Who was the absoluter madman?

This. Also The Walk with Joseph Gordon Levitt was pretty entertaining

Those two are literal autists who see nothing else. Jackass guys are just in for the goofs.

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what about this french mad lad

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Why do people do mad shit? Think about ski jumping. Some absolute madman just went ahead and jumped a long fucking distance risking his entire life, and then some dude went "bet I can do it better"

I liked it better than Man on Wire tbqh.

Ski jumping is fun, and the chance of death or even serious injury is small if you know what you're doing. I'll stick to small hills, though, where you jump like 10-20 meters.

And there's also the fact that Man on Wire immediately cheated on his gf then broke up after doing his stunt.

>shoot arrow across WTC to get cable there
>walk across, lay down, jump up and down on wire
>finally come down and see onlookers cheering
>sloots throw themselves out you
>cheat on your GF that same day with a random new yorker
based

I'm gonna guess his gf wasn't a top tier qt like Sanni.

Also, checked.

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Man on Wire : Life in Danger 45 minutes
Free Solo : Life in Danger 3 hours?

Man on wire expected to worry that he would fall and not make it after telling me right from the start that the guy is alive and well

yea it's almost like people generally don't care what 100's of people can do, but what only 1 person can do.
If 100's of people free solo'd El Cap then no one would care about Alex, but they don't.

>Some absolute madman just went ahead and jumped a long fucking distance risking his entire life,
It's much more likely that a succession of people jumped ever increasing distances starting small until we reached the distance they jump today

Is that just a tiny scale building with a spider on it? Or is that...cause, uh if that’s like a real building then that would be like a human spider

How did they set the wire?

The rope guy because of heavy winds around skyscrapers.

past a certain point height doesn't really make a difference. you're dead if you fall 30 feet or 3000 feet. isn't the average tight rope act just as dangerous as this?

for some reason the rock climber does not impress me at all.

Umm did you not watch the awards?
The real mountain that was climbed was Hannold’s girlfriend personal mountain

Yeah but who cares about women

Spiders don't make buildings you retard. They live in webs.

This is probably bait, but I'll bite. Do you know what 'free solo' means?

My palms are so sweaty by reflex

imagine the smell

I picture it like some bro was like
>bet you cant jump 900 feet on skiis
>hold my beer

They're both absolutely mad, and only slight more than the hundreds of millions of Americans driving cars at 65mph every day.

They shot an arrow across to the other side with the wire attached.

Yeah but you're also dealing with extremely high winds. One strong, unexpected gust and you're done for. Just thinking about it makes my gut wrench.

That he has no people?

Both are sane, even boring, lads compared to these lads, who truly were mad:

independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/what-lies-beneath-mossdale-caving-disaster-794268.html

>No one had been in Mossdale before. Thoughts inexorably slipped to where the shaky dam outside was keeping them alive. But as the water slowly sank, they were joined by Tony Waltham, a London-based Wanderer who had rushed to the cave, astonished to find that no one else there had ever been to its end. At last they began the hardest journey of their lives.

>Though still dankly dripping, Far Marathon now was abnormally dry. With no running water the silence was uncanny. To the leader of countless underground rescues it seemed like the silence of the grave. The 900ft crawl – 10 inches high and two feet wide – was too tight for passing if they met survivors. Eyre elected to let Waltham lead a few men forward but, frantic for their comrades, others pushed past too.

>Waltham found the first two bodies jamming the passage. It was a terrifying moment; a nightmare to crawl over them. Just beyond he found three more. Of the sixth, there was no sign. It was a terrifying place. When Eyre caught up many of the team were weeping; several were retching; only Waltham spoke: "Go back, Jim. They're dead."

what about that cave diver guy that got stuck

If you can't tell the difference between the two then you may very well have legit autism. Seek help

Considering Nathan teaches himself to wire walk in a few weeks for the S3 Finale of Nathan For You I'm going to go ahead and say wire walking is not that big of a deal.

His buddies went up the other side and caught the line they shot across to then feed the wire over.

Ski jumping is significantly less dangerous than alpine skiing. Dozens of athletes have died over the years skiing, including several on live TV. On a yearly basis several high profile skiers will crash and suffer nasty injuries like ACL tears (most common) or broken limbs.

Brutal deadly crash of Austrian Gernot Reinstadler in 1991 (not for the faint of heart):
youtube.com/watch?v=x9FVWhk8Dnc
Nasty crash of Austria skier whose leg was literally torn apart (had to be amputated):
youtube.com/watch?v=aMuXKd7LgsI
Norwegian Svindal, the best downhill skier of his generation doing a flip at 70mph:
youtube.com/watch?v=ibpGIaVFNM8

Yeah, downhill skiing has more variables and higher speeds. I remember watching that Svindal crash live. Absolutely terrifying stuff.

That first one is block due to copyright. You have another link?

Here's the same video on liveleak:
liveleak.com/view?t=a32_1518406407

I think he put it down as he was walking across. Have you ever seen Wallace and Gromit when they're on the train set being chased by the cockerel? Like that.

thanks for the malware asshole

avoid this link

Are you fucking retarded?

Ok, here's another one on youtube. It's very short so maybe not blocked:
youtube.com/watch?v=u8_-WBl7FiU

Lel

Name 13 of those women

>There was extensive news coverage and public appreciation of Petit's high-wire walk; the district attorney dropped all formal charges of trespassing and other items relating to his walk. In exchange, Petit was required to give a free aerial show for children in Central Park. He performed on a high-wire walk in the Park above Belvedere Lake (known now as Turtle Pond).

His retarded accent was offputting.
Also, he a huge faggot and couldn't get anymore gay

>all that blood spilling out of his asshole
Jesus

dean

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That's crazy. Now free soloing doesn't seem so dangerous in comparison - you have far more degrees of control than you do going at that speed down a slope.

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So is the ideal body for rock climbing just as light as possible while still being strong as possible? How do you do that exactly?

That boulder problem was super sketchy, though. At one point he only had a grip with two fingers or something.

correct answer

The wire stunt looks 10x more dangeous to me

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no line, no rope, you fall you die

We have Furries on Solo

not falling down after seeing that, was amazing, so Solo.

To get bigger you increase calorie intake and lift heavier and heavier weights. To maintain the same size you just lift the same weights without increasing them. It's like when you see memers who life weights, but aren't big and get strong as fuck. You'd be surprised how many weeds you'll see who are very very strong.

I mean that's kinda obvious. I dunno why people would think anything else, unless they saw Cliffhanger as a kid and thought you needed to be a 250lbs bodybuilder to be good at rock climbing...

AFAIK most rock climbers develop their strength only by climbing, but when it comes to the really difficult extreme climbs people have pioneered some dedicated training.
The German climber Wolfgang Güllich invented the campus board, also called Güllich board, to train for a specific very difficult boulder problem that he didn't have enough strength for. Lots of elite climbers use that stuff now.

I've never rock climbed before. Is it more upper body strength or just overall strength?

Grade doesn't mean shit in terms of endurance and the mental aspect of performing that climb solo with no safety gear whatsoever.

You don't know shit

Holy FUCK that's a lot of blood. He must have bled out in a minute.

This shit makes me so fucking anxious. How can anyone do this? Have they smoked weed or watched a great movie or heard great music of had great sex? Life is too important.

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probably part of the plan. Doing crazy stunts rockets up your SMV. There's a reason a lot of men live fast, die young. It's an optimal reproductive strategy.

not him but I'd say beginner climbing is about getting your upper body and grip strength up to a certain level and just learning technique (keeping your center of gravity close to the wall etc), intermediate is about core strength and flexibility (being able to activate the muscles in your limbs at awkward angles, while holding awkward positions), and elite climbing is about all kinds of strength you could possibly have. elite climbers need elite leg strength to make jumps and to hold onto tiny holds with the tips of their toes.

youtube.com/watch?v=uB2nDNsMvgg

Please don't post your YT bullshit here thnx Yea Forums

skiing always reminds me of the soundtrack from that game

wire man also had to plan out an elaborate mission to get the wire up between the buildings without being noticed, so i'd say he's the bigger madman

shoot, you’re right

>entire film dedicated to the fact that he is literally the first ever person to do this thing and no one else will be repeating this in the foreseeable future

No, the guy is legendary, youre a retard

Ignore him, he doesn't even know what "free solo" means and didn't watch the doc.

Imagine being retarded

Fucking retarded post.

>dumb chavs die in a cave
Who cares?

This movie sucked, didn't even have Chewbecca in it.

I watched the Oscars show, did anyone else get completely assblasted by the way they treated Honnold when they got up on stage?

>thank x and y
>thank Alex' gf for making this special, it would have been boring otherwise

>oh and btw gj Alex

Fucking pieces of shit

>Man on Wire guy never rehearsed his feat on location.

But he had done several other wire walks over fatal heights.

based

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I suppose the most basic test of climbing fitness would be doing pull-ups and dead-hangs. That's an extreme simplification, but it still involves the same muscle groups: hands, forearms, back and upper body in general.
You may find this fun:
youtube.com/watch?v=GJk_bHN7UiM

Underrated post of the hour.

saw it too, it made my stomach turn

Free Solo is so much more damn INTERESTING.

Like Man on Wire literally describes the fucking movie in the title. it's a dude on a wire. yeah it's dangerous but it's not that INTERESTING and there's not much dynamic to it.

The actual activity of climbing El Cap is so much more complex and involved and much more of a "feat". (theoretically many, many more people could feasibly do what Petit did (actual skill wise) than Honnold)

You wouldn't even need that much stamina or preparation (for the actual crossing part). Climbing El Cap took years of perfecting every movement. It is superhuman

Man on Wire is essentially interesting as a 5 minute youtube video not a whole goddamn movie

if serious this is some advanced stupidity right here

Me. I just drank milk that expired three days ago.

The most interesting part of Man on Wire was how they set up the wire.

That was pretty funny. "You climbed your own mountain" to his gf who slept in the van all day while Alex literally did climb a mountain.

It was actually a pretty interesting trend throughout the evening. Whenever a non-white person was making a speech, they made it all about them and their struggle and completely hogged all the time. But when a white person won, they would make a short and succinct speech so that the other winners would also have time to say something.

Wait, he was at the Oscars? I must have missed it

youtube.com/watch?v=D85NUx8NneQ

They ran out of time before even thanking him.

2 people climbed up on the sides of both buildings with the rope attached to them

Wanted to read but that is one of the worst written articles I've ever read.

The Free Solo guy is on the spectrum so may not even feel fear in those situations like normal people might. So I'm going with the man on the wire.

Please tell me this didn't actually happen. Who was she? Some bitch he had been dating for a year and who caused his only two accidents ever? Yeah, what a mountain she claimed.

>mountain
a hill at best

At what point in time was this? I can't believe I slogged through the entire mess only to miss Honnold winning. The only doc I recall was the short feature for "menstruation equality".

Nigger name ONE piece of evidence to support that.

>Like Man on Wire literally describes the fucking movie in the title. it's a dude on a wire. yeah it's dangerous but it's not that INTERESTING and there's not much dynamic to it.
its a fucking heist movie where instead of emptying a safe at the end, a dude walks across a home made tightrope without a harness from one skyscraper to another
did you even watch the film?

He said so himself

No I mean a piece of evidence to support that people on the spectrum feel fear in a different way

>Man on Wire
DON'T DO THIS it creates mustard gas

The wire walker. Free climbing is obviously incredibly dangerous, but I’d take that over standing on a wire 1500ft in the air. Not only could he stumble and fall but one bad gust of wind could blow him clean off.

But that's not what that user implied

underrated posts

People who don't pick Free Solo are incels who hate POC female directors
>inb4 /pol/tards get triggered at me

joaquin phoenix in THAT movie

From the yt comment section replying to a dude who basically said what you just said

>Dude bro, she's beautiful; having a girlfriend and love is so important, and Alex really loves her, his humble way of showing it by bringing her into the glory he worked and dreamed the impossible for. the f&%$ is your respect bro

>You have no idea the conversations they've all had though, Alex himself said he can not watch other people free solo. Watching your partner do that would have been more stressful for her than it would have been for Alex and he would agree. Surprised he didn't get more attention on stage though.

What mental gymnasitics do you have to go through to come up with shit like that

sanni is cute

you didn't really miss anything. he just went up with the others, stood there until they were done rambling about being not-men and not-white and then left with them again.

>women and people of color

So glad I didn't watch this political circle jerk of a shitshow. Are there any movie awards left that are still about movies?

I don't see the correlation to walking on a wire too climbing the biggest rock in the world without any safety equipment. I've been to the circus before.

Alex didn't even seem like he cared all that much about her in the doc. She's sorta the complete opposite of him and they don't match very well, though he's not really the type to get a wife and settle down.

she's hot and he gets to tap that because he's famous. he knows it and she probably knows it, too. but he can't say that in public so he has to think of something else.

the thought of this is so fucking funny

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What about this guy?

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Someone post that asian guy falling off the building.

Director fucked up by letting his wife make the speech. And they seemed to not know there's a time limit so they just don't say anything for a long time then come up with random people to thank that have nothing to do with the movie.

Excuse me, just a better climbing documentary with actually likeable protagonists passing through this shitty thread.

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So basically they're climbing the same wall with safety gear?

I wonder how many days they wait after rain to consider the wall safe enough to climb.

They are climbing a much harder route that would be impossible to solo climb and they are the first one to free climb that route.

Okay, that sounds interesting enough. I'll give it a go.

impossible to free solo* climb

He flew up there and did it. That’s the real reason he doesn’t afraid of falling.

WHen I see people do shit like this, I feel repulsed. How low of a value must you place on your own life to do this? You think your biggest contribution will be some meme feat of walking between two buildings? You think that's worth your life? Worth the years everyone invested in you? Worth the pain of those who love you?

FUCK THESE FAGGOTS

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Holy shit women are retarded

>ha ha, faggot walks across a rope and people think he’s crazy brave
>I’m literally on fire right now.

>dude people free solo all the time lol

bow and arrow and rope

Nah. If the rock man fell he'd fall on the soft trees. If the wire man fell he'd land on concrete

The Free solo climbers are the biggest assholes in a community that's filled with really chill people. I have a buddy who met some of these types of guys and they're all very arrogant and egomaniacs much in the same way the Man on Wire guy is. To do these kinds of things, you generally have to be someone who has the type supreme confidence in themselves but they generally are also complete egomaniacs as well and usually care for themselves only

Tbh yes. These little bits of entertainment is probably their biggest contribution they'll make to the world. The sad part is most people will contribute even less than that.

>Have they smoked weed or watched a great movie or heard great music of had great sex?
Lmao is that really your bucket list? Have a good day?

Movie would have unironically been better if he died

This. They are extreme narcissists.

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So that's what it was about. I thought it was about the football player who got thrown in jail for posting images of her womanhood on the internet and upsetting anyone who saw it.

Both are crazy but climbing is harder than walking.

are mountain climbers envious of goats?

>WIFE: Thank you to our families, especially our two kids, Marina I know you're here.
>HUSBAND: .....James
>*Audience laughs*
What the fuck did this woman just give a shout out to her daughter but forget about her son? This cunt is evil what's that son gonna think of his mother after that?

i was half paying attention to that and didnt notice why people laughed. jesus what a horrible woman.