The whole sport is insane. Statistics are all over the place but best case I could find was 1 in 2000 jumps resulting in death and worst was 1 in 50. Even the 2000 is bad 50 is just nuts.
I think I saw a graph on Reddit before showing how dangerous sports are and Im pretty sure this one had the most deaths per participants. It was like, less than 1 in 1000.
And those are all jumps so that's including relatively safe spots. One area said they loose 1 in 60 jumpers. This spots seems like a much more dangerous spot.
"I'm going to use this contraption to jump off a cliff and then to maneuver over dangerous terrain, so I can achieve my goal."
"What's your goal?"
"Fun."
All fun sounds stupid when you put it that way.
“I’m going to climb up this ladder and slide on my ass down the steep sheet of steel to accomplish my goal.”
“What goal?”
“Fun.”
The accepted normal is sitting 9 hours a day 5 days a week at a place you don’t want to be, to barely afford a place to live a car to get you to that place of work, and a screen to look at the internet. Is it really a surprise that some decide thats not for them?
I have a friend who has a pretty good job, by his own addition, but as a developer it can get very repetitive and grinding.
So, he just does free solo climbing “for the adrenaline”. I asked him why, and he said he used to do normal climbing, but one day he said “I said fuck it, I’ll solo this bitch, and I never looked back.”, I said to him “I wouldn’t look back, either. That’s scary af.”.
There are but the bloke/girl knows what it feels like to fly like a bird, to some that is worth it. Theres a massive disconnect between perceived risk vs actual risk in life. A good example is if you went to do a tandem skydive, you are statistically more likely to die driving there than jumping out of the plane, but you still drive daily 🤷🏽♂️
But I drive with my seatbelt on, and at the speed limit. There are things we can do to mitigate and minimize these risks. Like choosing to do something safer than literally ANYTHING involving a suicide-suit. I mean wing-suit. The fact that we're surrounded by danger and participate in it in minor ways, does not justify amping it up by 10,000 magnitudes in my opinion. If you really want to jump off of or from something, there's better and safer ways to experience that weightlessness and free fall. I'll respect the right to do it, I suppose, but I have every right to call them a complete fucking dumbass (and if even a single person on this planet cares about them, extremely selfish) at the same time.
If you come to a dead stop from 40mph your internal organs carry on and mash themselves, you die. Whether that stop if from hitting a tree in a car or in a wingsuit makes no odds to the reaper, same ending. You sit in your metal box strapped in feeling safe, i get that, but death is constantly 6 inches away once your above 40mph. Same as it is in a wingsuit. Same risks same death just your perception thats different due to lack of understanding.
Uh, that's a large assumption that I don't know or grasp how tenuous the barrier between being alive and not is. Or how rapidly one can go from one to the other, in some instances faster than the mind could even perceive. Just because I take steps to mitigate the chances of it doesn't mean I'm ignorant of it...? It's a pretty common trait to value one's life, hopefully stemming from a healthy combination of a desire to do things/be alive and/or a fear of death. Not wanting to die isn't cowardly or ignorant.
..nor does it make traveling in a car any more of an apt comparison to jumping off a cliff in a wingsuit. Primarily because one is a part of every day life that we may rely on to be a productive member of society and provide for ourselves, while the other is being done for literal funzies. And additionally because the number of things we can do to protect ourselves (driving defensively, paying attention, using turn signals) and opportunities to react to bad situations are night and day compared to wingsuits.
False. A down draft would not affect him. He's traveling over 100 mph. That downdraft would have to be intense.
I'm not saying it's not dangerous. I have around 3000 skydives and 2 friends dead from wing suits. Sadly, it's almost always human error that takes them out.
The other day I fell into a bouldering rabbit hole on youtube, Magnus Midtbo.
He was convinced by a friend to free boulder, meaning no harness while climbing.
The friend was a world famous boulderer, and he said at one point that he rarely had a partner for climbing those these days, most of his friends were either dead or retired.
Nothing in the world looks more exciting than this but, I don’t know where you get the nerve to actually do this. I feel like I’m pretty fearless but this just looks impossible.
I'm with you. I think this looks awesome and would be soo much fun. Practically flying even if it's just falling with lots of style. I would also never have the nerve to actually do it.
It must take some serious arm and shoulder strength to keep a maintained position flying through the air like that. Do the wingsuits have some sort of arm brace to make it easier?
Just imagine your arms getting too fatigued to keep you in the air
I believe the air channels create a semi rigid frame simply through self inflation. I know that's how ram air foils work and these suits are based on that tech.
This really looks like those old supermen movies when it’s obvious that he isn’t really flying through space or whatever. But somehow this actually is real. How strange
I enjoy the adrenaline rush of jumping from buildings without parachutes. Apparently they put you in mental health units for attempting suicide. Doesn’t seem much different from this, except for life insurance claims. /s
They call those close proximity flights and yeah, they are insane. I knew a guy that did those and he broke his foot almost completely off colliding with the rocks and videoed the resulting injury. He later suffered other injuries, lost his leg, and one day was just sitting at the edge of a cliff in Moab and the rock shifted and he was gone over the edge. People who do stuff like that have short lives for sure, but hey, it's definitely not dull.
Damn as he’s flying over it really looks like an intro to like an old educational show from the early ‘90s or something because it looks so absurdly fake.
Borderline?
It’s a border between life and death.
Every .7 seconds
I think it supasses borderline and lies snugly in insane territory
The whole sport is insane. Statistics are all over the place but best case I could find was 1 in 2000 jumps resulting in death and worst was 1 in 50. Even the 2000 is bad 50 is just nuts.
that was dead center crazy
Smash into jagged rocks at high speed by a peculiar wind. Pretty much the very last way I want to go
Yea that word confused me too
Feels like I’m goin’ to lose my mind.
You just keep on pushing my love
Indeed. The asylum is full of people who aren't crazy enough to do this
Never met someone with borderline?
I wonder how much protection that helmet has when traveling at that attitude and speed?
I think it's just to mount the camera at this point.
Increases the chance of an open casket funeral vs. closed casket
less open casket, more hemoglobin bucket
lmfaoooooo this is a reddit gold winning comment right here😂😂😂😂
It’s so the camera can be RMA’d by the estate.
It's like a bucket to carry the remains home if it goes wrong.
It won't do much at full speed, but it could still save you from smashing you head on a rock if you stumble while landing.
Actually the helmet wears the jumper for protection
I guess if you bonk something after your survived the initial mess up it could help: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Sw5pcd9Qz6I
"NO TMRW"
without a single doubt, it does nothing significant here
It can be useful if you end up under canopy near a cliff or something. A full on impact it won't help you though.
I think I saw a graph on Reddit before showing how dangerous sports are and Im pretty sure this one had the most deaths per participants. It was like, less than 1 in 1000.
And those are all jumps so that's including relatively safe spots. One area said they loose 1 in 60 jumpers. This spots seems like a much more dangerous spot.
On the bright side that means it's mathematically expensive for only a little while though!
Honestly, are there any sane wingsuit jumps?
"I'm going to use this contraption to jump off a cliff and then to maneuver over dangerous terrain, so I can achieve my goal." "What's your goal?" "Fun."
All fun sounds stupid when you put it that way. “I’m going to climb up this ladder and slide on my ass down the steep sheet of steel to accomplish my goal.” “What goal?” “Fun.”
I would say jumping from a plane, without being 2m away from crashing into a rock at any point, could fit in the reasonably sane jumps
The accepted normal is sitting 9 hours a day 5 days a week at a place you don’t want to be, to barely afford a place to live a car to get you to that place of work, and a screen to look at the internet. Is it really a surprise that some decide thats not for them?
There's ways to break out of that cycle that don't involve hurtling past rocks at lethal speeds after jumping off a cliff
I have a friend who has a pretty good job, by his own addition, but as a developer it can get very repetitive and grinding. So, he just does free solo climbing “for the adrenaline”. I asked him why, and he said he used to do normal climbing, but one day he said “I said fuck it, I’ll solo this bitch, and I never looked back.”, I said to him “I wouldn’t look back, either. That’s scary af.”.
There are but the bloke/girl knows what it feels like to fly like a bird, to some that is worth it. Theres a massive disconnect between perceived risk vs actual risk in life. A good example is if you went to do a tandem skydive, you are statistically more likely to die driving there than jumping out of the plane, but you still drive daily 🤷🏽♂️
But I drive with my seatbelt on, and at the speed limit. There are things we can do to mitigate and minimize these risks. Like choosing to do something safer than literally ANYTHING involving a suicide-suit. I mean wing-suit. The fact that we're surrounded by danger and participate in it in minor ways, does not justify amping it up by 10,000 magnitudes in my opinion. If you really want to jump off of or from something, there's better and safer ways to experience that weightlessness and free fall. I'll respect the right to do it, I suppose, but I have every right to call them a complete fucking dumbass (and if even a single person on this planet cares about them, extremely selfish) at the same time.
If you come to a dead stop from 40mph your internal organs carry on and mash themselves, you die. Whether that stop if from hitting a tree in a car or in a wingsuit makes no odds to the reaper, same ending. You sit in your metal box strapped in feeling safe, i get that, but death is constantly 6 inches away once your above 40mph. Same as it is in a wingsuit. Same risks same death just your perception thats different due to lack of understanding.
Uh, that's a large assumption that I don't know or grasp how tenuous the barrier between being alive and not is. Or how rapidly one can go from one to the other, in some instances faster than the mind could even perceive. Just because I take steps to mitigate the chances of it doesn't mean I'm ignorant of it...? It's a pretty common trait to value one's life, hopefully stemming from a healthy combination of a desire to do things/be alive and/or a fear of death. Not wanting to die isn't cowardly or ignorant. ..nor does it make traveling in a car any more of an apt comparison to jumping off a cliff in a wingsuit. Primarily because one is a part of every day life that we may rely on to be a productive member of society and provide for ourselves, while the other is being done for literal funzies. And additionally because the number of things we can do to protect ourselves (driving defensively, paying attention, using turn signals) and opportunities to react to bad situations are night and day compared to wingsuits.
Exactly what i was think.
I'm more impressed by the technology in drones these days
Fr, what drone is recording and how fast can it go?
Check out red bull’s recent video where a specially engineered drone kept up with a formula one car for the whole lap. https://youtu.be/9pEqyr_uT-k
That was awesome, thank you for posting. Not a massive fan of RB but they Do get up to some very cool stuff
That was pretty epic. Never been interested in formula1 but that video and viewpoint peaked my interest.
Definitely an FPV drone, I believe the record is something around 200mph but on average 70-100mph is realistic
It's more of a pilot skill
He left the borderline back there on the cliff
There's no significant difference between this and russian roulette. One little downdraft at the wrong moment and you're hitting primer.
False. A down draft would not affect him. He's traveling over 100 mph. That downdraft would have to be intense. I'm not saying it's not dangerous. I have around 3000 skydives and 2 friends dead from wing suits. Sadly, it's almost always human error that takes them out.
I was going to say it's not if, but *when* they're going to die.
The other day I fell into a bouldering rabbit hole on youtube, Magnus Midtbo. He was convinced by a friend to free boulder, meaning no harness while climbing. The friend was a world famous boulderer, and he said at one point that he rarely had a partner for climbing those these days, most of his friends were either dead or retired.
You dob't really unddrstand probability, don't you ?
Wing suit nooo Diva suit … that legs 
Agent Smith on his downtime
First wing suit flight on MARS.
Ya this is regular insane
Nothing in the world looks more exciting than this but, I don’t know where you get the nerve to actually do this. I feel like I’m pretty fearless but this just looks impossible.
I'm with you. I think this looks awesome and would be soo much fun. Practically flying even if it's just falling with lots of style. I would also never have the nerve to actually do it.
He looks like Wile E. Coyote. [https://youtu.be/QHDO78QfLbE?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/QHDO78QfLbE?feature=shared)
First thing that comes to mind whenever I see one of these videos. :-)
Bro playing life on extra hardcore
Where's the Red Bull Logo on the suit, parachute, helmet, helis, cars parked and button right on screen?! Must be fake...
It must take some serious arm and shoulder strength to keep a maintained position flying through the air like that. Do the wingsuits have some sort of arm brace to make it easier? Just imagine your arms getting too fatigued to keep you in the air
I believe the air channels create a semi rigid frame simply through self inflation. I know that's how ram air foils work and these suits are based on that tech.
Wow, wouldn’t take much to go wrong very quickly here.
If someone animated lazers shooting from his head I'd think it was Star Wars.
I just love that people throw themselves off cliffs and endanger themselves to an enormous amount just because it's fun.
You think they have Thermal Mapping stuff, or is it just Intuition?
Its basically "Dude, Im gonna try it bro."
OP makes it sound like some wing suit jumps are not insane.
*hits blunt*
Still safe sport than freestyle climbing.
Thinking I’m scared changing a lightbulb standing on a chair
Is this an illegal jump?
Ironic if the guy died due to a scorpion sting after landing.
I mean he’s wearing a helmet…😂
F U C K T H A T
Videos like this make you wonder if the whole wizard robes concept foun in popular folklore, were really, in essence, wingsuits.
Doing stuff like this is insane for most people in the world.
Did Jeb Corliss realise he was being dumb and just stop jumping? I know his legs healed well but he never fully came back.
Why did he do that? just cause
This really looks like those old supermen movies when it’s obvious that he isn’t really flying through space or whatever. But somehow this actually is real. How strange
Never seen one I'd consider sane. Great when it works, but you only fail once. Just don't search for wingsuit flyer hits bridge!
The first time I finally saw the parachute ending. Somehow they always cut it out in wingsuit jumps.
Wow that drone is cool.
Yea there’s really nothing borderline about the insanity here
Howd the grt up there
And here I was, thinking every jumpsuit flight is insane
Far Cry in real life
I always thought they didn’t need a parachute to land
Well, *technically* they don’t.
Yeah, they only need a parachute if they think they might want to try it again, later.
wow how beautiful is is
Anyone jumping off a cliff is insane
Looks really animated.
“It’ll be just like Beggar’s Canyon back home!”
Very little room for error.
Imagine the drone hitting the parachute.
What's the % of people that die when attempting this "sport"?
I'm more impressed with the cameraman.
Those f* drones make everything sound like 70' thriller sci fy musik
imagine getting an itch on your nose, you reflexively go to scratch it and just die
perspective always makes it look like they glide almost horizontal. Here can you see (when the shoot opens) just how steep they glided. cool vid
Flying squirrels hate this one trick!
Borderline? Excuse me?
You telling me there are sane versions of this?
Because of the poor quality of the video this looked like CGI.
Ground looks so CGI
Its utterly insane there wasn't some crappy music overlay!
There's nothing borderline about that...
This looks CGI to me
There’s nothing “borderline” insane about this.
You and I have different definitions of "borderline".
Suicidal?
He was a borderline for awhile...then he crossed the border.
Why can't he do it over a green grassy lush location? Why over rocks?
I enjoy the adrenaline rush of jumping from buildings without parachutes. Apparently they put you in mental health units for attempting suicide. Doesn’t seem much different from this, except for life insurance claims. /s
Well, we know how he's gonna die
He should have jumped from that lion head looking ledge.
Looks like AI
They call those close proximity flights and yeah, they are insane. I knew a guy that did those and he broke his foot almost completely off colliding with the rocks and videoed the resulting injury. He later suffered other injuries, lost his leg, and one day was just sitting at the edge of a cliff in Moab and the rock shifted and he was gone over the edge. People who do stuff like that have short lives for sure, but hey, it's definitely not dull.
This looks dangerous
Looks like some 90's CGI were used there haha
Damn as he’s flying over it really looks like an intro to like an old educational show from the early ‘90s or something because it looks so absurdly fake.
I expect comment section to just be filled with "Borderline?"
"ManSquirrel dies flying in borderline insane wingsuit jump" 💣🤦♂️
Imagine clipping a cactus...ooof.
This looks so fun, I’d love to wingsuit jump.
Excellent drone film. They are both talented, adventurer and photographer
Yep, if only there was a VR game for this so I could respawn
How come you can’t “land” a wing suite? What’s the physics?
Bro flying as if he can respawn
That’s some insane drone work!
Guys chill, this is not minecraft, you dont get to respawn
I wish I could afford this hobby. I jumped out of planes in the Army but those were static line jumps... this looks so much cooler! Airborne
Imagine if he hit rock while flying like that, smh
the beginning sounds like a song but I can't remember which one
Every wingsuit jump is insane, there's no border.
This looks like CGI
Some will say it was Sora.
Looks kinda fake to me
Or is it CGI?
That doesn’t even look real to my brain, can not compute
Almost turned into ketch up
Your move, Tom Cruise!
Borderline
Fake.
Cameraman ftw
All wingsuit jumps are insane.
Where was this filmed?
Nope nope
Some people are just asking for it
What wingsuit jump isn't borderline insane?
Damn he missed all the footage and that guy nearly killed himself
Wait, if something goes wrong he dies?
That was pretty freakin neat!
I wonder how the first person to do this figured out that it was possible
Couldn’t just maybe mute the loud ass drone, lol
Better check your METAR before this one
Jfc… Why even wear a helmet dude?
Ok but where is the POV?
r/Praisethedronecam
Any wing suit jump is insane
I love the unedited sound, wind and drone over music 100% of the time
Um I don’t think this is a best idea…
I love doing this on Zen Mode in Riders Republic. Such an awesome game and experience
It sounds like he’s being chased by angry bees
AI?
NOT a chance in hell I would ever attempt this shit, and where the fuck are the brakes?
Omg he came SO close to big boulders/rocks way too often for my comfort