Till now kite surfing was a single sport (only one person on one kite).
But with a special harness and a bigger board with 4 foot straps instead of two, lets the rider invite somebody for the ride....It looks like a lot of fun,,,,,
specially for the person that can't kite.
The rider that controls the kite and the board is the one on the back.
I find wingsuit flying already a extreme dangerous sport, and many have lost their lives in practicing it. But attempting to land without deploying a parachute is absolutely mind blowing.
imagine a river that flows in direction to the sea. But on the beach the flow finds a Dam of sand formed naturally by currents and waves of the sea. The water is trapped with no exit, forming a lagoon behind it, and sometimes even lakes. The water will rise and filter throughout the sand to the sea. If the flow is strong and the amount of water that flows in the lagoon is bigger than the water that can filter through the sand it will over flow, and break through, creating a river with strong currents that washes out the sand,,,,creating waves.
On the next few videos i found you can see how guys create this flow manually and the results of hours of surfing fun.
Shockwave is the first of the Shockwave trucks. It currently holds the world record for jet-powered full-sized trucks at convert 605km/h (376 mph).
The truck has three (Westinghouse J34 Pratt & Whitney J34-48) jets, which allow the truck to complete the quarter-mile (400m) in 6.63 seconds.
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The Super Shockwave is the most recent of the two trucks. The truck has two Pratt & Whitney J-34-48 jet engines. The truck is built on a 1957 Chevy cab. In the full mile, the truck is able to reach 540km/h (336 mph)
Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara has "unofficially" toppled the world record for biggest wave ever surfed by cruising down a monster curl off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal. Photographs and video footage suggest that the wave was about 90 feet tall.
The International Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy) Race is a motorcycle racing event held on the Isle of Man that was for many years the most prestigious motorcycle race in the world and remains statistically the most dangerous race in the world. The event was part of the FIM Motorcycle Grand Prix World Championship during the period 1949–1976 before being transferred to the United Kingdom after safety concerns and run by the FIM as the British Grand Prix for the 1977 season. The Isle of Man TT Races became part of the TT Formula 1Championship from 1977 to 1990 to preserve the event's racing status. From 1989 the racing has been developed by the Isle of Man Department of Tourism as the Isle of Man TT Festival
In this video you have a first person view of the insane speed on the narrow roads:
Isle of Man Tourist Trophy
RegionIsle of Man
Date25 May to 7 June (2013)
TypeRoad Course
Clerk of the Course Gary Thompson MBE BEM
Event Organiser ACU Events Ltd
Principal sponsor Isle of Man Department of Economic Development
History
First race 1907
Number of races 94 (2013)
First winner Charles R. Collier (1907)
Most wins Joey Dunlop 26 (1977–2000)
Lap record John McGuinness17:11.572 131.671 mph or 211.904 km/h (2013)
Highlining is simply slacklining at heights. Think about walking a line in your favorite park. Now take away the soft grass below. In fact, take away any visual perception of ground. Ever try walking with eyes closed?
Slacklining takes away most of the sense of proprioception as the only contact the body has with its surroundings is the moving stretching webbing under foot. In addition to this, highlining takes away most of the visual system there is no clear level ground in sight. Many would argue that highlining is the ultimate challenge in slacklining.
Dana Kunze is a champion high-diver. He has held the world records for the highest dives. Dana Kunze began his professional high diving career in 1974 at the age of 13. He won his first world championship 1977 and maintained a winning streak for seven years. Dana now maintains a company that produces High Dive Shows. He was tied with the world record for highest dive at 52.4 m (172 ft) until 1985, when Randy Dickison (fracturing his leg in the process) set a record of 52,27m (174 feet 8 inches) at an event in Hong Kong. In 1987, the current record of 53.9 m (177ft) was set by Oliver Favre.
He started skating when he was six years old. He learned in-line skating as a teenager and began competing, eventually winning gold medals in X Games competitions.
In 2001, Taïg Khris wins the Inline Vert event, with the first double backflip in X Games history, although Matt Lindenmuth was the first to land the double backflip in a vert ramp.
In 2010, Taïg drops from the first floor of the Eiffel Tower 40m (131 feet high) onto a massive vert ramp below, and breaks the world record for the highest inline skate jump. Rules state that he was required to be on his skates up to halfway around the corner at the bottom of the ramp; Khris slid the rest of the way down the ramp to avoid injury when impacting the barrier at the bottom. Confusion over this fact has led to many ridiculing the record.
In 2011, he set a new world record for a roller skating jump when he leapt 29m (95 feet) down a long ramp in front of the Sacre Coeur Basilica in Paris.
Cliff jumping in Hawaii. Awsome idea puting a trampoline to get some impulse for some acrobatics before the freefall into the water. Makes you want to have a go! Remember,,,this is dangerous, so i recomend that if you try it,,,,ALWAYS go diving first, make sure the water is deep enough and that your vertical fall makes it to the water.
Fabienne d'Ortoli, two times kitesurf world champion, is wakeboarding behind Yvan Bourgnon 60 feet trimaran during Defi Petit Navire (Douarnenez, France, July 2006). www.sr-douarnenez.com
The launch was originally scheduled for 9 October 2012, but was aborted due to adverse weather conditions. Launch was rescheduled and the mission instead took place on 14 October 2012 when Baumgartner landed in eastern New Mexico after jumping from a world record 38,969.3 metres (127,852 feet). On the basis of updated data, Baumgartner also set the record for the highest manned balloon flight (at the same height) and fastest speed of free fall at 1,357.64 km/h (843.6 mph), making him the first human to break the sound barrier outside of a vehicle.Baumgartner was in free fall for 4 minutes and 19 seconds, 17 seconds short of mentor Joseph Kittinger's 1960 jump.
Two days after finally smashing the Outright world speed sailing record, the Vestas Sailrocket 2 team decide to tackle the 'Nautical Mile' world record which was held by the mighty 'Hydroptere'. It was always going to be an interesting challenge for the VSR2 team as the speed course that they sail on in Walvis Bay, Namibia is defined by a beach which is exactly 1.04 miles long. This requires them to launch the boat out in more exposed waters and try and get up to as high a speed as they dare in rough water before they hit the start of the mile. At the end of the course they also fire out into rough water and have to bring the boat to a stop. It's hard on the boat. The beach is not straight but has a slight curve in it . The mile is measured by TRIMBLE GPS equipment in a straight line so pilot Paul Larsen needs to balance between sailing in close to the beach for the flat water... and sailing the straightest and hence shortest distance between A and B. In this run, with winds that averaged just under 25 knots, The team smashed not only the nautical mile record* by over 5 knots averaging over 55.3 knots... but also raised their own 'Outright speed' record* to 59.38 knots over 500 meters hitting a peak speed of 64.78 knots (74.55 mph, 120 kph). For Larsen it was the perfect payback for 10 years chasing 'the perfect reach'. Speed sailing had paid him back in full and a dream was realised.
VSR2 performed exactly as predicted by the Sailrocket design team of Malcolm Barnsley and Chris Hornzee Jones at AEROTROPE. The spec for the boat was to be able to hit 65 knots in 26 knots of wind in order to average around 60 knots.
Watch Tanner Foust break the world record for the longest jump in a four-wheeled vehicle. Team Hot Wheels and the famous driver broke the record on May 29th 2011 at the Indianapolis 500. Tanner and his Hot Wheels Baja truck dropped 10 stories (90 feet / 27 meters) to get the required acceleration, before jumping for a total length of 332 feet / 101 meters.
In a hop that unofficially measured 83.5m (274 feet), Travis Pastrana travelled from Long Beach, Calif.'s Pine Street Pier onto a barge in a record breaking rally car jump.
Levi LaVallee (born August 31, 1982) is an American snowmobile racer.On Friday December 17, 2010 Lavallee suffered a broken pelvis, and punctured lung during a practice run forRed Bull New Year No Limits, and was unable to make his record setting attempt during the planned special New Years telecast. However, during a previous practice session leading up to the event Levi managed to land a record setting 110m (361) foot jump shattering the old record of 92m (301 1⁄2 feet). Since the official event for the attempt did not take place the practice run has been submitted for the official world record title.
On December 31, 2011 Lavallee jumped across the San Diego Bay as part of Red Bull New Year No Limits, just over one year after he was injured in a training run preparing for the same event. Lavallee set a world record during his jump of
412 ft.
As a distance jumper for over seven years, Capes Ryan has prepared his entire life for his latest stunt and he insists this new distance 118,99m (390' 4") is just the beginning. After realizing that he had a passion and talent for long-distance jumping, Capes decided to dedicate his life to breaking distance records and leading the charge as the self-proclaimed "new-school pioneer" of distance jumping.
Capes also broke the record for height 23.7m (78') and distance over an open gap 106m (348').
Ash Nichols flew the ford LTL (Semi Truck) 101.9 feet to a safe landing.
Mechanics conducting installation/maintenance/repair work on a very high tower 540m (1,768 feet). In some stages of the climb with no safety line!!! The courage of these brave men deserves heartiest applause.
Power line maintenance,,,,,big heights and very high voltage!!
The building named Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the tallest building of the world at 828 m (2,717 ft). And these two welders worked on these amazing heights for over 3 years. Hanging over 800m over the edge, smiling and laughing,,,just amazing..
Dolphins are amazing creatures and under my opinion should be protected worldwide. We always study these animals and we have learned that we can teach them anything,,,,but y think we should focus more on what they can teach us,,,,,because they are much smarter than we think they are. One thing is for sure,,,surfing was discovered long before the humans thought they did.
Here is a video of a guy that practices the dolphin surf. Here you can see and understand how the dolphins surf. They use the circular movement of the wave,,,,so once in it they are sucked by the wave which drags them without swimming. Real Pros!!!
Here is another way of playing filmed in an aquarium.
A glacier is a frozen river that flows slowly into the sea. When the glacier gets to it, its face breaks of huge ice blocks of ice that fall into the water creating big waves. Yes you guest it! Two guys (Garret & Kealm) came up with the crazy idea to wait it to happen and surf that unpredictable and dangerous wave.
They filmed a Documentary called "The Glacier Project"
The movie trailer from "The Glacier Project"
Videos shot from an amateurs on the shore that day:
They seem to be at a dock or similar, and like they move around at the beginning of the video you can clearly see that they have done this many times before, and that they are maybe good surfers or similar and know what they are doing. Don't ever dare the sea,,,,if you have no clue about it,,,,because like a fisherman said to me once "the sea doesn't give second chances, so you should be 100% sure of what you are doing in it
When a wave hits the shore its circular movement is stopped by the slowly uprising ground,,,which makes it rise and finally break,,,,making it loose most of its power,,,and then rolls out till it ends up on the coastline.
But in some places at the coast, the ground level is deep all the way to the shore and ends with a cliff, rock, wall, very steep beach etc,,,,where the wave, instead of breaking bounces of and travels back into sea. This is called "BACKWASH"
The point where the next incoming wave and the bounced off wave meet is where the surfers get the uprising push for their jumps. To be at the right spot, they just surf one of the two waves, and when these two waves meet,,its "BIG AIR" Not really safe, thinking that we are talking about huge forces very close to the shore,,,with mostly no safe exit point.
Believe it or not, but this invention isn't really new. It has been around since the late sixties. But now got famous again because the technology made it possible for a smaller and lighter engine,,,getting back the feeling of being on a board rather than a boat.
A '''slam dunk''' is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air and manually powers the ball downward through the basket with one or both hands over the rim. The term "slam dunk" was coined by Los Angeles Lakers announcer Chick Hearn. Prior to that, it was known as a '''dunk shot'''.
Now this video is about a group out of Hungary acrobatics which do amazing Slam Dunks using a trampoline
'''''Chasing Ice''''' is a 2012 documentary film about the efforts of photographer James Balog and his Extreme Ice Survey to publicize the effects of climate change, directed by Jeff Orlowski. It was released in the United States on November 16, 2012.
The documentary includes scenes from a glacier ice calving| event that took place at Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland, lasting 75 minutes, the longest such event ever captured on film.
==Synopsis==
Acclaimed environmental photographer James Balog heads to the Arctic in order to capture images that will help to convey the effects of global warming. Balog was initially skeptical about climate change when the issue entered scientific discussion, but after his first trip north, he becomes convinced of the impact that humans have on the planet and becomes committed to bringing the story to the public.
Within months of the first trip to Iceland, Balog initiates The Extreme Ice Survey - an expedition to collect data on the seasonal changes of glaciers. Balog and his team deploy cameras that utilize time-lapse photography across various places in the Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s glaciers.
The expedition starts off poorly as the team is plagued by numerous technical problems and camera malfunctions. Meanwhile, due to the extreme physical nature of the expeditions, Balog's personal health suffers in the form of knee complications.
After making improvements to the equipment, Balog and his team are finally able to collect time-lapse photos that depict the drastic erosion and disappearance of enormous, ancient glaciers. In the next video, James Balog gives a creat spech about what is happening:
This is a famous video is from the "Billabong Odyssey" documentary ( i recommend everybody to see). It's about getting together the best giant wave surfers of the world (Including number one , Laird Hamilton), on a quest to travel around the globe to search for the biggest ride able wave.
The Jaws surf break is roughly three miles east of Paia, Hawaii/Pā
When the Maui surfers John Roberson, John Lemus, and John Potterick were surfing the break in 1975, they noticed a sudden change in the conditions to huge dangerous waves, and gave it a nickname after the film ''Jaws'', comparing the unpredictability to a shark attack.
In the 1980s, a few intrepid windsurfing|wind surfers reached the break from Ho'okipa|Ho.
The wave sizes at Jaws (which can exceed convert|60|ft during the months of December to March) attract big wave surfers such as Laird Hamilton and Dave Kalama using the tow-in surfing method of big wave surf riding they co-invented (with Darrick Doerner and Buzzy Kerbox)
Since the steep cliffs and fast-moving waves prevent paddling to the break, surfers are towed by personal water craft launched from nearby areas such as the boat ramp at Māliko Bay.
The extreme size of the waves is caused by the structure of an underwater ridge which has been studied by scientists.
The publicity greatly increased the popularity of the site, resulting in over-crowding by 2004.
The lookouts on the cliffs above the break are the best vantage points for spectators; professional photographers use boats or helicopters.
There have been several "World Cup of Tow-in Surfing" contests held, but the changing conditions mean the dates cannot be set in advance
The Billabong XXL awards given to big wave surfers often have several nominated from the Jaws break in the "biggest wave" category.
Even experienced surfers can be seriously injured on the violent waves, and the remote location requires expensive rescues via helicopter.
'''Wingsuit flying''' or '''wingsuiting''' is the sport of flying the human body through the air using a special jumpsuit, called a '''wingsuit''', which adds surface area to the human body to enable a significant increase in lift (force)|. Modern wingsuits, first developed in the late 1990s, create the surface area with fabric between the legs and under the arms. Wingsuits are sometimes referred to as a '''birdman suit''' (after the makers of the first commercially available wingsuit), '''flying squirrel suit''' (due to their resemblance to the Flying squirrel-animal. Squirrel is now the name of a commercial wingsuit manufacturer), or '''bat suit''' (due to their vague resemblance to the Bat/animal or perhaps the Batman/superhero).
A wingsuit flight normally ends with a parachute opening. So a wingsuit can safely be flown from any point that provides sufficient altitude for flight and parachute deployment (normally a skydiving drop aircraft or BASE jumping| BASE jump exit point).
Technical mechanics
The wingsuit flier enters freefall wearing both a wingsuit and parachute equipment. Exiting an aircraft in a wingsuit requires skilled techniques that differ depending on the location and size of the aircraft door. These techniques include the orientation relative to the aircraft and the airflow while exiting, and the way in which the flier will spread his legs and arms at the proper time so as not to hit the aircraft or become unstable in the relative wind. The wingsuit will immediately start to fly upon exiting the aircraft in the relative wind generated by the forward speed of the aircraft. Exiting from a BASE jumping site, such as a cliff, or exiting from a helicopter, a paraglider, or a hot air balloon, is fundamentally different from exiting a moving aircraft, as the initial airspeed upon exit is absent. In these situations, a vertical drop using the forces of gravity to accelerate is required to generate the airspeed that the wingsuit can then convert to lift (force)|.
At a planned altitude above the ground in which a skydiver or BASE jumper would typically deploy his parachute, a wingsuit flier will deploy his parachute. The parachute will be flown to a controlled landing at the desired landing spot using typical skydiving or BASE jumping techniques.
A wingsuit modifies the body area exposed to wind to increase the desired amount of [[lift (force)| with respect to drag (physics)| generated by the body. An attainable glide ratio of some wingsuits is 2.5 or more. This means that for every meter dropped, two and a half meters are gained moving forward. This ratio can be referred to as flight efficiency. With body shape manipulation and by choosing the design characteristics of the wingsuit, a flier can alter both his forward speed and fall rate. The pilot manipulates these flight characteristics by changing the shape of his torso, de-arching and/or rolling of the shoulders and moving hips and knees, and by changing the angle of attack in which the wingsuit flies in the relative wind, and by the amount of tension applied to the fabric wings of the suit. The absence of a vertical stabilizing surface results in little damping around the [yaw axis], so poor flying technique can result in a spin that requires active effort on the part of the skydiver to stop.
Wingsuit fliers can measure their performance relative to their goals with the use of freefall computers that record the amount of time they were in flight, the altitude they deployed their parachute, and the altitude they entered freefall. The fall rate speed can be calculated from this data and compared to previous flights. [GPS] receivers can also be used to plot and record the flight path of the suit, and when analyzed can indicate the amount of distance flown during the flight. BASE jumpers can use landmarks on exit points, along with recorded video of their flight by ground crews, to determine their performance relative to previous flights and the flights of other BASE jumpers at the same site.
A typical skydiver's terminal velocity in belly to earth orientation ranges from 110 to 140mph (180–225km/h). A wingsuit can reduce these speeds dramatically. A vertical instantaneous velocity of −25mph (−40km/h) has been recorded. However the speed at which the body advances forward through the air is still much higher.
The tri-wing wingsuit has three individual [ram-air] wings attached under the arms and between the legs. The mono-wing wingsuit design incorporates the whole suit into one large wing.
I've found three jumps which have different heights and should be judged differently. The differences is how they where performed, and the story behind them.
The first jump, is a 100foot cliff. The skier makes a front flip and nails the landing!
The second, is a 255foot drop,,,, 105feet more than the first,,,,on this height stomping the landing is impossible (my opinion). But the courage of this guy is just incredible!
The 3rd jump is world record in height alright (355ft-107m!!!),,,, But was actually jumped by accident. When a skier (Fred Syversen) jumped the cliff on the wrong spot and plunged 107m and survived the fall.
