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I have a feeling that the ability to share 'experiences' via the internet and especially video of such experiences leads individuals who are adrenaline junkies

I have a feeling that the ability to share 'experiences' via the internet and especially video of such experiences leads individuals who are adrenaline junkies to push the limits beyond what might be safer. The desire and push to "one-up" each other. "How close can I come to the cliff-face? How close to the ground can I skim? I've seen others who have gone this close, can I go closer?" It's right there in Sat Dex's narration. "Today you fly with me." In that phrase is both the sharing of the experience and the central-ness of that experience to the individual identity of the jumper. I was watching the Philando Castile facebook live video shot by his girlfriend and watched him get shot live, half-way across the country. What a queer and unsettling feeling to be sitting in my house and know that a human being is dying at that same moment so viscerally...

Theodores 10y ago
> I have a feeling that the ability to share 'experiences' via the internet and especially video of such experiences leads individuals who are adrenaline junkies to push the limits beyond what might be safer. It is not just adrenaline junkies that like to show off for their fans on social media, it seems that everyone is at it and the 'disease' is getting worse as time goes on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injurie... "See also: Darwin Awards"
idunno246 10y ago
I know somebody who recently trained for base, and skydiving, they don't allow you to carry cameras until you have a bunch of hours specifically to prevent this from rookies. Not that these are all inexperienced, but it's a risk the community acknowledges.
- manarth 10y ago
  In the UK, you aren't allowed to skydive with a camera until achieving a "C" licence - minimum 200 jumps. That's a common requirements for many overseas dropzones too. Most BASE courses won't accept you without a minimum of 200 jumps either.

Theodores 10y ago

> I have a feeling that the ability to share 'experiences' via the internet and especially video of such experiences leads individuals who are adrenaline junkies to push the limits beyond what might be safer. It is not just adrenaline junkies that like to show off for their fans on social media, it seems that everyone is at it and the 'disease' is getting worse as time goes on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injurie... "See also: Darwin Awards"

idunno246 10y ago

I know somebody who recently trained for base, and skydiving, they don't allow you to carry cameras until you have a bunch of hours specifically to prevent this from rookies. Not that these are all inexperienced, but it's a risk the community acknowledges.

manarth 10y ago
In the UK, you aren't allowed to skydive with a camera until achieving a "C" licence - minimum 200 jumps. That's a common requirements for many overseas dropzones too. Most BASE courses won't accept you without a minimum of 200 jumps either.