The art of flight (snowboarding)

Darkman · 20 Sep 2011 at 10:39

Skillmister said:
May as well throw this one in here considering it fits the title and has awesome filming in it

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That is absolutely amazing skill and precision flying. Utterly captivating to watch.

One of the flyers in those films died doing it though in May, which just shows how dangerous it is, even for the experts. Split second decision-making and balls of steel, not for the faint-hearted.

Skillmister · 20 Sep 2011 at 10:53

Absolutely. Considering you need over 200 skydives/basejumps before even getting in a wingsuit theres some serious talent on show there. I've seen loads of videos where they cut it too fine and arent going to make it over a treeline or hill and have to pull the chute at speed pretty low to the ground. I really need to skydive within the next few years...

alan · 20 Sep 2011 at 15:40

Agreed those wingsuit guys are crazy. Certainly some adrenaline rush Id imagine!

Skillmister · 20 Sep 2011 at 21:39

Just got done watching the full art of flight. What a fantastic watch. Top notch filming all the way through

TheBrooder · 20 Sep 2011 at 22:06

That wingsuit vid is absolutely mindblowing!

HNR1 · 21 Sep 2011 at 09:09

alan said:
I have to admit that was pretty good, some of the slow-mo shots were epic, and Im saying that as a skier.

This is even better though:

Yes it was, and a nice little touch at 2:48.

Messiah Khan · 21 Sep 2011 at 12:16

Skillmister said:
Absolutely. Considering you need over 200 skydives/basejumps before even getting in a wingsuit theres some serious talent on show there. I've seen loads of videos where they cut it too fine and arent going to make it over a treeline or hill and have to pull the chute at speed pretty low to the ground. I really need to skydive within the next few years...

Skydiving is awesome! Just get yourself booked in. I have to say though, the bit I really enjoyed was the silence and tranquillity of coming down with parachute. Made me really want to take up paragliding. Shame you can't do slow motion wingsuiting. Now that would be cool!

Skillmister said:
Just got done watching the full art of flight. What a fantastic watch. Top notch filming all the way through

I've just finished watching the full video as well. Epic! Makes me really miss the snow and slopes!

regulus · 21 Sep 2011 at 15:20

Cannot wait for the season to start. Probably the only good thing about winter mind. So far planning on Sweden, Austria and Slovakia, and hoping for Denver early next year, work depending.