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February 20, 2007 5:52 PM   Subscribe

Spectacular footage taken from the POV a man who jumps from a helicopter and proceeds to glide down a snow covered mountain at 100mph+.
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Anyone watch this "Dueling Nunchucks" video that showed up as "related"?
posted by delmoi at 6:03 PM on February 20, 2007


FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
posted by synaesthetichaze at 6:05 PM on February 20, 2007


If only someone would duel nunchucks down a mountain.
posted by farishta at 6:06 PM on February 20, 2007


I've seen nine-year-old martial arts brats that would put those two to shame.
posted by gurple at 6:08 PM on February 20, 2007


It kind of reminds me of some animated short about a kiwi that I think I saw here.
posted by owhydididoit at 6:10 PM on February 20, 2007


That wasn't spectacular. It was very meh.
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 6:16 PM on February 20, 2007


That wasn't spectacular. It was very meh.

I disagree. That was much less "meh" and much more "holy shit!" when I watched it.

Perhaps those that knock it do so because it appeared pretty effortless. As with most things requiring steel cojones, major skill, or a combination of these; it is something that is best complimented by the fact that it doesn't look that hard when done extremely well.

Whoever wants to hop in a flying squirrel skydiving suit and show us that it is in fact "meh", I welcome your efforts. I'll stay here on terra firma, thanks.
posted by rollbiz at 6:34 PM on February 20, 2007


It's a spectacular stunt; it's the footage that's kind of lacking. A lot of those camera shots reminded me of watching golf—oh, that little white spot? Is that what I'm looking at—and so it's sort of frustrating to watch.
posted by cortex at 6:40 PM on February 20, 2007


RIHHHCOOOLLLAAAHHH!
posted by isopraxis at 6:41 PM on February 20, 2007 [1 favorite]


Double.
posted by EarBucket at 6:43 PM on February 20, 2007


Why do the call it dueling nunchucks if they aren't smacking each other with them? Imagine a video labeled "dueling pistols", and all I get is a couple of dudes throwing guns in the air.

And before someone busts out with "you don't hit each other in dueling banjos", nunchucks are weapons. That's what they're for.
posted by noble_rot at 7:00 PM on February 20, 2007


*they*
posted by noble_rot at 7:00 PM on February 20, 2007


I would have liked to see the entire footage from when he jumped out of the plane to when he landed. Rather than the overdone editing and the narrator telling us this is snow and that's a man and now he's gliding and ooh look more snow. Sigh.
posted by ZachsMind at 7:06 PM on February 20, 2007


And before someone busts out with "you don't hit each other in dueling banjos", nunchucks are weapons. That's what they're for.

This is such an obvious lead-in to a banjo joke that I refuse to participate.
posted by cortex at 7:11 PM on February 20, 2007


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