Wingsuit Flying

Athletes are constantly pushing the boundaries of what the human body is capable of and this is especially true in extreme sports. Extreme sport athletes are now doing double back-flips on anything that moves (add 3 and a half full rotations to that double back-flip and you’ve got Shaun White’s Double McTwist 1260), doing things that shouldn’t be possible on two wheels, and doing things that otherwise defy the laws of physics. In more traditional sports, athletes are jumping higher, hitting balls harder and running faster than ever before.

With a little help from modern technology and ingenuity, these boundaries are being pushed even further. One of the newest extreme sports is Wingsuit flying. It’s taken skydiving to astronomical levels of risk, excitement, and possibility for the 70 or so people in the world who do it.

Big Wave Surfing Awards

I saw this video and thought I would share. Surfing isn’t my thing, I tried it one time and actually caught a couple waves but nothing close to what these guys are doing. Check out the video.