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Lourdes Bike Run

Lourdes Bike Run

The talented and gregarious mountain biker Claudio Caluori is back with another downhill tour. Ride with him as he takes on a rocky trail in Lourdes, France that’s being used for the 2015 UCI MTB World Cup.

Wingsuit Battering Ram

Wingsuit Battering Ram

Wingsuit flyer Sebastian Alvarez just gets more and more daring. His latest stunt had him smashing head first into what appears to be a small styrofoam board, which was held aloft by two of his bravest buddies on top of a mountain.

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Rope Jumping over Navagio Beach

Rope Jumping over Navagio Beach

Rope jumping is like rope swinging on steroids. You freefall most of the way down before the safety rope catches you. Here’s team Dream Walker showing off this insane sport from a 660ft. cliff overlooking Navagio Beach in Greece.

One of Those Days 2

One of Those Days 2

Candide Thovex skis and somersaults his way down the slopes of Val Blanc, France in one of the best first-person videos we’ve ever seen. You don’t need music or flashy editing when you have someone this skilled at work.

Kicker KO

Kicker KO

Football fans will remember this year’s Cotton Bowl for its unlikely ending. But the rest of the world will know that game as the one where they saw a man’s soul leave his body. We sincerely hope Baylor kicker Chris Callahan is okay.

Nazaré Big Wave Surfing

Nazaré Big Wave Surfing

Yeah, there’s a guy in there somewhere. Surftotal shares this video of boulder-balled pros riding monstrous waves off the coast of Nazaré, Portugal. It’s the same area that brought the record-breaking 90ft. wave.

Solving a Rubik’s Cube in 4.2s

Solving a Rubik’s Cube in 4.2s

Rubik’s Cube world record holder Feliks Zemdegs’ jaw-dropping feat filmed from his perspective. Watch as he solves the cube twice, with the second one at a mind-blowing 4.21s, including the time it took to stop the timer.

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Lifted

Lifted

(NSFW: Language) Rockstar drink and Nitro Circus’ Erik Roner used 90 balloons, 50 helium tanks and a lawn chair to create a poor man’s version of the Up house. Erik went up to 8,000ft. before parachuting back down.

Jetman Aerobatic Formation

Jetman Aerobatic Formation

Real life Rocketeer Yves Rossy danced in the skies of Dubai with aerobatics champion Veres Zoltán. The surprise at the end and XDubai’s tease that “the best is yet to come” makes us hopeful that there will be more videos.

Insane Ski Line

Insane Ski Line

This clip from the skiing documentary Days of My Youth shows Cody Townsend going through a narrow and nearly vertical tunnel at the Tordrillo Mountains in Alaska. Powder Awards awarded him the Best Line of the year for his stunt.

Bonzai Wingsuit POV Flight

Bonzai Wingsuit POV Flight

Wingsuit expert Darren Burke takes us on a smooth, yet thrilling flight as he comes perilously close to the ground and treetops beneath him. We’d love to see this first hand, but don’t possess the balls to do it.

Motorbike Yoga

Motorbike Yoga

Gugulotu Lachiram found a way to turn a meditative practice into a pulse-pounding activity. The 40-year old farmer is famous in his hometown for practicing yoga while going up to 37mph on his motorcycle.

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Crazy Chimney Climb

Crazy Chimney Climb

Daredevil Flaviu Cernescu had the balls to do a free solo climb to the top of Romania’s second-tallest structure, an old chimney at CET Pitesti SUD, measuring over 918 feet in height. We got out of breath just watching this.

2014 Clean & Jerk World Record

2014 Clean & Jerk World Record

Pro lifter Ilya Ilyin set a new clean & jerk world record for the 105kg (230lb.) division at the 2014 IWF World Championships. Ilya’s opponents set world records themselves before he set the highest bar at an insane 242kg (533.5lb.).

Play with the Ground

Play with the Ground

We’ve had the pleasure of paragliding, but it was nothing like the aerobatics and perilously close ground sweeps wingmaster Valentin Delluc does. The part where he flips over is just plain madness. His flying cameraman is no slouch either.

Catapult BASE Jumping

Catapult BASE Jumping

The extreme adrenaline junkies of Flying Frenchies built themselves a human catapult rig which they use to launch themselves off of a cliff to give their BASE jumps a little added momentum at the start.

New Skydiving World Record

New Skydiving World Record

Google Senior Vice President of Knowledge Alan Eustace recently set a new world record for skydiving by falling from a height of 135,890ft., eclipsing Felix Baumgartner’s feat by almost 15,000ft. More at Wired and NYT.

Swoopy Summer

Swoopy Summer

Paraglider Arnauld Longobardi takes us on a breakneck flight through the French Alps, skimming treetops, pulling dizzying spins and elegant water flares, and culminating in a stunt where he zooms just inches from a cablecar.

Portugal Motorcycle POV

Portugal Motorcycle POV

Get ready for a bumpy ride with this helmetcam video from motorcycle rider Ben Hemingway as he takes us through narrow corridors, up and down staircases, and over logs in the prologue of the Extreme XL de Lagares enduro race.

BASE Jump to Swimming Pool

BASE Jump to Swimming Pool

(NSFW: Language) A luxurious version of the skydive to slip n’ slide. YouTuber John Van Horne and his buddy jumped from the top of the 1,099ft. Kuala Lumpur Tower and landed on the rooftop swimming pool of a nearby building.

Lucky Cyclist

Lucky Cyclist

A man casually riding his bicycle across an intersection in Lyubertsy, Russia lucked out twice in a split-second. The truck across him failed to yield to a speeding car, and he ended up in the middle of the resulting collision.

Cliffside Selfies at Hua Shan

Cliffside Selfies at Hua Shan

Mt. Hua or Hua Shan is a famous historical site in China. Though it has cable cars, it’s known for its extremely narrow cliffside paths, as shown in YouTuber Mark Laurence’s video, which was probably uploaded by his ghost.

Now You See It…

Now You See It…

This lucky person was trying to leave their house to escape a tornado, but instead ended up witnessing a rare live performance of the Great Magician, Mr. Garage. Watch as it performs its trademark vanishing trick.

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