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This download is huge but worth it. some crazy visuals. some crazy jumps.

So here it is for all to see.

CALVIN19

http://www.skydivingmovies.com/...ion=file&id=2847

Could somebody identify tune between 1:13 and 1:58?

This is awesome stuff guys. Thanks for sharing the link to the movie!

Is this what BASE was 20 years ago? Figuring things out along the way? What rope manufacturer is going to offer a FRJC first? And will we see www.ropejumpfatalities.info in a few years? Is Dan Osman the Carl Boenish of this new sport?

Whatever happens, it's great to see inventive minds coming up with new and creative ways to have fun in the backcountry. Keep the movies coming. Hopefully one day I'll get to do a jump of my own...

DexterBase?

Didn't somebody do a rope jump off of angel falls [or some comparable E] and go in on the second try? He survived the first jump and made the world record, but tried it the next day [with the rope hanging from the day before], only to have the rope snap.

pretty sure your are referring to Dan Osman

http://outside.away.com/...99/9904terminal.html

check out masters of stone 5.

Badass, it is good to see the development taking place.

Two questions...

That is not what a GriGri is made for. Is the forces taken by the Gri Gri? It has to be, the Grigri is the first element in the line off the rope.

What is in their backpack and does this influence the jump, looks pretty bulky. Water for the hike out?

Once again, Badass.. how much is a plane ticket to moab?

the cool part is that they engineered and built that rig from scratch....nice one matt

Very Nice! I'd love to try that some day!

Lower off/rescue gear?

Tom I think those back packs carry their balls...

Any BASE jumpers visiting Seattle, I will hook you up with a rope jump if you want to do one


Edit: We can do rope jumps all night and then do a BASE jump dawn load from the same object. Pretty cool spot.

I'd go for one if you can fit it in your schedule. Let's discuss tomorrow, if we're still in.

Anyone know the song after that? Starting from 2:04. I think it is a remix of Moby's Porcelain but not sure. And if it is, what remix is it?
Hell, some one please give the track list!

bwaa i told you before my rampage tour that i wanted to do so,but did i try it out.. wanker

This is a retarded question bertusgeert. If you looked more carefully, there is a shock absorber in front of the grigri. And the grigri IS made to take those loads.

Sorry for my ignorance

I've done some fairly massive rope jumps. If you ever have the chance to experience one you'll notice two things:

1.) Freefall has never felt more intense. For some reason, I get way more amped in freefall than on most BASE jumps.

2.) The catch at the end of the jump is way softer than you imagined it would be.

You have to consider that when you take a lead fall in the climbing gym, you are stopped abruptly because there is only about 30 feet of rope total over which the energy of your fall is distributed.

On a rope jump, you have much more energy to absorb because you've been falling for longer, but the entire rope jumping rig is designed to absorb and redistribute the energy of the jump. The setup in the video is one where not only do you have all the jump line absorbing the impact forces, but that jumpline is attached to a dynamic tyrolean which is basically a massive shock absorber.

I've done over 500 feet on a single 10.2mm climbing rope. This was anchored to a steel bridge girder with no tyrolean to assist in absorbing the energy. The softness of the catch was very suprising.

I chatted with Dano about whether there was a better option than the GriGri since it seemed like it was spreading the load over a very small portion of the jumpline. He was convinced that it would be okay.

I also have to take a moment to warn people from trying to re-create this type of jump on their own. I used to rope jump in the NorCal area with Dano, Kirk Arens, and a bunch of other guys. Pretty much every weekend and on some weeknights we'd close down the climbing gym, load the gear into our cars, and would drive off to one of several very nice spots and jump all night. We helped build the rigs we were jumping on. Dano watched what we were doing and approved, even jumping our rigs himself. Dano knew what he was doing. Kirk knew what he was doing.

I left for bootcamp on October 3rd, 1998. Towards the end of bootcamp, I received a letter (because I wasn't allowed to have phonecalls) with some bad news. On the day before Thanksgiving, Kirk died making a rope jump in Auburn California. Eight days later, Dano was also dead from a rope jumping incident. Two guys who knew what was up.


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Man, that is spooky looking. I don't know if I could do that. I'd have to carry an extra loincloth, just in case.

Not wearing a rig and jumping's gotta be a bit uncomfortable at first.

Kinda like catching Dad wearing mom's clothes the first time.

True. So true.

The second time, however, isn't really that bad. Actually, it helps if you're wearing your sisters clothes at the time.
It turns into a real bonding experience for the both of you. A good chance to have a Mentos, and give each other the thumbs up.

Found this link for a Dan OSman ascent. 400ft in 4 mins 26 secs


http://www.compfused.com/directlink/965/

Yo everybody...

Im Calvin, the song i used in this was a Rob D remix of moby porceliine...

and thanks for all the input, It took me about 9 Economics classes to make this film.

And thanks to the skull man for posting it...
i have no idea how to do that...

see you all over thanksgiving...

I have actualy been rope jumping for 7 years, and only base for 2. Switching to the parachute was the weirdest thing ever.

After 2000 rope falls, doing a gainer without weight to the side is strange...

We started out climbing, and have been progressing ever since, this is a smaller, very reliable system.

THANK YOU DEX...

I agree with everything dex said...

Dex, we have met only breifly, but i hope we can jump on a system together soon, your experience will be very usefull...

If anybody has any questions about our system, please ask.

But SERIOUSLY, Do not try this stuff, It took us years and hundreds of systems to get to this point.

The gri gri works great...
simple, fast, and designed to take much harder hits than we are putting on it.

just started using a cinch... seems to work even better on our new thinner line.

Wow, that is one crazy video! Ok, 5.7 is nothing for a serious climber, but still, he RUNS up that wall and ain't shy to dynamically jump around just to save some time - without a rope
Crazy fucker...

Btw, Alex Huber free-soloed a 3000 ft 5.11 not too long ago...

What's all that fuzz about base-jumping...

"What's all that fuzz about base-jumping... "

Yeah really? That climbing shit is crazy!

We used to go out bridge swinging which I suppose is the real tame version of what you guys are doing.
This was our favorite site until somebody decided to go off with a Big mac meal.
This was released rapidly on the swing.
The strawberry milkshake hit a walker on the head and they called the police.

The viaduct has now been opened up to walkers and cyclists in Yorkshire.

We had to climb over a 15 ft fence.
You just imagine all that climbing with a Big Mac meal

 

The anchors are a mix of Cable-slung boulders, and static rope slung boulders.
The tyroleans are custom made 220meter by 16mm High tenacity Nylon lines.
(read:ULTRA low stretch, about 9% at failure)
the jump lines are off the shelf 10.3mm dynamic lines. There is no shock absorbers other than the lines themselves and the "inertia redirection" (read "swing")


We have used the same tyrolean lines for upwards of 1000 jumps before retiring. The wear comes from handling and transport, not jumping.
we replace jump lines (dynamic lines) about every 200 jumps.
After testing a used jump line on our own test rig, they lost no strength after 200 jumps. What we found that ruins the lines is rapping on them after a jump, not the jump itself. The forces we put on them are very small compared to a lead fall.

as for the UIAA, they are great for climbers and rescuers, but of course we are not climbing or rescuing. I learned my initial rigging from an alpine SAR team, and then quickly chose to ignore it. They are so locked into some very conservative rules that serve an OSHA governed body very well, but they dont need to progress, and progress is what we are trying to do. We are here pushing gear to what we have found it can do, not what it was designed to do.

Calvin,

I have two questions:

1) How do you get off the rig after the jump? Are you wearing extra rope in your backpack that you use to rap down?

2) What's the process to get the jump rope back up to the exit point?

Lou

The backpack holds an extra 70' of line from the endof the jump line. One unties the reserve line, and rappels down the remainder of the jumpline after the swing is stopped (or while still swinging, wich is really fun once you get a hundred jumps off the same rig, like spotting a bomb drop, but its your meat!)

The rope is hauled back up to the Exit by a thin line that is thrown down AFTER the jumper Exits, the thin retrieval line is kept at the TOP while a jumper is jumping.

The turnaround time with the 4 of us who know the system well can get down to about 5 minutes, the hike out takes about 18minutes.

i havent used a cinch for jumps but for belaying it locks off a lot quicker...makes it a good candidate.

am i trippin or are you using 2 independant tyrolean systems & joining them with a massive screamer for a lanyard??
whats your reasoning for usiing this over a single tyrolean with the limiters on the anchor? PM or email me if you dont want to post it up here (btw i completely understand and support keeping your setups out of the public domain)

pm sent

hey man, some kid from south america posted my The Moab Chronicles on YouTube. kinda cool. i think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6m48DPpatY