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.
