Terribly reckless; confusing avid interest with morbid fascination. The only reason he isn't afraid of falling is because he hasn't done it yet.
Makes me laugh, those wingsuit guys, why bother wearing a helmet? Perhaps its so they can find most of yer head in one place if you f*ck up ?!
Height and gravity leave the most people shivering like a jelly without falling in the first instance, this guy has a control that defies any logical explanation, he has no fear of the situation that he chooses to place himself, I too am mystified at this level of control having experienced fear at height at a very personal level.
When I first watched this I thought there must be some camera trickery involved... By the sounds of the posts on here that isn't the case... Balls of steel!
Never was afraid of heights until I had kids. My nightmare is them falling from a great height.....ever since then I cant even look at anything height related. Strange as years ago I did parascending, absailing etc etc....very strange. With regards to the lad in question - each to his own but I fear that natural selection will take hold eventually - like with that Australian bloke....the first time I saw him years ago he was fucking with a rattlesnake and poking it with a stick - to which my wife said "i give him 10 years and he'll be on the front page for all the wrong reasons...."
Ah, the bump at the end, ......im not an expert in physics but i don't think that's a terminal speed......
oooooooohhhh, Based on wind resistance, for example, the terminal velocity of a skydiver in a belly-to-earth (i.e., face down) free-fall position is about 195 km/h (122 mph or 54 m/s).[2] This velocity is the asymptotic limiting value of the acceleration process, because the effective forces on the body balance each other more and more closely as the terminal velocity is approached. In this example, a speed of 50% of terminal velocity is reached after only about 3 seconds, while it takes 8 seconds to reach 90%, 15 seconds to reach 99% and so on. Higher speeds can be attained if the skydiver pulls in his or her limbs (see also freeflying). In this case, the terminal velocity increases to about 320 km/h (200 mph or 90 m/s),[2] which is almost the terminal velocity of the Peregrine Falcon diving down on its prey.[3] The same terminal velocity is reached for a typical .30-06 bullet dropping downwards—when it is returning to earth having been fired upwards, or dropped from a tower—according to a 1920 U.S. Army Ordnance study.[4] Competition speed skydivers fly in the head down position and reach even higher speeds. The current world record is Alan Eustace of Google who jumped from a height of 135000ft beating Felix Baumgartner's previous record. Physics[edit] Mathematically, terminal velocity—without considering buoyancy effects—is given by
Bit if both I guess you need to be reckless to use his skill My stomach churns and I get the falling feeling and closed my eyes most the time I watched I did see a programme once with the same guy It's not something I would choose to partake in on a Sunday afternoon I will stick with sky diving
I think that Jeremy Clarkson hit the nail on the head when interviewing Dame Ellen Macarthur, to which he said something along the lines of "if it wasn't for people like her, we'd all still be in caves, wondering what lay on the other side" So my answer is without a doubt skillful.
