EnterTheVoid Posted November 12, 2011 Author Posted November 12, 2011 No parachute. Parachute means you will hit the tower when there is a sudden wind gust and kill yourself.
surajmal Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 This is Bungee Jumping. Base Jumping involves a parachute.
Yoda-esque Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 No parachute. Parachute means you will hit the tower when there is a sudden wind gust and kill yourself. so how do you land safely? In the pictures, the people jumping off have no string or rope..
EnterTheVoid Posted November 12, 2011 Author Posted November 12, 2011 No, they advertise it as a "cable controlled BASE Jump". Thats why I am saying its a sanitized version of the real thing. The real one is too dangerous for the everyday person with no training.
Yoda-esque Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 No, they advertise it as a "cable controlled BASE Jump". Thats why I am saying its a sanitized version of the real thing. The real one is too dangerous for the everyday person with no training. Gotcha..the pic you posted of the "real" BASE jumping confused me
EnterTheVoid Posted November 12, 2011 Author Posted November 12, 2011 so how do you land safely? In the pictures, the people jumping off have no string or rope.. In this version, with the help of lots of elastic cables/grappling hooks.
EnterTheVoid Posted November 12, 2011 Author Posted November 12, 2011 Gotcha..the pic you posted of the "real" BASE jumping confused me The "real" version is outright banned in many countries. If you are caught, you will probably do time for trespassing/endangering lives.
surajmal Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 No, they advertise it as a "cable controlled BASE Jump". Thats why I am saying its a sanitized version of the real thing. The real one is too dangerous for the everyday person with no training. I agree. And there is a new thing called wingsuit jumping (like what you saw in transformers 3) that is even more crazy. I4U6T_BB1N8
Yoda-esque Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 The "real" version is outright banned in many countries. If you are caught' date=' you will probably do time for trespassing/endangering lives.[/quote'] Thanks..Those guys jumping in the pic are doing it in Shanghai..Its legal there I suppose
EnterTheVoid Posted November 12, 2011 Author Posted November 12, 2011 Yep, saw the video. From memory, there are three countries on this planet that offer this jump legally: China, New Zealand and United States of America.
EnterTheVoid Posted November 12, 2011 Author Posted November 12, 2011 Thanks..Those guys jumping in the pic are doing it in Shanghai..Its legal there I suppose Legal only for one day. They have one special day every year where the "real" jump can be done legally.
punjabi_khota Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 **** thats scary. I get altitude sickness trying to change the bulb on my ceiling standing on a stool.
Clarke Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 Sree, how does this compare to sky diving ? done that twice 4m 14k feet and considering this one as well as bungee jumping, i think the Stratosphere @ Vegas offers something similar as well.
cowboysfan Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 good stuff man.i will definitely try this,its on my list.
surajmal Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 Sree' date=' how does this compare to sky diving ? done that twice 4m 14k feet and considering this one as well as bungee jumping, i think the Stratosphere @ Vegas offers something similar as well.[/quote'] I've done sky diving as well. Psychologically speaking (could be totally wrong), the only scary part about sky diving is the first few seconds when your brain is trying to come to terms with no ground beneath your feet (and the adrenaline hasn't kicked in it). Once the adrenaline kicks in, its happy sailing. Bungee jump duration isn't long enough for the adrenaline to take full effect. Also with bungee jumping (as well as base jumping) you have a reference point with respect to drop point and a cliff (or a tower in this case) which totally fvcks with the mind (with sky diving reference point is the horizon)
MonishaSarabhai Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 wow !!! i have done skydiving.. but this looks too scary i could never do this. i'll do something tamer next - zip lining !
yoda Posted November 12, 2011 Posted November 12, 2011 Wow. The only thing I've done is Para-sailing which is child's play when compared to these, and even that has fatalities from what I have read.
EnterTheVoid Posted November 12, 2011 Author Posted November 12, 2011 Cheers everyone, will answer your questions in due time.
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