What do you think about a Person that does Basejumping for fun?

[seehas]

Hej Avalon Folks i would like to know what do you think about a Person that does Basejumping for fun?



For me its like a two sided sword, a person that is able to do the step over a cliff will be pretty hard to control do to fear based mechanisms, it also removes the "we take care of you" mentality that our system puts on you, but otherwise its the biggest egoistic move thats possible if you have a family and friends that love you.

what do you think about it? (i would love to hear what a buddhist monk would say about it )

[indigopete]

I think it's great although I'm not a Bhuddist monk..

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Incredible wingsuit flight - just along the road from me...https://youtube.com/watch?v=NsYTJAtaFKU

I would not be trying this myself but good luck to those who do.

[778 neighbour of some guy]

I think all Buddhist monks should do it, until then they should suspend their judgment

[Octavusprime]

I'm a thrill seeker myself, to the dissmay of my mother and girlfriend. For someone like myself the best way to feel alive is to get as close as I can to death. I dont do it unless i know it can be done. I take necessary precautions to minimize risk. I don't want to die but at the same time I do not fear it. I have broken many bones and donated much blood in the process. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger IMO.

My family knows me and has accepted this as a part of who I am. For their sakes I don't do everything that I would like to do. I've agreed to not own a motorcycle as a compromise to my GF.

Adrenaline junkies come in all flavors so I can only speak for myself. What I do is not selfish in my eyes. It is a passion that drives me to jump, fly and go fast. With every exhilarating thrill I feel more connected to the world around me.

[seehas]

Posted by indigopete (here)
I think it's great although I'm not a Bhuddist monk..

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Incredible wingsuit flight - just along the road from me...https://youtube.com/watch?v=NsYTJAtaFKU

I would not be trying this myself but good luck to those who do.

nice check this video its only some days old start at minute 8:00 its the girls record - 15 girls at one time

i bow down to the mental power to do this - humans are amazing


Source: Watch on Vimeo

[Octavusprime]

Check out this oldie but goodie. Inspiring.

http://www.flixxy.com/best-wingsuit-flying-footage.htm

[naste.de.lumina]

I made many parachute jumps from aircraft. All for fun.
The jump basejumping besides being much riskier is also more difficult to be done because there is no easy access to towers, bridges, buildings or cliffs on which to jump.
The parachute is specially developed for this jump because it has to have an opening very quickly and with a canopy of aerodynamic shape that pushes the skydiver forward, otherwise you run the risk of colliding with the structure.
Remembering that these parachutes basejumping has no reserves, they are useless due to low altitude jumps.
The freedom of flight in a free fall is an experience impossible to describe in words. Maybe the closest is wonderful.
I do not think selfish act. Police officers, firefighters, soldiers, etc., all run some risk. After only two are sure of life. The death and paying taxes.

[Fred Steeves]

Posted by seehas (here)
Hej Avalon Folks i would like to know what do you think about a Person that does Basejumping for fun?



For me its like a two sided sword, a person that is able to do the step over a cliff will be pretty hard to control do to fear based mechanisms, it also removes the "we take care of you" mentality that our system puts on you, but otherwise its the biggest egoistic move thats possible if you have a family and friends that love you.

Well seehas, I've been a regular skydiver, and done a few bungee jumps to boot. The thought of it being an ego driven endeavor has never even crossed my mind until now, as family and friends of any jumper I've ever known accepted that the person is following their passion, and doing what they genuinely love to do.

I've always seen skydivers as boundary breakers, free spirits that will not be caged, and there's not a group of people more fun to hang out with. Especially when it's beer time! (LOL)

Cheers,

Fred

[Rex]

I don't remember which video I saw this on (way before youtube) but it was about skydiving and base jumping, and they were interviewing some base jumpers. They were talking about how people incorrectly called it a "death wish". One of the base jumpers said, it's not a death wish, it's a life wish!

[Camilo]

Cool, kind of nuts, exiting, the ultimate rush, even a radical spiritual experience.

[naste.de.lumina]

This is a fellow thoroughbred

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=O1JVLm5YuWY

[BrianEn]

I don't know what to make of them other than we all tick differently. I prefer my feet firmly planted on the ground. I sure do appreciate the view from helmet cams. The guy who jumped from space is the coolest badass muther(expletive) that ever walked this planet.

[4evrneo]

If I wasnt afraid of heights, I would say sure ! But bodily reactions prevent me from going there lol. Kudo's to you that can stomach it.
This remided me of this video that I enjoy watching, very exhilarating (from the ground) ha!

Enjoy!

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UhE1dXngnO0

@ :50 seconds it gets good

[naste.de.lumina]

The extreme sport in my view, is a form of; fun while you try to overcome your limits. It is not natural for you to hang on a plane to jump into the void.
Your conscious knows that. The control required to overcome the initial fear (especially in the first jumps) while the brain is required to work correctly performing a number of tasks required for the jump is successful, as a prize behind a great self confidence in yourself.
Over the jumps this feeling of fear is being replaced as the heels are becoming a routine.
Hence the desire to meet other extreme as basejumping eg for that feeling that existed before again being felt. It is these searches emotion that follows the term addiction to adrenaline.
And is not an arrogant self confidence.
It's the kind of thing you only need to prove yourself.
Then you'll know it'll be when you need

[torti]

I think this sort of stuff is amazing. I am a firm believer, when it is your time, it is your time.

Do what you love and don't be afraid, if you die on a motorcycle, or from a heart attack or whatever, the way you die does not matter, only that, that was your moment, regardless of how or why...

Wouldn't you rather die doing something you loved if you had the choice?

But in saying that... I love thrill seeking... white water rafting, bungy jumping etc... you can't beat that rush!

[Katyani]

Posted by deadfoot (here)
I don't remember which video I saw this on (way before youtube) but it was about skydiving and base jumping, and they were interviewing some base jumpers. They were talking about how people incorrectly called it a "death wish". One of the base jumpers said, it's not a death wish, it's a life wish!

That was probably Thor Alex Kappfjell, who jumped the World Trade Center a couple of months before he passed away, diving off a mountain in Norway. In an interview, he said:

A lot of people imagine that my friends and I are stupid - total idiots who don't know what's best for ourselves and who don't have any respect for life. They think we have some kind of death wish. In fact, it's the total opposite. The people I know who BASE jump all love life, and because they do, they're pretty reflective about it. When you put yourself in such dangerous situations, where one mistake will kill you, it makes you think. So why do we do it? It has to do with an intense feeling of being able to face the extreme and control it, which gives enormous satisfaction.

[Fred Steeves]

Posted by Katyani (here)
In an interview, he said:

When you put yourself in such dangerous situations, where one mistake will kill you, it makes you think. So why do we do it? It has to do with an intense feeling of being able to face the extreme and control it, which gives enormous satisfaction.

Yes, he's spot on there. Reminds me of the first time I jumped a rig that had no automatic opener on it after graduating from student status. As I was heading out the door at 10,000 feet, my mind was saying basically: "This is it bro, there's no human or contraption on Earth that can save you from bouncing off that ground down there like a rubber ball, it's all you. Now go..."

There was one situation where I was forced to deploy the reserve chute in free fall, and another where I had to struggle with the main chute through 2,000 feet of altitude to get it to finally open properly, trying to avoid cutting it away and going to #2 yet again. I finally got er to fully open, but not til the last minute when the choice was about to be mandatory. Either cut away and pull the reserve, or ride it in with what you've got.

Although nobody in their right mind wants to be put in these types of situations, there is also no better way of finding out if you've got what it takes to operate properly under extreme pressure, or if you're one to fold up and panic.

Talk about getting to know thyself.

[seehas]

Posted by Fred Steeves (here)

Posted by seehas (here)
Hej Avalon Folks i would like to know what do you think about a Person that does Basejumping for fun?


For me its like a two sided sword, a person that is able to do the step over a cliff will be pretty hard to control do to fear based mechanisms, it also removes the "we take care of you" mentality that our system puts on you, but otherwise its the biggest egoistic move thats possible if you have a family and friends that love you.

Well seehas, I've been a regular skydiver, and done a few bungee jumps to boot. The thought of it being an ego driven endeavor has never even crossed my mind until now, as family and friends of any jumper I've ever known accepted that the person is following their passion, and doing what they genuinely love to do.

I've always seen skydivers as boundary breakers, free spirits that will not be caged, and there's not a group of people more fun to hang out with. Especially when it's beer time! (LOL)

Cheers,

Fred

in skydiving the statistics say u got a malfunction every 800 jumps (malfunction=main canopy not working as it should, you have to chop it off).

in base you better never get one since there is only one chute - and even when the chute opens it still could be the direction faced to the wall and not enough time to rear-riser your ass out.

thats why its a big big difference, skydiving has become a real safe sport and tourists all over the world enjoy tandem-jumps - u wont see base tandems that soon


YES the beer is good ! im the guy at the fridge, do you still jump?

[naste.de.lumina]

Fortunately I never had to use the reserve parachute.
But I'm sure he was ready if needed.
The biggest danger I faced was I think the third or fourth jump I did when I was landing, far from the landing area established, a gust of wind threw me toward a road and I almost got hit by a truck. For very little canopy not curled up into the truck.
I remember thinking. Go talk to my parents that I jumped with a parachute and died hit by a truck. How so???????? Hehehe

[Fred Steeves]

Posted by seehas (here)
in skydiving the statistics say u got a malfunction every 800 jumps (malfunction=main canopy not working as it should, you have to chop it off).

in base you better never get one since there is only one chute - and even when the chute opens it still could be the direction faced to the wall and not enough time to rear-riser your ass out.

thats why its a big big difference, skydiving has become a real safe sport and tourists all over the world enjoy tandem-jumps - u wont see base tandems that soon :

My student instructor was a 20 year Army Ranger and Special Forces guy with 8,000+ jumps. One day I was on my way to do a jump with him, but turned back home because it looked like bad weather. That same day he did a tandem with a first timer, and nothing ever opened. They hit the ground going over 200 m.p.h., must have been a real mess. About as safe as driving to work I reckon.

Posted by seehas (here)
YES the beer is good ! im the guy at the fridge, do you still jump?

I see you there, and I'm coming for that frosty one way in the back corner. No I haven't jumped for some time, but it's always there...

Have you jumped?