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http://www.redbull.com/...sher-4000-base-jumps

"around" 3000 from the Perrine though. Still, an impressive amount. Congratulations.

3000 jumps at perrine is classed as skydives isnt it or along those lines?

No. 3000 jumps from a plane are classed as skydives.
The Perrine is a fixed object yes?
It is a Span yes?

It's a fak'n base jump

That brings us to the old debate of unpacked jumps being paraglider starts rather then base jumps...

i see no debate.

if it is inflated before you start it is a paraglider flight.

if you hold it in your hand or hang it over the edge it is a base jump.

Perrine jumps don't count after 100, everybody knows that. Congrats to Miles for his 1,100th jump!

so you can't die on Perrine jumps after the first 100?

You can die, it just doesn't count.

Was taking the piss lad thats all trying to get in first haha

I wonder who has the most objects?

my guess would be douggs

Cool article- nice work Miles! I don't get people giving him shit for so many Perrine jumps. I mean he does plenty of full-on jumping all over the world too, he just happens to live in Twin Falls. He's got the skills, and gets to make a living as a base jumper. That is awesome.

I'm making claim to most illegal jumps unless anyone proves otherwise :). I'll bet Dan the man has the most objects.

I would put my money on DTM as well for the most objects. Also pretty high on the list would be for sure some long time Europeans, like Maury for example. Also some long term european para-alpinists for sure have quite impressive amount of different cliff jumps under their belts so there might be quite good competition coming also from that scene for the most objects -list.

Id bet Julian has an impressive amount of wingsuit exits. Not that he has ever logged them.

It hangs fully open, just not pressurized. I believe this "start", or "jump", was stolen from paraglider pilots- i don't think they ever called rollovers "base jumps"

455, hoping to make 456 before i retire.
Btw, done a few 'illegal' jumps myself...

DTM would be my bet!!:)

+! about a European being the person with the most objects. I would put my money on Maury. If only he would not be Italian because if you put money there it is gone.

didn't the paragliders steal it from shane mcconkey? didn't he do it first and it was called a mcconkey until people didn't want him to have credit for it so they started calling it a roll over?

AFAIK, no.

Good Game Miles

He got there?

Back in the day, it was considered equally important as to how many objects, and types of objects that you did. A guy had 100 jumps from Auburn Bridge, but he hadn't traveled across the southwest opening up new cliffs.

I remember when there were 6 or so who had over 100 jumps. Phil Smith (#1), always had more than anyone. Mark Hewitt was catching him, and made a trip to a 350' bridge that we all did, doing something like 20 jumps in a weekend with help from packers. Hewitt was no slouch, but Smitty had done it all.

So it isn't all about numbers. If he had 3000 off of the Perrine, I don't think that that was as much of an accomplishment as the guy with the most objects.

We always struggled with this very thing, even at the beginning.

I'm not knocking his achievement, but if someone is close, yet has crazy good experience in all forms of jumping, including lots of terminal objects, well, the latter would get as much respect.

So don't go rack up 500 jumps from the Perrine and think it is as big of a deal as a guy with 100 jumps off of 40 objects of all kinds. We thought it was important to travel and do all types of objects.

We didn't like the shorties...the 350-ish footers. They required little skill. We avoided them for the most part. We would do them, but we didn't concentrate on them.

It's hard to dismiss that kind of volume of ANY object IMHO. ( I know you weren't doing that) What your saying makes a lot of sense though. If people were discussing 4000 jumps in regards to skill, then what your saying is even more relevant.

I could agree more. Not that 4000 jumps isn't damn impressive, but I Absolutely love getting a new object. No matter how many jumps you've done or long you've been around. That feeling of shitting your pants on an exit you've never been to.

Some of the things I thought would be amazing to try to accomplish in a career are jumping in every state, getting 1000 objects, and getting BASE X 100. I'm at BASE X 32 right now, but that's a damn far cry.

What's BASE x?

I think he means he has at least 32 bridges, 32 cliffs, 32 buildings and 32 antennas so far and would like to have 100 of each before he dies or retires.

C

Got it, thanks :)

Yup :)

It's all about the batting average.
Anyone know the jumps to objects ratio?
DTM what you on these days?

4000 jumps is awesome! Congrats Miles! Now get out there and get some new objects!

I like the idea of getting 100 different objects for each category and 1000 objects. Those are hard to do!

I wanted to get BASE in every state in the US but I'll settle for just one jump in every state instead.