Favorite skydive video?

[promise5 17]

What's your favorite skydive video?
Post a link to the video if you're able to, it would be fun to see them.

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[wmw999 2,452]

Proof.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[promise5 17]

Interesting

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[AggieDave 6]

Swoop2

Fandango.


EOT.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[skygypsie 2]

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Proof.

Wendy P.

[promise5 17]

Now it makes sense

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[wmw999 2,452]

It's the name of a video made in either the late 70's or the early 80's, that inspired the skydiving scene in the movie Fandango. Here is an old thread about it.

Yeah, I'm old -- I remember it as a first-run video

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[jimmytavino 16]

From Wings Came Flight
Norman Kent
still have the VHS tape
the First skydiving movie I EVER saw was Pre-VHS...
and was shown on a 16 mm projector!!!
Masters of The Sky
by Carl Boenish... and I still have THAT tape as well,,,, which I bought from Jean, a Looong time ago...
That First viewing , had a Life changing effect on me...... a GOOD effect...

[MikeJD 0]

I still have a soft spot for the Travelling movies made by Patrick Passe during the nineties. That's partly because they were released early in my skydiving career - I still remember how exciting and inspiring it was as a newbie to see what was possible at the (then) cutting edge of the sport.

Watching them now, it's striking how many of the people featured are no longer with us!

[Remster 30]

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I still have a soft spot for the Travelling movies made by Patrick Passe during the nineties. That's partly because they were released early in my skydiving career - I still remember how exciting and inspiring it was as a newbie to see what was possible at the (then) cutting edge of the sport.

Watching them now, it's striking how many of the people featured are no longer with us!

I think it was Travelling 2 that had the comp between the french and US, and Rickster swooping, and Marco Mana doing freestyle with a Porter... We played that thing on so many weather holds.... Knew it by heart!

Remster

[skymama 37]

Any one that I'm in, because I'm awesome.

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[Remster 30]

Speaking of female stars...


We recently had a viewing of Wally Gubbin's 1st movie with one of the naked sisters who jumped with the naked tandem passenger (also their sister).

Remster

[skyjumpenfool 2]

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Proof.

Wendy P.

Being an old static line T-10 guy, I'm with Wendy. However, I still sit and watch my old FB video from time to time. "Hey, Freak Brother.....".

Birdshit & Fools Productions

"Son, only two things fall from the sky."

[BillyVance 34]

I guess if I had to pick, it would be the first state record that I was on that was successful - the Georgia state record 64 way. The video had all the record attempts and the actual record all with Joe Satriani's music as the sound track.

The gap between the last jump to the in-plane shot where it quiets down then the song Ice 9 starts as jumpers exit still sends shivers up my spine. Damn, I need to get that stupid VHS tape converted to DVD.

It also had a bonus shot of Beezy Shaw's malfunction with a low low cutaway at the end.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[promise5 17]

I should have added. That you should post a link to the video if you can, would be fun for people to be able to see them.

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[DcloudZ 0]

"Why We Jump"

Go check it out
Great video that captures the essence of why we participate in this sport. No better way to explain it aside from trying it out yourself!

"Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way." -Alan Watts

[ryoder 1,590]

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It's the name of a video made in either the late 70's or the early 80's, that inspired the skydiving scene in the movie Fandango. Here is an old thread about it.

Yeah, I'm old -- I remember it as a first-run video

Wendy P.

I don't think "Proof" was as good as the "Fandango" scene, but here it is. The "college students" in "Proof" come across more as hicks, IMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wlqDzkIDPU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQjb7BwlwDQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wlqDzkIDPU

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[Darius11 12]

RADIX-love it

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain

[wmw999 2,452]

Maybe it was better because beer and friends were involved
Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[elightle 8]

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Yeah, I'm old -- I remember it as a first-run video

Wendy P.

You think you're old. I remember being fascinated by "Masters of the Sky"!

[Remster 30]

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I still have a soft spot for the Travelling movies made by Patrick Passe during the nineties. That's partly because they were released early in my skydiving career - I still remember how exciting and inspiring it was as a newbie to see what was possible at the (then) cutting edge of the sport.

Watching them now, it's striking how many of the people featured are no longer with us!

I think it was Travelling 2 that had the comp between the french and US, and Rickster swooping, and Marco Mana doing freestyle with a Porter... We played that thing on so many weather holds.... Knew it by heart!

It was Antigravity... I loved that tape... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sacDvkXOOdQ

Remster

[shotandahalf 0]

Mirror Image Wish I had a copy

[pincheck 0]

Used to love one Maker by some of the UK free fly guys but it disappeared from You Tube ?

This one is a long time favourite as its very well made and Edited http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=364_1329003807

Billy-Sonic Haggis Flickr-Fun

[quade 4]

Annette's skydive in the movie, Beach Blanket Bingo makes me giggle.

It's supposed to be her first skydive.
She decides rather than being a dope on a rope or doing a clear and pull, she's going to do a free fall.
She then proceeds to perform what look today like assclownishly bad front loops and barrel rolls, but were in fact at the time pretty close to National competition quality (think about THAT for a minute).
This, of course, also makes her nauseated and makes the lighting director turn on a green light during her chromakey shots.
Then . . . she takes it into the basement and does a water landing.

Pretty funny stuff really.

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[jrouse 0]

Good Stuff By Joe Jennings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EylaHSlEa5E

And "CrossWinds" By Patrick Passe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CCq3o0PGoQ

These were the first 2 videos I bought when I did my first AFF jumps back in 2002. I thought these were the most epic DVD's!

Lovin every second of it!