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WBR have finished the first competition, and I am pleased to tell we completed all goals for the first year!

We had no incidents!
We had a great show and competition for the public!
We have a concept that is easy to understand for the public!
We have a sports arena there is no like!
We have a concept all of the athletes found interesting and Challenging!
We made the world news!

We will arrange the competition after same model next year! This is a easy concept to build good reputation for the public and media! The athletes will compete to be the ”World Fastest Flying Human Being”.

We had the fastest flyer on the time 20,03 sec and we have a record to brake next year! Who will brake the 20?

We will aim for free register, free pick up, free morning meal, and free stay for the athletes! Public will have free entrance, and transport bus for next year competition as well! We want to have a public party showing the best Mountain flyers from all around the world!

Dates for the next WBR is temporary set to 6 – 8 August with weather day on 9 and 10! 12 August - 15 august. Weather days will be 16 and 17 August! Warm up week will start 6 of August Where we have the www.raumarock.no

Prices for World BASE Race Romsdalen 2009

1. 3 000 euro
2. 2 000 euro
3. 1 000 euro

Who were the winners and what suits were they flying?

http://www.worldbaserace.com

Can somebody be so kind to add this to other languages forum I dont know?

Thank you!

Ronni from Kjerac won by a nose to Shane McKonkey both wearing V2. Diving pays!

Not to forget it is still remote exits, and you need to have your skills before you attend the area!

http://www.basejumper.com/...s/Romsdalen_811.html

and our requirements to participate

http://worldbaserace.com/...;id=20&Itemid=23



We had a couple of minor happenings where jumpers tried something new during the event, and it did not look to good, neither did it appear safe! So have your skills and experience up to date to compete! If you want to learn, go to Kjerag! Then come Romsdalen!

I said it before in the other thread but I'll say it again here.
People,
This is a very great event. The best idea for a base competition by far to date. I highly recommend that you all figure out a way to get your asses over to Norway next summer and enter this event. This is full on head to head, dual format racing! Very exciting. There are also plenty of other huge walls in that area to jump including the famous Bispen, ya know, the one where you buzz the road. The locals are very open and helpful concerning their cliffs. I went to Norway this year planning to jump other stuff during that "base race" thingy but the event turned out to be just too dam fun to pass up. You won't regret it.
Shane McConkey

It's ok for French BAse Association..
Congratulation Paul..

Its also one of the most beautiful places on earth!
This photo is from a demojump during this years event.

Photo©Atle Dahl

gorgeous.
awesome photo!

was anyone flying the pro fly?

atle, next time advice the guy to turn the smoke for 180 degrees!! will be better and will paint the suit way less

http://www.andalsnes-avis.no/...&Params=Itemnr=4

No, nobody was in a ProFly. And I'm pretty sure that the only suits in the competition were Vampires and S-Fly Experts. I saw a couple other suits there but I don't believe they were competing. It would be interesting to see a larger collection of suits there next year.
Several competitors, including myself, who usually only jump S-Fly Expert suits switched to V2s for the speed. The Expert suit is incredibly fun and easy to fly compared to the V2. Better for proximity flying I think but the V2 is faster.

Will we have some of the producers showing up next year?

Maybe some bonus prices to?

I hope to see all of you have some of your best flyers attending next year!

Changed time!

Rauma rock have canged their dates to our schedular so we have to move one week! Warm up week from the 6 of august (Rauma Rock starts so it is possible to have great ball during the warm up), and first competition day is 12 august!

Resoults from Hans Holmefjord logging, where he reached 228,7 KM/h absolute speed after 430 meter (Horizontal speed 178, and vertical speed 144 Km/H) at 16,6 sec

Glide angel 39 deg. Steepest angel 79 deg at 3,4 sec

4,4 sec 101 km/h vertical speed, and absolute 104 km/h

11,5 sec he passed absolute speed 200 km/h

This numbers is absoluteley impressive!

....and converted into real money for those of us who dont understand that KM and M $hite they use in Europe:

From this data it's possible to calculate sustained horizontal and vertical speeds by solving Wingsuit Equations, and the result is

Vxs = 105.2mph (169km/h)
Vys = 74.7mph (120km/h)

L/D = Vxs/Vys = 1.41

Just as predicted. This is the optimal L/D for maximum horizontal speed (square root of 2).

Beautiful.

Well, it is what I was aiming for anyway But as you all know(?) I didn't win, so...

Here are the actual L/D data for the complete flight if you're interested. Pull around 22 sec. L/D data are based on acceleration averages over one sec (data logging @ 10 Hz) forward in time.

Amazing. Gotta love it when the success is engineered.

Is this in your G3 tracking suit?

Nope, it's one of the Shadow prototypes.

It is time to get ready for the ultimate mountain flying speed race! All accomodation is almost fully booked in Innfjorden, but there will be a campground at http://www.lensmansgarden.no/ with showers and toilets for 100 kr a tent. We are still working on getting the club house this year as well.

If you want to book in Town http://www.visitandalsnes.com

Got an Q!

Hello,

TEAM ..... will send 4 jumpers to this race.
But I am not so good with internet in foreign language.
Can you please help me with accomodation reservation?
We will need two hotel rooms, please.
Also, how to register four jumpers for the event?
Thanks

You have to show up, and prove you are one of the 32 jumpers who deserves to continue to the official rounds! We will have an warm up week from the 6 of August, and Wednesday the day before, we will have the last qualification round! You dont need to be there all of the week if we do know the jumpers qualification, safety profile etc. You can also jump other sites, and you will have plenty of time to do so, but we WBR do not organize any other jumping! For those jumpers we do not know, or we do not have any recomendations from other well known jumpers, have to prove themselves!

http://www.visitandalsnes.com/sove2.php most of the pages have english to.

If there is anything just let me know, and I will help you out! The Grand hotel is quite good!

Join us on our Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/...ASE-Race/43724640867

We got tree more members on WBR team. We welcome Martin Rosen, Sweden chairman safety board, Petter Bergsjø, Norway, and Hans Holmefjord, Norway as board members. This is some of the most experienced mountain flyers, I believe is the right persons to handle all jumpers safety issues during the event. WBR a event by jumpers for jumpers!

"Zero incidents"
"Safety rules"

I have now almost 40 confirmed experienced jumpers on my list, and would like to know who else planning to come. Please send me an mail with Name, age, experience, nationality

to paul(at)worldbaserace.com

If we have 64 experienced jumpers we will ad one more round.

For those of you who have not ordered any accommodation yet, I suggest you start finding a place to stay now, if you do not want to stay in club house. It is bunk house style, and we do also have a camping. No showers (only cold river), but we might get the school this year as well for shower. Club house is no charge!

Can someone add this to the French board for me? Thank you!

From one of the post above
You have to show up, and prove you are one of the 32 jumpers who deserves to continue to the official rounds! We will have an warm up week from the 6 of August, and Wednesday the day before, we will have the last qualification round! You dont need to be there all of the week if we do know the jumpers qualification, safety profile etc. You can also jump other sites, and you will have plenty of time to do so, but we WBR do not organize any other jumping! For those jumpers we do not know, or we do not have any recomendations from other well known jumpers, have to prove themselves!

http://www.visitandalsnes.com/sove2.php most of the pages have english to.

If there is anything just let me know, and I will help you out! The Grand hotel is quite good!

WBR prices Grand

Enkeltrom/single 795 Nok pr. natt/night incl. frokost/breakfest
Dobbeltrom/double 895 Nok pr. natt/night incl. frokost/breakfest

42 experienced jumpers confirmed arriving! USA have the biggest group so far with 17 jumpers!

For this year, I will be the chairmen of the safety crew. A short presentation of me, for you guys who doesn’t know me; I have about 11 years in BASE. About 1300 BASE-jumps where approximately 600 is wingsuit jumps. One of the reasons for me to take care of the safety issue is assumed knowledge in wingsuit flying and my interest in debating risk factors and its connection to human behavior.

This year we have two policy lines "Zero incidents" and "Safety rules"

This means that we really will work towards a zero incident event, and to create this we need to cooperate with the jumpers to have an understanding around safety and the rules we put up to maintain the demand for safety. This includes high demands for skills, experience and behavior. The rules are created to keep the risk down. We all know that the combination of mountains, competition, audience and large groups of jumpers create a significant higher risk of incidents. Our idea is to prevent incidents from happened as far as possible.

Last year the main problem was the low pull altitude and the short canopy rides. This was probably an effect from the competition and the lust to win. We still want people to have fun and compete. Therefore we will use all that’s in our power to create a competition where flying low isn’t necessary.

More exact plans for safety and rules will be presented before the competition for all participants to take part in and comment.

The second part of the policy says “Safety rules”. This means that Safety rules over the competition and the show. If something in the show or the competition tends to hazard the safety, the jumping will stop and changes will be made.

Sorry for this boring tone of the message. The whole idea is to have fun and create something big together. We all know the risks and we know how to have fun. Also I’m sure we will cooperate and giv the audience and our self a great experience and a nice chance to bring forward the fastest flyers in the world. This located in one of the most beautiful places on earth!

See you in Norway and the World BASE Race 2009

Chairmen of the safety council

We will work with the regulation of the jumpers who can participate in the race. We have an FAQ we will post everything that comes up, and we will continue to update FAQ as we feel the need!

Please read and understand the requirements we will have for the competition! The FAQ is not complete yet, and if you are not sure you can be one of the jumpers, I suggest you wait another year, and develop the skills and experience you will need for a high profile event like this!

FAQ http://worldbaserace.com/...p;id=1&Itemid=23

This is from a post last year
Im sure most of you who did attend Petronas competition, or a high profile event, remember how special it was to be counted down on the exit? How the adrenalin flowed, and added the extra tention! There is not easy to jump in a competition, and it is easy to make mistakes, if you are not confident with your equipment or the cliff! Bear this in mind when you attend to World BASE Race, the atmosphere change, and the extra pressure from the public and media will also add the extra flow!

I hope someone who was part of the competition could join with some thoughts about the WBR 2008, how it felt, and maybe discuss some important issues!

According to recent scientific studys regarding fatalitys and accidents in BASE-jumping a VERY HIGH and significant amount of incidents was caused by human errors.

This means that its human to fail and all of us have failed a number of times.

The rate of possible human errors increases quite rapidly during psychological stress. We are all under stress on the exits. Due to the additional effect of even more outer stressors, like audience, another persons cownt down, the competition etc will by far increase the outer stress. This will by far increase the risk of a very human error.

I dont want to tell everybody that they cant do this or that they are not qualified. Its just that all of us share a responsibility towards the audience and the organizers. A responsibility to do what's everin our power to prevent an accident in fromt of the audience. This is our mutual quest and together will we succed. Secondary mission objective is to give people and our self a great show.

Ive seen and participated in many events and public jumpes. Its very common that jumpers try to do something new and outstanding in front of a great aucience. Back flips with a wing suit at low altitude, rolls, swoops, fly byes and other stuff.

In my experience, the audience wont even see the tricks we pull up there. They like smoke, accuracy landings, happy faces and speed.

We can give everybody, including our selfs a great, show and experience for life with just doing what we do best and even a little less. There wont be any need for "pushing the envelope" or doing something extra.

The demo jumps during the event will be well planned, modest and trigger the beuty of human flights in a safe way with a controled happy ending.

nothing more nothing less.

I look forward to see this get pulled of and Im sure that all the participants will actively work together for this, our mutual goal!

As a Ky. landlocked redneck, all I got to ask is....got any big antennaes over there??? bwahahaha

Where, in Norway?

No there are no antennas of significant value in Norway. In the country on the isde of it, my country, we have about a hundred (100) antennas in the 1000 ft class.

Start orders as follow:

When jumpers are dressed up and ready to jump. The starters procedure as rules for WBR 2009

Both jumpers standing at the back of the exit ramps

Starter will ask

Jumper A ready - confirmed

Jumper B ready - confirmed

Jumpers take your start position

Starter starts count down

5 - 4 followed by a single signal repeated 3 times Bip - Bip - Bip

The rules for the jumpers exit will be as followed: Both feet must be in touch to the exit ramp, when the last signal starts. We will judge by a video cam, standing behind in the middle of the ramps, facing down on the edge of the exit. If we are in doubt about a early start, or we get an complain from fellow jumper, we can look at the video, and confirm the situation. En early start is disqualification.

Another rule which is in the safety compendium: Jumpers have to show controlled exits. Any uncontrolled exits is disqualification.

http://worldbaserace.com/...p;id=1&Itemid=23

Saturday 15 August we will make sure you will enjoy your stay at Innfjorden World BASE Race arena, located in one of Norways beautiful fjords. An arene in the nature. We have a show presenting local entertainers, and world top class flying humans, dressed in batmans suits. Flying at top speeds more than 250 km/h. All athletes walk every round to the top, an hike with 700 hight meters, and 2 hours walk. In 3 days the winners have to walk 6 rounds.



Ronald Nikolaisen with "Black cat bones" is The World BASE Race band this year. They will play at the final show, and at the WBR party in the evening.

We will also have

Line Horvli and the local choir

A lokal folkdance group Leikarringen

Norwegian national paragliding team with Ove Tillung and Pål Hammar Rognøy

2 show jumping groups before we will have "The World fastest flying human being" final.

This is the day you will walk home with a new experience of life. This is the ultimate challenge human beings can face in a high speed adrenalin sport. Head to head flying a 750 meters horisontal raceline, where a perfect human flight, will make one the only one, who can call himselves or herselves "The world fastest flying human being". Using nothing else than gravity, a body dressed in a batman suit, and perform the perfect aerodynamic shape. Hans Holmefjord made one jump with a gps last year, which showed maximum speed 234 km/h. I believe the winner had max speed more than 250 km/h.

Ronny Risvik will be back and defend his Title "The world fastest flying human being"

Grammar correction is welcome

The new tourist map for Åndalsnes Rauma in Romsdalen.

World BASE Race is on the official tourist map 2009

World BASE Race party 2009

15. August
We will have the local band "Black cat bones" playing at http://raumakulturhus.no/kulturhus/default.asp after dinner.

Same building as the http://www.grandhotel.no/ They got some few rooms left for the evening if you just want to walk to the bed after a great party.

I added an event page:
http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/wiki/World+BASE+Race

Athletes can now practice in the comfort of their homes using Wingsuit Studio.

Why climb, jump, risk your life, when you can sit on the couch with beer in both hands and fly like a champion!

Yuri

We are updating our new web with a new profile. The old one with all information can still be found here.

http://worldbaserace.com/...mp;id=2&Itemid=3

The doors to the green house is opening 1. August. Showers at Lensmannsgården, tenting at other side of the the road along the river.

The new web site is coming slowly up, but for Athlete information we would like you to read the old FAQ, Travel route, and accommodation pages for information. You will find every answer there. If you do not find it you can sen me an mail or message.

Also find Frode Johannessen the first Norwegian Champion and "National Champion in the world" WBR style! Congratulation.

Old http://worldbaserace.com/...mp;id=2&Itemid=3




New http://worldbaserace.com/

OK, well its right around the corner. I am getting on a pane on Monday and heading to the action.

Who is in?

Who will be there competing?

Paul do you have a list of who is coming so far?

 Grand & World BASE Race bar. Bar open from Thursday trough Saturday evening, placed at the corner straight up from the train station.

This is in the main center of Åndalsnes, next neighbour to the Rauma Rock festival. Bring your own videos to show and entertain the guests.

http://www.basejumper.com/...ost=2911915;#2911915

Read about U.S. Base Jumper Brendan Nicholson as he competes in The World BASE Race.

WBR athletes are now advised by Dr. Yuri to eat at McDonalds 6 times a day and 3 times a night.

Thanks to revolutionary advancements in wingsuit science, Fat Amerikans now might have an edge over their fit&gay Norwegian rivals... just keep your L/D high, and use your hard earned fat to propell you to the title of the fastest human being on Earth!

http://www.basejumper.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2911958;#2911958

All jumpers have to meet at the green house wednesday 12 august 09:00 if they are going for the qualification round.

Meeting 18:00 with information who is in the finals. Safety briefing by Martin Rosen.

VKB have a presentation about their new innovation regarding wingsuits and base rigs. Welcome.

Standings after 1. round http://worldbaserace.com/

Second WBR done, and Frode is the winner. More information, pictures and videos at Facebook and homepage.

We did have really bad weather, and had to make it in 3 rounds instead of 5. Some did dislike that, but I overall feel we had the correct winner. He had been steady and the fastest flyer all the way.

WBR 2010 will be after Soccer world meet middle of July.

Maybe some qualifications rounds at Extreme sport weeek
2 rounds at Hellesylt, where we had the Nationals
3 rounds at Gridset
Tom Erik will make a new World record in Eikesdalen?

I will take registration for next years event, so stay tuned for more information coming in a new tread World BASE Race 2010

Thank you all for you interest this year. We can only do better next year for sure.

http://vimeo.com/6090529
http://www.nrksport.no/1.6733685

Thank you all for your support, and hope to see you next year, those who really want, and believe in "The world fastest flying human being" concept. The public is still very amused, and amazed of the human squirrels or the human flight.

Congrats on completing another event!

since it is over, I will remove the Sticky feature from this thread.