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September 01, 2011

So, you think you've got hair on your chest? [Fritzworth]
— Open Blogger

After the jump is a video that will (in the Bard's immortal words) make you hold your manhood cheap:
Jeb Corliss by wazzabii

To lift a line I read elsewhere on the 'net this week, the real question is how does he fit his huevos into that wingsuit? Hat tip to Gerard Van der Leun over at American Digest. ..fritz..

P.S. My comments aren't meant to slight crazy brave females -- I just think that most women of any intelligence would have more sense than to jump off a tall cliff in a wingsuit, even with a parachute on their backs.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 08:52 AM | Comments (50)
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1
a Chaz Bono post???

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 01, 2011 08:58 AM (sqkOB)

2 I just think that most women of any intelligence would have more sense than to jump

Wait. What?

Posted by: Thelma and Louise at September 01, 2011 08:58 AM (usXZy)

3 When will this stupid song's 15 minutes be up?

Posted by: JoeInMD at September 01, 2011 08:59 AM (PIahf)

4
I thought this was gonna be about that tranny freak who said, "Chaz Bono stole my thunder."

The tranny freak, a.k.a. the first pregnant man, lobbied unsuccessfully to be on Dancing With The Stars/Freaks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 01, 2011 09:00 AM (sqkOB)

5 That. Is. AWESOME!

Posted by: blindside at September 01, 2011 09:01 AM (x7g7t)

6 By the way, it's best to watch this in HD and full screen. ..fritz...

"Thelma and Louise" -- snort.

Posted by: fritzworth at September 01, 2011 09:02 AM (491Q4)

7 This is fake. Guaranteed.

Posted by: Sukie Tawdry at September 01, 2011 09:03 AM (MPtFW)

8 Meh.

Posted by: Dustin at September 01, 2011 09:05 AM (fF625)

9 I wonder what this guys flying dreams are like? Not for the faint of heart probably.

Posted by: Errol at September 01, 2011 09:05 AM (d2AYO)

10 " This is fake. Guaranteed.

Posted by: Sukie Tawdry"

Seemed pretty freaking real to me, so if so that in itself would be impressive.

But these days anything could be fake, I guess. Alex Jones loves the era we live in.

Anyway.

Posted by: Dustin at September 01, 2011 09:06 AM (fF625)

There's a vid out there of a guy doing this, only out of a plane and into a gorge, in N.Mexico / Utah and hitting a bridge on the way down.

Not a pretty sight.

Posted by: garrett at September 01, 2011 09:08 AM (oLjtN)

12 Hell, I've gone down a lot faster than that.

Posted by: The Obama Economy at September 01, 2011 09:08 AM (MMC8r)

13 I want to do that, but I don't think I'm in shape for it now. I also want to know if you can flare and land in water or if you'd just tumble and break everything anyway. Seems like if I ever went skydiving, I'd want to wear one of those because if the parachute didn't open, at least you have some control of your vector and can reduce your vertical speed on impact. One also wonders how many people have done that at night/dusk/dawn in other places just to screw with people on the ground. "What was that? Did you see that!?!?"

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 01, 2011 09:09 AM (bxiXv)

14 Oh yeah. I could do that. If I could keep from screaming like a nine year old school girl and dying from fright. Piece of cake.

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at September 01, 2011 09:09 AM (jx2j9)

...and by this, I am talking the flying suit / base jumping...

I didn't watch the vid, or really look at the post.

Posted by: garrett at September 01, 2011 09:10 AM (oLjtN)

16 I saw another vid a while back of someone, probably the same guy as the terrain looks the same, doing some fairly long low passes over grassy fields.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at September 01, 2011 09:13 AM (bxiXv)

at least you have some control of your vector

'Go Really Fast. That way. If something gets in your way, Turn.'

Posted by: Charles De Mar at September 01, 2011 09:15 AM (oLjtN)

18 As close as he came to the balloon guy, it would have been a very bad thing to have a badly-timed cramp.

Posted by: cthulhu at September 01, 2011 09:16 AM (kaalw)

19 I wanna know how you learn to do something like this. I mean, presumably you practice with the suit on regular jumps, but I don't see how that would help you judge distances for things that are relatively close.

Posted by: Ace's liver at September 01, 2011 09:16 AM (1+XRG)

20 "One also wonders how many people have done that at night/dusk/dawn in other places just to screw with people on the ground. "

Yeah, the potential for screwing with people seems incredibly high. Especially if you dressed it up to look more like a superhero outfit.

Posted by: Dustin at September 01, 2011 09:16 AM (fF625)

21 Mr. Durden? Is that you?

Posted by: alexthedude at September 01, 2011 09:20 AM (iLD9h)

22 19 I wanna know how you learn to do something like this. I mean, presumably you practice with the suit on regular jumps, but I don't see how that would help you judge distances for things that are relatively close.

Posted by: Ace's liver at September 01, 2011 01:16 PM (1+XRG)

In stages? First you try the initial descent, then add more the next time, until you figure you can make it to the next drop off.

Even the guy was a little surprised at how close he was, so... Even he knew he was pushing it.

Posted by: alexthedude at September 01, 2011 09:22 AM (iLD9h)

23 I can do that- I just don't want to.

Posted by: Jones at September 01, 2011 09:22 AM (8sCoq)

24 Probably practice in one of those vertical wind tubes that gets a vid posted around here once every 9 months.

Posted by: garrett at September 01, 2011 09:23 AM (oLjtN)

'Go Really Fast. That way. If something gets in your way, Turn.'

Posted by: Charles De Mar at September 01, 2011 01:15 PM (oLjtN)

The whole mountain is pure snow!

Posted by: JoeInMD at September 01, 2011 09:24 AM (PIahf)

26 _{Is this the same guy?}

Posted by: alexthedude at September 01, 2011 09:25 AM (iLD9h)

27 and now I bow..

Posted by: UGrev at September 01, 2011 09:28 AM (yBuLL)

I have a fair number of jumps under my belt, and yes, this takes some cojones. On the other hand, I also ride, and for sheer ballsiness, take a look at this: (Link to YouTube)

http://tinyurl.com/6au38tj

I recommend listening to the music along with the video, someone did a masterful job of it, and the music and video go together like ham & eggs.

Posted by: West at September 01, 2011 09:28 AM (1Rgee)

29 You'd have to be quite strong to keep the wind from yanking your arms behind your back.

Posted by: chase at September 01, 2011 09:30 AM (Qpgvm)

30 Balls.

Posted by: Mister Christopher at September 01, 2011 09:31 AM (cjGZv)

31 8 feet less and he would have been cutting the grass with his face.

Posted by: NeoKong at September 01, 2011 09:31 AM (llwkv)

I recommend listening to the music along with the video, someone did a masterful job of it, and the music and video go together like ham & eggs.

Posted by: West at September 01, 2011 01:28 PM (1Rgee)

Oh yes it does. That was one of the most amazing youtube videos I've seen, ever.

Posted by: Yoshi, Aggrieved Victim of the White Man at September 01, 2011 09:40 AM (8Zpuz)

Yeah, Yoshi. I've watched it about a hundred times. Inspiring..

Posted by: West at September 01, 2011 09:47 AM (1Rgee)

34 "You'd have to be quite strong to keep the wind from yanking your arms behind your back.

Posted by: chase at September 01, 2011 01:30 PM (Qpgvm)'

That's a good point. It's like holding out huge dumbells for several minutes.

Is the suit reinforced or rigid to make that easier? I doubt it. The whole thing looked super light weight, including the carbon helmet.

Posted by: Dustin at September 01, 2011 09:48 AM (fF625)

35 When you all have time to kill, look up "wing suits" and "base jumping" on YouTube. There are some equally or even more incredible than this. That said, Obama is a clusterfuck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: observer at September 01, 2011 09:50 AM (qvBuz)

36 Oops. JEF stutters too.

Posted by: observer at September 01, 2011 09:53 AM (qvBuz)

37 > 13 I want to do that, but I don't think I'm in shape for it now. I also want to know if you can flare and land in water or if you'd just tumble and break everything anyway. I don't think so. With such a small surface area for the wings you only have control at high speeds. Slow down and you crash.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at September 01, 2011 09:56 AM (+JhHG)

38 > 19 I wanna know how you learn to do something like this. I mean, presumably you practice with the suit on regular jumps, but I don't see how that would help you judge distances for things that are relatively close. Posted by: Ace's liver After he landed he said, "Well, I came extemely close on that one." In other words, he screwed up and got away with it.

Posted by: Comrade Arthur at September 01, 2011 09:58 AM (+JhHG)

39 This ballsy fella ain't got nuthin' on the noisy squirrels in my neighborhood, particularly since they have double-barreled buckshot to contend with.

Posted by: Fritz at September 01, 2011 10:00 AM (YhI7X)

40 Very cool.

Posted by: San Antonio Rose at September 01, 2011 10:02 AM (xITim)

> 13 I want to do that, but I don't think I'm in shape for it now.

Skydiving is the perfect lazy man's sport. All you have to be able to do is roll out of a door.

And no, it's not that hard to hold your arms out - the maximum you have to hold up is your own weight.

Just for the record, I have 236 jumps.

Posted by: West at September 01, 2011 10:15 AM (1Rgee)

It's a compilation of wingsuit jumps from the same mountain and same jumper...but it isn't fake.

Average jump lasts about a minute to a minute and a half. Longest 'flight' is about six miles, IIRC. At around a hundred miles per hour, they drop about three feet for every foot of forward momentum. iow, the grade and steepness of the mountain in the video is much steeper than the video it looks.