I imported several DVD videos of skydives over the past year into Premiere and edited them into one video with new music. The video footage of free fall is from my 13th skydive. The parachute landing footage is from Scott Miller’s canopy course.
On May 12th I took Scott Miller’s canopy course. It lasted most of the day. We sat in class and Scott taught different aspects on various things, then we made a jump using some of what we learned and went back into the classroom to do it again several times. I learned a lot and my landings improved significantly after taking that class.
I’m the last jumper in the video.
A stuntman, Scott Smith, participated in a stunt video in Perris, California, filmed for the Discovery Channel in which he was launched 300 feet into the air by a catapult “slingshot”. Smith is a also a sky surfer with 8000 skydives to his name, 150 base jumps and performed stunts for scenes in the movie ‘xXx’.
Video Links:
YouTube: Human Catapult
YouTube: Human Slingshot
MetaCafe: Slingshot Video
Poetv.com: Human Slingshot
Related Links:
Discovery.com: The Athlete: Scott Smith
KNBC: ‘Human Slingshot’ Launched from Crane
Amazing. This is the kind of thing that happens in the skydiving world that most people never get to see. It’s a shame. There are 85 canopies in the formation.