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Did anybody catch the first program last Thurs? What up?
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Clicky

I watched it, it was alright. Had lots on the origins of bungee and plenty on the comercialisation of snowboarding and cliff-diving's reliance on Red Bull. There was a flash of what looked like Jean Loic Albert about to buzz a ski slope but they didn't actually show it.

Gus

yeah was ok - found a nice dam though!

apparently its to feature BASE this week............ have a feeling it may be red bull guided though!

it is covering alot about how people want to be associated with these activities and how companies are marketing their products to attract the "arm chair extremist"

second episode last night and it featured BASE...but............

what I saw was a Red Bull sponsored “extreme athlete” apparently do the lowest BASE jump in the world, then have some poorly set up get away scene to show him fleeing the scene not to be caught by the ruthless authorities – wow he must be so extreme, we then saw him do the highest BASE in the world by being the only person to jump that nice B in KL (looks exactly like the one that they jump each year!!! )- then I saw a Red Bull sponsored “extreme fighter” mmmm…….. Thug I think it was who “enjoys hurting people” then some Red Bull motor cross acrobatic riders – which I will given them their due – was kinda cool……… then I saw the Red Bull sponsored Felix put on his wings and race aircraft for a Hollywood film……………. “Felix has now crossed from Extreme to become pure Hollywood” I think was one of the last quotes……………….

Now it’s early in the morning I am sat at work
and I feel like an energy drink………………….. Lucozade anyone??

Does anyone know if Felix's jump from that B in KL was even illegal? It all looked a bit staged to me and I wouldn't be at all suprised if all the cloak and dagger bollocks ("Armed with $1000 for bribes") was just for show.

Gus

Both the Jesus and PT jump get aways and access looked so fucking staged it was almost comedy!!

Ha - Cats like Felix only like Felix

(sorry for the UK advert reference!)

Hmmm. I wonder how they filmed that?

I don't suppose they put a cameraman in a Skyflyer-4 prototype, and had him fly dirty so he could stay with Felix on his skyray? Nope, of course that's not possible...

Didn't catch the first one, but I did the second. The BASE/skydiving bits, I mean the Felix bits, are available on SkydivingMovies.com (26.3 MB) Requires Windows Media Player