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~ - Subject: Quiz TimeThis is a photograph of a man in the mist of performing the latest craze for extreme daredevils.
WHAT IS THE NAME FOR THIS LATEST CRAZE?
I mentioned skydiving in my first post on this so called quiz. The photo you showed and the subsequent video from ~f*cKs with words~ is a skydiving stunt...it's NOT banzai skydiving, in fact the video is titled "Skydive without a parachute-Jackass"It states right in the definition provided that it's a rumoured form of skydiving. There is a claim for it, but it's lacking evidence.
There was no correct answer to this quiz, or rather the suggested answer "banzai skydiving" is erroneous. What has been shown is a skydiving stunt that's all well and dandy but does not fit the definition of a banzai skydiving.
So I think my initial answer is appropriate...it's a stunt of a guy jumping out of a plane without a parachute, emphasis on stunt. It doesn't fit the strict definition of banzai parachuting. Once again, this is NOT Banzai skydiving.
That's why it still gets my vote as the most disingenuous quiz of the year...so far...
I do hope cait~ sees the post directly below this one.
why play your quiz with all the names you call me in mail bitching about your other handles having posts deleted?
Laugh all you want, timbre.Remember, no one, including Sweet Transvestite, was able to come up with the correct answer telling me no one else has heard of it either, even it's been around for over 20-years.
If you knew the answer, why didn't you provide it?
"If it actually began over 20-years ago, then how come I'm finding about for the first time now?"just laughs
I'd call it utter stupidity.
I'm always finding things out for the first time, pretty well every day, nearly every day. Latest might be relative, but craze, well for "banzai skydiving" I don't see a massive population following.In terms of "new crazes" that's relative too, and often dependent on the technology. Parachute jumping wasn't popular during the 1700's for example because neither had been invented yet. There's been a lot of technology that's come up over the last two decades, that's the place to know where to look.
I've already mentioned and pointed to someone using a wing suit to land without a parachute. The wing suit is still undergoing developments, the first jet powered one since ~2010 the first electric one has only been around since 2020. This is diving without a parachute, or an enhanced function of it.
Then there is the 2012, still relative time, there is the Felix Baumgartner Jump From Space who set the World Record Supersonic Freefall. That means that he broke the speed of sound without being in an aircraft. Now with all due respect to the adrenalin rush one would obtain from jumping out of a plane without a parachute I think that between being offered the choice between the two, most hard core who know what they are effing talking about would go for the space jump... it's a no brainer.
Maybe from this list you can find one to your liking.
Smash and grab
Stolen Erection denial from June's Sex.
Looking at solar eclipses without sunglasses.
Disregarding safety concerns during a pandemic.
Taking a submarine down to the Titanic.
Parachuting from space (the video provided).
Free run
Captain Kirk's first space flight.
Tight wire crossing of Niagara Falls
Flyboarding
High slackfline
Drone whores: A real popular one sweeping Europe right now, people are dying by playing.
Base jumping...no plane required.A few more of the classics here, relatively speaking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swaqst-SJTg
Now climbing might be as old as the hills but the heights are new. It's one thing to have a few moments of an adrenalin junkie rush but hard core know what the effing they are talking about hard core adrenalin junkies knows that with the proper technique you can edge....for hours.
And that's what draws the crowds...
Spiderman.
If it actually began over 20-years ago, then how come I'm finding about for the first time now?And, besides, "latest" is relative.
What other crazes have come along since the invention of Banzai Skydiving that can possibly surpass it? Do you know of any?
And for those who do follow the bread crumb trail and take to time to read it may gain some interesting insights.
- A Banzai skydiving challenge happened during 2000, that's over 20 years ago. Quite a stretch to call that the "latest" craze.
- Banzai skydiving involves throwing the parachute prior to the diver. That was not done according to the video, it was different process. What is shown does not coordinate with what is said is being done.
- From the article itself: ""During skydives where the jumper is detached from the skydiving rig the rig is held by the skydiver or an assistant until the skydiver is secured to the rig. This is due to the skydiving rig having a much slower terminal velocity than a skydiver is capable of achieving. This has led the skydiving community to doubt the idea that banzai skydiving has ever occurred as defined."Wow, this so called "quiz" about "latest" craze from over 20 years that has no proof of ever having being performed sure gets my vote on the most disingenuous quiz of the year...so far...butt the year is still
This is a shocker for me. The Great Dizzy Guy failed to correctly answer my quiz question. Maybe he's getting old?Thanks ~f*cKs with words~ for the wonder video posted @ Fri May 17 20:50
The correct answer to this quiz question is "Banzai Skydiving." You can read more about it HERE.
The latest craze? The video of the "stunt" posted was 15 years and is simply a guy jumping out of a plane without a parachute (they hype) but then putting one on during the descent....yawn.Now landing with a parachute, that's a different story....maybe.
Here's a two minute video of someone who lands without a parachute...oh but with a wing suit. Pretty impressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEP8juRSBRo
Here's one of a person skydiving without a parachute and no special suit...but with a special targeted landing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPC_h9Vmlxw
So if you a purist you are looking for someone who skydives without a parachute, and no predetermined landing target.
Like Alan Magee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOXnyuEiM3Y
or Nicholas Alkemade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stKKeQNYnxA
Now if you've endured all these short sky diving videos, you might enjoy this one.
Felix Baumgartne
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz2F_S3Tl0Y
~f*cKs with words~ I KNEW it! ... that had been the first thing to go through my mind when I saw the picture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrlrylPAi6k
RCS there's a video
and he gets tethered to someone with a parachute
after some air twirls
Taking pictures which seem, on the face of it, dangerous, which are however, optical illusions.
skydiving without a parachute
label this shit with "TRIGGER WARNING INSIDE"
What Dizzy Guy said ...
i'm with DG...
lol, that's what I was thinking.
Suicide?