There is right at a 100% chance I will NOT be doing this to celebrate my 50th birthday.
wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo.
Related Posts
18 comments to " There is right at a 100% chance I will NOT be doing this to celebrate my 50th birthday. "
Amazing video…but…it looks cold. Scary. Incredible. Definitely not something I’d ever consider doing. GREAT to watch, though! blessings, Olivia
*gulp*
Though the wingsuit would be COOL. Just not off massive cliffs. Unless they were made of marshmallows.
OMG! I want to do it for mine! (um, I do have a few years to work on it though). Those guys were doing things I do in my dreams.
Am I the only one who noticed that this video did not show ANY of these people actually landing?
Since I spent time as a young child seriously trying to fly and now relish the infrequent flying dream, this appeals to me immediately and strongly on a gut level. On a sane, mature, adult level, I too, can say there’s a 100% chance…okay, maybe a 90% chance I won’t be doing it anytime soon. But gosh, those suits sure look cool!
many many comments….
disposable skiis???
when they got bored jumping off cliffs??? they started flying closer to the walls…
they waited till the end of the video to show the parachute landings…
that looks so cool and I would love to do it… doubt that I could…..(no guts…)
my ancestors are from Norway…. go vikings!!
if i had 37 days to live, I would do it in a heart beat. repeatedly.
I would absolutely do this! Whoo whoo. Patti start off by doing some zip-lines for your 50th and you’ll get hooked on flying through the air!
I was less than a quarter of the way through when I wondered about landing. It was marvelous to watch, though. Thanks for sharing.
Ginny
Well, well.
I’m guessing that you could go pretty stinkin’ fast with those squirrel suits; the helmets look pretty trivial when you see these folks just about grazing the sheer cliffs (which are evidently not made of candy and fluff). Bottom line is that they do have a parachute, which is nice. The hard part looks like the very start, getting away from the rocks; oopsie at that point, and the chute probably won’t help, unless it inflates into a gigantic red couch which lulls you to sleep as you bounce languidly down the slope in its 200-foot-wide couchy embrace. I’ve made myself sleepy. On the other hand, it does look like fu fu fu funnnn….WOW that was one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Imagine the feeling of freedom they must have while flying… AWESOME. However I don’t think I will be doing that on my 50th either!!! But it is soooo wonderful to watch.
I see John has the same way with words that you do, Patti. (:
Was I the only one who kept thinking of the flying nun? Sally Field was way ahead of her time!
Maybe that’s why she does bone density commercials now.
Have I made you smile? (:
I too, like some others here, tried hard, as a child to fly, making elaborate wings from sheets and sticks and stuff. But this…now, if I was 20 years younger, maybe, I’d get into it.
Are you SURE you don’t want to try this for the big event? It looks pretty fab….
Leave a Comment
Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *
