Been sky diving in Seattle once and it was absolutely fantastic. Folks in Tokyo can go Sky diving in Saitama costing 30,000 yen for a single tandem jump. Plan on going again soon-ish. Probably wont set fire to the parachute intentionally for an extra thrill like this man does...
Damn! I thought he was going to die when the parachuted burnt... Surprised me with the second parachute...
我收回我的话. I take back my words. Looks like two people died in a tandem jump at that Saitama parachute club that I recommended - teh parachute didnt open and they fell 3800 meters to their death... http://www.47news.jp/CN/200402/CN2004020601003324.html
Hey Danny, you're not going anytime soon now are you?
Not anymore ^^;
Then again, isn't to be thrilled the reason why people do sky diving (and any other extreme sports)? And in order to be thrilled, a high degree of risk really should be involved, and in sky diving, what is at risk seems to be the life itself. ^^
I would want to be the guy jumping right after the people that just died. What the hell are the chances that It would happen twice in a row? I would have a better chance of a landshark attacking me in the middle of the night with a ninja costume on while screaming "by the power of Grayskull!!!"... dont laugh, its my worst fear.
What? no backup chute?
280 dollars for dying ^^
no no~ I'm a otaku so i prefer to say at home... practicing kendo is more than enough for me~ at least my shinai wouldnt burn.... unless i leared any ~hisatsu~(limit break?) anyway..just stay on the ground.. let the anime character fly
No wonder Airgear is so popular... That guy in the vid. really got my heart racing. I mean, I knew that there was the backup chute and all, but it still scared me a little. I'm the sort of person that'll keep imagining a car crash if I ride in a csar after watching Final Destination 3... Then again, danny wouldn't show us any death scenes (the ones about Makoto don't count.)
My cousin was a sky diver who used to do it alot. But then one day he and his friend rammed head first into each other and were both knocked out. They soon fell towards their death afterwards. I'll stay on the ground thank you.
Sorry to hear about your cousin and his friend... Did he love sky-diving? If he did atleast he died doing what he loved to do.
Oh he loved it, and that's what we said at his funeral. Also, we cremated him and his other friends sky dived while doing a formation that's (from what I heard) incredibly difficult in his honor, and released his ashes in the middle.
Despite being an Otaku and having the computer as best company, I would still love doing extreme sports. Skydiving is still on my list of "must-do-before-death" sports, after all I have already conquered the seas (Scuba), why not the sky? ^^ I rather die doing something exciting then live out a boring life!! (I ain't going to live past 40 I guess.)
I found skydiving to be pretty boring, actually. I'm going to continue jumping at a later time (getting certified), but because it's a skill I want to have, not because it's thrilling. My local jump spot had an incident where a woman's parachute didn't open. She landed in the parking lot. She survived and discovered that she was pregnant at the time--and the baby survived her fall and her surgeries! Article here.
Woops, I'd never tried entering an HTML link to know it wouldn't work, but I should have guessed from watching others habits. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/13/earlyshow/main1120132.shtml Article THERE.
Nice, though very very expensive and dangerous. Little info: almost every skydiver has 2 chutes while jumping. All students have. And chutes for students also have automatic systems to drop the chute in case the guy... faints or something. Only very experienced skydivers uses one chute only... and base jumpers. This guy that burned his chute... well, that jump must've cost him some thousands bucks. Anyways, I have 13 solo jumps... never made a tandem jump. But I stopped 5 years ago along with rappeling... no weird reasons, just lack of time and money. It's unfortunately a very expensive sport.
Great. First we have "Liar, liar, pants on fire", now we have "Diver, diver, parachute on fire". That doesn't sound right, doesn't it? Anyway, i'd prefer to be on the ground, albeit with Aoi-chan and going down the twisty roads at Genting Highland's backroads at hilariously fast pace... Initial D style~
i've always wanted to do a halo jump similar to the one done in snake eater...that would be so badass
Dumbass. He has too much money. A second hand parachute costs around R12000 - R15000 (¥184539 - ¥230674) I do skydiving on the weekends and you have to deploy your main canopy at about 3000 feet so that you still have enough time to open your secondary if something goes wrong with the main one. Yeah it seems risky but there are less sky diving incidents than car accidents percentage wise. I suppose that is because they are so strict in the sport.
It's his money let him burn it. If he wants to go down literally in a blaze of mindless glory its his choice.
Holy shit that was insane. I salute his tomfoolery.
i guess hey found regular skydiving boring.what would have happened if the other shoot wouldn't open or if the whole thing caught on fire;would there be any legal consequence.
i'm thinking he signed some sort of waiver not to sue anybody for his own stupidity. Even if he did, judge would throw the case outta the window. this is just plain idiocy
damn! that's some crazy shit right there!
I'm thinking he was sponsored, actually, to some extent anyway. If you look at the parachute it's got a FOX (TV station) logo on it.
Hey, maybe you could pay this 30,000 yen to die instead of that 8.2m yen to get buried ^^; http://www.dannychoo.com/blog_entry/eng/818/Japanese+Graveyards/
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