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RAL INN
RAL INN
SA
2898 posts
SA, 2898 posts
29 Nov 2006 6:39pm
http://www.acro-base.com/fr/imgs/galerie/video/videos/eiger06/eiger-faf-emb.mov

anyone care to give this sport a name?
Smasher
Smasher
NSW
59 posts
NSW, 59 posts
29 Nov 2006 8:26pm
Just updated my version of Quiktime to try to get the video to play. The sound runs ok but still no video coming through. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix it?

Cheers Cam
myes myes
myes myes
WA
223 posts
WA, 223 posts
29 Nov 2006 5:27pm
got the same problem as smasher
junglist
junglist
VIC
701 posts
VIC, 701 posts
29 Nov 2006 8:55pm
Suicide
tobes
tobes
NSW
1000 posts
NSW, 1000 posts
29 Nov 2006 8:59pm
It's called "speed riding".
That Eiger video is more like a suicide attempt though!
Here's a more typical example
ataka.speedriding.free.fr/Video/Speed%20Riding%20%20small.mpg

If you can't watch the vids, get this
www.videolan.org/vlc/
Skid
Skid
QLD
1499 posts
QLD, 1499 posts
29 Nov 2006 10:17pm
Great video Tobes!
I can't decide which bit I like more; the really cool 'loop', or the sudden stop when the guy tries to fly under the ski lift cable.
gruezi
gruezi
WA
3464 posts
WA, 3464 posts
29 Nov 2006 8:51pm
Cool vid, thanks.

I would call this new sport scitzoskiglide. The guys here don't know what they want to do, spoiled I would say. Personally, I would never leave that beautiful powder untracked like they did. Seems like a waste to go wizzing down a slope without being in it actually.

Looks easy on the back, so its a good old mans sport, just can't mess up or you are a dead man.

greenleader
greenleader
QLD
5283 posts
QLD, 5283 posts
29 Nov 2006 11:11pm
ya, it is easier to drive to za beach dan to get my 4wd to the top of das eiger!
frauline maria does not like driving down from da summit every time we do a descent of such magnitude!
RAL INN
RAL INN
SA
2898 posts
SA, 2898 posts
30 Nov 2006 7:40am
finally a snow sport suitable for Oz ski conditions.

just need a bit of snow on the summit and bugger the rest.
Going
Going
58 posts
58 posts
30 Nov 2006 4:19pm
This is the new upcoming sport in italy and france. but as far as i know it is forbidden here in switzerland...
u need to have a lot of experience in flying paraglider.
and a failure is lethal!
i prefer to fly for 20 hours to australia and go kitesurfing than go speed riding and die!
NorthSide
NorthSide
WA
238 posts
WA, 238 posts
30 Nov 2006 8:16pm
WOW! That is awesome... although the first clip is pure craziness! I can see that sport getting banned at alot of ski fields... but how about going heli skiing somewhere like NZ or Canada with them!
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