Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2016/10/03/this-is-competitive-indoor-sky.html
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Dang!
Side note: I wonder how much it costs to spend the time at the wind tunnel to become this talented? Or is there a bulk rate?
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Wind tunnel? I thought that was a momentum inverter? Oh those aren’t… haha… never mind, they don’t exist yet.
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OK Go will use this in their next music video. Calling it now.
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If those are the silver medalists, what did the gold medalists do? 
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Carousel, Carousel…
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Genting in Malaysia was pretty cheap. I paid 30 RM (10 AUD) for two flights of two minutes each.
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Complaint about the vertigo inducing camera work!
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This should be an Olympic sport. Not synchronized frigging swimming.
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Not new.
I remeber seeing this on That’s Incredible! Or maybe Real People.
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In other news, we now know your minimum age because you remember these shows.
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highly likely that at least some of them work at their local indoor skydiving venue. the time I did it, the instructor was casually doing all sorts of tricks just as he crossed the space to prep the next student. even if they don’t work there, I expect the team has an “in” with their local venue. I wonder if the venues sponsor the teams, the way the best skaters I knew had shop sponsorships?
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A) good grief
B) I assume rule 34 applies here?
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beat me to it! damn.
carousel
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- I’m hoping. If this was done by lingerie models, I’d set the channel and destroy the remote.
Are they following strict Calvinball rules?
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TIL rule 34.
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You’re one of today’s lucky 10,000!
(And, by the way, on behalf of the Boing Boing Committee for Preserving the Sanity of the Members, I am so, so, sorry.)
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We did a family trip to the place here in Fayetteville (called Paraclete). It was a really cool experience. We were almost exactly like this Czech team, except with zero control and buckets of snot flying everywhere. It was awesome. My little girl was like a leaf in a hurricane in there. The instructor had to hold onto her continuously so that she didn’t slam into the walls.
That instructor could fly around in there like a bird. At the very end, he flew each of us up to the top and back down to the bottom, several times, rapidly. Easy, right? It’s a whole lot better and worse than it sounds.
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