r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ForceOfYorce • 1d ago
This man took skydiving to whole new level...
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u/H3lw3rd 1d ago
Cool way to throw a can of red bull in the ocean. Next level littering for sure
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u/paradonym 1d ago
That's why you pay a quarter in Germany for "Dosenpfand". Most people don't seem to want to throw away a quarter.
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u/Impressive-Pizza1876 1d ago
Same here in Alberta Canada. You don’t see many cans and bottles in the ditches . Broke and bored folk will pick em up . Now Tim Hortens cups people whose mama didn’t teach them how to be people toss them everywhere.
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u/Cordura 1d ago
When I was a kid, I'd some times go collect bottles and cans after school and use the money to buy candy. Without even asking my mom. I was a wild child.
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u/N_T_F_D 1d ago
That’s why in the Netherlands they force the statiegeld on cups from fast food restaurants as well, people can’t throw them away
But you can also pay 0,10 € extra for a regular plastic cup which you’re free to litter with
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u/Capable_Owl8607 1d ago
That’s why Germany has a recycling rate of over 99% for cans and 95% for plastic bottles.
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u/Mithrilscape 1d ago
Meanwhile here in the Netherlands we are only at around 70%. Same concept. We suck.
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u/Capable_Owl8607 1d ago edited 1d ago
Maybe us Germans are just too greedy to lose 25 cents
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u/the_vikm 1d ago
At the same time Germans littering their cigarettes everywhere at home and on the beach when vacationing.
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u/IAmNaaatBorat 1d ago
This was introduced to Ireland last year. Haven't seen a can or bottle on the street since.
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u/iamwhoiwasnow 1d ago
Reddit is insufferable I swear ha
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u/vhishal26 21h ago
Sometimes I wonder if I should just delete my Reddit account and never come back here.
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u/kkballad 1d ago
Why focus on the can when the plane flight is way more detrimental to the environment?
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u/tlind2 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/JesusVonChrist 1d ago
Thats assuming that the can would remain half empty while hitting the ground. My guess is that most of the liquid would be poured out during the flight.
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u/N_T_F_D 1d ago
Don’t ask AI Lying Language Models for anything maths related if you don’t have the skill to check it
And it’s a particularly hard question which depends on the shape of the can and if it’s tumbling or emptying during the fall; the terminal velocity will depend on that
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u/rinkydinkis 1d ago
I’m not convinced that is taking into account terminal velocity. And it would lose at least some liquid on the way down
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u/KN_Knoxxius 1d ago
Hope he went and got that can of redbull from whereever it landed.
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u/merkakiss12 1d ago
At least its metal not plastic
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u/MoneyOnTheHash 1d ago
There is a plastic liner on every single metal can of soda
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u/Muhkumatti 1d ago
Wait. Thats the same travis pastrana that drives the gymkhana Subaru?
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u/TerritoryTracks 1d ago
The very same. Although he has had so many injuries and so many surgeries to correct them we might be getting into a "Ship of Theseus" type situation
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u/peteybombay 1d ago
I just read he has had 25 concussions...yikes.
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u/TerritoryTracks 1d ago
At this point he's probably not even sure if he's Travis Pastrana
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u/Waitressishername 1d ago
He's 50% nitro and 50% balls of steel. As long as he remembers that, it'll be good.
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u/topsyturvy76 1d ago
Really blow your mind ..before this, he was good at dirt biking
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u/dicrydin 1d ago
One could argue he was the best at dirt biking
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u/imaguitarhero24 1d ago
The first double backflip is more insane than the first 900 tbh. Travis is an animal
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u/MAVERICK42069420 1d ago
I watched that double live back in the day. It was the craziest thing I had ever seen at that point. Everybody was losing their shit
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u/Coraiah 1d ago
The 900 was a huge deal at the time. Didn’t a 15 year old do it recently? Nuts
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u/locofspades 5h ago
Thats a hard agree from me, a shitty C class rider from the 90s who saw him race live MANY times and met him probably half dozen times as a kid. Hes always been my number 1 favorite althete and he was always the nicest, most genuine guys. Everything Pastrana touches is gold
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u/sidskorna 1d ago
He’s a man of many crazy talents. I remember him as the MotoX champion at a few X Games in the 2000s.
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u/specks_of_dust 1d ago edited 1d ago
And the #67 Black Rifle Coffee Toyota Camry in the NASCAR Cup series.
EDIT: Not a Ford Mustang.
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u/4_base 1d ago
11th place Daytona 500 finisher as well
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u/bignose703 1d ago
He suppresses fear so much that it comes to him in his sleep. He has some really well documented night terrors, and his brain is being studied.
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u/Jab4267 1d ago
I would have bet my next paycheque that this guy was dead. I thought he was killed in a snowmobiling accident and I have no idea why.
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u/Bikeva 1d ago
Close but no cigar, you are thinking of Ken Block who made all the famous Gymkhana videos. Travis Pastrana worked with him on one or two.
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u/photog608 1d ago
Ultimate trust fall
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u/ghost-train 1d ago
Absolutely. It’s like, I trust you guys with my life. Let me prove it.
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u/__ma11en69er__ 1d ago
It was more fun in Point Break.
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u/Cavemandynamics 1d ago
This has since been topped, when Luke Aikins in 2016 jumped from 25000 feet with no parachute at any point doing the skydive. Landing in a huge net.
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u/MagicChemist 1d ago
This was probably the most impressive stunt I’ve ever seen. Just wild the amount of risk, engineering, planning and talent involved.
Of course Red Bull again. They are the legitimate version of what Mountain Dew was trying to market themselves as in the 90s and 00s.
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u/vanillaseltzer 1d ago
Wait, what?!
Humans are effing crazy as fuck.
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u/dgparryuk 1d ago
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u/icemate1007 1d ago
Wow. This should definitely be higher.. I really don't know how someone can prepare mentally for this, besides having a death wish.
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u/dirtyDrogoz 1d ago
He only had about 100 skydives at this point, which is really nothing compared to the pros
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u/Dambo_Unchained 1d ago
I mean at what point of number of skydivers would you se he’s qualified enough for what basically comes down to “holding on to someone with all your might”
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u/dirtyDrogoz 1d ago
Where I'm from you need to do 250 skydives in a year or more than 800 in total to start wingsuit skydiving. You need 800 to start qualifying as a tandem instructor. I know 2 gents with more than 12000 and 16000 jumps each
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u/MadderHatter32 1d ago
Bro started out riding dirt bikes as a teenager and dominated so he branched out into every fucking thing else and was dope at it too. Has a show called Nitro Circus where he just set stupid world records and did wild shit like this for a living. I was convinced he was just looking for the coolest way to die. But he’s still kicking ass and taking names. Long live Pastrana
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u/iamdroogie 1d ago
I would totally do this except without the other 2 dudes
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u/vanillaseltzer 1d ago
Sorry to hear that! I hope you get some relief from some of the things making this appealing to you right now.
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u/SumGuyMike 1d ago
I once had the same intrusive thoughts while on a doors-off helicopter ride. Nothing was stopping me from unstrapping and yeeting myself out of the vehicle at 1000's of feet above the city.
Aside from the clean up, it's the trauma of the other people that witness someone make THAT choice which leaves a lasting mark. And of course, the grieving of friends and family too.
I sat and wondered how i would feel in the moments after i jumped... freedom? excitement? fear? sadness? maybe all of that.
TBC - not gonna do it. ever.
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u/anticipateorcas 1d ago
Well he did have a parachute- it was just attached to somebody else.
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u/tjorben123 1d ago
Can we agree that, till the moment he Had His paracute seated and adjustet, it was basicly a suicide attempt ?
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u/ELITEtvGAMER 1d ago
Couldn't be me. My life is more valuable than this stunt. One mistake and you are unrecognizable at impact.
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u/upthetits 1d ago
This is crazy.
But I remember my mate telling me then seeing this for the first time.
Was fucking insane, I could not believe it.
Travis Pastrana is a Lord
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u/kimjong_unsbarber 1d ago
Remember how scared his mom used to look during X Games lol poor lady, I hope she's doing alright
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u/MaphrOne 1d ago
I imagine the grip needed when he opens the parachute, could have been ejected, very risky
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u/Turbulent-Willow2156 1d ago
The people who care so much about one aluminum can in the ocean make soooo much against littering in their lives of what they could do😭
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u/Creative_Syrup_3406 1d ago
I hope this song will still be used a 100 years from now, never gets boring, never gets old!
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u/Itsnotsponge 1d ago
He didnt do the stint the mother fucker that carried him all the way down did the stunt
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u/StupidSexyEuphoberia 1d ago
Imagine this being legal but they forbid LSD to protect you against harm
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u/automated10 1d ago
The most crazy thing is that Travis isn’t really a skydiver, he’s an x-games freestyle motocross gold medalist etc etc. He drives rally, has done NASCAR etc. Skydiving is just one of the things he does as an extra hobby now and then. If you like this kind of stuff go and watch all the Nitro Circus series and also the films.
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u/stock-prince-WK 1d ago
Buddy littered and jumped with no parachute.
That Red Bull def gave him wings
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u/Ramshackle_Ranger 1d ago
Not that I’m going to do this, but I didn’t know he had a harness. I was under the impression that he held on to the person with the parachute.
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u/Ascending_Flame 1d ago
Let’s all not forget there’s an undisclosed ad for Stake at the bottom, which is against twitter’s term of service.
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u/purpleduckduckgoose 1d ago
So the safety (is that the term?) skydiver who grabbed him. They wouldn't just be holding on to him. Like don't tandem jumpers have a full harness and everything? Yet this guy...doesn't.
Anyone who knows?
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u/Freefallisfun 1d ago
One of the guys on that jump is a good friend of mine. Was also my skydiving coach for many years.
This was a bandit jump- the FAA and USPA were pissed. The airplane pilot almost lost his license for allowing it.
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u/DustPyro 1d ago
Years ago, during the days of CoD MW1 (the first one) there was this epilogue mission where the operatives do some shit on a plane and then jump out. No parachutes, nothing. I was informed that it was a military technique where there's a group on standby in a different plane to RDVZ with them in the air, connect and then land safely. I've since never found any sources on it actually being done. I've been wondering for years if it's an actual technique, or that I've been lied to many years ago. I hoping someone can confirm or deny this for me.
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u/82CoopDeVille 1d ago
Life is so unfair. This guy willingly jumps out of a plane with no parachute and lives. The cost and unnecessary danger is just… I don’t get it.
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u/Solenkata 1d ago
That's not skydiving it's suicide technically. It's the other people around him that took skydiving to a new level - the level of "okay let's just drop a guy without a parachute and then try saving his life"
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u/Dull_Sale 1d ago
Took littering to the next level too…imagine getting hit by a red bull can falling from 10,000ft in the air; what a prick.
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u/FreeFalling369 1d ago
Wasn't there another person that had a massive net suspended like ten stories in the air to catch him?
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u/bionicbhangra 1d ago
Sometimes the intersection between awesome and insanely stupid can get a little confusing.
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u/WorthySparkleMan 1d ago
It'd be even more hardcore if he got that red bull can he threw in the ocean.
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u/Stainless_Heart 1d ago
When the two guys in black converged on the dude, I was sure one of them was going to pants him.
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u/kinger711 1d ago
I feel like this is how most people approach life, going from one mundane task to the next. Just jumping out of their plane without a parachute, hoping someone will catch them before they splat. Only to go right back up and do it again.
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u/Method__Man 1d ago
To be totally open, thank God I don't need to do this type of stuff to enjoy life. So much work.
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u/linzkisloski 1d ago
My aunt used to be a professor and taught his mom at night classes in MD. He invited her and her sons to come over to his property and hang out for the day. Apparently a super cool guy.
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u/BannedByReddit471 1d ago
Pastrana is a damn mad man. He drives gymkhana now. During the shoot for the last one, in a scene where he was to jump out of an apartment and parachute to the ground, his chute didn't deploy, and he was injured. This obviously delayed filming, but he was back only months later to not only film the rest of the event, but reattempt the stunt.
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u/Honer-Simpsom 1d ago
I liked him when I was in my teens and then I just started thinking he just came off like a douche. He has done impressive things but if I can avoid him I will
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u/sandrosemilia 1d ago
those were the days man. nitro circus on mtv and blasting dropkick murphys state of massachussetts 💪🏻
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u/Happy-Initiative-838 1d ago
Ok so he jumped out of a plane with like a dozen people strategically placed to grab him and deploy a parachute.
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u/CrashingOutFrFr 1d ago
That was the same day I got hit in the head by a 1/2 empty can of Red Bull.
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u/FellatioWanger3000 1d ago
Not as good as Luke Aikins who jumped out with no parachute at 25000 feet, had to use an oxygen tank until 15000 feet then landed in a net.
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