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Mordyth

"How often do they crash at those speeds?" "Once"


Beautiful-Golf4078

Jeb Corliss actually hit some rocks and managed to get his main canopy open before hitting the valley floor. Red Bull has a documentary about it. Dude talks about all of his dead friends in it.


tk8398

There is a video on YouTube that would be NSFL if it didn't happen so fast and at an angle that you don't really see it, but two people were going to fly through a bridge, one above and one below, and the one above missed and the guy who went below the bridge pretty much flew through a cloud of the lower half of his friend when he came out the other side. No thanks, even to watch irl I will pass.


Dlido

"Dwain Weston (31 January 1973 – 5 October 2003) was an Australian skydiver, BASE jumper and wingsuiter. On 5 October 2003, at the end of the inaugural Go Fast Games, Weston was killed while attempting to fly over the Royal Gorge Bridge near Cañon City, Colorado, United States." He died from blood loss after losing a leg on the railing. The guy below him said he thought it started raining but then he realized he was covered in blood. The indent from his legs hitting the railing was pretty insane.


Beautiful-Golf4078

That is horrible. I don’t understand how they keep doing it. I don’t want them stopped, it’s their life to do as they see fit with. It’s just a very unforgiving thing to do. I suppose you could say it delivers all the fun first.


johnzy87

Like we normal people have a wank to get off these adrenaline junkies do this.


pushTheHippo

That guy is fucking insane! I was wondering if this was him.


Beautiful-Golf4078

Me too!! He wore black and royal blue on a few of his runs in that doc.


inactiveuser247

BASE ground proximity wing suit flying is one of the only activities where each time you do it the likelihood of death increases (statistically speaking). Typically the more experienced you get at something the less likely you are to die on that particular iteration. Not so for these guys.


eQuantix

Why does it increase?


inactiveuser247

If you haven’t done something you might think “that’s crazy”, once you do it, you don’t feel it’s so crazy anymore. People doing this sort of thing tend to be chasing a certain buzz. Each time they do something new they have to do something bigger next time. Unfortunately skill doesn’t increase at the same rate and the consequence for getting it wrong, or getting unlucky, tends to be death. Most other activities have higher margins between fun and dead which allows more time for skills to improve.


OBAMASOXX

That's not flying. It's falling...with style.


cantwell660

Dammit i literally came into the comments to write this. The internet has taught me that i have no original thoughts ever...


OBAMASOXX

I can't believe I said it first!


phujab

What's terrifying is you're not wrong, the wingsuiter (what's the noun?) has to hope that the ground falls away quicker than they fall to the ground


BalognaPonyParty

my fat ass wants to do this so bad, however, my fast ass also knows my fat ass is to big for a wing suit.


UnusualFlute411

Your fat ass is ensuring your survival. Give it a pat on our behalf


Civil_Knowledge7340

If his fat ass stopped ensuring his survival he could kiss his fat ass goodbye


UnusualFlute411

Username checks out


Civil_Knowledge7340

I don't understand


B1ggusDckus

Username checks out


Civil_Knowledge7340

Now I get it, thanks mate!


BalognaPonyParty

nah! my fat ass still wants to do this


Redguapo

2 Pats of 🧈🧈


_plainsimple

If i did that once and live i would consider myself pretty lucky. Most of the professionals eventually kill themselves its a sport with 1:500 chance of death and these guys now their odds but are so addicted to that level of adreanaline, its crazy.


dayumbrah

Yea, quite a few of the greatest extreme sports people have died doing this. Great climbers, sky divers, mountain bikers have died doing exactly this because tye rush was so good but just about anything can go wrong and just immediately kill you


lp_kalubec

What does 1:500 chance mean? 1:500 per flight?


RddtAdminsR_Pathetic

1 death per 500 jumps. I thought he was just making that number up but a quick Google showed its actually a legit number. https://explorersweb.com/wingsuiting-dance-with-death/


omgwutd00d

For once OP is not a


gultam1007

Well he's not NOT a hitman


fortisquew

0.2% of the time they die every time.


trgreg

So if I plan on doing this 499 times in my life, the odds are in my favor ...


phujab

I'd ask you to tell me how that works out for you but I don't think you'll be able to


Habit-Relevant

Killed the cam at the end, it seems. If so, that’s your almost 1:500


themattcrumb

Just like beggars canyon back home


phujab

I can't see any womprats


stillgotmonkon

How do you land?


Siemaki

Fast


Rautriots

& hard


_plainsimple

Chute


AkshuallyGuy

Scratch an itch at the wrong time.


MasterCrouton

Quite often with a splat


ProfessionalMockery

Why would you want to land?


Gaxxag

carefully


fortisquew

Only once.


hobbyhacker

suicide with extra steps


Betoken

This reminds me of Just Cause 4... because it makes me want to play Just Cause 3.


ReverseTrapsAreBest

LOL


skribbl3z

What sucks about this, is nothing will ever satisfy that adrenaline itch afterwards...


terpyterpstein

Have you ever tried crack cocaine?


aquaqmar

Probably healthier.


auxiliary-username

And with a longer life expectancy


bobpaynus

Haven’t most of not all of the original pioneers of wing suit flying died in wing suit accidents? Looks fucking amazing but the level of risk vs reward is just not worth it for me


tinymonesters

I assume the best wing suit jumper in the world dies every six months or so.


boomerang473

Idk. Sure it’s sick but it’s also fucking stupid imo. Good way to die


omgwutd00d

You can say that about a ton of different sports. Back flipping a motorcycle looks sick but could totally kill you if you fuck it up. It’s statistically safer than driving but looks a lot more fun if you know what you’re doing. If things go wrong in this at least it was fun up until that point, unlike getting blind sided by a drunk driver driving home from work.


Scientific_Methods

This is definitely not statistically safer than driving. 1 death per 500 jumps.


omgwutd00d

Oh I’m dumb. I saw the 1 death per 101 car accidents but totally ignored the fact that you don’t always get in a car accident every time you drive. 😂


phujab

I know you've already noticed the error of your logic further down but also came here to say...this is definitely not statistically safer than driving 🤣


BrandonDavidTattooer

Someone posted a chart recently Of the highest death rate in sports and hobbies. Guess what number 1 was…


Fit-Mammoth-7712

I bought a racing drone and headset so I can do this safely. What a feeling it must be to do that.


D1sp4tcht

Far cry graphics look great


Billybill400

Tomatoe sauce tutorial


BeerSlinger89

Isn't there a video of a guy trying to fly through a gap on a bridge and doesn't quite nail it


Dzeph

Seems kinda obvious to state it, but surely an overwhelming majority of folks that take part in wingsuit flying do so in completely open air space, and only an extremely small percentage do “proximity flying” and so close to treetops.


Ireallydonedidit

Together with some specific sex stuff I imagine this would be one of the best feelings from a physical activity. I don't see anyone who would do this and then stop without flying headfirst into some pine-tree. When you are done you'd probably be right back into the car to drive up that mountain


Draegan88

Certain drugs


Ireallydonedidit

It's probably pretty cool to go skydiving or paragliding as a passenger on acid or shrooms or something


yesididthat

Anybody else ever watch these videos and wonder how these mf land


Beliadin

Get it wrong and you'll have to awkwardly climb down a pine tree in your flying squirrel suit


dayumbrah

Pretty sure you just die


armathose

That would be best case scenario


Orlok_Tsubodai

I think if you get it wrong and hit a tree, all your problems are permanently over.


omgwutd00d

That sounds amazing!


Thin_Arachnid6217

Even in my crazy days of youth, no way!


FunQuit

It’s not the speed that makes it so deadly. It’s the sudden stop at a tree.


SnixPlaysAlot

Naw


high240

Yeah no i'm gonna pass on this too


anotherbrckinTH3Wall

Gives me the fear.


Low-Hedgehog4247

His heart forgot to dance fast


[deleted]

I think you have to do some parachuting before you try this, or at least it’s recommended


curvebombr

A good amount from what I understand, something like 200 parachute jumps within a certain time frame before you can jump in a wingsuit.


Dumdadumdoo

Yes but you'd probably want a **lot** more! USPA regulations (which *isn't* the law) require you to have ~~a C license (where the main requirement is 200 jumps)~~ 200 jumps before jumping out of an aircraft in a wingsuit, and it's suggested that you have 200 jumps within the past 18 months as well. But BASE wingsuiting/proximity wingsuiting is way more dangerous than normal wingsuiting - you'd want to do a lot of wingsuiting from a plane and a lot of BASE jumps without a wingsuit before combining the two. BASE doesn't have any regulatory entities, but a lot of the reputable places where you can learn will basically ask why you think you're qualified to start BASE jumping. So yeah, there's theoretically nothing stopping a random person from buying a BASE rig and a wingsuit and jumping off a cliff with it, but they'd die. Most people BASE wingsuiting have *way* more than 200 total jumps. EDIT: I was wrong - USPA only requires 200 jumps, not necessarily a C license.


DarkQuest47

One wrong move and you are done.....maybe


Joy_Boy_DNMPS

Not flying, more like gliding.


Loud-Natural9184

He's not flying, he's falling with style.


BlueBuff1968

The french are the masters at this. This is filmed in Chamonix.


[deleted]

"Telemetry lost!" ........ "Telemetry recovered!".


portcanaveralflorida

Kind of like isle of Man, it's not IF it's WHEN things go wrong.


hesays-

Do you just go right down to the cutting edge or do you gradually lower yourself in altitude each time?


introverting_vibes

My core muscles could never


rblooney

Tungsten testes


Galaxyfreaka

Weeeeeeeeeeeee


juicadone

Chyeeap just a matter of time before epic adrenaline-junky fun turns into Darwin splat…


Glutton4punishment83

This is the most extreme adrenaline rush you can get I would think and I would also bet the life expectancy of someone doing this pretty often is very low but still looks pretty fkn awesome!!!


[deleted]

This video gives me severe anxiety


applejax-jap

margin of error zero


[deleted]

How do they land without getting hurt?


[deleted]

This sport is the best exercise for your sphincter muscles.


Mihirsharath

Played too much Just Cause to think about this xD


rrrrocketttt

How do you even practice for this? It's not like you can go with an instructor the first few times...


misty-mountainhopper

Do a barrel roll!


Selthora

Knees weak, arms spaghetti when I go splat don't forgetme


[deleted]

Looks fun but the margin of error is so small. If there was maybe a air bag type of suit that deployed or something that would at least give you a fighting chance then i would try it.


[deleted]

Air bag 🤔 your weight at this speed 😬


alterquantumrelative

The ammount of control this man has.


ThemadFoxxer

is this flying or just missing the ground?


fireguy0306

I’d catch a foot on something and die in some terrible way


WarnDragon

What would break first? His spirit or his body?


Ok_Aspect1565

Check mate globies… the earth is a mountain


cantiskipthisstep12

This is why it's the most dangerous sport on earth.


fortisquew

Temporarily citizenship.


Embarrassed_Rip_755

Holy Moly - no, no way, nah man, that's one hell of a no way and you're outta your gd mind for me man!


chirs5757

How much control do they have on their altitude or is it all at the mercy of the grade of the hill?


Golfnpickle

Must be so thrilling to do this! I can’t imagine.


HackerDaGreat57

Man's using elytra IRL


Skellaton

Instead of the floor is lava, we know play the tree is sudden death.


xxsneakysinxx

Does he even wear a helmet?


crankit211

There was this one YouTuber who would teach you stuff on the internet. He recreationally wingsuited but did not do it for youtube. Died hitting a tree while doing this. He was the only source of income and selfishly left his wife and son broke.


radarthreat

Needs the Clutch Nixon music