action sport junkies?

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maxout

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Are there any action sport junkies here? I'm wondering if there are any people who share a similar film/video interest in the action sport world??

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Nick
 
Skydiving is cool. Never done it. Working a local TV production show (adventure tv etc) and one episode was skydiving. The skydiving company had their own group of guys who shot video (looks way cool) - That would be fun to do.

I have some ski and snowboard - mountain bike, and off-road motorsports stuff. Just looking to see if any other people here had any other cool stuff.....skateboard and surfing too.

Nick
 
Yeah skydiving videography is a pretty unique little niche. A few hundred more jumps and I'll feel ok strapping a camera helmet on. Lots of weight and thought goes into all that. Oddly enough, going fast on the ground scares the crap out of me, so I dont have any of those fun toys, just parachutes. Surfing has always interested me, but living in oklahoma makes that kinda hard to do. You should definitely make a tandem jump sometime - its a pretty crazy feeling when you take that first step.
 
Skateboarder here!
10+ years sponsored and doing my best to get behind the camera as I get older :)
 
Love skiing. Fastest I've clocked on skis (with a GPS) is a little over 100kph [62mph], sure I've gone faster too. Have done some handheld shooting from skis too (on separate occasions). Came out pretty good, would love to do more.


Done a bit of shooting while downhill rollerblading too some years ago. With the camera literally an inch off the pavement, it looks *really* fast.
Fastest timed speed on 'blades is 1/4mile in 30sec (average 30mph [48kph]) from a dead stop, so well past the average at max - no idea what. Found a picture of the street here.


Haven't shot from a mountain bike yet, though I used to ride quite a lot.


- Mikko ... has also been pulled over for speeding on Rollerblades in a 20mph zone.
 
damn mikko... that hill reminds me of my wife and I trying to pick up rollerblading after doing it some in our teens. we accidentally went down a similiar hill and thought we were going to die. Ok so the hill was probably half the size and we barely hit 10mph but I quickly remembered how much I hate asphalt and pretty much all hard surfaces...
 
My action sport is called "tricking" or kind of XMA.

Here is an example of what I do. Sometimes I film it just for fun.

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