banzai skydive?! I'm calling bullshit!

[Skydave103 0]

fact No. 1802

'The record for the longest banzai skydive is 50 seconds.'


The rules for banzai skydiving are fairly simple: you have to jump from a height of at least 3,000 meters, and when you jump, you must do so without a parachute, since the key to banzai skydiving is seeing how long you can wait after having thrown your parachute out of the airplane before you jump out after it. In 2000, Yasuhiro Kubo claimed the record after waiting 50 seconds before jumping out and chasing down his gear.

LifeshouldNOTbeajourneytothegravewithawellpreservedbody,buttskidinsideways,cigarinone hand,martiniintheother,bodythoroughlyused upandscreaming:"WOO HOO!! What a ride!!!"

[JohnRich 4]

Assuming that the rig he throws out accelerates and falls at 120 mph like a skydiver, so that he can synchronize his speed with it in order to catch it and put it on...

Then that means that the rig was 8,000 feet below him when he exited the plane.

He wouldn't even be able to see the darned thing, much less have time to dive down, catch up with it, and put it on.

Yep, that's bullshit. (Except for James Bond and Chuck Norris.)

Where did you see this so-called "fact"?

[Broke 0]

ok I don't think a rig would fall as fast as a person, but 50 seconds is a long way to wait to jump out. Sometimes 6 seconds is a long time to wait

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[Skydave103 0]

Askmen.com
http://www.askmen.com/daily/fact/

LifeshouldNOTbeajourneytothegravewithawellpreservedbody,buttskidinsideways,cigarinone hand,martiniintheother,bodythoroughlyused upandscreaming:"WOO HOO!! What a ride!!!"

[SkyBastard 0]

hahaha. i never read any of these men's publications/websites because they're all shite.

Dude #320
"Superstitious" is just a polite way of saying "incredibly fucking stupid".
DONK!

[JohnMitchell 16]

And then they just link you to porn . . .

[Sletzer 3]

Let's start a petition about this!!!!

But seriously, this is bullshit.

I will be kissing hands and shaking babies all afternoon. Thanks for all your support! *bows*

SCS #8251

[airtwardo 7]

I couldn't track far enough back much less dive that far down...with shit streaming down my legs!

~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~

[skyrider 0]

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http://www.askmen.com/daily/fact/

It could be true, it doesn't say anything about him making it, just he attempted it!

[SkyBastard 0]

this is a very good point!

Dude #320
"Superstitious" is just a polite way of saying "incredibly fucking stupid".
DONK!

[hookitt 1]

It's fact No. 1802

FACT, not fiction. It's fact number 1802 to be specific. To confirm this fact... number 1802 ... I performed extensive research and found verification of fact number 1802 at the following URL: One minor problem is the site failed list it with it's correct fact number ... 1802.

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long430.html

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[skyrider 0]

I still can;t swallow it happning, unless maybe not even then, the plane went into a dive!

[SkyBastard 0]

What fact number is it that says I've got the biggest dick in the world? I keep forgetting.

Dude #320
"Superstitious" is just a polite way of saying "incredibly fucking stupid".
DONK!

[hookitt 1]

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I still can;t swallow it happning, unless maybe not even then, the plane went into a dive!

Shun the non-believers... SHuUuuuunnnnn....

It's fact 1802 dude.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[skyrider 0]

Skykid, (My son) just made a good point , Maybe the parachute was open!

[Andrewwhyte 1]

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Let's start a petition about this!!!!

Better yet, a Facebook group. That'll show 'em.

[Skydave103 0]

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Skykid, (My son) just made a good point , Maybe the parachute was open!

ok but how is he going to catch it if its flying at 10mph and he is falling sub 120?

LifeshouldNOTbeajourneytothegravewithawellpreservedbody,buttskidinsideways,cigarinone hand,martiniintheother,bodythoroughlyused upandscreaming:"WOO HOO!! What a ride!!!"

[skyrider 0]

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Skykid, (My son) just made a good point , Maybe the parachute was open!

ok but how is he going to catch it if its flying at 10mph and he is falling sub 120?

there ya go asking real questions, we have had it pointed out already it is fact 1802, so it must be true... (Droge Maybe?)

[JohnMitchell 16]

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ok but how is he going to catch it if its flying at 10mph and he is falling sub 120?

Never said it was easy.

Seriously, if anyone did anything like this in our sport, don't you think some of us would know this guy, and Norm Kent would have video? I wish we could spraypaint "Bull$#it" all over that website so the poor whuffos don't have more dumb questions to ask us.

"Did you ever do Bonzai skydiving??"

[hookitt 1]

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"Did you ever do Bonzai skydiving??"

We did it a bunch in 97 to 99. It's easy. You just gotta believe.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[Bolas 5]

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I still can;t swallow it happning, unless maybe not even then, the plane went into a dive!

Possibly. The plane dives and follows the container. When the guy gets close enough he jumps out, grabs the rig and puts it on.

It's still incredibly dangerous but if practiced enough (getting into a rig in freefall, catching it) with a small reserve, the risk lowers.

Travis Pastrana'd prolly try it.

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

[Bolas 5]

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"Did you ever do Bonzai skydiving??"

We did it a bunch in 97 to 99. It's easy. You just gotta believe.

Pssh... Anyone can catch a rig. Catching a narwhal in the air and using it as a canopy, that's difficult.

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

[hookitt 1]

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"Did you ever do Bonzai skydiving??"

We did it a bunch in 97 to 99. It's easy. You just gotta believe.

Pssh... Anyone can catch a rig. Catching a narwhal in the air and using it as a canopy, that's difficult.

Ok. We can try that also. On the very day this photo was taken, all the Narwhals said they'd try it.

My grammar sometimes resembles that of magnetic refrigerator poetry... Ghetto

[JohnRich 4]

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ok I don't think a rig would fall as fast as a person...

Right, but I'm saying that to perform this stunt you would add weight to the rig so that it would. Otherwise you would have a situation where, say, the rig would fall at 60 mph, and the skydiver would fall at 120 mph. And that would mean that you would have exactly one chance to snag it as you went whizzing by. If you missed it on that one chance, you die. Therefore, you would want it to fall at the same speed as yourself, so that you would have plenty of opportunity to dock on it and save yourself.

[JohnRich 4]

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"Did you ever do Bonzai skydiving??"

Isn't that where you prune a miniature tree while in freefall?