Base jump - could you imagine...

[dogboy]

http://player.vimeo.com/video/31481531?autoplay=1

[Drastic]

Very, very cool.

Not sure I'd have the nads for it.

[JasonD]

amazing, absolutely amazing.

> Nads

Mine dived inside my body just thinking about it

[DrCool]

That looks like it would be so much fun. Not sure if I could ever get myself to do that but I like to think I would love it.

[dogboy]

One day the guy watching from the top will see the Wild E Coyote scene play itself out - all you will see is a little poof of dust.

[Adam C]

insane

[jetboy]

Wow. That looks like an immense amount of fun.

[grnidone]

Those flying suits look amazing.  I've always wanted to learn how to be up on the "drive-able parachutes" where you can guide yourself...

[Chunkford]

Those flying suits look amazing.

They're using them wingsuits without a parachute now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un1C9TkP7JU

[hungrygoose]

My friend used to be a base jumper.  He crashed into a cliff face and spent 8 hours on the phone to his wife, waiting to be rescued praying that he wouldn't fall to his death.  Now he just parachutes.

Does look amazing but I like my life



edit: added a bit of detail

[ergophobe]

It's sort of popular in the community of people I know (mostly acquaintances and friends of friends). Let's just say it's as dangerous as it looks. You know where they just barely clear the notch? A friend just sent me video a month or so ago of someone who did NOT.

The thing one guy said is you start looking at smaller and smaller things and saying "I could jump that." At a certain point, he was looking at things 250 feet high and realized that he was soon to die if he kept that up (because at 250 feet your timing has to be perfect).