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High diving from helicopter

Cedric — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:02:35 +0000

With extreme cliff diving, divers are entering water at about 100 km/h. Not enough for you ? Well, I think you should try extreme helicopter diving then…

Any hesitation ? Orlando Duque, the Colombian diving champion, had none. See by yourself in this video.

The sky is the limit now

The Longest Way

Cedric — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:49:03 +0000

For his 26 birthday in November 2007, Christoph Rehage started the trip of his life : walking from Beijing to his hometown in Germany.

He was not able to finish his trip, but he walks for a year, more than 4.600 kms across China, and he came back with this beautiful video and a lot of stories to tell.

Maybe one day, he’ll finish this trip.

The musical score is by The Kingpins (L’aventurier) and Zhu Fengbo (Olive Tree)

Day of Light

Cedric — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:44:41 +0000

On March 6, 2008 a flood of people, music, and kites invaded the city landfill in Managua, Nicaragua, where nearly 1,500 people live, work, and make their homes. The trash dump is called La Chureca, which means the Scavenging Place and can be described as a post-apocalyptic war zone, as people search through the piles of burning trash, looking for things to eat, fix, and recycle.

Day of Light (Dia de Luz) chronicles this epic celebration of life in La Chureca, set to music by Braddigan and captured by six filmmakers over the course of one day… from sunrise to sunset.

[Via VincentDidier]

Yves “Fusion Man” Rossy crossed the channel

Cedric — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:10:14 +0000

On Friday September 26th 2008, Yves Rossy, a swiss pilot and modern adventurer born in 1959, became the first man to fly across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover, using a homemade single jet-powered wing.

He reached the UK within 13 minutes, covering a 35 kilometres trip at an average speed of 200 kilometres per hour.

Watch the best of this historical flight, which was broadcasted live on National Geographic, and find out more videos on his official Youtube channel.

Alain Robert : The french Spiderman

Cedric — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:05:48 +0000

Do you suffer from vertigo ? Alain Robert does. But this does not keep him from climbing the world’s tallest structures using only … his bare hands. Known as the french spiderman, he started his carreer as a solo rock climber, before entering a urban climbing carreer. Now 46, and despite 7 accidents, he continues climbing to raise awareness towards global warming and other humanitarian causes.

The video presented here is an extract from his movie : “the legend of the french Spiderman“, that you can watch on vodeo (in french).

Alain Robert also have his official channel on Dailymotion, where you can find more videos about him.

Jean-Yves Blondeau is “Rollerman”

Cedric — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:49:32 +0000

Jean-Yves Blondeau first conceived of his plastic 31-wheel inline skating body suit in 1994, while he was a student in Paris. 14 years later, it has received a lot of improvements, and Jean-Yves “Rollerman” Blondeau is now able to reach 110 km/h using his suit on open roads. It’s now a sport named Buggy Rollin.

A huge community of fans is waiting for the sell of the first commercial buggy-rollin’ equipment, which could happen within a few months.

You can find more videos of Rollerman skating down moutains on his official channel on youtube.