and I thought a belly flop into a pool hurt as a kid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... 2xmAWS4akE

Sticking to surfing. That is frick'n nuts.

I'm thinking that had to have left a bit of redness......his balls must be so big they acted as his parachute.

MTV

Looks totally fake to me? The landing.

That is so fake that its funny.....looks not even close to real.

low rider wrote:That is so fake that its funny.....looks not even close to real.

I concur. Now that I have had a cup of coffee.

Absolutely fake. Even the best wing suit in normal trim still has a vertical speed of 40 Mph. The vertical speed can be slowed down somewhat by increasing the forward speed and bending your legs to get some "up elevator" effect. In this trim, the vertical speed can slow to 20 Mph, but the forward speed increases to over 100 Mph. The combined energy of the fall in either case would produce a ground impact (or water impact) that would not be survivable. If approaching the water at a flat angle, your forward speed would be too great to avoid a tumble. I've tumbled from water skiing crashes at 30 Mph and that hurt like hell. Crashing at over 100 would break bones. If the forward speed were slowed to the minimum possible, the vertical speed would increase to the point of causing massive internal hemorrhaging. There are some wing suit flyers that have contemplated falling onto a slick ramp that would decelerate their vertical descent rate sufficiently to survive the landing, One other wing suit flyer crashed landed into a 3 story high pile of cardboard boxes that decelerated both the vertical and horizontal components of his fall and he walked out of the impact zone. Water would not be so forgiving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5_ITt2LM0A