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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YczHfFpBzX0

first off,sorry Tom i didnt see it here first.. heres a copy paste of my post:

do i need to say im not pleased? Neither are others arround in this country..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YczHfFpBzX0

All the best to our neigbours,Hope he dont ruin anything else..

It's tacky going around in your jumpsuit after you've finished jumping . . .

NickD
BASE 194

damn i knew i did somthing wrong.. i dont even has a suit,does that mean im not a BASE jumper then?

I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that I, for one, thought that was pretty cool. Nicely done, Felix.

The heli to B, then the B jump cool. motorbike to boat. lame showboating, but hey its Felix right?

Holy cow! Nice landing on the building roof. That's extremely challenging!

 
>>Faber! Catch him before he burns your daylight A!
(Sorry mate, couldn't resist )

Dang, he made CNN's "Play of the Day".
I hear they pay lots for this. What was he thinkin'?
Anyone who wants to jump from a Helicopter onto that building has just got burned. And don't forget the MC rider, I hear he got fined 20$.

that was like a mid-nineties rap video... the only missing elements were guns and cristal...yo

and maybe a jet ski...

Your right, a bit lame... but thats how he pays his bills.
But the jump was nice. Respect.

That's the coolest builing/jump/project I've seen in a long time. This is not burning a building. This is just cool.

Respect...to people who just do it...and don't sit around talk about things that are already done, and they wanted to do, but can not do, because of this and that and those and these...

I got an idea...I'am gonna call NIKE; Just do it

I second that! Power to him for doing it! Felix obviously likes the action movie style stunts, and this could have been a cool sequence in any film. Nice work buddy!

CJ =)

he powerboat and bike was gay, especially as it looked like the escape could have been made by unicyle and pedalo. That aside, very cool toplanding.

I heard the price of chartering a heli over london runs at about £800/hour (could be BS). With a stack of rigs and 4 jumpers, it might have potential. Potential for maybe (justifiably) getting shot in the head and getting the heli pilot in shit. But fun regardless!

How tall is that B? It looked like he could have squeaked out a few more floors before his pull. But then again... he had to get the maximum canopy time for advertising.

All Felix bashing aside... That was really cool to land on the roof! What did he do with the extra rig? I imagine he left the first one from the heli on the roof, then put on the BASE rig that was on his front. Anyone go get the first rig? I will take it....

well aslong i dont need to pay his ticket,i dont need more attention than i already got

Personally I think it was lame, he was doing something that was done 24years ago but trying to make out his super original lol,
now if he had done it and tried to keep low profile I'd say fair enough, but advertising tresspassing as cool is as cool as marketing any other law being broken

I must say though it was a nice looking building
shame all buildings can't have character, it looks really nice

Not just a building,
a building with a "twist"!

from wikipedia : The tower reaches a height of 190 metres (623 feet) with 54 stories. Upon completion, it was the tallest building in Scandinavia, and Europe's second highest apartment building, after the 264-metre-high Triumph-Palace in Moscow.

Did you see more than just the Youtube clip? Because I missed the part where Felix was interviewed saying it was super original. Or I missed the irony in your post.

I thought it was one hell of a bad-ass jump. Great job Felix. Keep on rockin'!

uh, i'm not a "fan" or anything... but i thought at a purely primitive level, that it was a great jump and an even greater little clip.

smells like Hatorade up in the be-0tch!

Nice one! But, as usual it's the lame look-at-me-I'm-so-fokking-cool image. Here in Sweden it's been presented as "the first jump ever from Turning Torso". Well, us locals know the real history of that building But not to worry, the building is not burned. And again, very cool jumps Felix (I mean it!)

/Micke
Team Bautasten

it looked like the escape could have been made by unicycle and pedalo.

awesome !

I am not a Felix fan but I saw another video of him on You Tube and he did do some pretty cool jumps. I agree he is a glory hog but I would be too if I had Red Bull paying for all of my activities....


DBR

How I feel about sponsorship in BASE jumping has run hot and cold over the years . . .

Since I pre-date the practice of corporate sponsorship, even at the drop zone, I first thought there is no way this can be bad.

The first sponsored BASE jumpers appeared in the early nineties. These were in-house relationships between BASE gear manufacturers and jumpers they knew and trusted. The old Basic Research sponsored "Team Xstream" beginning in the early 90s and they had early success with the first "modern" paying BASE demo. Magic Mountain in Southern California hired them to jump from their Sky Tower on opening day. I crewed that jump and watched thousands of park guests, mostly teenagers, watch in awe.

Prior to that - back in I think, 1989, Dennis McGlynn proposed the first "meet" to be held at Bridge Day. It was to be accuracy with judges and all that – and it raised a lively debate among us who were there. The old hands weren't sure, "Isn't that skydiving shit?" But the sea change in BASE was already taking place, and the newer guys were all for it. The BASE manufacturers then started sponsoring jumpers in those early meets but again it is still all within the BASE community itself.

The jumps at Magic Mountain did not get much publicity outside of what Magic Mountain did with it. And that was the way we wanted it. We felt like we were walking a fine line – and were trying to fly under the radar a little bit . . .

The roots of Team Xstream was the core of the latest team that did the recent Super Bowl jumps and they are still keeping a low profile. While everyone in the stadium saw it all, CBS screwed up the coverage and missed broadcasting the actual launches. All the TV viewers saw were canopies landing, just another garden variety demo. It also didn't seem like too many viewers wondered where the jumpers came from – after all – it is a covered sports stadium.

Then the "just say no generation" came of age. Not having recreational drugs to treat their various neurosis like my generation did allowed some to see a void to fill and they did so with something that seemed innocuous, at first, energy drinks . . . But it proves the Madison Avenue adage that if you throw enough money and exposure at something it becomes popular because some people want & need a crowd to follow.

The latest crop of sponsored jumpers are a mixed bag. And here's where I go off the rails on this. There's Troy's "GoFast" that is certainly corporate but Troy's a jumper and that whole company started by selling rubber bands. And the BASE jumpers he sponsors tend to be both good jumpers and ambassadors for the sport.

Some other sponsored jumpers bring an "edgy-ness" to a thing that doesn't need more edge on it. I think they forget the point is – the thing we do – not who at the moment happens to be doing it. A little more humbleness would not hurt these guys. But I know humble won't sell soap and toothpaste.

And then there's Felix.

I don't know if you saw his recent interview but I've met him and he does talk that way. He's always been sort of an automaton, and sometimes I think Spacey Tracy built him out of Radio Shack parts. Did you notice how they never talked at the same time? I temper myself when talking about Felix because of two things. I don't say this about too many jumpers – but Tracy Walker has paid his dues in this sport, and as far as I'm concerned he can do whatever he wants.

The second thing is what are we worried about? I mean, I don't get into how Felix presents what he does on a guttural level, but is it going to affect me? Even if Felix advocated kiddy porn and snuff films along with his jumps we only stand to lose the privileges we gave up freedom for in the first place – so in a way the more "they" clamp down on BASE the more freedom we get back. Since no one can stop us - the future – no matter what happens – is either going to be better, or much better, there's no third way . . .

NickD
BASE 194

My friend tried the twin towers in the late 80s from a 182. Under shot the roof but there was a cop with his gun out. He landed in battery park and got locked up.