Seriously! WTF!!! No no no no!

[Tank]

If you don't like heights don't open this, or alternatively sit down and ensure your mouth is empty.

Spoiler

Banzai Skydiving!

[Dave]

If you don't like heights don't open this, or alternatively sit down and ensure your mouth is empty.

Spoiler

Banzai Skydiving!

So? Sorry, Tank, nothing really  there, excrpt for those who apparently jumped eithout a 'chute to cstch up with someone. Thought it was going to be that as a sport but nothing on the videos to indicate so from shat I (eventually) found.

Bit of hype?

[Icarus]

If this is not a spoof, then the participants are stark raving bat shit crazy.  Darwin award candidates.

[Tank]

If this is not a spoof, then the participants are stark raving bat shit crazy.  Darwin award candidates.

Exactly my thoughts! But apparently none have died... yet.

[Dave]

OK, it is crazy, but within the bounds of physics and, to my mind, less crazy than the original act of "bungee jumping". There the jumper had to judge the correct length of rope (vine classically) to stop them as close as possible to the ground. The commercial version is ruled by safety regs with bigger safety margins and, hopefully, tested kit.

Here there is less guess work and far more calculation and experience.

The height of a fall is irellevant if death is the garanteed outcome of getting it wrong. Height here is a bonus!

[Tank]

When the trainee parachutist asked the trainer on his first jump "How long do I have to pull the rip chord?" The trainer replied.. "The rest of your life son!"

[Dave]

When the trainee parachutist asked the trainer on his first jump "How long do I have to pull the rip chord?" The trainer replied.. "The rest of your life son!"

[Biggus Dickus]

I was a parachute rigger in the Army, and after you learn how to pack your own chute you jump with it,... basically a pass or fail test. 

[Tank]

I was a parachute rigger in the Army, and after you learn how to pack your own chute you jump with it,... basically a pass or fail test. 

Sounds totally reasonable!

[Bluenose]

There was a sign on the wall of the parachute packing room in the safety equipment section at HMAS Albatross (NAS Nowra) that read:

We've never had a complaint

[xSilverPhinx]

Wow.

Error: Prefrontal Cortex and Amygdala not found.

[jumbojak]

That looks like it'd be a lot of fun. Really get your blood pumping.

[Dave]

That looks like it'd be a lot of fun. Really get your blood pumping.

But not for long if you niss the mid-air meet!

[jumbojak]

That looks like it'd be a lot of fun. Really get your blood pumping.

But not for long if you niss the mid-air meet!

Just don't mess up. It's still safer than the old lady who slipped out of the tandem harness. At least this way you know what you're getting into.

[xSilverPhinx]

I'm trying to imagine what it must feel like if you're able to pull it off (or in this case, get the chute pack on and pull the chord). It must feel great.