A new paragliding reserve parachute system is currently in the works that uses a base jumping parachute as the reserve. The paragliding harness is equipped with a jettisoning system to automatically extract a Base Jumping parachute ( BASE ) after the main paragliding wing has been cutaway.
Acro Base System – Developped by Sup’Air with Raul Rodriguez and Jean-Noël Itzstein
Photos and Video of the base reserve system below:
12 Year old Skateboarder Tom Schaar of Malibu, CA is the first skater to ever land a 1080. The trick was landed at Woodward West (Tehachapi, CA) on a 70 foot megaramp leading up to a giant 27 ft. tall quarter pipe. New entry for Guinness World Records?
There have been tandem base jumps in the past, but those have usually been done by 2 trained base jumpers. Now, Moab B.A.S.E Adventures, a Moab Utah company is offering the tandem base jumping experience to those who have never even skydived before, let alone base jumped.
Felix Baumgartner, a professional skydiver and base jumper has made a successful 13 mile high skydive from a space balloon in preparation for his world record breaking altitude jump attempt from space, expected to come sometime later in the year as part of the Red Bull Stratos
Group of 3 men dressed in business suits showed up to a top floor bar in Rialto Towers Skyscraper in Melbourne Australia before making a Base Jump off the building.
“They had been drinking at the prestigious Vue de monde restaurant – on Level 55 of the 56-floor building – before the jump.”
“Restaurant owner Shannon Bennett said the four men – wearing business suits – walked into the venue’s Lui Bar with travel suitcases and ordered Negroni cocktails before throwing themselves off the building.” [Source]
Josh Dueck (born January 13, 1981) is a Canadian freestyle skier who was paralyzed in a 2004 ski accident. Since then, Josh has won a gold medal in Mono Skier Cross at the 2011 X Games; a silver medal at the 2010 Paralympic Winter games; and a gold medal in downhill at the 2009 World Championship.
On February 3, 2012, Josh became the first person to perform a backflip on snow in a Sit Ski.
Australian Skydiver and Base Jumper Felix Baumgartner is in the process of planning an elaborate attempt to break both the highest skydive record and first person to break the speed of sound during human freefall.
“Baumgartner will ascend to at least 36,576 metres (120,000 feet) in a special pressurized capsule that will use a 140-metre helium balloon to lift it to the edge of space.
Then Baumgartner, wearing a special space suit similar to those worn by NASA astronauts, will step out of the capsule and free fall to Earth, breaking the speed of sound after about 35 seconds. He is expected to travel 1,190 km/h.”
“Jeb Corliss, 35, had glided off the peak in a wingsuit but clipped a rock some 60m (197ft) from the base of the mountain, tumbling on to a hiking path.
He was airlifted to hospital with leg injuries.
Officials at Table Mountain National Park say he did not have permission to jump and may press charges against him”
