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WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack"
#15019833 - 09/02/11 09:09 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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I love all of the wing suit videos. This one is especially awesome.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: Frost]
#15019870 - 09/02/11 09:16 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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this guy has balls of steel
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: LayinUp]
#15019890 - 09/02/11 09:22 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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that is probably such an indescribable feeling, just amazing. i wonder what the Wright brothers would think of this lol. I liked that song in the video too actually.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: Frost]
#15019925 - 09/02/11 09:32 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Man I envy the wing-suiters, the ground shot of him blasting by the guy with the balloons was epic. Definitely on my bucket list.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: uber_aj]
#15022854 - 09/03/11 01:44 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Yeah, I know what you mean. The thing is, you have to have a shitload of skydives and a certain number of base jumps before they let you have a wing suit. I forget how many for each, but it's well over 100 skydives. There's a guy on the Shroomery who posted it. I'm pretty sure there is nothing like it. Imagine a head full of clean acid and and ear phones with your favorite music while soaring through the fucking mountains. Just does not compute.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: Frost]
#15022914 - 09/03/11 01:56 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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how expensive is it to get into this?
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: jamminshaman]
#15023025 - 09/03/11 02:20 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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First you gotta get your skydiving license. Thats about $2000+. Then you gotta get your own gear. Another couple thousand. Then you gotta have at least 200 jumps before you can even TRY a wingsuit, $4000+ bucks at least. Then you gotta buy your own wingsuit, at least 1000 bucks. Then you gotta make a lot lot of wingsuit jumps from an airplane to learn how to fly it. At LEAST another couple thousand. Then you gotta learn how to base jump, and get a base parachute and gear. More money. Then you gotta get some good experience with base jumping, though that is probably pretty cheap. After all that, thousands of dollars and years of freefall and wingsuits, you may be ready to start proximity flying. Also you gotta make sure not to die during that whole process. Clearly anybody who pursues wingsuit proximity flying has a dedicated passion for it and not just a fleeting desire to try something cool.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: Help on the Way]
#15023564 - 09/03/11 04:14 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Who enforces the rules regarding how many jumps prior to wing-suiting? I actually did look into this a while back and have thought about it off and on but I'm not in the financial position yet. In Texas you have to do 8 skydiving jumps to get your license, but I never saw anything in writing stating how many you had to do prior to trying a wing-suit. Obviously the more experience you have the less your odds of dying, but do they really track you over the course of a couple hundred jumps? I never saw any info regarding an actual wing-suit license.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: uber_aj]
#15023755 - 09/03/11 04:57 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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The US Parachute Association enforces the rules, as well as any dropzone, as well as almost all wingsuit teachers. These rules serve a purpose, as jumping out of a plane is dangerous on its own, wingsuits add several levels of complication. Some really bad things have happened to people trying to wingsuit with low jump numbers so most instructors wont be willing to risk that. There is no actual wingsuit license.
You are incorrect, it takes 25 jumps to get a license anywhere in the US. The 8 jumps may just be the basic program, after which you need many more to reach the 25 needed to get your beginners license.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: Help on the Way]
#15023800 - 09/03/11 05:06 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Haven't seen you around in a while welcome back.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: Frost]
#15023816 - 09/03/11 05:09 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Jeb Corliss is hardcore. Him and his buddy Dwain Weston, one of the best base jumpers who ever lived, base jumped together over and under a bridge but Dwain went through the bridge.
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Re: WING-SUIT VIDEO - Jeb Corliss " Grinding The Crack" [Re: muistrue]
#15023834 - 09/03/11 05:12 PM (12 years, 5 months ago) |
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Thanks FractalDust! Definitely been a while, I've been busy Living! 
yea that bridge one is nuts
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