Regarding that clip where the guy jumps over the car - did anyone else expect a second car to plow into him after he completed the jump?

Is this the vid where all the guys are doing awesome things and the girls just touch branches and look pretty?

To be fair, a guy throwing a Frisbee (er, sorry, disc) looks only mildly out of place there, huh?

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Yeeeess, white people ARE awesome.

XD

In my younger days, I would have thought doing stuff like this was awesome. Nowadays, I think about what a burden I'd be to my wife and daughter if I were crippled.

I'd rather watch 49 tits bouncing in slow mo.

Did that one guy die?

More like 48 different kinds of awesome and one dorky guy that can throw a frisbee.

Also, all of Hans Zimmer's music sounds the same.

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FTFY

Britney Spear's Speculum: I'd rather watch 49 tits bouncing in slow mo.

so one with a hysterectomy or were you expected Total Recall?

Sladesen: Yeeeess, white people ARE awesome.
XD

White people can't play sepak takraw.

tjassen: Britney Spear's Speculum: I'd rather watch 49 tits bouncing in slow mo.

so one with a hysterectomy or were you expected Total Recall?

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

rdu_voyager: tjassen: Britney Spear's Speculum: I'd rather watch 49 tits bouncing in slow mo.

so one with a hysterectomy or were you expected Total Recall?

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

oops... I meant the boob one. That's what happens when you haven't slept properly for three nights.

1:13 = Oh HELL no....

that guy who is famous for free climbing without ropes and stuff, he's expecting to die young right? One slip or perhaps getting stuck where you can't really go up or back down and it's all over so I just wonder if in his mind he's made peace with that and he's decided it's worth that risk or if he actually thinks that will somehow never happen.

rtaylor92: that guy who is famous for free climbing without ropes and stuff, he's expecting to die young right? One slip or perhaps getting stuck where you can't really go up or back down and it's all over so I just wonder if in his mind he's made peace with that and he's decided it's worth that risk or if he actually thinks that will somehow never happen.

Looking forward to the epitaph: "He died doing what he loved; impacting base camp at terminal velocity."

looks familiar. is this a repeat?

/underwater skateboard was dumb

Those wingsuiters are insane. They passed the edge of that bluff with what looked like 5 feet of clearance.

rtaylor92: that guy who is famous for free climbing without ropes and stuff, he's expecting to die young right? One slip or perhaps getting stuck where you can't really go up or back down and it's all over so I just wonder if in his mind he's made peace with that and he's decided it's worth that risk or if he actually thinks that will somehow never happen.

I assume you're referring to Alex Honnold and I'm sure he has. You make it sound like he's some dolt who thinks, "Hey, that looks fun I think I'll see if I can climb that rock. Hurr durr."

I might not realize he has completed routes "without ropes and stuff" that are difficult enough that only a tiny fraction of climbers would attempt the routes at all. To do the sort of stuff he does, requires not only mind blowing physical ability but also being completely stoic and 100% focused.

CanonicalNerd: rtaylor92: that guy who is famous for free climbing without ropes and stuff, he's expecting to die young right? One slip or perhaps getting stuck where you can't really go up or back down and it's all over so I just wonder if in his mind he's made peace with that and he's decided it's worth that risk or if he actually thinks that will somehow never happen.

I assume you're referring to Alex Honnold and I'm sure he has. You make it sound like he's some dolt who thinks, "Hey, that looks fun I think I'll see if I can climb that rock. Hurr durr."

I might not realize he has completed routes "without ropes and stuff" that are difficult enough that only a tiny fraction of climbers would attempt the routes at all. To do the sort of stuff he does, requires not only mind blowing physical ability but also being completely stoic and 100% focused.

I don't think he's dumb, I just wonder if he doesn't care if he dies or if he doesn't think it will happen. I also recognize that he's incredibly skilled but I don't think any amount of concentration or physical ability is going to keep him from dying young

Every time I see shiate like this, I think of my former neighbor's 17-year-old son -- the one with the screws holding his femur together and the plate in his skull, acquired after wiping out ingloriously on his BMX bike while trying to ride a handrail down a flight of concrete steps. I was living in an apartment in Phoenix, AZ when the family moved in next door; they'd sold their house and wiped out their savings on health care for the kid, who, when I moved out about a year later, was ripping up the benches in the apartment building's courtyard with a skateboard.

A litany of stupid people doing life-threatening shiat.

What is this, the Travis Rice power hour or something? Don't get me wrong the man is a personal hero of mine and Art of Flight is one of the most impressive things I've ever seen but still - all the footage of him riding was from AoF.

Oh and one clip of Torstein's triple cork for good measure of course.

Not anywhere near as amazing as it could have been, methinks, and I usually love this kind of thing.

rtaylor92: I don't think he's dumb, I just wonder if he doesn't care if he dies or if he doesn't think it will happen. I also recognize that he's incredibly skilled but I don't think any amount of concentration or physical ability is going to keep him from dying young

I have to believe he realizes its possible to die doing what he's doing. But I don't think he, or a lot of others, would agree that a young death is inevitable. And I would say he's already done more living at his age than a lot of people in their 50s or 60s. Sort of a corollary to what Kurt Vonnegut said, "How nice--to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."

I would paraphrase your question as, "Does he value life?"

He might say something like "Yes, I value life, that's why I do this. To be a spectator in life, is not really living. They're the ones who died young."

//All this is conjecture based on my experiences in the climbing community

Zombalupagus: CanonicalNerd: rtaylor92: that guy who is famous for free climbing without ropes and stuff, he's expecting to die young right?

I assume you're referring to Alex Honnold and I'm sure he has.

Dan Osman? (pay close attention at 1:09)

FWIW, Dan Osman is no longer with us.