This jump is so cool
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  • 205 points smilingjade101

    Doesn't look like he is ever going to land!

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    61 points Peace-Maker710

    Yeah, More like flying

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    52 points Available-Ad-1943

    "That's not flying! It's just falling with style!!" -Woody

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    5 points iStealyournewspapers

    You’ve got a woody?

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    7 points Hilsam_Adent

    ...like you don't.

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    6 points SalSomer

    Yeah, they should call it ski flying or something.

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    6 points Few_Comment9509

    Well there are Ski jumping (around 120-140m) events and ski flying (everything above 160m or so) events.

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    4 points SalSomer

    I know, I was trying to be funny.

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    2 points Toothless-In-Wapping

    At the end the ground was just falling faster than he was.

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    1 points TrippingFish76

    the flippity flop! the flippity flop!

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  • 68 points 2abyssinians

    This was an attempt to break the world record but it was deemed invalid. The hill was not FIS approved.

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    36 points WazirOfFunkmenistan

    The hill dgaf.

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    16 points Fun_Ambassador_9320

    Hill don’t care. Hill just does what it wants

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    1 points -Hi_how_r_u_xd-

    Cultured

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    12 points Passessor

    What does FIS mean?

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    18 points Alarming_Panic665

    International Ski Federation. The Acronym is because the organization was formed in France and in French its name is Fédération Internationale de Ski

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    15 points diqholebrownsimpson

    Falling In Style

    /s

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    4 points 2abyssinians

    International Ski Federation.

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    -3 points Akeinu

    Fiscal intimacy syndrome

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  • 71 points mr_krodhanine

    At this point, it’s almost flying. 😂

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    37 points West-Resolution8159

    That's not flying, it's falling with style

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    8 points Fun_Ambassador_9320

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    2 points Brayden_709

    Nice!

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    7 points MMinjin

    The knack to flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

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    2 points saint_of_thieves

    Douglas Adams had entered the chat.

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    1 points diqholebrownsimpson

    Did I fly?! Did I fly?!

    No, you falled

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    -1 points --howcansheslap--

    It is swimming through the air

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  • 24 points wackbirds

    Damn, can't even imagine doing that. Awesome though

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    2 points redthroway24

    I've never had any desire to ski, except the minimum I would need to be able to ski jump.

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    1 points wackbirds

    Even when I was young and more athletic I never did either. The jump looks awesome, but I just can't imaging actually gearing up to do it!

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  • 14 points hyaclnthia

    All I can think of as a healthcare working is spinal injury…

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    10 points cyanescens_burn

    All I can think of is what would happen if they landed with their skis v’d out like that, rather than with the skis being parallel.

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    1 points RubyWeapon07

    If you french fry when you should have pizza'd, you're gonna have a bad time

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  • 9 points HuffleChuck

    How did they have that sign with the exact distance ready to go?

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    10 points mgs20000

    Yeah exactly!

    Maybe they took a handful of signs: 290,291, 292 etc

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    7 points likeikelike

    Could be using one of them fancy hand-held printers that you roll over a surface and it sprays ink in a pattern as you go.

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    6 points saint_of_thieves

    Magnetic number stickers that were placed with some care and not just tossed on from across the room?

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    3 points Key-Pomegranate-2086

    Yeah all possible ways really.

    It's like asking how judges have 0 to 10 ready to go for judging...

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    4 points Last-Assistant-2734

    It's wondrous what for example transfer printing can do. Even on t-shirts.

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    4 points SetsunaFF

    Guessing number stickers?

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  • 6 points spiralling1618

    Does anyone else kinda want to see the first 250m of the long slopped landing area replaced with a giant chasm?

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  • 5 points Yutenji2020

    Never seen it from this angle before; I was surprised, and slightly worried, that they drifted to the right so much. I wonder how much directional control they have, perhaps by angling their legs or feet asymmetrically?

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    2 points wild_crazy_ideas

    They can steer with their skis like a boat sail but they mainly focus on lift to stay up as long as possible

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  • 5 points Chunk_Thud

    Fucking turned off gravity for this one lol.

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  • 4 points homer-price

    Are ski jumpers able to “steer” in anyway to try and maintain on the center line of the landing area?

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    1 points Key-Pomegranate-2086

    Not really. Just slight twitching in his legs if you watch the video.

    I think the main aspect of it is from the angle when they launch already.

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  • 5 points ped009

    Red bull does give you wings

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  • 2 points MoneyMuffin2

    WEEEEEeeeeeee

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  • 2 points ClankerCore

    🎈

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  • 2 points BalanceEarly

    He could have an aviation career!

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  • 1 points Beginning_Drag_2984

    Person got as much air as a plane

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  • 1 points TheREAL-Goglo614

    Scarily impressive! o7

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  • 1 points harryb202

    Always wondered, if they wore a wing suit, how much farther could they really go

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  • 1 points prophetseven

    Man, that looks so dang cool and like it’s so much fun! I can only imagine the feeling of being in the air for a few seconds feeling like minutes. I’d want to keep doing the jump like a little kid. Haha

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  • 1 points ScarZ-X

    That's not a jump, that's levitation

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  • 1 points ShaneyDee

    Looks like when you fall out of bounds in a video game

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  • 1 points Pm_me_your_tits_85

    The landing looked so smooth.

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  • 1 points LittleMIA04

    u need to have so much experiences, so dangerous in my opinion

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  • 1 points Solid_Enthusiasm550

    Hold my Beer 🍺, I got THIS.😁👍

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  • 1 points DrSlurp-

    All I’m seeing is rich kids sport. Maybe I’m wrong.

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  • 1 points ArtLast9274

    There was a moment I thought Red Bull paid her $291M…

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  • 1 points letm3_0wnU6969

    Woah that's so cool. I feel like flying

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  • 1 points zhenggaofeng888

    Dude looked like a flying squirrel!

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  • 1 points rnavstar

    Put a wing suit on him.

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  • 1 points Powerful_Sun_75

    I mean, if he was wearing a wingsuit...

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  • 1 points Beneficial_Law_286

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  • 1 points spiritfreedom73

    This is how my body moves in all my dreams. Take a running step and get air for a good 100 ft

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  • 1 points Dynamic_Beta67

    That’s too smooth!

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  • 1 points too_old_to_be_clever

    There is snow everywhere....of course it's cool

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  • 1 points whycantigetwhatiwant

    Gliding with style

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  • 1 points Lanky_Language_263

    I could do this in my sleep

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  • 1 points efficaciousSloth

    Was that a photographer on skis following him? If so, that’s even more of an impressive jump!

    If it’s a drone, that’s pretty good navigation.

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  • 1 points batmanineurope

    Would a normal person who's never ski-jumped kill themselves trying this for the first time?

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  • 1 points mmm1441

    When long jumpers land they pull their feet up to go a little farther. I always wondered why ski jumpers don’t also do this.

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  • 1 points sabyr400

    This is something I would do. If I had the skills to do it. Damn that looks fun! Haha

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  • 1 points WakingUpDead1Day

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  • 1 points iStealyournewspapers

    Very cool, but that edit at the end is so fucking awkward lol

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  • 1 points MichBrutus

    Whoa. Glad I got to see this.

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  • 1 points webmist_lurker

    I have dreams like that. (But not usually on skis.)

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  • 1 points cacamilis22

    Such a cool thing to be able to do.

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  • 1 points grassgravel

    Who are the people that give thos shit a go first.

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  • 1 points Squigatoni_

    monster: buy our drinks | redbull:

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  • 1 points Ok_Mathematician938

    For someone that does jumps like this: does it feel like you're flying?

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  • 1 points Oldjamesdean

    My, now deceased, father-in-law was an award-winning Finnish ski jumper. I have his jumping skis in my house. Seems extremely dangerous to me.

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  • 1 points Cute_Curve_1875

    Has to be exhilarating

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  • 1 points Forsaken_Budget_425

    Wing suit launch!!!

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  • 1 points CollectMan420

    Me while playing riders republic

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  • 1 points Routine_Reputation84

    I’m 59, not athletic, never skied. Would I die if I attempted this or simply break multiple bones?

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  • 1 points thegeekiestgeek

    anyone have a fair estimate how high he was from the surface at his highest vs on average how high he was? I've always wondered how close they are to the ground

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  • 1 points Paulflawless

    What about the camera guy he went way farther

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  • 1 points johnkoetsier

    Kinda don’t think these are really jumps. They’re essentially long slow falls as the slope of the mountain tails off.

    And yeah, I know they do this sort of thing competitively.

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  • 1 points TheOwlwithGlasses

    That's not a jump. That's straight up flight.

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  • 1 points 4DPeterPan

    I want an aerodynamic penguin suit.

    So I can launch off that ramp and just, dive, that whole entire length, and land on my belly, and just sliiiidddee as far as I can.

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  • 1 points BigBadBoldBully2839

    Red bull gives you wiiiiings

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  • 1 points GrimmAxiom

    He was a fairy

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  • 1 points Next-Flower-2865

    Please wear a wingsuit and let us watch!

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  • 1 points 99Zahid

    Wow.

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  • 1 points Nearby_Potato4001

    I see these things and think that's awesome, then I see it's a red bull thing and then I think it's shit.

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  • 1 points Other_Recognition269

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  • 1 points LymanPeru

    is that the hotdog eating guy?

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    1 points Squeakygear

    A man of many talents

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  • -5 points sensitiveboi93

    Is this AI?!?!

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    12 points Frolicking-Fox

    No, this is real.

    Ski long jumping. It has been in the Olympics for a long time. The size of the skis and the way the hold themselves forward off the jump, allows them to float down the landing.

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    6 points Equivalent_Gur3967

    Red Bull gives them Wings!

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    1 points snowfloeckchen

    Just a very wide camera lense, with red bull logo you can normally assume weird things are actually happening, when it is ai they normally have trouble getting the logo right. Has to be everywhere to be legit

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    1 points Buddy_Zombie

    That's true, plus I've seen a lot of these too, it's an Olympic sport.

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    1 points dolphin37

    red bull released the full video a few weeks back I think, it was a world record attempt at longest ski jump distance, just standard crazy red bull stuff really

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  • -12 points Buddy_Zombie

    White people 😅, I guess red bull does give y'all wings. I'd shit my pants just hanging in the air like that.

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    1 points WhiteSriLankan

    Did you not make it to the end of the 17 second video?

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    1 points Buddy_Zombie

    What part of my comment made it seem like i didn't make it to the end of the 17 seconds video?

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    1 points MJLDat

    Did you see who did the jump?

    Just look.

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    1 points Buddy_Zombie

    Maybe I'm color blind, but that looks like a white person in black clothing to me, or do Asians qualify as African Americans now?

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    1 points MJLDat

    Fuck me you are ignorant. 

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    1 points MJLDat

    What does this have to do with white people?

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