Potter's new sport

[schwagpad]

Dean Potter has "invented" a new sport: Baselining. That's very high slacklining with a parachute backup. It made it on nytimes.

http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f ... 79d99f5883

Man, why does that guy have all the good ideas. I want to invent my own sport. The key seems to be to combine two extreme sports in such a way to make a catchy compound word. Baselining (I guess slackjumping wasn't cool enough), kitesurfing, kiteboarding etc. What's next?

Basesoloing - with sonnie trotters extension to deep water basesoloing - has not really been explored (probably because its not much safer than freesoloing.

Kiteclimbing? Under the right conditions I might be able to climb 5.16 that way.

Kitelining? You want very little wind in this sport.

Slackboarding? It may sound stupid to strap a board to your feet and do a slackline, but it certainly takes skill.

ok... I'm really running out of ideas. help.

[Crankmas]

apparently one of your teammates pulled a handgun during a league game...

[Horatio Felacio]

what about basejumping, or even just plain ol' parachuting, onto a slackline? or even better...using one of the 'birdman' suits to mount a slackline? birdlining...now that is the future!

[Lander]

Baselining. Didn't Richard Pryor have a horrible accident doing that once?

[Wes]

Actually, I think "flatlining" is the raddest x-treme sport out there. And it has been around since 1990...

Baselining. Didn't Richard Pryor have a horrible accident doing that once?

[Winterstorm]

lander wrote:

Baselining. Didn't Richard Pryor have a horrible accident doing that once?

that would be freebase...AKA "crack","rock", etc...while in a birdlining suit

Right on Wes, cool movie

[john e aragon]

Caving and climbing. 2 miles undergorund in the morning 1000's of feet above it in the after noon.

[ynot]

cambing?

[krampus]

cliving

[dipsi]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4056771893