Birdmen

I had to share this.

Yesterday 60 minutes had a special on "The Birdmen" and TGR (Teton Gravity Research) had this to say about the segment.

Pro Skier JT Holmes started skiing in Squaw Valley, California when he was three years old. He has gone on to star in multiple ski movies and ridden around the world. His greatest moment of fame arguably came last night on CBS's 60 minutes in a feature segment titled "Birdmen". The segment had been planed out for months between CBS, JT, and Shane McConkey. Shane was killed in a ski base wingsuit crash while filming last winter. JT and CBS decided to do the show anyways. The action sports world is always a little bit scared when main stream media comes in to cover it.

JT nailed it and CBS did it right. CBS did not chase down a bunch of horror stories associated with the base jumping or wingsuit flying. They did not over play Shane's death. JT was very well spoken and an solid representative of all of action sports. He did not look like some crazed thrill seeking lunatic that we have seen main stream sports create in the past. Instead JT portrayed a professional athlete that participated in a beautiful sport that obviously has some high risk associated with it. By the end of the episode I would imagine that most people wished they could experience the feeling of flying like these lucky "birdmen".

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I am not a base jumper or have I based jumped (yet) but I 100% understand why these guys and every other "thrill-seeker" do what they do. If you're the kind of person that thinks, 'but you (I) could die" then most likely you may not understand why they do this.
Life is about taking risks, taking chances and adventure.
I'm not saying you have to go base jumping or big mountain skiing to have adventure in your life. But whatever it is each day that scares you and makes you look deep within yourself and say 'I'm scared but here we go', GO DO IT! Tomorrow is not guaranteed.