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In response to the "claimed" record of 35 m BASE, I annex few pictures of a BASE jump done in June 2007 off a 25 m - 82 ft high bridge (manufactured in 27 B.C. by Romans).
I do not know if this is an actual record or not.
Facts are that:
1) this is a BASE jump done over solid asphalt road
2) this is a BASE jump done off a bridge manufactured 27 years B.C.
The jump has been done by #1044 and #1088.
I think they did an outstanding achievement, jumping a so low and so ancient cool object, they jumped a piece of history, doing 1.5" of solid open canopy flight

Last 3 pictures of the set.
Enjoy it!

P.S.: I forgot to say that, obviously, the jumps have been done in DB

Super Cool and pretty balsy.
Rick

> Super Cool and pretty balsy. Rick
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Said by yourself it's a huge honor
I'll tell my friends about your comment, they'll be happy about that
Hope to see you soon
Please, give my regards to Joy
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wow! thats crazy stuff, good job. i cant tell from the pics but did you have time to unstow the brakes or just plf?

Did the guy survive..?

By the looks of things the canopy wasnt yet inflated

The canopy was fully inflated

im guessing he landed ok or why would the second jumper exit if you just watched the first guy go in!

> By the looks of things the canopy wasnt yet inflated
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It's a trick of the pictures taken out of the video. For the first jumper, #1044, the video shows a solid 1.5" of open canopy flight and an outstanding PLF at landing.
The second jumper, #1088, still did about 1.5" of open canopy flight, but with a more "going down" pitch, which, notwithstanding the outstanding PLF he did too, notwthstanding the complete body armour, ankle protection and boots included, resulted in a small ankle sprain; but here we are talking about the human and technology limits; going below 25 m - 82 ft over hard surface means the high risk of breaking bones.

> Did the guy survive..?
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As I said above: #1044 did a perfect landing, #1088 suffered a jolly hard landing but after a week he was jumping again

EDIT:
I just discovered NOW that you, sasslife, are a 50 skydives wonder (sorry, no offence) asking questions about an outstanding BASE achievement, done after years of sport and practice and percfect knowledge of equipment, rigging and packing, beyond the fact that #1004 and #1088 are very well trained and fit athletes.

Whoa...

> ...but did you have time to unstow the brakes or just plf?
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I see that you are not very keen on super low BASE jumps.
With an overall 1.5" of open canopy flight, it is unthinkable to unstow the brakes.
When you do a super low BASE jump, the only way to behave and the only way to do something that resembles a flare is to act on risers, more precisely, in order to avoid "overpull" on risers, our procedure to do the flare (if we can still call it this way... ) is, once you have the open canopy over your head, to go at conector link height and spread the risers horizontally out.
To spread the risers about 30 cm out means to pull down the links only by few cm, which causes a decent flare, hte best you can do in THAT condition of flight.
If in a superlow jump you directly go on connector links and pull risers down, it's nearly impossible to do in a split second the manouver to pull risers down only by few cm, stalling an already "just inflated canopy" with a high vertical speed.
So, this is what #1044 and #1088 did: at opening, they spread the risers at connector link height and did their best PLF.
With #1044 we discussed extensively this procedure, then he applied it very successfully doing low jumps with his mate #1088 and they did a masterpiece of BASE jump jumping this 25 m - 82 ft bridge

i try not to sound ingnorant but i decided i better start asking questions if im gonna learn how to do things correctly. you are right, im pretty new to base and will be making my first s/l jump in the next week or 2 . the information was very helpful. ive never heard of this method before, i also never dreamed how incedibly technical base jumping is until i took the leap myself and began learning everything i can!
thanks
p.s this jump is absolutley incredible! its freakin amazing what some of you guys are able to do!

TS! Minchia! Mucho BASE
J

Outstanding! Pulling the risers apart to flare is a great idea, and it looks like you guys have your exit technique nailed.

Michael

maximum respect....!!!!!!!!!
i did 35 meters and almost shit in my panties fortunatley at night so i cant see shit....and it was over grass...embarrasing, i know...

but this is outstanding!!!!
this guys realy push the limits.....
the funny thing is , that they just did it....and thats all..

dont belive the hype...forget this red bull shit...

> Outstanding! Pulling the risers apart to flare is a great idea, and it looks like you guys have your exit technique nailed.
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That said from you is a great compliment indeed
I remember as if it were NOW what you wrote about low jumps, SL jumps and whatever on the "old" BASE Board.
Indeed, your statement: "SL jumps from 40 m - 131 ft, just exit with minimum forward push, stand up attitude, just a bit more than just letting yourself drop down (otherwise you dive down after opening and surge into ground); SL jumps from 50 m - 164 ft, push forward as hard as you like, you have time and space to recover and have a flying canopy; SL jumps from halfway between 40 and 50 m: it's up to you but try to do what you would do off 40 m - 131 ft" has been a starting point for us, still is a MUST
Keep in touch and take care

great job guys weldone :)

Dwain Weston once told me that he didn't use risers or obviously unstow his brakes on super low jumps. He would pull on the toggle lines above the keeper ring and I think he have had some sort of handle for them above the keeper ring.

Tell your friends to be careful. Not much lower you can go without breaking a few bones and old injuries come back to haunt you. Joy says hi. Next time I get over to Italy we'll get in touch and I'll try to get Joy to join us.
Rick
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