Another example of yesterday’s need of extreme sporters to constantly push the envelope, this is a video of X-Games gold medalist Red Bull skateboarder Leticia Bufoni performing the world’s first ‘Sky Grind’ at 9,000 feet out the back of a plane. I like how fast the skateboard just zips away
Note: Check your volume, wind. Because extreme sports just aren’t extreme enough for some people and they demand even EXTREMER sports, these are a couple Instagram videos of BASE jumper David Laffargue being launched out of a human slingshot and into the wild blue yonder. That’s fun. I mean not
This is a video of extreme sportster Ryan Williams “going full extension on a Ruler frontflip.” Full extension indeed, I feel like I pulled a muscle myself just watching. And not my penis either, I’m not into extreme sports like that. The trick really just has to be seen to
Because what’s life if not constantly cheating death, this is a video of cliff diver Owen Weymouth launching off an oceanfront cliff balcony followed by Robert Wall, who’s capturing all the action with a camera in his mouth. Were there mathematical calculations involved with this jump, or just a “Eh,
This is a video of a snowmobiler making the most of the offseason by riding his mount on a lake, exiting the water to perform a twisty flip off a ramp before returning to his unnatural habitat. Just like Billy Currington sings, “God is great, beer is good, and people
This is a video of stuntman and rollerblader (it never wasn’t cool, you were just misinformed) Giovanni Peterle doing some ramp tracks with his wheelbarrow, including performing a backflip while frontflipping the barrow, then catching it and sticking the landing. There’s also a video of him barrelrolling the wheelbarrow in
This is a video of (I assume former) acrobatic paraglider Kevin Philipp, who was doing some loopty loops and swirly birdies above Spain when he got completely tangled up in his lines (allegedly due to turbulence), sending him plummeting towards earth. After initially failing to deploy his emergency chute, he
This is a short video of an extreme sporter demonstrating the new rail sliding shoes he developed (by zip-tying a cut Starbucks cup to the bottom of his sneakers — I wonder if the barista spelled his name right) and eating a Venti sized pile of shit in the process.