Video of the Para-Commando parachutist landing at halftime yesterday
November 8th, 2015 at 10:50 PM ^
I don't even know how they do it. I could never jump out of an airplane with the off chance that my parachute doesn't open and then hit a small target with 100,000 people watching you.
November 8th, 2015 at 10:59 PM ^
This is a NUTCHECK if I've ever seen one. Brass balls.
November 9th, 2015 at 9:24 AM ^
It was windy as hell too, and that flag/cable/weight/ contraption strapped to him probably doesn't help with control. These things are cool, but I hope they don't go wrong one day.
November 9th, 2015 at 12:06 AM ^
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November 9th, 2015 at 6:07 AM ^
given 20+ mph winds that they would even go through with it, but very cool and they landed in the right spot.
November 9th, 2015 at 7:49 AM ^
November 9th, 2015 at 8:54 AM ^
Seeing this live was pretty awesome.
November 9th, 2015 at 10:12 AM ^
I was at the game too, those dudes came in hot! The second guy I was like oh shit he's breaking something.
November 9th, 2015 at 9:06 AM ^
That video showing the approach to the stadium was awesome!
Here in Arizona, in a town called Eloy, there's an "indoor skydiving" facility that simulates the freefall portion of a dive. It's essentially a giant fan that blows air up:
Skydiving teams rent time to practice their routines. But they also have times where amateurs like me can try their hand at it.
It's remarkably challenging. For first-timers the objective is just to position the body to remain static -- going neither up nor down, nor side to side. Too little drag and you drop to the chain-link floor of the chamber. Too much drag and you shoot up. Move one arm slightly and the body tumbles over to the walls. Most of the amateurs more or less get it, with the instructor close by to grab people if they twitch and start to tumble.
As part of the training, the instructors will then grab hold of the newbies and the two will twirl around, and go up and down in the chamber. The instructor is controlling it all with the most subtle movements of their legs. Amazing stuff.
So when you see skydivers in freefall doing all those crazy things, tip your hat to their skill. It is way harder than it looks.
November 9th, 2015 at 9:24 AM ^
November 9th, 2015 at 9:35 AM ^
If you're in the Phoenix area, Eloy is about 30 or so miles down 1-10 towards Tucson.
A session costs about $120 and lasts about an hour. The time any one person gets in the wind chamber is maybe 5 minutes. When I did this they had a group of maybe 10 people they worked through chamber. All ages, all body styles. It's expensive, but as bucket-list thing maybe worth it.
The fans are actually up in the top of the structure, so the wind is pulled up rather than pushed up. When you're in the chamber and look down all you see is chain link fencing and a concrete pad 20 feet below. Not a massive fan rotating beneath you. :-)
It's loud inside the chamber.
November 9th, 2015 at 9:18 AM ^
November 9th, 2015 at 10:10 AM ^
That is pretty ridiculous. Thanks for sharing the video. I saw somewhere that a SEAL covered more than 18 miles in some wingsuit during a HALO jump, which obviously would be useful for raids and stuff.