lauras 0 #1 November 29, 2006 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=419518&in_page_id=1770 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkyDivinRyan 0 #2 November 30, 2006 ive been on that nice Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sabre210 0 #3 November 30, 2006 QuoteMr Connery, from Maidenhead in Berkshire, is one of Britain's best known base jumpers. True. And that's a good thing? Great jump from a great object. Shame he felt the need to take it to the press. Sounds like staff wouldn't have been any wiser if he hadn't. ian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mikki_ZH 0 #4 November 30, 2006 He looks like Quentin Terentino...Michi (#1068) hsbc/gba/sba www.swissbaseassociation.ch www.michibase.ch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sockpuppet 0 #5 November 30, 2006 I've got the paper..there are some more pics I'll scan them in when I am free at lunch. ------ Two of the three voices in my head agree with you. It might actually be unanimous but voice three only speaks Welsh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ronald 0 #6 November 30, 2006 "There can be only one" a comment noted as been said by a very upset Mr. Felix B. But seriously. Good job. Ronald Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FIREFLYR 0 #7 November 30, 2006 >>>But seriously. Good job. ~But seriously...someone ought to break his fucking pull hand. WTF!? The thing that pisses me off the most is that no one would have known, and it was obviously repeatable, untill they made a point of telling security that they fuckt up. I can understand a stunt like Jeb's and the Building in NY, No one is jumping it- it's a get it if you can jump. To that I say: Right on, good shit! But this shit? fucking unbeleavable. i can't believe BASE jumpers would think that this is "cool." ~J"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mikki_ZH 0 #8 November 30, 2006 I agree with Jamie. The result of his telling the press is now: 1) The security company gets atacked from everywhere and maybe they will punish the guards by fireing them. 2) The object is now burned and could have been jumped again 3) The jumper will probably get fined but at least he is famous... Someone got tard and featherd some time ago for something more or less simular...Michi (#1068) hsbc/gba/sba www.swissbaseassociation.ch www.michibase.ch Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sabre210 0 #9 November 30, 2006 Make no mistake....this is one object that isn't getting flicked regularly. That's not to say it hasn't been in the past or won't be in the future, but bagging this object is almost certainly on par with the Empire state building or the needle shaped B in vegas in terms of the security surrounding it and the planning required. Gary did well to pull the jump off at all. What is a shame is that he did such a good job, he could have gotten away absolutely clean with security either non the wiser or in total denial. Either way, his achievement would have been (in my eyes) even greater. It is a shame that he feels the value of the jump is intriniscally linked with the amount of attention/notoriety he gains from it. With regards, goading the security, this is not the first time this has happened in the UK. A very famous London building complex - successfully targetted by an IRA bomb in 1996, was jumped quite a few years ago with the jumpers getting away with just some late night drinkers spotting their activities. The witnesses reported their account to a local newspaper who then questioned the building's security staff regarding the claims of unauthorised parachuting from the roof. The security personnel countered that there was absolutely no way their security had been breached and the witnesses were drunk and undoubtedly mistaken. The very next day, a jumper contacted the newspaper and insisted that not only had the jump taken place, but that several buildings in the complex were being jumped regularly. He went on to scoff at the claims of the security staff and bragged at how much of a joke their security was, especially in light of the fact that it had previously been bombed by terrorists. I think that was perhaps the dumbest thing i have EVER read coming from a BASE jumper. Ego and stealth are simply incompatible, as is the case here. ian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FIREFLYR 0 #10 November 30, 2006 >>>Make no mistake....this is one object that isn't getting flicked regularly. How would you know? It was obviously possible to do without being noticed.J ust because you haven't been invited doesn't mean it isn't being done. *It's called a secret* I don't know of anyone jumping it ....but then, why would I? ~J"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest" "There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RandomLemming 0 #11 November 30, 2006 Yeah, now I work near that building and spend a lot of time staring at it. Even though I work in a very tall building right nearby, I can't get out onto the roof because security is very tight. I'm sure it's not all down to that report (I remember reading about it in the paper at the time and it sounded a bit arrogant, almost like they were peed that they didn't get caught) Fortunately I'm several hundred skydives from my first BASE, but I'm pretty sure I'll never get to jump any of these buildings. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
greeny 0 #12 November 30, 2006 I back Gary fully, Gary took it to the press because that is how he makes his living. Just like when he jump Nelsons Column none of you were jumping them, very very few were ever capable of getting a look in, so don't be pissed that someone else is out there pushing this sport to the level it deserves. Security would always have seen the landing. The object was always a one shot deal. The only other time it has been jump was while it was still under construction. I believe it was done in very good taste as are all Garys jumps. Gaps in security should be highlighted, maybe Gary has just made a major national attraction safer for all who visit it............. All in all well done Gary Greeny Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cesslon 0 #13 December 1, 2006 as an aussie living in england who was at a pub tonight while people were reading the local paper I can tell you now what the local impression is of a base jumper its a person who swims in the most polluted water (the thames river) to climb out in a water proof suit (yes I know what its called I've been diving since i was 8 years old ) to climb up on an object illegally to wait all night till there is maximum viewers then to jump off (doing a hop and pop, so maximum viewers can see maximum canopy ride) wearing a dinner suit and to land near by in front of the cameras so you can submit your photo's to the local papers so everyone can think every base jumper is the same. now is every base jumper the same? you tell me its not up to me to decide its up to the local news papers to tell us. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sockpuppet 0 #14 December 1, 2006 Surely harder = more of a challenge = better when it gets jumped Not saying you should phone security and mark your jump in thier calendar but I bet lots of you would enjoy it less if security took you to the top in a lift. ------ Two of the three voices in my head agree with you. It might actually be unanimous but voice three only speaks Welsh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skykittykat 0 #15 December 1, 2006 Regarding the media coverage of skydiving/base jumping, for once the full page "story" in the Daily Mail was a positive note. The photos and the text did not put base jumping in a bad light as previous reporting has done so. It was a nice article to read for a change! Liz Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ronald 0 #16 December 1, 2006 Quote>>>But seriously. Good job. ~But seriously...someone ought to break his fucking pull hand. WTF!? Well, it appears the sarcasm in my first line is a point missed by some people. "Good job" refers to, good job enterering the site that way and jumping it. Not many people have done that, AFAIK. You might be one of them in the future (?), that is, if I look at your users profile interests. Take care, Ronald Share this post Link to post Share on other sites RandomLemming 0 #17 December 1, 2006 Sorry, I may have confused things by not quoting. I was replying to Sabre210's post about another jump a couple of years back. Security were actively denying the jump, swearing blind it could not have happened. The jumper's contacted the local paper and explained exactly how and when they did it. Since then, they've rectified the blind spot on the security cameras and patrols are now far more aggressive. you can't even take photographs here anymore (and that was before 7/7) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites jjiimmyyt 0 #18 December 3, 2006 Video here http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/basejump.shtml "This isn't an iron lung, people. You can actually disconnect and not die." -Dave Share this post Link to post Share on other sites brianfry713 0 #19 December 5, 2006 From the end of the article, in case you missed it: "Gary now plans to jump from a plane one mile up with no parachute. He hopes to land safely using only a wingsuit - a specially made jumpsuit which contains wings - a feat that has never been attempted before. He is now looking for sponsorship to make the attempt possible, and hopes an aviation company will back him."BASE 1224, Senior Parachute Rigger, CPL ASEL IA, AGI, IGI USPA Coach & UPT Tandem Instructor, PRO, Altimaster Field Support Representative Share this post Link to post Share on other sites NickDG 23 #20 December 5, 2006 I don't know this fellow, or agree with how he day-blazed this jump, but the story called him a "stuntman" and over the years we've had more than a few out-of-work or beginning stuntmen who use BASE jumping to gain publicity for themselves. And most of them don't go as well as this one did. Often a stuntman knows there's a part coming up in a movie involving parachutes and these are what can be termed, "guerrilla auditions." In the late 1980s there was a "stuntman wannabe" who jumped San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. But like many stuntman who had a lot a mad skills posted on their resumes he wasn't really proficient with them all, and especially he knew nothing about BASE jumping. Using non-BASE gear (round military equipment) he became snagged and hanging from the bridge after the wind got the better of him. He finally hand deployed his round reserve (chest mounted) and cutaway his main before landing in the water below. The way this works is the "film" then makes the rounds in Hollywood where standing out in a crowd is the only way to get noticed. There was another stuntman in the early 90s but this one actually called me for some assistance. This time its San Diego and he wanted to jump from the Coronado Bridge but he'd never made a BASE jump before. After I explained the high security and the low height of the bridge, plus the landing in a Bay that can be cold and rough, I told him with no BASE experience there was no way I'd help him. But he went and did it anyway. It actually went pretty well considering. He hired a stretch white limo and clinging to the trunk lid came speeding across the bridge, in broad daylight, and leapt over the rail with the limo going about 50 mph. He deployed a square (he got somewhere?) while very unstable and landed pretty much out of control, but okay, in the water. Probably, in both the above cases, these guys got their chances in the movies. And if you follow along long enough, this Brit will most likely get his shot too. Not all professional stuntman are so flippant about BASE. David Nunn, who was a working stuntman really got into BASE and went on to do some amazing gags, but he had the jumping background and his reels protected sites and other BASE jumpers, so there is a way to do it right . . . NickD BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites TomAiello 26 #21 December 5, 2006 QuoteNot all professional stuntman are so flippant about BASE. Tim R. comes immediately to mind. I've often wondered if his absolutely low key BASE approach comes from the fact that he's already on the big screen doing what all the Mt. Dew drinking teens want to do, or if perhaps he just wants to keep the recreational parts of his life separate from his work.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites NickDG 23 #22 December 5, 2006 And Dave B. too . . . A real class act. NickD BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites d_goldsmith 1 #23 December 5, 2006 I just saw that golden gate bridge incident on a special called "when stunts go wrong". I couldn't stop calling him a fucking idiot for about 5 minutes. He jumped a round, in a head wind, from the top of a beam. Opened great and he floated backwards right into the beam. Like you said, he got stuck and deployed his reserve which worked out alright. Lucky bastard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites avenfoto 0 #24 December 5, 2006 thats why they call them "stunt-men"... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites d_goldsmith 1 #25 December 5, 2006 Why is that? Stunt people are just like us, calculated risk. This guy was a daredevil fool, not a stuntman. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Prev 1 2 Next Page 1 of 2 0
RandomLemming 0 #17 December 1, 2006 Sorry, I may have confused things by not quoting. I was replying to Sabre210's post about another jump a couple of years back. Security were actively denying the jump, swearing blind it could not have happened. The jumper's contacted the local paper and explained exactly how and when they did it. Since then, they've rectified the blind spot on the security cameras and patrols are now far more aggressive. you can't even take photographs here anymore (and that was before 7/7) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jjiimmyyt 0 #18 December 3, 2006 Video here http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/basejump.shtml "This isn't an iron lung, people. You can actually disconnect and not die." -Dave Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brianfry713 0 #19 December 5, 2006 From the end of the article, in case you missed it: "Gary now plans to jump from a plane one mile up with no parachute. He hopes to land safely using only a wingsuit - a specially made jumpsuit which contains wings - a feat that has never been attempted before. He is now looking for sponsorship to make the attempt possible, and hopes an aviation company will back him."BASE 1224, Senior Parachute Rigger, CPL ASEL IA, AGI, IGI USPA Coach & UPT Tandem Instructor, PRO, Altimaster Field Support Representative Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #20 December 5, 2006 I don't know this fellow, or agree with how he day-blazed this jump, but the story called him a "stuntman" and over the years we've had more than a few out-of-work or beginning stuntmen who use BASE jumping to gain publicity for themselves. And most of them don't go as well as this one did. Often a stuntman knows there's a part coming up in a movie involving parachutes and these are what can be termed, "guerrilla auditions." In the late 1980s there was a "stuntman wannabe" who jumped San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. But like many stuntman who had a lot a mad skills posted on their resumes he wasn't really proficient with them all, and especially he knew nothing about BASE jumping. Using non-BASE gear (round military equipment) he became snagged and hanging from the bridge after the wind got the better of him. He finally hand deployed his round reserve (chest mounted) and cutaway his main before landing in the water below. The way this works is the "film" then makes the rounds in Hollywood where standing out in a crowd is the only way to get noticed. There was another stuntman in the early 90s but this one actually called me for some assistance. This time its San Diego and he wanted to jump from the Coronado Bridge but he'd never made a BASE jump before. After I explained the high security and the low height of the bridge, plus the landing in a Bay that can be cold and rough, I told him with no BASE experience there was no way I'd help him. But he went and did it anyway. It actually went pretty well considering. He hired a stretch white limo and clinging to the trunk lid came speeding across the bridge, in broad daylight, and leapt over the rail with the limo going about 50 mph. He deployed a square (he got somewhere?) while very unstable and landed pretty much out of control, but okay, in the water. Probably, in both the above cases, these guys got their chances in the movies. And if you follow along long enough, this Brit will most likely get his shot too. Not all professional stuntman are so flippant about BASE. David Nunn, who was a working stuntman really got into BASE and went on to do some amazing gags, but he had the jumping background and his reels protected sites and other BASE jumpers, so there is a way to do it right . . . NickD BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 26 #21 December 5, 2006 QuoteNot all professional stuntman are so flippant about BASE. Tim R. comes immediately to mind. I've often wondered if his absolutely low key BASE approach comes from the fact that he's already on the big screen doing what all the Mt. Dew drinking teens want to do, or if perhaps he just wants to keep the recreational parts of his life separate from his work.-- Tom Aiello Tom@SnakeRiverBASE.com SnakeRiverBASE.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #22 December 5, 2006 And Dave B. too . . . A real class act. NickD BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_goldsmith 1 #23 December 5, 2006 I just saw that golden gate bridge incident on a special called "when stunts go wrong". I couldn't stop calling him a fucking idiot for about 5 minutes. He jumped a round, in a head wind, from the top of a beam. Opened great and he floated backwards right into the beam. Like you said, he got stuck and deployed his reserve which worked out alright. Lucky bastard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
avenfoto 0 #24 December 5, 2006 thats why they call them "stunt-men"... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
d_goldsmith 1 #25 December 5, 2006 Why is that? Stunt people are just like us, calculated risk. This guy was a daredevil fool, not a stuntman. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
