WEBVTT - How BASE Jumping Works 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.400 Welcome to you stuff you should know fromhouse stuff Works 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:13.080 dot com. Hey, welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:16.720 There's Charles Chuck Bryant, there's Jerry. We are dancing on 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:21.319 the ceiling. Whoa, what a feeling. That song holds up 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:24.680 by the way, I heard it recently. Oh yeah, why 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:28.800 don't Richie holds up? Man? Yeah, sure, that's the Commodore's 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.320 great stuff, great great stuff. I think like two of 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.560 the most underrated bands of the seventies were earth Wind 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.360 and Fire in the commod Wars, Gareth Wind and Fire 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:43.959 was underrated. They were super well group underrated as far 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.919 as like today, Like, I don't know, you don't hear 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.919 a lot about that kind of thing. It's all like 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.120 about the big rock bands. Yeah, oh you mean like 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:58.600 bad Finger and Foreigner and yeah, is that what you mean? Yeah, 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:00.960 maybe they weren't underrated. How about this, Two of the 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:04.320 best bands from the seventies were the Commodores and earth 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.479 Winn and Fire. I agree, Man rated it just perfectly. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.520 I've said well, and I don't mean to be argumentative. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.000 I mean I've said that before, Like I wonder if 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.520 earth Win and Fire is possibly the greatest band that's 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.120 ever been. They're pretty amazing. They are amazing, and the 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.720 different sounds that they took on like it was never 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.120 just like you know, we hit it and we're gonna 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:26.679 stick with it. They were not like a C d 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:29.120 C in in other words, and a C d C 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:31.520 is great. Man, they got their thing, but they figured 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.639 it out from song one and they're still doing it today. 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.959 Simple rock riff played over and over and over. Yeah, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.640 but it works for him. Earth Win and fire Man 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:43.520 they tried it all. Yeah, and please don't write in 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:45.560 about the complexity of a C d C. I love 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.080 a C d C. But they will even admit that 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.040 they do one thing well, yeah, which is rock. Yeah, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.440 it's a blues riff. I used to think they were 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.000 heavy metal when I was a kid, which is very 0:01:56.000 --> 0:01:58.680 funny to think about. Yeah, you know, for seving metal 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.360 it at all? Who was? I always here Black Sabbath, 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.920 but I suspect it goes back before that. Sabbath is 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.520 usually kind of counted as the first, but it's all 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.640 sort of variations of the blues still, right, you know, 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.080 all comes down to the blues. That's right now. Nobody 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.080 live here without singing the blues. Can you name that movie? 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.880 Is it Crossroads? You would think, no, it's the opposite 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.600 movie of Crossroads, Adventures in Babysitting. That's the opposite of 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.920 a cross road. That's funny. Yeah, I remember that part. 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.920 Uh So, bass jumping has nothing to do with the 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.840 Blues unless you die, right, unless you're one of the 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.799 base jumping fatality and one of the dudes, which I 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:45.800 will touch on later wrote on a big base jumper 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:50.040 wrote an article like like how to Get Started tom Allo, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:54.120 and one of his frightening things he says this, if 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.560 you are not ready to die base jumping, then you're 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.840 not ready to basse jump. Yeah. I ran across that 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.640 on a sentiment too, um, like, the dangers are so 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:11.480 vast that you can anticipate being injured almost certainly at 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.239 some point if you do a lot of base jumping. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.880 That's right, That's absolutely true. I mean like it's pretty 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.560 much the next step in danger is to just jump 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.400 off a cliff without any parachute at all. Yeah, And 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:26.079 I think one of the that's if you, like, I 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:28.280 don't think a lot of people base jump once. Then 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:32.120 they're like that was kind of neat, yawn like it 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.440 kind of because it's your like it becomes one of 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.720 your driving forces in your life. Base jumpers are all in. Yeah, 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.000 that's the best way to say it. Um, And I 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.400 remember kind of like came up in the nineties, wasn't it. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.240 It was like it became a big deal in the nineties. 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.480 That's when I became aware of it. But it's it's 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.440 way older than that. Well, it's a couple of decades older. 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.080 It's about a decade older than the nineties. It's from 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.480 the late seventies. I guess it's another way to put it. Well, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.640 before we get into history, let's at least say what 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:05.240 base jumping is, because some people might live under a 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.920 rock and they don't know what base jumping is. It's 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.440 actually an acronym. It is was it stand for uh. 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:18.040 It stands for buildings, antenna's spans, a K bridges, and 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:24.400 earth a K cliffs. Buildings are probably quite a rush 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.760 to jump off of, but they're tough to get in 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.920 and you're most certainly doing something illegal. Yeah, you're there's 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.760 pretty much not a building in existence you're legally allowed 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.640 to jump off of. No, unless you have a special arrangement. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.200 I'm sure you've lined the mayor's pockets with cash. Yeah, 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.280 or if you're doing you know, imagine some of like 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:47.159 the Red Bull team arranges for a famous jump and 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:51.360 Red Bull lines the mayor's pockets there you go. Uh. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:56.279 Antennas are super popular, um because they're not as heavily guarded, 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.240 but they're still really tall and usually out in the 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.159 middle of nowhere. Right. That's very feeling less risky, um, 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:05.559 not death, but less for being caught, right and for 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.200 um causing injury to other people, which is a big 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.480 thing with buildings. Yeah. Yeah, antennas. It's like you're gonna 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:14.680 injure a cow that you run into. You know who 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:20.279 cares uh spans Uh. These are very popular, not only 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.159 because it's fun and gorgeous to leap off of a 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:27.400 bridge like the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia. 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:32.880 Doing that connects this podcast to bridges, um, but because 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:36.520 sometimes it is legal, like the one day of the 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.760 year that they have bridge Day there. Yeah. Um, there's 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.080 also one in Idaho where it's legal year round. Oh 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.599 really with that without a permit you can just go 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.680 and jump. There was actually a fatality there, Like guy said, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.680 his parachute on fire is part of a stunt and 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.600 oh I pulled that article. That was just a few 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.560 weeks ago. Was it that recent? It was in late May. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:05:59.200 I had the impression it was a couple of years 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.760 back or whatever. He said his parachute on fire and died. Yeah, 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.120 it's seventy three year old, guys, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:09.000 unless it was just a version, then it is old. 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.960 But it's new unless it's but yeah, he set his 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:18.039 parachute on fire with the aim of throwing another parachute out, 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.000 and it's just not a very smart thing. No, his 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.640 his flaming parachute I think continued on without him, and 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.080 I guess his other parachute. I think he just came 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:32.359 out of his other parachute. It never deployed. It's on YouTube, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:34.400 which is sad that they don't have that stuff. There's 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:36.120 a lot of that on there's a lot of base, 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.720 base jumping and skydiving deaths on YouTube, tons of well 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:43.720 you know why, because they all film each other. Well yeah, 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:48.400 thanks to the GoPro you know. Um and finally Earth 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.960 and that is when you're jumping off like ilk cappy 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:58.760 tan or a cliff or a fiord pretty what, it's 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:00.800 just like the words out like the list could have 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.919 just kept going indefinitely. You know, I do like the 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.719 word feword though it's a good word. You rarely see 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:09.040 an F and a J next to each other. Yeah, 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:11.960 that's true. You don't get along historically, all right, So 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.240 you wanna talk about the history. Yeah, I think before 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:16.720 we get started we should say chuck that, um, no 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:20.200 one should basse jump. Ever, we certainly aren't saying that 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.040 you should. We're just talking about bass jumping. Well you 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.080 should definitely, um do what we talked about later, which 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.800 is how to get started in bass jumping and follow 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.840 those rules. Get started in bass jumping, think about bass jumping, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.559 and then don't do it. I think it's super cool, 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.960 Like I can watch those videos all day long, but um, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.560 not for me. Yea, as far as execution, I have 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.320 to say. Also, I ran across a video that to 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.160 me is even scarier than a bass jumping video, and 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:56.720 it was these two dudes. I don't know if they 0:07:56.800 --> 0:08:02.040 were Ukrainian. They're part of the former so it states, Um, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.480 I don't remember where their phone. I'm sorry, but they 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.679 just climb stuff. I've seen it, dude, and they climb 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.560 their iPhones are like, look at where we are. Yeah, 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.840 like no ropes, no harnesses, no parachute, no nothing. It 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.920 makes me want to vomit. I almost fainted and literally 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:22.000 almost fainted watching this video. They were climbing the world's 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.160 second tallest but I can't remember what it was called. 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:28.520 But the um it's in China, and the tops of 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:33.120 other skyscrapers are hundreds of feet below them. There's cloud 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.160 the cloud line is below them, and they're just standing 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:41.000 on this antenna connected to nothing. I mean, there's there's 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.760 no fear going whatsoever. They're not capable of it, Like 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:47.000 you have to be just completely out of your mind, 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.760 like they're they're like they're broken in some way shape 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.840 to be able to do that and not just like 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.880 I think I'd probably just be like I just let 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.199 go because I want the terror to be over one 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.600 way or another, you know what I mean. And these 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.440 guys are just like, hey, how's it going? Like giving 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.720 each other five stuff. The whole thing just makes me nervous. 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.200 Have you seen the trailer for the New You know 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.600 they're making a movie about the the the guy who 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.360 did the highware walk between the I did see that 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.800 before Mad Max, which is did you like it? I 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:20.840 left Mad Max and I was like, I want to 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.920 go buy all the Mad Max toys now. I wanted 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.160 to see all the sequels are going to make right now? Yeah, 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.679 I just it was a great movie. Well you came 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.120 in wearing the iron face mask. I thought it was interesting. 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.520 I made it myself. Could you tell out of aluminum 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:42.160 foil and rubber bands? Long story short, which is not true? Uh? 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:47.000 That that trailer for the Robert Zemeckis movie with Joseph 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:50.760 Gordon Levitt Um that made me want to vomit when 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:53.440 he just he was waiting for it too. Didn't hit 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:55.480 me like that. Man, Well, it's just a teaser. He 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.600 just basically like walks up to the top and looks 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.760 and says like in his mind I want to do this, 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:03.360 but just stands up on the edge. I just I 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.600 can't take that. And it's based on the guy who 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:08.600 actually did that in real life for and they made 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.960 a documentary about it, I think back in the seventies 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:14.240 called Man on Wire. It's fantastic Um and a dude 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.040 in the mid seventies who is a high wire artist 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.600 illegally went up to the top of the World Trade 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.840 Center and climbed from one tower to the other on 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:29.160 a high wire. Great documentary, and uh faith in this movie. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.280 And I think it's in three D, isn't it? Or 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.120 it's going to be I'm sure I can't imagine that 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.800 one though in three D. I saw Tintin in three D. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.920 It was all right, yeah, I'm letting do it. I mean, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:41.800 I know what you're saying, did you see Mad maxim 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.440 three D? I didn't either. I don't see three D anymore, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.400 is what I'm saying. Did you see did you ever see? 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.160 Was it? Friday the Thirteenth? Part three came out in 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.880 three D? That was a good one. That was back 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.800 when three D stunk? Yeah, you know, oh yeah, when 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.800 it was like things look still kind of blew in 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.480 red at the same time. Yeah, like now it's supposedly good, 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.520 I just don't enjoy it. And the cardboard glasses were 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.640 cutting into the bridge of your nose and you were 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:13.200 bleeding on. Man, we can get sidetracked. Although that wasn't 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.920 much of a sidetrack because we talked about you know 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.280 how wire walking it's an extreme sport, that's right, just 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.240 like base jumping. So we're talking, we're going to talk 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.760 about the history of base jumping. Yes. Uh, if you 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:30.800 talk about the distant history, um, early nineteenth century, there 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:35.120 were some things going on that is essentially like basse jumping. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.839 There was a dude named Frederick Rodman Law and he 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.280 jumped um off the Brooklyn Bridge at one point, and 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:46.000 the Statue of Liberty Yeah, and the Bankers Trust building 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:49.320 on Wall Street. And this is in like the nineteen tens. Yeah, 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.760 so I mean technically he was bass jumping, but these 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.439 were just one off stunts at this point. Yes, the 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.000 same as in ninety five when Owen Quinn left from 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.679 the World Trade Center and uh, there was another guy 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.120 named Ron Boyle's who jumped from the Royal Gorge Bridge 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.480 in Colorado. So all this is happening, these little one 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:12.440 off stunts. And then in this girl named this guy 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.800 named Carl Banish. There's a documentary about him actually called 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.280 Sunshine Superman. Yeah that look did you see the trailer? 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.360 It doesn't looks really good and I think that is 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:27.920 like now that that one's coming in. Um, so he 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.960 gets this idea. He goes to Yosemite to film some 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:34.000 hang gliders. And these hang gliders there's three dudes on 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.800 a single hang uh or a glider, I guess you 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:40.640 call it. And once they get out over the land, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.079 two of them drop off and I think they're flying 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.400 off El Capitan, which is like a few thousand feet tall, right, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.160 I don't know how tall it is, it's pretty tall. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.400 I think it's like three thousand feet tall. I mean, 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:57.640 i've seen it, but from the bottom. Very impressive. Um. 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.160 So these two dudes, Rich Piccarelli and Brian Johnson, they 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:06.360 dropped off, they parachuted into the valley below, and Carl 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:11.199 Banish was like, very interesting. I think we're onto something here, fellas, 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:16.360 And so he got Rich Piccarelli and night he said, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.400 let's do it, brother, and let's go to El Capitan 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.800 and jump off of it. Right, Like, forget the hanglider, 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:29.040 leave that at home. Yeah. Apparently, when they went scouting 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.040 the place to see if you could just basically base 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.840 jump off of it. Um, they lowered Banish over the 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.559 edge on like a rope and they heard him shout eureka, 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.320 we can jump from here. Now pull me back up please. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.520 All the from what I gather from this guy who's 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.280 probably like, you guys can just go. I'm gonna hang 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.560 out here for a while. Yeah, that's true. So in 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.920 August he took this new crew back to that location 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.920 and uh he I think was just filming at the time, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.959 and one by one they jumped. And if you look 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:06.000 at this documentary footage on the trailer of Sunshine Superman, 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:10.040 these guys like way before the go pro, they were 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:14.120 like these toaster robbins on their head, essentially attached to 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:16.720 helmets because even back then they wanted to film stuff. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.920 Oh yeah, apparently Carl Banish, like for that first jump, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.560 he had a number of different cameras going for different 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:27.720 angles and um, when he was documenting it, he would 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:31.160 make people like do different takes of like walking into 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:33.400 frame and stuff like that would be like, okay, go 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.840 back and do that again. He was like walk again. Yeah. 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:39.720 Well that's why they have with that great old footage still, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.840 I guess thanks to him. Um. Sadly he died, uh 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:47.080 basse jumping bass jumping, but he was doing it solo, 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:51.760 I guess. In um he did a solo jump off 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.040 a cliff in Norway and um, no one saw him die, 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:59.200 but they figured that he probably was steered into the 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.320 cliff um that he jumped from, which is called an 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:07.280 off heading jump. Right, which is one of the bigger 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.240 dangers in basse jumping, as we'll see. Well that's where 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.040 he originally UM. I don't think we mentioned that. These 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.960 two guys, Michael Pelki and Brian Schubert, were the first 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.200 two that he heard of that actually did jump from 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.160 el cappy tan. But they did it with the old 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:25.480 school around paratrooper parachutes, and they got slammed into the 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.760 cliff face again and again and again, breaking bones and 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.200 foots and legs and things like that. There's that's another video. 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.600 There's a UM a woman who skied or who base jumped, 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.760 and she got um, she got she went on to 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:45.240 an offheading opening. Is that what it's called. I believe 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.480 it is um And you just see like she's getting 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:53.000 just directed right into the cliff face again and again. 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.320 You just I can't imagine. I mean, it killed her, 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.760 but I can't imagine how anybody could survive something like 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.480 that because you're going so fast and all of that 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.680 velocity is just being slammed into a cliff face and 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:09.840 then you'll bounce off and float away and then just 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.160 come back in again. Yeah, you're at the mercy of 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.560 nature at that point, right, But that's what happened with 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.040 those two dudes in the sixties, the first two to 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:22.520 parachute off of El capitan Um, and Karl Banish was like, 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.160 I don't think they're The idea of jumping off of 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.280 El Capitan with the parachute was wrong. I think their 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.080 gear was just wrong. And that's why Carl Bainish is 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:35.360 credited as being the father of um of basse jumping, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:40.440 because he applied the techniques that are now the hallmarks 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:44.160 of base jumping and the and the equipment. Yeah. Yeah, 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.040 and he was also the guy if you complete all 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:51.000 four phases, the B, the A, the S and the E, 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.800 then you are assigned a number, and he's the one 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.600 that started at but he was based number four though 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.960 he wasn't even number one because he was filming people, 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.400 I think because his wife was Base three. And uh 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.280 so he was a feminist as well. He wasn't like 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.800 good good to be in front of you. Uh So 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:13.600 Base one was Phil Smith from Texas and as of 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.120 now it's hard to get numbers. Then they point out 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.359 pretty reasonably that a lot of these things happened in 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.600 our cover of night and they're not reported necessarily, but 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:24.600 as best as we can tell, they're they're up to 0:17:24.720 --> 0:17:28.880 like base plus at this point. That's what I thought, 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.200 and that's who is. Those are people who have completed 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:36.840 again all four phases buildings, an tennis, spans and uh 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.480 earth Earth And originally it wasn't called base, it was 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:45.840 called best. It was going to be uh buildings, earth 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:50.280 span and tower. Yeah, so they just rearranged it a bit. Yeah. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:54.560 Apparently Carl Vanish's wife Jean said she liked best best, 0:17:55.440 --> 0:18:00.520 but Carl like basse um, particularly because the first definition 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.360 of the word was a platform on which something stands. 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.120 So it makes sense. And before I knew, I've known 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:08.560 for a while I was an acronym, but before I 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:10.199 knew it was an acronym, I just thought that's what 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.080 it meant, Like, you go stand on some base and 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:15.520 you jump. You know, Karl Baynis would have been proud. 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.399 That's right, all right, So let's take a break and 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.160 then um we will talk about some of that gear 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:42.600 right after this stump. Alright, dude, So if you want 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.080 a base jump, you just get an old nineteen sixties 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.960 Army parachute and you go at it, right, yep. Add 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:54.479 some get a weight vest. Yeah, he's scuba diving. Yeah, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.920 and um, you know, pair of sunglasses maybe, yeah, drink 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:02.879 a gallon of whiskey, yeah, and just fall off of 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:09.159 the cliff. That's right. No, no, no, no, no no. 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:10.919 What you need is the right gear. And what they 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.160 found out pretty quickly was that something called a ram 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:18.080 air parachute. And these are the ones that you see nowadays. 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:19.960 You don't even see the round parachutes anymore. I guess 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:21.600 you do if you jump from outer space or if 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:26.840 you're like a kind of a hipster vintage. We need 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.199 to do one on skydiving, I guess. But yeah, I 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:32.399 guess we haven't, no, because I was like, this doesn't 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.960 sound familiar, like we've spoken about it before. So I 0:19:35.000 --> 0:19:38.399 was like, we're doing basse jumping before skydiving. Yeah. I 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:40.879 like that. That's the opposite of what you're supposed to do, 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:45.600 especially if you're actually base jumping. Well, that's true. Um, 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.359 So the ram air parachute is the one that you 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:51.040 see a lot now mostly now, which is the one 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:55.640 that is rectangular, and they give you a lot more 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.320 control on where you're going because you want to be 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:02.360 able to steer this thing quickly, right, So you don't 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.080 slam into the rock, because that's one of the two dangers, 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:10.400 is slamming into the rocks or slamming into whatever the building. Right. 0:20:10.720 --> 0:20:13.480 The two dangers are slamming into the thing you jump 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:17.600 you jumped off of, which is apparently the more frequent danger, 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:21.400 or other things around I guess, right, or slamming into 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:25.200 the ground. Sure, and like you're shooting, not opening or 0:20:25.240 --> 0:20:29.080 something like that. Yeah, I think mostly though, most injuries 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:34.560 occur from slamming into structures and not improper deployment. Right. 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.600 And the thing about the ram air parachute is it's 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:43.800 this rectangular parachute that allows you to maneuver yourself, guide yourself, 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.119 increase or decrease your speed. You're much more in control 0:20:47.119 --> 0:20:50.040 than you are with around parachute, which basically just slows 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.840 your acceleration towards earth. Right, that's right, um, And with 0:20:53.840 --> 0:20:59.119 with a ram air parachute, Uh, it works so well 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:03.439 that when you are base jumping, your face with a 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.920 problem because when you're skydiving, you have a lot of time. 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:11.480 You're jumping at like a well over ten thousand feet usually, right, 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:13.800 you get the free fall for a while and then 0:21:13.800 --> 0:21:16.399 say about two thousand feet, you open your shot, and 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:18.399 your shoe can just take all the time in the 0:21:18.400 --> 0:21:23.200 world to open. It's pretty yeah, but it's it's not 0:21:23.280 --> 0:21:26.720 like packed and then open. There's a there's a process 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:28.600 that does take place over the course of maybe a 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:31.399 second a second and a half that makes a lot 0:21:31.560 --> 0:21:37.720 of difference in going from free fall to floating right 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:40.920 as far as your body is concerned, and as far 0:21:40.960 --> 0:21:44.520 as changing your velocity and direction. Well, with base jumping, 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:47.600 you don't have that amount of time. You need your 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:50.880 shoot to open pretty quick and so when you when 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.600 you open a ramar shoot, all of a sudden, it 0:21:53.680 --> 0:21:57.840 can basically snap your neck. It open so so quickly 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:01.359 and jerks you up right end. Since you have a 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:05.120 lot of velocity because you're in free fall when your 0:22:05.119 --> 0:22:08.680 shoot opens and all of a sudden, you're not free 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:11.800 falling any longer, you're transferring some of that velocity to 0:22:11.880 --> 0:22:15.600 the shoot, which can slam you into that cliff side. 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:18.359 So there's some some things that you have to to 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:22.000 deal with if you're a base jumper that a skydiver 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.200 wouldn't have to deal with, and there's been some clever 0:22:24.320 --> 0:22:27.320 solutions to those things. Yeah, there's one device called a 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:31.840 slider that basically reduces the rate at which those parachute 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:35.879 lines spread out, so it's not gonna deploy as quickly 0:22:35.880 --> 0:22:37.920 and snap your neck in half or not your neck, 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:42.560 but well I'm not sure what would happen buying or 0:22:42.640 --> 0:22:45.280 something could tear you clean in half. Okay, but a 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:48.800 sliders just like this piece of fabric that that slides 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:52.919 down the lines, and by doing that, it gives you 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:57.080 a measure of um control over how fast your shoot opens. 0:22:58.040 --> 0:23:00.760 You know, the little pilot shoots. If you've ever seen 0:23:01.000 --> 0:23:04.200 a sky diver, there there's that little shoot that comes 0:23:04.200 --> 0:23:07.320 out and then that helps deploy the big shoot. Same 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:11.639 with funny cars, did they have a pilot? Really? The 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:17.439 good ones to? Uh, So you have a larger pilot shoot. 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:21.040