The answer is rather simple: - Popularisation of the sport thanks to social media and silly videos with fancy dubstep music. - BASE jumpers trying to push for

The answer is rather simple: - Popularisation of the sport thanks to social media and silly videos with fancy dubstep music. - BASE jumpers trying to push forward the sport. - Irresponsible companies sponsoring pro jumpers in order to film "even more difficult yet" maneuvers. Personally I tried to get into BASE some years ago, but after watching a russian documentary with explicit and horrible scenes [0] made me seriously think. People in social media only get to see the successful jumps but not the dark side of the sport... [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SkyDiving/comments/1etupz/russian_documentary_about_the_dark_side_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SkyDiving/comments/1etupz/russian_d...