“‘It’s not for me.’”
To be fair, that’s how 99.9999% of humans would respond to someone asking them if they’d like to jump out of a plane, traveling at 25,000 feet. With no parachute. And no wingsuit.
Yet, two years after the idea was first broached to him, that’s exactly what Luke Aikins will do on Saturday as part of Fox’s live “Stride Gum Presents Heaven Sent” event.
It’s there that Aikins will look to join a succession of escalating televised shows of athletic daring that has its DNA in the Evel Kneivel jumps of the ’60s and ’70s and that has continued through another massive televised event like Felix Baumgartner’s 2012 Red Bull Stratos dive. Aikins worked with Baumgartner as part of the training staff that prepared him to jump from the outer limits of space, nearly 25 miles from orbit to landing on Earth.
“I...
To be fair, that’s how 99.9999% of humans would respond to someone asking them if they’d like to jump out of a plane, traveling at 25,000 feet. With no parachute. And no wingsuit.
Yet, two years after the idea was first broached to him, that’s exactly what Luke Aikins will do on Saturday as part of Fox’s live “Stride Gum Presents Heaven Sent” event.
It’s there that Aikins will look to join a succession of escalating televised shows of athletic daring that has its DNA in the Evel Kneivel jumps of the ’60s and ’70s and that has continued through another massive televised event like Felix Baumgartner’s 2012 Red Bull Stratos dive. Aikins worked with Baumgartner as part of the training staff that prepared him to jump from the outer limits of space, nearly 25 miles from orbit to landing on Earth.
“I...
- 7/28/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
The two most popular extreme sports brands on YouTube are deepening their partnership. Red Bull and GoPro have joined forces for a deal that will last multiple years and will give the energy drink a stake in the portable camera maker.
As part of the deal, the two companies will promote their own brands across each other’s videos. In addition, according to Variety, GoPro cameras will show up at more than 1,800 forthcoming Red Bull events, where they will capture exhilarating footage from the viewpoints of top extreme athletes. Resulting clips will be distributed by both Red Bull and GoPro and will reach a huge audience of adrenaline junkies. The former company’s YouTube channel has more than five million subscribers, while the latter brand’s feed is close to four million.
While this deal is the most official deal between Red Bull and GoPro, the two companies have worked...
As part of the deal, the two companies will promote their own brands across each other’s videos. In addition, according to Variety, GoPro cameras will show up at more than 1,800 forthcoming Red Bull events, where they will capture exhilarating footage from the viewpoints of top extreme athletes. Resulting clips will be distributed by both Red Bull and GoPro and will reach a huge audience of adrenaline junkies. The former company’s YouTube channel has more than five million subscribers, while the latter brand’s feed is close to four million.
While this deal is the most official deal between Red Bull and GoPro, the two companies have worked...
- 5/24/2016
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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