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A big part of base jumping is having the required skills to master the tools you use to have safe, and fun, flights off the cliffs. I spent a few days in Spain with the master of coaching, Jarno Cordia from Fly Like Brick. Here’s a quick preview of a few of the new skills Jarno passed along to me and my yellow Ghost 3 – I especially like the back to belly and vice versa transitions via a head down move.
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Here’s a little flashback to last summer in Norway. Just wanted to share the feeling of base jumping off the edge, flying from Smellveggen exit to landing at the Lower Ladder landing area. So the video and sound is uncut from my gopro, to share my point of view. At the exit I was trying to convince my friend Martin, who jumped with me, to land in the water just for the fun of it – but he did not seem very hooked on this particular idea.
I wish this little red boat would have driven the opposite way…would have been fun to try and land on it with my Atair Troll DW base jumping canopy
The year before I actually decided myself to test out the Lysefjord water temperature.Take a look at these screen grabs from the video – sorry about the poor quality, but I decided to leave my Canon 5D behind on this jump.
If you want to see the waterlanding in the Lysefjord, it is the last part of this video from 2011:
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Tracking is progressing – Check out super-tracker Rami Kajala’s latest video. To me it almost looks like he is flying a “shitty little wingsuit”. But in reality he is rocketing the new Phoenix-Fly Power Tracking Suit – or just PTS – to pure excellence. The lines Rami is flying stand out from anything I have ever seen, so lean forward and watch his latest video!
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Spending a little time at Kjerag. A few days ago I brought my camera to the mountain to catch some of the action.
- Blue Tracking Suit ready to fly!
- Enjoying every second of the summer
- Base jumping days like these…
- Waiting for some action
- A perfect toolkit for a perfect day
- The final touch
- Planning or waiting for the boat?
- Posing for the crowd?
- I fly this way…
- Ready
- Seeeet
- Go!
- Energized
- Floating
- Heading for adventure
- Fast runner
- “Weightless”
- Transition
- Look at me
- Going for style point
- Red and white
- Yeah!
- Embracing the world
- Hovering
- Transition, then fly
- Full speed ahead
- Look at the energy in this photo
- A Salomon hiking boot commercial?
- Heading for a swim
- Just being there is what it is all about.
- Running
- In style!
- Just hanging out…
- Red shoes in free fall
- Here I come – flying home
- Big Wall – tiny human in flight
- The LZ
- Jan coming in for landing
- Apex Flik
- High Five!
- Eagle flying from Eagles Nest
- Mr. B doing his first ever roll-over
- Successful roll-over
- Just in time for dinner
- Raw and beautiful
- Aiming for the trampoline
- I want it!
- Where’s my beer?
- Precision landing
- On approach in Lysebotn
- Almost a night jump
- Closeup
- Almost got it