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Crazy acrobat jumps from 180-foot crane onto a giant air bag

Watch professional acrobat Greg Roe leap, somersault and plunge head first from 180-foot crane—the equivalent of 25 stories—landing at almost 100 miles per hour on a giant airbag. While it looks cool, it is not the most insane jump of its kind. Check this one out, from 342 feet in 1998: SPLOID is a new…

Guy jumps from speeding truck into 328-foot-deep gorge

The guy with the big hair and the titanium gonads is Sebastián Álvarez, who decided it was a great ice to jump over the safety railing of the Amonalas Viaduct, in Coquimbo, Chile, into a 328-foot (100 meter) deep. He only had a couple second before he could open his parachute—or die. SPLOID is a…

First person video of a 34-foot-high jump on a motorbike

Watch motocross freestyle biker Ronnie Renner clearing 34 feet (10.36 meters) to win the Moto X Step Up—a bike high jump competition at the Summer X Games 2014 in Austin, Texas. It’s amazing to see how high he got. According to Renner, the jump is really hard, especially the landing. The impact becomes a real…

These first-person acrobatic jumps on a pogo stick are making me dizzy

These guys are Nick McClintock and the Xpogo crew. Franly, I don’t know who Nick McClintock and the Xpogo crew are or how the hell did they think about using pogos to perform their acrobatic jumps, but watching their first-person videos is making me dizzy. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

Video of the first dog in the world to fly on a wingsuit

I’m all for people risking their lives and getting a thrill out of jumping from anywhere in the world. But I’m not a fan of people who get their dog along for the ride. As fun as it may look, I’m pretty sure the dog—who doesn’t understand what the hell is going on—is not a…

Watch this guy jump over an entire island while kitesurfing

I’m fairly certain that the idea of jumping over an island has never crossed my mind in all my years of thinking. But if you’re a champion kitesurfer like Youri Zoon and you stumble across a small enough island, well, that’s just another day on the beach for you. Jumping the damn thing and nailing…

Insane Russian guys doing acrobatic stunts perched on an electric tower

Just when I thought nobody could get crazier than these Ukrainians, here come two Russians doing high risk stunts perched on some sort of electrical or radio tower without any safety measures whatsoever. Not only they put their lives on the line, but they insist on increasing the chances of a major failure. Clearly, they…

This ski jump makes me feel my stomach drop every single time

I know he has a parachute, but whatever. Every time he goes down the slope and I see the snow ending abruptly, I feel my stomach drop every single time. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us on Facebook

Watch the Navy parachute team jump and land inside a baseball stadium

Because most of us will never take the literal leap of jumping off a damn plane, here’s POV footage from the Leap Frogs aka the Navy’s parachute team. For the San Diego Padre’s home opener, the jumpers took off in a plane and landed right smack inside Petco Park. You can hear the roar of…

Crazy videos of fearless guys in kayak falling down huge waterfalls

Another thing that I didn’t know was a thing. People who like to drop through big waterfalls, like Dane Jackson does in this video on the 60-foot La Tomata waterfall in central Veracruz, Mexico. And there’s more, like the 189-foot drop a reader posted below. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff. Join us…

The world’s biggest rope swing jump is 600 feet of pure adrenaline rush

Who the hell looks at a 600-foot cliff in South Africa and says “let’s build a rope swing here”? Mike Wilson and Andrew Kirkpatrick, that’s who. Luckily, they filmed the madness as they sent a bunch of their friends flying on the world’s biggest, scariest, craziest rope swing. This thing is so big, they needed…

I just can’t believe how insanely crazy this skier is

Watch Mickael Bimboes launching “off a massive cliff in his 3rd place run for the Swatch Freeride World Tour at Aiguille Pourrie, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France.” And remember, folks—this guy got the third place. Seriously, watch it all because you are not going to believe how nuts and/or suicidal this dude is. SPLOID is a new blog…

Man on fire jumps off a 3,900-foot cliff in craziest basejump stunt yet

The whole base jumping thing is getting out of hand. The Awesomerer found this video of Tom Erik Heimen setting himself on fire and jumping off a 3,900-foot cliff in Norway. The biggest risk, they say, was that the small parachute—called pilot chute—that it’s used to deploy the actual parachute might catch on fire. Fortunately,…

Mad skier backflips over a highway—and faceplants against the snow

“A valid attempt at a backflip over the Mount Baker highway,” says the author of this jump over a highway in Whatcom County, Washington. Well, at least it wasn’t a total failure and you didn’t smash your face against the asphalt. Totally worth it I say (if only because I love to make satisfying looping…

Spectacular stunt: Man runs up 98-foot ship mast and jumps into the sea

Alex Thomson is an experienced sailor with an 8-tonne racing sailboat as tall as a 10-story building. He’s also a bit of a madman and here’s the proof—watch him running over the 98-foot-long mast of his ship and then jump into the sea. Here’s the video recorded in Cádiz, Spain, Thomson first heeled his ship,…

Good news and bad news for serial phone-flippers: Starting on the 23rd, T-Mobile’s Jump plan will let you upgrade your phone any time you want, not just twice a year. But! You’ll have to have paid off half the value of your current phone in order to swap to the newest thing, a limitation that…

Unedited videos really show how crazy any wingsuit jump really is

You’ve probably seen many edited wingsuit jumps with a music soundtrack. They’re fun, but I think those are nothing compared to these unedited flights. There’s something about them—perhaps the anticipation and the actual sound—that really puts me on edge. These are the adventures of Julie Minot and his friends. In their “home” videos you can…

A Charging Cable That Saves a Little Power For Later

A backup battery for your phone is only useful if you’re willing to carry it with you. So Native Union has come up with the JUMP which integrates a little extra power into your smartphone’s charging cable, ensuring it’s light enough to carry and always has a little bit of extra power to keep your…

Jumping on a frozen trampoline looks like a lot of fun

Digg found this video of a guy jumping on a frozen trampoline. Here’s the money shot in slow motion, but check out the full video to hear the noise: It’s a nice change from all the people recording themselves throwing pots of boiling water in the air. SPLOID is a new blog about awesome stuff.…

These insane ice climbers make Spider-man look like a wimpy amateur

Maybe you saw photographer Thomas Senf’s work with a bunch of crazy ice climbers in the Frost Giants, Norway. I never saw the video showing the true extend of their insanity. Just watching them jumping upside down onto ice curtains that can break makes my heartbeat rise. https://gizmodo.com/climbing-frozen-waterfalls-at-night-by-the-light-of-a-d-1459406383