Congratulations on a new world record!

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Congrats man! Keep it up.

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Now, I challenge YOU, or anyone else to kick Miles's ass and take this sport to the next level. I am sure Miles would like that sort of challenge.

Miles may be onto something combining physical challenge with the jump itself. I could see this manifesting itself in several ways.

I've always thought combining a hardcore rock climb (like the spires out west) with a BASE jump was one of the future directions BASE would go. BASE Climb is also a good example of what I'm talking about here.

Unfortunately, about the only thing around here someone could do on Miles' level would be 27+ 1000' tower climbs in one day.

Gratz again Miles!

- Z
"Always be yourself... unless you suck." - Joss Whedon

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It is called "Cliffing" by the few who practice it. There aren't enough others doing it so every time someone did one, it is a speed record. I remember a well known fellow remarking, "I like the sport of Cliffing better as it is purer than either BASE or climbing alone." I sort of tuned him out after that.

Then, I thought of combining BASE jumping and SCUBA diving by strapping on 800 pounds of lead weight and underwater freefalling the Mariana's Trench. I'd call it "Seadiving" and it would be purer than either BASE or SCUBA alone . . .

When jumpers visit me, the talk for some reason, turns to the old days and what's different and every time it's something new. I remember when skydiving is the stepping stone to skydiving. Now, it's a couple hundred skydives before BASE, a couple hundred skydives before camera, a couple hundred skydives before wing suit, a couple hundred skydives before boards, and so on.

It was this time of year, I remember as it's getting chilly, in the fall of 1978 at Lake Elsinore when we first saw Carl Boenish's El Cap film. Since that time we've had BASE jumps inside a church, down holes, off moving things and ones that are almost more horizontal than vertical. What Miles did is now one of those things . . .

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