016, 12:10 PM

If he had fucked it up it would have been a darwin award for sure. I'm impressed by his balls/insanity but the feat itself (hitting a target that sized) isn't anything ground breaking.

**SkiCougar** · 07-31-2016, 12:17 PM

Originally Posted by Kenny Satch

why is my 1st thought
2nd is FKNA

Second both of those. That guy has boulders between the legs.

Unfortunately, or fortunately for those of you that want to see it; I think this will follow with at least a couple of splats by others trying something similar.

PB · 07-31-2016, 01:24 PM

Now you're talking.
#thinningtheherd

**iceman** · 07-31-2016, 02:24 PM

Those guys had chemtrails.

SB · 07-31-2016, 07:56 PM

if he had landed it on a treadmill that would have been worthy

**wooley12** · 07-31-2016, 09:45 PM

Taking the Sam Patch thing to the max. Hope it paid big.

**Name Redacted** · 07-31-2016, 09:45 PM

Met a kiwi ten years ago who was going to try and land without a chute using a squirrel suit. Doubt he lived much longer after we met. Good guy though.

I'd say this was pretty ballsy.

**abraham** · 07-31-2016, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by shredgnar

Met a kiwi ten years ago who was going to try and land without a chute using a squirrel suit. Doubt he lived much longer after we met. Good guy though.

I'd say this was pretty ballsy.

Jeb corliss? He got beaten by a British side who wingsuited into a giant pile of cardboard boxes. Not sure how high he started though

**Kenny Satch** · 07-31-2016, 11:39 PM

Free Fallin is the first song I thought aboot as I watched it again

**jm2e** · 08-01-2016, 11:14 AM

You guys are more badass than me. I got a little emotional when he hit the net. Jesus.
Not saying it's the coolest thing ever done, but that's about as close to alive one second, dead the next second that you can get.

Still waiting for the wing suit that lands on a grassy slope.

**Phill** · 08-01-2016, 11:34 AM

Originally Posted by jm2e

You guys are more badass than me. I got a little emotional when he hit the net. Jesus.
Not saying it's the coolest thing ever done, but that's about as close to alive one second, dead the next second that you can get.

Still waiting for the wing suit that lands on a grassy slope.

I got emotional too, in the same way as I would watching someone pull the trigger during Russian roulette. (Which is closer to alive 1 sec and dead the next).

The actual skill of hitting a target that size isn't all that and plenty of jumpers could have done it. I'm far more impressed by some of the wing suiting videos out there.

More power too him for doing it, hope he got paid well.

**nickwm21** · 08-01-2016, 11:44 AM

Close call....

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**plugboots** · 08-01-2016, 12:32 PM

^^^ I thought that too, and remember skydivers are using their chutes to get into the small targets, he's using his body for direction.

**BmillsSkier** · 08-01-2016, 01:12 PM

I'd like to hear from Blurred on this one.

Anyone know when his shift is done?

**Skidog** · 08-01-2016, 01:19 PM

Originally Posted by BmillsSkier

I'd like to hear from Blurred on this one.

Anyone know when his shift is done?

hes been working doubles a lot...doubt he will chime in anytime soon.

**grskier** · 08-01-2016, 03:54 PM

Yeah, he almost missed the net..

That's just in the bin of cool, but why bother?

**BurnHard** · 08-01-2016, 05:08 PM

Originally Posted by grskier

Yeah, he almost missed the net..

That's just in the bin of cool, but why bother?

"Why?"
"Why bother?"

WTF is wrong with TGR lately, bunch of wimps.

Why bother? Because HE CAN. We are human and we want to know if the next barrier can be broken.

And hitting a net that size is not trivial. Not impossible, but not trivial, and the asspucker factor is pretty high in those last seconds before impact.