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Thread: Aren't you supposed to wear the parachute?

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    Default Aren't you supposed to wear the parachute?

    I can't decide if this guy is incredibly brave or incredibly stupid.........


    Freefalling!!!


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    He's what I'd call a knobhead...

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    I was in a bar one time and met the Stuntman who did all the skydiving stunts for the movie "Point Break" about the skydiving bank robbers. He did the stunt where he jumped out of the place without a parachute and had to catch it on the way down.
    He also did the commercial for some furniture store where they threw the sofa out of the plane with him on it.
    He is an interesting guy. He has something like 10,000+ jumps.

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    that's crazy and that that's a tall church .......

    I've climbed to the top of the cupola at St Peter's and and Duomo in Florence but it never crossed my mind that something like this was possible .....

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    This is called proximity wingsuit flying. The clip is a little slow in getting to the action, (about 1:10 in) but IMO, it's just about the most dangerous extreme sport I've ever seen...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmlAW...eature=related

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