Educational information on BASE and Wingsuit BASE, with videos, tips, articles from leading authorities in BASE
Skills to stay alive Survival Skills This Video is purely for the education of BASE jumpers and other Extreme Sports athletes to show how I have survived the sport of base jumping so far in the last 19 years. It is not an action-packed video and it is long. But if this video can save
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Speed: Part 1 – Why Fly Fast? WBKS is off to a sickening start. The global Wingsuit Base Killing Season. June through September. Every year. The last two months have been horrific. It doesn’t matter if it’s your first WB jump, or your 1000th. Nobody is kill-proof. The Base Fatality List raced up to #300
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Welcome back to our discussion of Speed in Wingsuit BASE. In part 1, we built an academic framework defining the sensitivity of Available Lift (AL) to speed. Numerically, more speed = more AL = more life margin. The most important takeaway from Part 1: Any speed decrease can kill your Available Lift in seconds. When
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Matt Gerdes submits the final installment in our 3-part Speed series; this article can also be found on topgunbase and base-book.com. This article can be read alone, but is also part 3 in a series: Part 1: Why Fly Fast? Part 2: Stability vs Drag Part 3: Speed to Fly One of the more important
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It doesn’t happen by accident, it’s a choice…
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The keys to a successful WS deployment, described and shown on video
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By Matt Gerdes and the Squirrel / Asylum Designs Team Your pilot chute is the first link in the deployment chain. While skydiving, it is responsible for overcoming the friction between your main container and your deployment bag, and then getting your d-bag to line stretch with minimal drama. If your Pilot Chute (PC) is
Things You Should Know About PCs Read More »
Using the flare to improve your Wingsuit openings
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Do a gear check before jumping and leave the plane with no worries!
Rhythm How-to: Pre-jump gear check Read More »
With the recent academic interest surrounding Speed and Angle of Attack in Wingsuit BASE, I’m getting numerous questions on real-world connections between the two. Thank you for your inquiring minds… I’ll try my best to answer some of the more popular questions below… 1) Are smaller suits safer in Wingsuit BASE because they’re faster? Wow,
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