Settled duel

By Julien on Tuesday, July 20 2010, 11:46 - Misc - Permalink

Once upon a time, in a far far away countryside tavern, two lads bragging about their respective achievements couldn't settle what they thought was the meaning of life. In order to resolve this dispute, they decided to make a pact. A pact that they might have signed with their blood if they had been a bit more stupid (or drunk) but there's a limit to everything. It took a while to fulfil the pact requirements, but both were eager and none bailed out. Crowds had to wait even longer to get access to the achievement evidences, but that day has come my dear friends.


Doug on the pink finish line of the Marathon 06 (Nice - Cannes).




Your author at 3,500 feet (but not for long).


Note that you'll need a browser supporting the video HTML 5 element to watch the videos. The streams are encoded in Ogg Theora (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, ...) and H.264 (Chrome, Safari, ...). If you're still using Internet Explorer, it might be time to change :) . Also note that there is no sound. Please let me know whether it plays or not on your system.

Ultra duel

Comments

1. On Tuesday, July 20 2010, 13:08 by Yannick

Crazy guy! Congratulations!
No problem for the video with mozilla.

2. On Tuesday, July 20 2010, 13:53 by Doug

So what's the next challenge then?

Also works with Mozilla for me, but not Opera.

3. On Tuesday, July 20 2010, 13:58 by Mathieu

Excellent !
But for your first (and second) attempt, you can jump solo ?
PS: Video ok (Firefox 3.6.6)

4. On Tuesday, July 20 2010, 14:11 by Julien

@Doug: who knows, this might be decided on the next Thursday meeting?
@Mathieu: yes you can jump solo on a static line on your first jump if you've followed a course beforehand. Because it's a static line (yellow in the video), the parachute opens on its own after a few seconds of free fall. Then you're on your own (with a radio communication, though) to deal with the navigation and landing.

5. On Tuesday, July 20 2010, 14:17 by Bastien

A button 'I like' is missing on this blog ! ;-)
Congrats to both of you !

6. On Wednesday, July 21 2010, 21:49 by Fred

What the...! I vaguely expected jumping to be scary, but seen from the plane, with the fields under, it looks totally pants wetting. Congratulations, I think it's going to be difficult to find a tougher challenge!

7. On Thursday, July 22 2010, 10:38 by Julien

@Fred: don't worry too much, we both got better ideas :)