Showing posts with label flying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flying. Show all posts

Monday, March 18, 2013

Proximity Flying - Dream Lines 4 with Ludovic Woerth & Jokke Sommer


What these guys are doing absolutely defies description. I would absolutely be crapping my pants, not laughing and smiling as you fly 20m above the ground threw pockets of trees. Believe me this is the best 16 minutes of your week!

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Shaun White and the 2013 XGames Run

The Flying Tomato gets some boss elevation!
Shaun White is the boss man when you talk Superpipe. 6 Gold Medals at the Xgames prove this. His runs are clinical, super extended and he gets more elevation than a airliner! Take a look at his run to the Gold in this year's Winter XGames...

Thursday, November 22, 2012

Insane Proximity Flying with Jokke Sommer

Guys like Jokke are taking Proximity Flying to new levels of insanity! (Photo: Red Bull Content Pool)
Jokke Sommer's Wingsuit, original series teaser: Every new episode of this coming original series will take you in a new amazing spot / speed-flying over beautiful and incredible mountain landscapes around the globe.

Jokke explains his feeling and thoughts while flying with his Wingsuit. Jokke is a Norwegian athlete, specializing in Wingsuit flying, base-jumping and speed riding.

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Birdmen: The orginal dream of flight - Wingsuit Film


This is a trailer that made me want to find the film and watch it immediately. In fact it is actually downloading as we speak! Watch the trailer and see why...


BIRDMEN: The Original Dream of Flight TRAILER from Team Thirteen on Vimeo.
Birdmen is a documentary film about the dream of human flight becoming reality. For millennia, humans have looked to the sky and dreamed of arcing through the air, like birds. And now, after hundreds of thousands of years, humans can fly. It is dangerous, deadly, and requires years of training, but a select few have committed their lives to the pursuit of the purest form of human flight: Wingsuit BASE Jumping. 'Birdmen' follows the dream of human flight, from its inception in ancient times to the modern world. What started with stuntmen hurling themselves to their death from objects such as the Eiffel Tower has become a respected extreme sport in which athletes zoom through the mountains at 150mph, just inches from trees and cliff faces. During the film, professional wingsuit pilots Ellen Brennan, Mike Steen, and Matt Gerdes escort you through the inspiring yet tragic history of their ancestral birdmen and then show you the cutting edge of human flight in the year 2012. Matt, Mike, and Ellen are some of the most talented wingsuit pilots in the world – during the film, they pioneer new wingsuit flights in the European Alps and experience the highs and lows of a flying life. Finally, the future of the sport is envisioned, where scientists in Switzerland explain how pilots can soon achieve perfectly balanced and relatively safe flight paths using cruise-control autonomous systems and small engines. 'BIRDMEN' is the first documentary ever made that covers the past, present, and possible future of the sport.

FEATURING: Matt Gerdes, Mike Steen, Ellen Brennan, Patrick De Gayardon, Loic Jean-Albert, Jeb Corliss, Yvess Rossy
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Proximity Productions
PRODUCER: Team Thirteen
WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY: Matt Sheridan
CAMERAWORK: Kevin Steen, John James, Vinnie Urgo, Matt Sheridan
AERIAL CAMERAWORK: Noah Bahnson
EDITING: Matt Sheridan and Shane McFalls
MUSIC: Milton Menasco

www.birdmenthemovie.com

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Wingsuit flying through "Crack" Gorge


At the start of this video, I was thinking, normal proximity video, pretty epic, but you know... Then the guy enters the "Gorge" and misses a wire fence by inches, about 2m off of the ground. Its just ridiculous!




Soaring at speeds of up to 160 kilometers per hour, Belgium BASE jumper Cedric Dumont has embarked on his latest conquest -- taming the 'Crack' gorge in Switzerland's beautiful Churfirsten mountains. During his two minute descent Dumont is seen only meters from the rock face. Glide over to http://redbull.co.za