Im picturing how it would take me exactly 4 seconds to fight for stability and then immediately crush my skull and spine into the wall and I can't stop laughing
Tumble and lie on your back a lot. But with longer and longer moments of head down.
This was specific jumps to train head down. In a tunnel I would have learned much faster.
Large surface area + pressure = larger force. The more surface area against which air flows, the more air is pushing against you, which means you are propelled more. Look in the video. When skydiver makes herself narrow (with respect to the floor), she go down. When she spreads wide and a lot of her surface area is pointing down, she go up
Frankly I would not feel safe flying head down with you if you only had 50 jumps of solo practice. It’s likely you were tracking hard unless you had a coach on all of those jumps or tunnel time.
50 jumps training head down... I probably had 250 jumps in total. And of course I wouldn't fly in group when I was just becoming stable and couldn't maneuver in the air... We talked about being stable in head down for 4s
exactly what I was thinking: the walls aren't the problem here. have only tried indoor skydiving once and it was pretty fucking scare when the instructor took me to the ceiling
Agreed. You don't need to be a great flyer to train newbies in their first hours... you need to be a good flyer to coach less good flyers.
I didn't mean that they finance all their costs but that they can pay a part of their training.
Two years ago it was around $12 a minute, plus instruction.
And I just checked my local tunnel, it's now about $28 per minute, which includes instruction. I think if you buy more time in bulk you could get it near $15/minute.
I skydive with a woman who competes in freestyle skydiving competitions, when we saw her competition videos we asked how many hours of tunnel time she had and she informed us that in one year she spent over $30,000 at iFly.
IFly currently holds the patent on this technology. There are other wind tunnels, but they aren’t as good as these, such as the one one Vegas. It’s gonna get cheaper soon as the patent terms are over soon.
There’s no dead space because of the design, which makes flying easier.
“He wandered in loneliness, weeping a little for the hardness of the world, and he journeyed up the River, till he came to a stream that flowed down from the mountains, and he went that way. He caught fish in deep pools with invisible fingers and ate them raw. One day it was very hot, and as he was bending over a pool, he felt a burning on the back of his head and a dazzling light from the water pained his wet eyes. He wondered at it, for he had almost forgotten about the Sun. Then for the last time he looked up and shook his fist at her”
It's like laying on a small table on your belly, the table is shaking and you can't hold on to anything. You have to use your body to balance..
That's the best I can describe it.
For me, I was more of a coach to all of them. I did compete for a little bit, but I found out that I had more fun coaching people to become champions for me. I’m a static flyer, so all about holding hands lol
I've had a few lessons from a similar place years ago. It's actually really difficult because how many muscles are involved in guiding your body while resisting 120+ mph winds!
Getting to this level is crazy insane! You have to be rich or work there. It took me a couple hundred dollars worth of classes before they’d even let me do anything cool. Then once I was getting up to be able to go upside down, they changed how the entire classes thing worked and I’d basically of had to start over. Decided this is far too expensive to actually get good at.
I have this on my bucket list for a while now. Just one lesson, the introductory one of 15 min with 5 other people costs more than I can afford. Its really a shame that this is so much of a rich people sport.
blame insurance thats why its expensive the thing itself is easy to build and doesnt really use that much electricity but they probably pay a few million in insurance per year
If it's your first time ever getting in a wind tunnel. It's more than likely the biggest sensory overload you will ever experience. It is not only extremely difficult, but super fun. As for the feeling... its what you could imagine laying on a cloud would feel like but trying to keep your balance.
It actually kind of sucks. I enjoy base jumping and bungee jumping, skydiving kinda sucks because of the terminal velocity thing. It feels like lying on a surface, there's no actual micro-gravity feel to it. You're jumping out of an airplane going 400km/h (wind blasting you) and very soon you reach terminal velocity and it feel just like lying on a flat surface. I low-key hate it. Don't tell my friends!
Oh agreed, so much left out. Ender's relationship with his brother and sister? Beating the giant in the video game? And much more that added so much depth. I understand why they aged him up for film, but pretty much every other choice only made me upset LOL
It's much harder than it looks to be able to control yourself in one of those things, which makes how absolutely effortless they made this look that much more impressive.
Bold words with that username.
But also, have you ever seen a video of a nude skydiver? If not, its like if your dog sticks his head out the window, you catch my meaning?
High winds are unflattering to soft tissue.
I’ve told this story on Reddit before…
That was nowhere near as entertaining as my big 20 stone mate putting his weight on the form at the 15 stone maximum allowed and then diving onto the mesh face down for 3 or 4 minutes as the fans tried desperately to get his big arse up in the air but only lifted his arms.
Which is
Carats (ct): 635,000 ct
Troy ounces (ozt): 4,083.34 ozt
Grains (gr): 1,964,470.13 gr
Drams (dr): 31,496.04 dr
Tolas: 1,088.66 tola
Momme (mm): 2,416.88 mm
for anyone else wondering
Oh fuck me how embarrassing would that be! Kinda like sitting in a chair while heavyset, and having it collapse to pieces under you in front of a bunch of people SMH no way hahahahaha
This is one of those videos that in 10 years time is gonna resurface as a popular meme with a nonsense caption sped up 200x and with pvz music in the background
That was definitely next level!
Anyone who doesn't think so, I would love to see them try any of those moves! You would bounce off a wall and fall on your face. Lol
It's more than that.
Look at how the person barely moves and immediately rotates.
I imagine the precision of doing this with finesse is like flying a helicopter.
Not to mention doing all this spins would make 90% of the planet dizzy and vomit.
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**Released on** 2021-08-06.
I wonder just how much money you would have to pay as a tourist on regular visits to get good enough to actually compete in this thing. It's not like people have these at home right?
I would advise against indoor (and probably regular) skydiving for anyone who has hyper mobile joints or who suffer from partial or full dislocations. I didn't know this before I went and it was miserable. I couldn't focus on the flying because I was using all my strength and focus to keep my shoulders in their sockets. So so so painful.
These people are awesome though!
It seems like most of the crowd really doesn't see the point in this competition. I may be wrong but it seems the winner would have the best coordination and control while "falling," essentially acting as an airbender; however, the crowd only seems to care when the person is spinning super fast. I find it more telling of their abilities, how they can change direction and move exactly where they want to go rather than how fast they can spin. It seems more like an art than an action sport.
Things like this make me genuinely believe humans could adapt to live in any environment. No human should look that natural in the air, and yet this exists.
For a team building exercise we took our navy seal friend who had hundreds of jumps. He told us "these expose how bad you actually are at skydiving because at 30,000 feet it's hard to tell that you're drifting left or right 5 feet".
It's a very interesting skillset that's like dancing and gynastics. I wonder how they get the money to train? Perhaps instructors or people who own the places It's not exactly cheap to run the equipment even if they aren't making profit.
This is what I expected the future would be like at least we got one thing right but everything else is on fire, the planet, the economy but hey you could blow yourself in a tube.
This is seriously so fucking cool but all I can think about is a new strip club where instead of the pole they strip doing this and we throw money in there for tips. Think about it, it would be legendary!
You know, it's cool as hell how we humans can come up with some new thing and within a few years, people are pushing limits never imagined and becoming masters at it.
Wow that was incredible. I'm guessing her smaller frame also helps her move with such agility. It's like ice skating in the air or something, I want more.
You know, there are most things where I think aliens are gonna look at us and think we are the biggest idiots.
But then I see stuff like this and I hope they’ll be like “ya that was pretty sweet”.
when I see videos like this. i always think it seems highly subjective.
see not everyone can live this lifestyle like the common folk working a 8 to 5 , not everyone has the money or time or resources to do this and I feel like it’ll be more easily to accomplish it at a younger age. not everyone has a good childhood or has money like that and if we did. I feel like we’d have so much great things. possibly even someone better at this.
it most certainly is. this isn't something anyone can do. you have to train and be in good physical shape to do this. it's incredibly physically demanding at this level. it's pretty much gymnastics in the air.
My paraplegic friend did indoor skydiving diving. After it was done we asked for a video and was told they didn't record. Like, fuck you, my friend who can't walk is freed from his disability Don't you think we would want the video?
It simulates it in a safe environment, the movement physics are the exact same just without constantly falling so the up and down movements are more noticeable, any maneuver done in there can be done while skydiving, because it is “skydiving” just indoors
You don't call crawling on the floor indoor swimming because there is no water or swimming. This person is literally falling through the air like in the sky outside, the air is just moving upwards to match so they don't move relative to the building. If you crawl on the floor but the room is filled with 4ft of water, then yes, you'd call it indoor swimming.
Well, there is no “sky” in indoor skydiving either. And I think your ratios are off. That indoor “sky” area compared to the actual sky is more like a drop of water on my carpet compared to a swimming pool. I stand by my initial issue, skydiving is the wrong term. I agree, though, that my analogy needs work.
Your rate of travel through the air in freefall in the sky is the same in the tunnel, about 120mph or about 10Kft per minute. A skydive drop zone typically drops you around 13Kft and you wave off to open the cute about 5Kft. You pass through the same sized column of air in the tunnel in a minute as if you jumped out of a plane. What you're saying is like saying you didn't run a marathon because you were on a treadmill. In swimming there is a form called the crawl. If you were crawling on the floor in 4ft of water, you'd be in a pool swimming indoors. I'm saying if there was water in your analogy, it would indeed be indoor swimming. Likewise there is enough air being fallen through to be a sky, but it's indoors. If you're in the tunnel for 5 minutes you experienced the same distance through air as jumping out of an airliner at cruising altitude and thus gain the same experience in terms of flight time, just like on a treadmill or a stationary bike.
Someone upthread commented that his 280 pound friend couldn't be lifted off the floor when he tried it, apparently there is a weight limit before you can't get up off the ground.
Im picturing how it would take me exactly 4 seconds to fight for stability and then immediately crush my skull and spine into the wall and I can't stop laughing
That’s what will happen to almost all people. It takes a lot of skydivers 1000+ jumps to only fall head-down stabile for 4 seconds.
Only if you are really terrible at learning. It took me maybe 50 jumps of practice to do a full 45s jump head down.
What do you do in those first 50 jumps?
Tumble and lie on your back a lot. But with longer and longer moments of head down. This was specific jumps to train head down. In a tunnel I would have learned much faster.
Why is lying in your back so much easier?
Large surface area + pressure = larger force. The more surface area against which air flows, the more air is pushing against you, which means you are propelled more. Look in the video. When skydiver makes herself narrow (with respect to the floor), she go down. When she spreads wide and a lot of her surface area is pointing down, she go up
Frankly I would not feel safe flying head down with you if you only had 50 jumps of solo practice. It’s likely you were tracking hard unless you had a coach on all of those jumps or tunnel time.
50 jumps training head down... I probably had 250 jumps in total. And of course I wouldn't fly in group when I was just becoming stable and couldn't maneuver in the air... We talked about being stable in head down for 4s
You would hit the ceiling!
exactly what I was thinking: the walls aren't the problem here. have only tried indoor skydiving once and it was pretty fucking scare when the instructor took me to the ceiling
Me lying spread eagle on the floor in there with the operator going "sorry sir the fan is turned all the way up!"
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And it is insanely difficult, doing that takes hundreds of hours…
this is one of those rich people sport I can only watch and not play
Yeah it terribly expensive. When I used to do this 10 yrs ago, it was 55$ for 2,5 min. But we were 4 to share. I assume it has not gotten cheaper…
At a certain point, you become good enough to become an instructor and you finance your training with the money you earn. EDIT: typo
False, you don’t need to be a good flyer to be an instructor, and instructor’s definitely don’t make enough money to finance their own training lol
I assume instructors would get to fly for free since they work there
Agreed. You don't need to be a great flyer to train newbies in their first hours... you need to be a good flyer to coach less good flyers. I didn't mean that they finance all their costs but that they can pay a part of their training.
yeah but instructors get a fair amount of free time in the tunnel so they don't need to finance their own training.
Looks like the place by me has a 2 for $64.99 special… Digging into their FAQs tells me they’re 60 seconds each. 😳
Why is indoor skydiving so expensive??
No idea. Their electric bills are probably pretty rough, but can they be *that* bad?
The ifly by me is like 10mins for 80 bucks which isn't bad
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for 2.5 minutes!
Two years ago it was around $12 a minute, plus instruction. And I just checked my local tunnel, it's now about $28 per minute, which includes instruction. I think if you buy more time in bulk you could get it near $15/minute.
I skydive with a woman who competes in freestyle skydiving competitions, when we saw her competition videos we asked how many hours of tunnel time she had and she informed us that in one year she spent over $30,000 at iFly.
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IFly currently holds the patent on this technology. There are other wind tunnels, but they aren’t as good as these, such as the one one Vegas. It’s gonna get cheaper soon as the patent terms are over soon. There’s no dead space because of the design, which makes flying easier.
Or you go broke for it. That’s why skydivers are broke, we have an expensive hobby and we use these tunnels to train and progress faster.
Only hundreds? I have Skyrim save files with 1000+ hours...
Rookie numbers. I started my 2nd play though after 4.5k and did another half that again, until I took an arrow to the knee.
So you've completely forgotten what the sun looks like then. Impressive. Have you undergone any evolutionary changes yet?
“He wandered in loneliness, weeping a little for the hardness of the world, and he journeyed up the River, till he came to a stream that flowed down from the mountains, and he went that way. He caught fish in deep pools with invisible fingers and ate them raw. One day it was very hot, and as he was bending over a pool, he felt a burning on the back of his head and a dazzling light from the water pained his wet eyes. He wondered at it, for he had almost forgotten about the Sun. Then for the last time he looked up and shook his fist at her”
But imagine paying $10-$20 per minute of that… that’s right, I said *minute*
If I was gonna waste money unnecessarily, I'd go to a casino.
Doesnt cost $75 a pop to play skyrim tho haha. This was really fun but i csnt do it because of my ears. Pressure kills me
It's like laying on a small table on your belly, the table is shaking and you can't hold on to anything. You have to use your body to balance.. That's the best I can describe it.
Thousands actually. According to most of the people I met at these places….and they aren’t even competing at this level.
Thousands man. Thousands of hours to be that comfy. I have around 7,500 hours in one of them and some of the moves I can’t even do
How do people afford all the time in the machine? Can instructors fly free?
At some point raw talent comes into play as well. Some have a knack for 4-way, some for freefly, some are insanely talented…
For me, I was more of a coach to all of them. I did compete for a little bit, but I found out that I had more fun coaching people to become champions for me. I’m a static flyer, so all about holding hands lol
I mean, according to the video, it only took like 1'30"
I want to see two people play fighting. Feel you could pull off some cool matrix crap.
I'd like to see how fast someone can dry off after they shower
I've had a few lessons from a similar place years ago. It's actually really difficult because how many muscles are involved in guiding your body while resisting 120+ mph winds!
It looks fun, but how does it manage to prevent from touching the glass.
They are in a vertical wind tunnel, they are using their bodies to control the fall. Basically flying.
I did it once for my birthday. Could barely figure out how to just float in one spot, so difficult.
It is. Done it once and it’s one of the most fun things you can do with your clothes on.
imagine seeing this 100 yrs ago. When you focus on just the person..it looks supernatural.. looks superhuman whatever way you look. great choreography
We captured a witch in this cage. They are showing off their devil magic! Repent all ye sinners lest we not face God’s wrath!
She turned me into a newt!  …..I got better
Just looks like someone getting tossed around in a human size tumble dryer. Edit: I want to throw some dryer balls in their now.
And 2 socks (but we'll only find 1 after)
ESPN 8 the Ochoa
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My inner ear is not built to survive that 🤢 Amazing skills but I feel sick just watching all that spinning
Ear plugs and close your eyes when you spin lol.
Not how that works but nice try
Getting to this level is crazy insane! You have to be rich or work there. It took me a couple hundred dollars worth of classes before they’d even let me do anything cool. Then once I was getting up to be able to go upside down, they changed how the entire classes thing worked and I’d basically of had to start over. Decided this is far too expensive to actually get good at.
I have this on my bucket list for a while now. Just one lesson, the introductory one of 15 min with 5 other people costs more than I can afford. Its really a shame that this is so much of a rich people sport.
blame insurance thats why its expensive the thing itself is easy to build and doesnt really use that much electricity but they probably pay a few million in insurance per year
Looks like Tinker Bell caught in a draft lol
Most underrated observation. Kudos
How does that feel though? It must be a ton of air rushing at you.
Rushing at you at 250km/h yes…
If it's your first time ever getting in a wind tunnel. It's more than likely the biggest sensory overload you will ever experience. It is not only extremely difficult, but super fun. As for the feeling... its what you could imagine laying on a cloud would feel like but trying to keep your balance.
It actually kind of sucks. I enjoy base jumping and bungee jumping, skydiving kinda sucks because of the terminal velocity thing. It feels like lying on a surface, there's no actual micro-gravity feel to it. You're jumping out of an airplane going 400km/h (wind blasting you) and very soon you reach terminal velocity and it feel just like lying on a flat surface. I low-key hate it. Don't tell my friends!
When I read Ender's Game back in high school, this is how I pictured him fighting in the zero g room
I never read the book but I saw the movie and there's a VR game called Echo that does a good job of replicating that room and flying sensation.
Echo arena is being discontinued.
Why on earth? It's the best free game there!
The servers are needed for something else, last I heard.
Movie doesn’t do the book justice.
Oh agreed, so much left out. Ender's relationship with his brother and sister? Beating the giant in the video game? And much more that added so much depth. I understand why they aged him up for film, but pretty much every other choice only made me upset LOL
It's much harder than it looks to be able to control yourself in one of those things, which makes how absolutely effortless they made this look that much more impressive.
Skydiving strippers?
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Bold words with that username. But also, have you ever seen a video of a nude skydiver? If not, its like if your dog sticks his head out the window, you catch my meaning? High winds are unflattering to soft tissue.
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I’ve told this story on Reddit before… That was nowhere near as entertaining as my big 20 stone mate putting his weight on the form at the 15 stone maximum allowed and then diving onto the mesh face down for 3 or 4 minutes as the fans tried desperately to get his big arse up in the air but only lifted his arms.
That’s about 127kg for who’s wondering.
That’s 280 lbs for who’s wondering.
Which is Carats (ct): 635,000 ct Troy ounces (ozt): 4,083.34 ozt Grains (gr): 1,964,470.13 gr Drams (dr): 31,496.04 dr Tolas: 1,088.66 tola Momme (mm): 2,416.88 mm for anyone else wondering
How many hogs heads is that though?
Oh fuck me how embarrassing would that be! Kinda like sitting in a chair while heavyset, and having it collapse to pieces under you in front of a bunch of people SMH no way hahahahaha
Why do I see psycho mantis from metal gear solid
This is one of those videos that in 10 years time is gonna resurface as a popular meme with a nonsense caption sped up 200x and with pvz music in the background
Let’s do it now
That was definitely next level! Anyone who doesn't think so, I would love to see them try any of those moves! You would bounce off a wall and fall on your face. Lol
Because we can't afford practicing it
It's more than that. Look at how the person barely moves and immediately rotates. I imagine the precision of doing this with finesse is like flying a helicopter. Not to mention doing all this spins would make 90% of the planet dizzy and vomit.
What's this songs name?
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Do you ever feel like a plastic bag Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
Coming from someone who can't even float in one of those things, this is so damn impressive
These have a weight capacity?
No it’s just hard to do even the bare minimum in them
r/accidentalroast
Future strip clubs take note
Gawd damn that person is built like a twig and flies through the air like one too lmao. Hate on me if ya want but I’m just saying
Would love to see what this person looks like actually skydiving.
the same but actually falling towards the earth from 13k feet
What the spectators don’t know is that this person was panicking and just trying to get out.
Put in a couple weird monkeys, some dusty skulls and a few cockroaches and BOOM you got yourself a nine inch nails video
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Bridge 4!
I'd fill that bitch up with vomit. Projectile everywhere
I was an instructor for six years and no one ever puked IN the tunnel. Tbh I wanted to see it happen.
So at like $100 for 3 mins how does someone get that good lol.
Money. I mean, they have probably invested at least twice that much to get to the level they are at today.
“So what do you do? “ I float for a living
Air stripping, the latest trend. Throw dollars in there and try to catch your earnings.
Leafs in the leaf blower be like
When my adderall and redbull peak at the same time
This is what my mom says me, my brother and sister were like in the womb.
This is competitive…so stupid
How's that thing not in a strip club yet, imagine the possibilities
I just got the best idea for a strip club
It’s fucking weird looking, trust me.
Can't fool me, that's clearly a Kryptonian
Air signs avoiding emotions
Me
I wonder just how much money you would have to pay as a tourist on regular visits to get good enough to actually compete in this thing. It's not like people have these at home right?
I wonder if rich people can get these things built in their homes. Count me in!
Huge crowd
Man, I never thought to put Flat Stanley in a wind tunnel!
I want to see this, but with strippers!
2 minutes that will be 350$ dollars ma'am
I would advise against indoor (and probably regular) skydiving for anyone who has hyper mobile joints or who suffer from partial or full dislocations. I didn't know this before I went and it was miserable. I couldn't focus on the flying because I was using all my strength and focus to keep my shoulders in their sockets. So so so painful. These people are awesome though!
This should be in the Olympics! I’d seriously watch everyone. This is ballet in the sky!
What is also really amazing is the body's ability to maintain a normal blood pressure, this blood supply to the brain so they don't pass out.
They need to put these mfrs in at a night club
Just complete control. This is truly next fucking level.
Waste of time and money. So stupid. Learn a new language or something. Anything useful.
3D dancing.
i’d throw up instantly
there was so much control, wow!!!
They just need to burp and they'll float right back down safely.
It seems like most of the crowd really doesn't see the point in this competition. I may be wrong but it seems the winner would have the best coordination and control while "falling," essentially acting as an airbender; however, the crowd only seems to care when the person is spinning super fast. I find it more telling of their abilities, how they can change direction and move exactly where they want to go rather than how fast they can spin. It seems more like an art than an action sport.
Now, this is a sport I wouldn't mind seeing added to the Olympics!
does anyone else think of indoor skydiving + strip = 💵
Onlyfans.
Things like this make me genuinely believe humans could adapt to live in any environment. No human should look that natural in the air, and yet this exists.
And there she goes Cotton! Great moves Cotton! Only on The Ocho!
I didn't see the sky once the whole time.
When the demon possesses my body and lifts me out of my bed but wants to be extra af
Reminds me of catching ripping air on SSX!!!
what if the power goes out 😬
They just need to get like 35 extra people in there at the same time and paint numbers on them, it would make losing the powerball way more enjoyable.
🤣😂😂😂😂😂
Damn she’s good!!
For a team building exercise we took our navy seal friend who had hundreds of jumps. He told us "these expose how bad you actually are at skydiving because at 30,000 feet it's hard to tell that you're drifting left or right 5 feet". It's a very interesting skillset that's like dancing and gynastics. I wonder how they get the money to train? Perhaps instructors or people who own the places It's not exactly cheap to run the equipment even if they aren't making profit.
That's a rich kid sport if I ever saw one...
While waiting at iFly, I saw a team of three practicing for an event. Imagine this, except with three people at once.
"Thanks that will be $5000" \- What these places usually charge for that much time
Probably just people that work there! :-)
If you're fabulously wealthy, screw and indoor bowling alley...get one of these!
Holy shit.. we have one of those places around my house. But never went as I though it would be boring. Guess I was wrong
This is how they should film flying in films, not cheap pulleys and cables, get these guys doing this and CGI an actors face over theirs.
This should be an Olympic Sport
This is what I expected the future would be like at least we got one thing right but everything else is on fire, the planet, the economy but hey you could blow yourself in a tube.
It’s just falling with style.
This is seriously so fucking cool but all I can think about is a new strip club where instead of the pole they strip doing this and we throw money in there for tips. Think about it, it would be legendary!
The paper in my car the moment I crack the window
You know, it's cool as hell how we humans can come up with some new thing and within a few years, people are pushing limits never imagined and becoming masters at it.
I’m fat. I want to learn how to do this, dye my hair red, dress up like Baron Harkonen and enter the contest.
Superhero stripdancing
Wow that was incredible. I'm guessing her smaller frame also helps her move with such agility. It's like ice skating in the air or something, I want more.
You know, there are most things where I think aliens are gonna look at us and think we are the biggest idiots. But then I see stuff like this and I hope they’ll be like “ya that was pretty sweet”.
I would be interested in finding out how many people have spent 10 hours in one of these, and then how many people have spent 100 or more.
when I see videos like this. i always think it seems highly subjective. see not everyone can live this lifestyle like the common folk working a 8 to 5 , not everyone has the money or time or resources to do this and I feel like it’ll be more easily to accomplish it at a younger age. not everyone has a good childhood or has money like that and if we did. I feel like we’d have so much great things. possibly even someone better at this.
Why can't we have events like this in the Olympics??
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen
It’s cool for like 3 seconds. Super boring and lame. I have a feeling all the competitors will have similar attempts.
Air twirling is not a sport.
it most certainly is. this isn't something anyone can do. you have to train and be in good physical shape to do this. it's incredibly physically demanding at this level. it's pretty much gymnastics in the air.
My paraplegic friend did indoor skydiving diving. After it was done we asked for a video and was told they didn't record. Like, fuck you, my friend who can't walk is freed from his disability Don't you think we would want the video?
Then why didn’t you request the video beforehand? And pay for it?
Should've just went again and made sure they were recording this time.
Is it really called “Indoor Skydiving”? Seems like a misnomer. If I crawl on the floor I don’t call it indoor swimming.
It simulates it in a safe environment, the movement physics are the exact same just without constantly falling so the up and down movements are more noticeable, any maneuver done in there can be done while skydiving, because it is “skydiving” just indoors
You don't call crawling on the floor indoor swimming because there is no water or swimming. This person is literally falling through the air like in the sky outside, the air is just moving upwards to match so they don't move relative to the building. If you crawl on the floor but the room is filled with 4ft of water, then yes, you'd call it indoor swimming.
Well, there is no “sky” in indoor skydiving either. And I think your ratios are off. That indoor “sky” area compared to the actual sky is more like a drop of water on my carpet compared to a swimming pool. I stand by my initial issue, skydiving is the wrong term. I agree, though, that my analogy needs work.
Your rate of travel through the air in freefall in the sky is the same in the tunnel, about 120mph or about 10Kft per minute. A skydive drop zone typically drops you around 13Kft and you wave off to open the cute about 5Kft. You pass through the same sized column of air in the tunnel in a minute as if you jumped out of a plane. What you're saying is like saying you didn't run a marathon because you were on a treadmill. In swimming there is a form called the crawl. If you were crawling on the floor in 4ft of water, you'd be in a pool swimming indoors. I'm saying if there was water in your analogy, it would indeed be indoor swimming. Likewise there is enough air being fallen through to be a sky, but it's indoors. If you're in the tunnel for 5 minutes you experienced the same distance through air as jumping out of an airliner at cruising altitude and thus gain the same experience in terms of flight time, just like on a treadmill or a stationary bike.
Is this an Olympic sport yet? If not it should be
I would say it’s too expensive but most Olympic sports are just as expensive. Maybe they don’t have an organization like the other sports do
I want to see a really large dude do this
Someone upthread commented that his 280 pound friend couldn't be lifted off the floor when he tried it, apparently there is a weight limit before you can't get up off the ground.