Basejumping article on ESPN.com

[Elisha 1]

Just noticed this....

Don't know if the publicity is good or bad per se. I haven't read the who article yet.

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[airtwardo 7]

Nice read...good vid.


Thanks for the link.

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[Grips 0]

The Doc loves how it is good for their business. You can see the Dollar Signs in his eyes.

[JeepDiver 0]

http://myespn.go.com/s/conversations/show/story/3088260
You have to give the wuffo comments a read.


rekkedhog (16 hours ago)

"I'll be brief. This isn't a sport. This is an activity. This doesn't belong on ESPN. This is filler. It is nonsense. I pray those of you who participate in this activity die while attempting the activity, because that's the only way you can set a good example to other bored children that crave an adrenaline rush.

I only feel bad for the poor park workers and civic employees that will have to wipe your splattered brains off their lovely mountains and sidewalks."

What a miserable asshole this guy must be.

[virgin-burner 1]

there's lots of miserable assholes on such boards..

but on that one, i think its a requirement..

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
-Hunter S. Thompson
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[Para_Frog 1]

Glad my arrival they filmed (can't justifiably call it a landing) didn't make the cut.

That was a good article for the sport.

- Harvey, BASE 1232
TAN-I, IAD-I, S&TA

BLiNC Magazine Team Member

[mccallj 0]

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That was a good article for the sport.

I agree, not all base jumpers are completely insane, just most.

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[jakee 1,571]

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That was a good article for the sport.

I agree, not all base jumpers are completely insane, just most.

Way to keep an open mind there bro, what do you think most non-skydivers think about you?

Do you want to have an ideagasm?

[Butters 0]

I haven't met any skydivers that consider skydiving "the next best thing to suicide".

"That looks dangerous." Leopold Stotch

[f1freak 0]

I think it was well done....
it's cool that the author has been writing about OUR sky sports for a while....
It was a good read.

HAVE FUN...
...JUST DONT DIE

[TomAiello 26]

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The Doc loves how it is good for their business. You can see the Dollar Signs in his eyes.

If you think that BASE jumpers make even a fraction of a percentage point difference in the bottom line of any doctor in Twin Falls, you're completely mistaken.

The medical community generally, and physicians specifically, in Twin Falls, is very pro-BASE. This mostly has to do with personal relationships of a couple local jumpers (one is married to a doctor, one is the son- and brother-in-law of two doctors), and various charity efforts organized by jumpers (to benefit the hospital foundation and the local emergency response workers, in particular). It has nothing to do with "Dollar Signs."

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
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[Grips 0]

My bad.

All I was saying is that his eyes lit up when he said it was good for their business.

Did they not?

[TomAiello 26]

I think he was actually trying to make a funny, which is why he has that expression.

-- Tom Aiello

Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com
SnakeRiverBASE.com

[JeepDiver 0]

Excellent story IMO.

Amusing start to the video, the guy jumping the GWB with a pilotchute.

[GaryRay 0]

wow, just read it. ive been toying with the idea of getting into base after i have a few hundred skydives, this story puts it into a true perspective. the true danger to it. didnt change my ambition to try BASE but got me thinking which is probably a good thing.

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[Dumpster 0]

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I think he was actually trying to make a funny, which is why he has that expression.

That's the impression I got, he was cracking a joke.

Easy Does It