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Hey y'all. Just thought I'd give a heads up to anyone interested. This kids name is Chase Reinford and he runs a You Tube channel called, you guessed it, Adrenailin Addiction. Ive been a fan of this kid for some time now. He's best known for a being one of the gnarliest cliff jumpers out there. One of his most popular videos is him throwing a MASSIVE backflip off a 140 foot cliff into water. (no canopy, wasn't a base jump, just sent it into the lake) He's also a skydiver with a pilots liscence that he uses to scope out hard to get to cliff jump spots. BTW, kids only 22 lol. He recently started base jumping , and no, it doesn't seem like he racked the usual prerequisite sky jumps so lets not start that conversation please. Anyway, point of this thread, since we are on basejumper.com, is to point out that this I'd has incredible control of his body due to his cliff ju and gymnastic background. Seems to have pretty low jump numbers but he was throwing some sick shit out at Moab. Doesn't all seem to be on you tube anymore but he threw a gainer with a full twist into two backflips and opened super clean. A
So was his triple gainer, again at Moab, wwas SICK. Don't know the specific exits. If it was anyone else I would say hes rushing way too fast with his ariels but he's so good in in the air i think he's gonna be ok. His rope swing off the span in WV is also fun to watch. He jumps it with a buddy who lets go during the swing, opens, and makes a clean getaway. Chase is forced to wait out the cops in the steel for hours. (uses an ascender) anyway, sorry for the novel, check him out.

He‘s a lying POS too, he will do himself in in no time i‘m sure. I will not bother doing the clean–up.

Talent and skill are different things.

He's a very talented person with good aerial skills.
He's not good at progression.

I've taught hundreds of people to skydive. Very good gymnasts, and other types of skills. They all showed up with mad air awareness. Naturally, the act of skydiving came easy. When it came to canopy control, the person naturally thought they were going to bypass the entire learning to fly a parachute properly and learn to swoop without help.

Without fail, most of them pounded in because they knew better ... until they didn't. But of course, I'm old now so what the heck would someone like me know

A person can use all their other skills to enhance another skill. Chances are they'll become exceptional if they actually progress.

Chase has a horrible attitude toward anyone who only wants the best for him. He's ripped on anyone that wants to help. He deletes every comment that doesn't say how amazing he his. None of my comments were derogatory however they weren't to his liking of self awesomeness. Instagram and youtube stardom apparently is lucrative. It's too bad he doesn't have respect for other jumpers. Funny thing is, when he pounds in, those same people he disses, are the same ones who will carry him off the talus.

I don't care who you are or how great your air skills are in another area, Experience does matter. 26 years of parachuting shows me that he is no more special than we are. Even the best BASE jumpers and sky jumpers I know had to learn the craft in a progressive manner.

You can use your previous skills to better learn a new skill. Just hucking something and getting away with it isn't skill, but go ahead and believe what you want to.

Skydiver who refuses to take advice. BASE jumper who refuses to take advice.

I wish the guy well. I hope his attitude toward one of the absolute coolest. and caring groups of people I've met, improves. He can use his talent for good if he wants to.

If i wanna see flips n shit i just go watch Chuma lol.


He doesnt want to be a part of the basejumper community at all. I can respect that, aslong as he doesnt burn stuff.

Oh, he has burned plenty already. Bridges too, for that matter!

This thread is stupid and reeks of self promotion.

Well since this is BJ.com Chase is a spoilt little rich kid that thinks his cool Arenailin Addiction bullshit actually means something. The reality is his father should be ashamed that his son turned out to be such a fucking brat.

He’s a huge tool that caused a lot of heat at one of the best objects in NorCal. I spoke with him about this and made it well known to him that he is not welcome in this area again. He was initially a huge ass when I confronted him about this, but my old defense for him is he seemed to realize what he’d done eventually. I always thought base could use another YouTube hero, we don’t have enough.

Hey Chase

personally I would recommend a new promotional manager for yourself.

2 base jumps "does not" give someone the proper credentials to promote your brand of "mindless self promotion"....effectively

I really hope this thread doesn't get deleted. Dumb is always looking for a new face

I see no reason to make any changes to this thread. The first post is hilarious. MASSIVE Backflips! Dude that’s so rad!!!!!!! Epic!!!!!!!!


I’m sure anyone with any real experience can see this as waving a flag that says “don’t let me on your objects”. We’ve all seen guys like this come and go. Sadly the last one I remember was Johnny strange.

Ok, he might go in eventually, but i have to admit that his videos and skills are pretty sick: https://youtu.be/GDuUjlZBSoM
https://youtu.be/GVwZCZzC9Co

Wingsuit proxy videos have got boring a long time ago and wingsuits are still the most potent killer. Chase’s style of jumping is much more exciting than wingsuit proxy. So lets hope the statistics is on Chase’s side.

WOOW. I don't know the kid personally whatsoever, everything yall are mentioning is obviously not cool. No agenda just thought he had a couple cool vids. Seems like a nice kid in his videos but I guess it goes to show ya, u never know.

Lmao, I'm not chase, don't even know him personally. I knew people would have strong opinions about his progression and apparently his attitude sucks as well. Lol itmismkinda crazy how up in arms this forum gets. I get it about burning objects, the ultimate mortal sin in base. Just thought u guys would enjoy a couple cool jumps, nothing more, nothing less. Damn....

Chuma the best, I won't argue that. At least in the states. I'm sure everyone will think I'm chuma now that I complimented him. XD

If his offense is worthy of the ultimate tar and feather punishment, them you missed your best chance, he jumped in a CHICKEN SUIT! XDD plenty of feathers already there.

Putting everything on hold for a quick second, anyone care to comment on his 140ft backflip into water. (cliff jump not base)

Hey, it's hard to understand what you're saying with Chase so far down your throat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L75QFBfMeys

Super good in the air with all that aerial awareness...

Being young doesn't make you any cooler, just makes you a bit dumber and more likely to push it. Seriously, there studies on it. Look it up.

No. Go ask a cliff jumping forum.


Hey Chase, stop being a douchebag and stop trying to self promote on here. I know your mom probably told you any attention is good attention but thats not always the case

Lol now this is getting fun. No idea why your so salty. My original post was just to say hey here's a cool video. As usual people here just start talking shit. Egos on here are outta control.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-awareness

Everyone knows you're a troll, and a bad one at that. Between your "first jump" thread and your "El Cap jump" thread. If you're going to troll atleast make it realistic or funny so people play along. Or else you just look like an idiot.

I repeat, lying piece of shit. Make sure you get video when you go in, that way your fame will be „immortal“. Karma will bite your ass, rest assured.

That sounds very familiar.

Hehe nah. Chuma's actually a cool guy, so no-one's gonna think you're him

Everyone gets to be young. The tricky part is getting old...like Tim ;)

Ain't that the truth. I was just pointing out that being young is a disadvantage if anything. At least that's the way I look at it for myself.

Grey hair just means you're winning

Hanzo, are you sure, you are not really "Chase Reinford" and you just posted this topic like it's a casual discussion to promote your channel?
:)

Name calling will NOat be tolerated."Idiot" is particularly harsh. Start with "butthead" and work up from there.

Lol I am most Definitly NOT Chase Reinford. Come to think of it, it wouldn't be a big deal if he was on here saying "Hey my name is Chase and this is my You Tube channel, enjoy" Certainly wouldn't need any secrecy or alternate accounts.

Btw, I built my own wingsuit. Anyone interested in taking it for a spin? Skydive of course I'm not stupid!

I said you LOOK like an idiot, not you ARE an idiot. But your continued posts are leading me to believe the latter.

Awwww c'mon Daniel, be nice. Tis the season.

His name wouldn’t be “Lucky Chase “ would it, perhaps?
I, for one, am super impressed....
B.

I think you might be confusing him with the Australian that was going by Lucky Chance a few years back. Im pretty sure he is dead now.

Yeah. He is. Turned out he wasnt that lucky after all and took too many chances.

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/...06b0e5ea9edaedb7e576

**Cut me some slack, I have a small dick and am socially awkward so I need to throw quads and get a lot of YouTube likes to get laid and make friends.

Someone brought this to my attention. What's up, I'm Chase. I'd love to clear some stuff up since none of you can seem to ever come talk to me in person like mature adults..

Turkey boogie was a great example of how most of you are keyboard warriors. I constantly heard people talking shit to each other about me, not knowing I was right behind them packing. My point is, why don't you just contact me directly or come talk to me instead of holding grudges and carrying hate around? You fly better with a clear head! The only person at the boogie to bring up anything was the owner of Safeish ( I don't remember his name, dreads) he was yelling shit on a mega phone while I was on an exit about to jump. He called me a douche bag and a bunch of other things which for sure took my mind off the jump and could have created a dangerous situation. Not cool. I went up to him and spoke with him and all was well. He was an understanding guy . I put myself in his shoes. If I were him I'd be pissed. I burned the big green bridge that you all love. And I know I will never live it down. I wasn't a base jumper at the time, I was just doing a ropeswing and had no idea that it was a big deal. I quickly found out it was and I am sorry for the heat I brought to the bridge. I would like some grace considering I had no idea anything about BASE ethics or BASE jumping.

I've been ostracized from the base community. It's not that I don't want to be apart of it, I do. I generally keep to myself, in all aspects of life. So I also enjoy junping alone, luckily because all you guys hate me! But I would love some solid base friends.

Also, my progression is just that, mine. The beauty of base is that it's the rawest form of freedom there is, and I can essentially do anything I imagine as possible (of course without stepping on anyone's toes) and create anything I want in the air. That to me is beautiful, poetic. I want to be the best I can be because that's what I live for, progression. I'm aware of the risks.

I'm not a trust fund baby, I've worked hard for everything I have. My last job was a landscaper. I did grunt work and didn't make shit. I didn't have shit. My parents went bankrupt when I was 16.

I feel blessed to do what I do, and especially to base jump. It's a dream come true. I don't understand why so many people are such dicks to me, you don't even know me. I'm a lover not a fighter. We all make mistakes, it's time to forgive me of mine.

And to set the record straight heres the truth. I was terrified to tell anyone my real numbers because I was getting threatened by a few of you.. but I'm done hiding from the "bullies."
Ihave 35 skydives. I'd jump more if I wasn't broke...
I started Base jumping at 28 skydives. I had no mentor present. I taught myself to pack my rig over the course of a month. I also did a ton of research, studied weather, and talked to other jumpers for much longer.
I then jumped off the bridge with no supervision or mentor. I thought there was a very high chance that I would die in that moment and I accepted that. No one would help me so I did what I needed to reach my dream. Since then I've learned a lot from many awesome jumpers. i continue to learn more from every jumper I meet.
I now have roughly 85 base jumps. About half slider up/off. Ive opened 4 exits. I'm in love and I plan on sending shit hard untill I go in, which is hopefully many many many years from now.

Anyway, I'm no better than any of you. Each of you guys are my fucking hero's. You jump off shit for fun. Wtf?! Who in their right mind does that?! Oh yea just a few people out of a couple billion. We are a special breed so why the hell don't we love each other? Why does everyone have such an egotistical, opinionated view of everyone else in the sport? Im a dumb fuck sometimes but I'm sure you are too, and I love you regardless.
Reach out and let's send shit! I'm in NYC if you are around for some fun ;)
321sendit@gmail.com

So in other words, you'd have avoided making a major mistake if you could have listened to and followed advice from people who know more about base jumping than you? That's a conclusion worth thinking about some more.


Not exactly true. The beauty of base is that you can attempt to do anything you imagine possible. The physics and biology of what happens when a human body hits a hard object at high speed may stop you from actually succeeding, though.

35 skydives...that explains your horrible tracking at brento. You should really skydive more, body awareness wont teach you efficient tracking.

Most of us have seen hotshots before coming from nowhere, and some of them is still alive, with wounds to heel, even if still walking.

1. It is not worht dying for
2. You will die, but do not know when yet
3. Your body will hurt, and hurt more when you get older
4. You can be a good person even you get flamed everywhere you go, you just dont belong to the hurd. Sometimes good, sometimes it is bad
5. It is your choiche, and you have to stick with it!
6. It hurt to loose friends
7. Goood luck

To me it looks like something between Andrey Karr and Lucky kid. One is still alive and one is not here with us anymore. Both of them I have or had respect for what they do, and did, no matter what other think or say!

No warnings, no hard feelings, go on live your life

Seriously, you should come to Airgamez this year. The Brits aren’t nearly as sensitive as some of the Septics (well not unless you are a compulsive bullshitter) and we’ve worked out it’s practically impossible to burn shit over here unless you try real hard.
85 jumps makes you practically over qualified and non of usknow what we are doing either so come join the carnage.

Laters

Julian.

Haha sounds like a fun time! When does this take place? I'd love to make it out! Europeans in general are way relaxed. I'd be stoked to jump with you guys. Reach me on FB "Chase Philips"

Seen some of your producitions now, and have to say it is some impressive crazy shit, and can only add one thing, Gravity never fails!

Have a good one

Do I need to read any more? Please, someone tell me so I don't waste my time.

Good on you for apologizing about the bridge. I've never met you but what seemed to really start all this towards you was your initial lack of respect after the fact and how you treated locals here. Word gets around quick in our community and first impressions are pretty scarring. We have many sites to jump around the world, but one of the ways we can lose legal access is by being reckless and making a bad name for the sport. Research what is going on at brevant. Jumpers want to maintain good relationships with areas they jump, and doing your own thing as you did can be a negative impact on sites. Did you ever try and reconcile with anyone in person or are you being a keyboard warrior as well?

Your only failure is you didn't get a wing suit! Then you'll be part of the cool crowd and can act like a dick all over the world With your jump numbers I'd say you're ready! Chase the dream Chase!

The day after he bought a PTS he jumped it from high ultimate. I’d say he is right on track!

As long as he gets one of the bigger suits he’ll be fine, they practically fly themselves!

Theres a special list for the special people with accelerated learning abilities. Is it called the Best Freefallers League or BFL for short?

He had to wait for the chopper to retrieve a body from HU the previous day too.

But his aerials are really quite cool, but thats about it.

Welcome to BASE jumping. A sport with no rules,but where everyone will tell you that everything you're doing wrong.

People spewing hate at you isn't going to help and shouldn't be payed much attention too, but there are people out there that will give you honest advice to help you live your dreams.

I think you've got balls for starting out the way you did and talent from some of the shit I've seen you pull, but lack a bit of guidance and mentor ship. That stuff doesn't cost shit either, so there really shouldn't be an excuse. Just ask around.

My honest suggestion to you would be to get some more training in both skydiving and BASE. Being "broke" is a bullshit excuse. We all know that there is always a way...
example:
Cheap hop'n' pops to learn more canopy skills.
Listening to those that have been in your shoes before and have your best interest in mind. (Totally Free)
Mastering the little things, before concurring the world ( 85 jumps is really and hopefully just a drop in the bucket of what you will achieve)

Secondly, as cool as pulling a quad off tombstone is, would you have had the knowledge or canopy skills to get yourself out of a situation, such as a 180, line twist, emergency shit landing area after that opening shock with the skill and knowledge you currently have? I'm sure you're saying yes, but I honestly doubt you do. With all the combine canopy experience you claim, it will be all luck and as well all know, luck runs out at some point or another. Take it form me, I thought the same when I first started and it came back to bite HARD! 21st jump, thought I was cool, did a front flip, 180 cliff strike, broke my left tibia and shattered my left heel. 800 jumps later, triples of tombstone with ease and confidence, but from taking small steps, consistent training and experience. Good thing I have Canadian health care cause I was also "broke" at the time. What would happen to you if you couldn't walk for 4 months and needed a few surgeries with the US health system? Just something to think about.

A little bit of easing into it will go a long way. Again, this is coming from experience. You want to stack steps that you've already learned or dealt with on top of others steps to reach those big goals. Just like climbing a ladder. One rung at a time. It makes it easier than having to do a massive blind leap to get to try and catch that top rung. That may sound cheesy, but if you start thinking of the bigger picture in a way like that, you will understand the importance of training, experience and time in the sport.

I can see a desire and passion that you have for BASE. That's a good thing, but there are mental, emotional, hormonal and ego's, ect., that can really hinder what you envision yourself doing. A lot to take in at the start... and the start may go on for hundreds and hundreds of jumps.

Take a deep breath....hope to see you on an exit someday.

Feel free to PM me if you would like any free advice or anything.

Peace

Hey Mike,

I think I saw a video of you on Apex's instagram the other day. Nice jump! And thanks for the great post. You brought up a few great points.

I'm learning to ignore the people spewing hate, or just turn it into fuel for my own fire. I do appreciate the people who give me genuine advice to keep me alive and well. I feel like as a whole non american BASE jumpers are the most friendly, welcoming and helpful. I also got off on the wrong foot with most the jumpers here though...

Im working on getting a sky rig so I get get a bunch of skydives in. I can for sure agree I need work on my canopy skills. Ive put her down into some tight, sketchy LZs before but not very confident with my canopy skills as a whole. Like you said advice is free, and Ive been getting a lot of good advice. Especially in Brento, people were very helpful and I asked as many questions as possible. I probably wouldnt have made it this long without the help of all those guys.

As far as malfunctions go. Do I have the knowledge and canopy skills to fix a problem? I think that's a hard question to answer. I believe I have the knowledge for most malfunctions, but will I think fast enough to turn that knowledge into actions? I couldn't tell you. I can tell you I had a fun line twist with my arm stuck in the riser in Moab (I'll share the vid on the B.I.R.D fb page) and when that happened time slowed down and I knew exactly what to do. Luckily I was pretty much on heading. maybe 90 left tops. An experienced jumper told me to go over the different malfunctions in my head before each jump. I try to focus on 180s. I visualize what I will do before my jump in case of a 180, line over, etc.

Ill try and slow it down and enjoy it instead of "hopping to the top rung of the ladder."

Thanks again for the good post!

You definitely sound like you’ve gained some perspective since the first time I’d heard of your exploits, and that’s a step in the right direction.

Just remember that a lot of the people trying to give you advice, even the more angry ones, have emotional reponses because they’ve lost good friends in the sport, or have tried to talk a newer jumper making the same mistakes you are, only to watch that person die.

If you haven’t heard of him, I suggest you look up Toby Benham aka Lucky Chance. One of the most talented athletes you’d ever find, world class climber, acrobat, circus performer turned base jumper. He got very famous very quickly, and was well know in the base community for never listening to anyone’s advice on much of anything. He did some amazing jumps, and got even more famous for nearly going in while bridle wrapping himself (and sketchy andy thought he was original!) on a rope swing BASE jump. He pulled off some amazing shit for a fair few years, right up until he didn’t. First he was in a coma for 2 months after hitting a cliff overdelaying in France. He actually managed to mostly recover, and then died on a rope swing in oz a few years later. I actually was fairly decent friends with lucky up until his first accident, but he lost a good chunk of memory, and I never really caught up with him after that.

BASE will be there.

Training and mentorship can significantly decrease, but not eliminate your chances of dying in the sport.

No one is different, and you aren’t the first person to be berated in this same forum for the same things. Stick around long enough and you’ll get to do the same for the next guy. If me saying, “hey, you should probably slow down and get proper training so you don’t get seriously injured or killed” adds fuel to your fire, then burn baby burn!

Good luck, and if you really do spend a bit more time training and learning a bit about base ethics, I’d be more than happy to show you how to properly jump the object you warmed up a bit.

[edited to add: to chase]

rigging is another important factor in base in general and also that led to many entries in BFL.

how you rate your rigging skills from 1 to 10?
and by that I mean a combination of rigging knowledges and also applying it in practice.

can you pls make a sort/long description of what you know about this and how important is for your base career?

don’t take it personal pls...my opinion on this thing with you and base is do whatever you want as long you happy with yourself. with time you’ll realize more how important is to stay alive, this base thing has changed you to the point that you now don’t have anything to lose in case you die. if you stay alive long enough you’ll find things that will make you change your mind for your own good.

in case you still think you got nothing to lose than you’re more than welcome to come to my backyard objects(a 96m antenna and a 47m statue all legal and shit). btw they’re in Romania. if you can make it here all hats to you...I’ll die to see some arials done here:))
same way any other cases you’re welcome to visit.

cheers!

ps. did you read BFL? if yes how many times? many answers there bro to your quest in life!

Hey Chase-
I'm the original poster of this thread so I apologize for all the bullshit that came from it. I'm just a big fan of your you tube channel and I've been following it long before you ever posted any videos about base or skydiving. All I was doing was trying to let people know there was a cool channel to check out with some sick flippy doos out at MOAB. As usual people jumped all over it, accusing me of actually being you and secretly self promoting....lmfao. Then proceeding to tell me what a shitbag you were, not listening to locals, having an uncontrolled ego etc etc. Anyway, sorry for the "Internet heat" lol, doesn't take much to work this bunch up.

Great post. Spot on.

don't apologize, you maybe (but only maybe) saved his life

This motherfucker thinks he's Mike Wilson.

Some good advice on here Chase.

One thing I’ll add - while death might not scare you or seem like a huge deal to you, the downstream costs are enormous to:
1) the people who watch & hear you die then suffer PTSD,
2) the non-jumper rescue crews who scoop up your bloody shit-stained remains into a bag,
3) the BASE jumping community at large if you close or bring heat to an exit by pounding in, and of course,
4) your non-jumping family and friends.

Eaztah & Hanzo - “proxy” is when someone holds or uses voting rights for another (or a really shitty name for a canopy). ProxIMITY or terrain flying is wingsuiting close to the ground. And I’m glad to hear our videos bore you. I hope they bore more people.

Bore me? Don't know what you are referring to

Ill try and slow it down and enjoy it instead of "hopping to the top rung of the ladder."

Just got shown your last insta video, clearly you dont listen to yourself let alone others :)

That was a good try to make the list,

That was very close to going in. It won't be long before he bounces.

Link?

https://instagram.com/p/BeIBRvaB8EW/

Whoa.

Backsliding toward the cliff intentionally after opening that close to it?

Yeah...well, have fun with that.

Looks like he just jumped the wrong vector on "funky front" in Moab. You would usually jump many feet over to jumpers left from where he jumped.

But then you miss all the subterminal slick terrain falling. It’s the new hype after wingsuit terrain flying

yawn, seen this drama play out many times before. look-up johnny strange for previews of what's to come.

either eats shit or gets scared enough back off.

I am going to have to stand up for Johnny here. Whatever he may have been he was never quite as selfish and self-promoting as this. Yes he pushed too hard and paid for it but I think anyone who had the opportunity to spend time with him was better off for it and he was some of the best company ive ever had.

 
So ... Shall we begin taking bets as to when he starts WS BASE?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Fma6XTiH4

It's still quite astounding how much there is to ridicule within his videos.

 

Not sure if you realize it or not, but the poster you are replying to can be found here: http://bfl.baseaddict.com/record/BFL349

Rest in peace, TreeHouse. Lots of people miss you.

Looks like this douchebag just posted a video of himself dayblazing and probably burning a B a few hours ago:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=OHHpmk0KpZw