Awesome Extreme

(NSFW) Luc Bergeron aka Zapatou is back with his compilation of the best YouTube videos of 2013. While we disagree with a few of his picks – underwater boxing? – overall his list is really solid. Spider-deer!

Candide Thovex and his friend Aziz Benkrich are going to give you an adrenaline rush while you’re sitting still. Put on your headphones and watch them ride amongst the trees in fullscreen. An Oculus Rift skiing game would be nuts.

Wingsuit pilot Brian Drake flies insanely close to the ground along the dangerously steep Couloir de l’Ensa in the French Alps. Fortunately, the winds were just right to keep him from smashing into the rocks just beneath him.

Backed by the immortal words of the late philosopher Alan Watts, this trailer for the upcoming ski flick Days of My Youth teases us with snippets of the most daring and dramatic downhill shredding we’ve ever witnessed.

YouTuber Dan Clark pilots a helicopter to harvest Christmas trees at the Noble Mountain Tree Farm in Oregon. It seems like the trees were already uprooted and bundled before he picked them up. Here’s a POV video of the task.

GoPro presents a short film featuring BASE jumpers Hayley Ashburn and Marshall Miller as they climb and then parachute from one of the Fisher Towers. Their contrasting views about their hobby make the footage more intense.

(Gross) Food extremist L.A. Beast eats two Chocolate Butlahs, which his chili connoisseur friends are calling the world’s hottest pepper. Either that claim is true or this guy should replace Mark Ruffalo as the Incredible Hulk.

Devin Graham shot Aaron Fotheringham – the dude who pulled off a 360º backflip on his wheelchair – as he treats his ride like a street bike, riding on half pipes, grinding and yep, doing backflips.

Brian Gillespie was trying to set a land speed record on his modified Honda Insight when he lost control of the car. Thankfully Brian survived. YouTuber John Wylie caught the crash on video. More here and here.

“Just a bunch a dudes, tryin’ to be birds.” So goes the understatement of the year from Robert “Scotty-Bob” Morgan about this death-defying wingsuit flight through a narrow gap in a canyon in Utah. Sir, no bird is as insane as you are.

Daredevil Yves “Jetman” Rossy recently completed his latest flight, this time buzzing by the incredibly majestic sights of Mount Fuji in Japan. We still can’t imagine how loud it must be to have four jets strapped to your body like that.

College of Central Florida’s 6’7″ Javonte Douglas jams in an insane putback dunk. His neck went above the freakin’ rim. Looks like the players below him accidentally gave him a boost, but he couldn’t have planned that.

At 11.6ft. long and 4.9ft. high, the Gunbus 410 is the world’s biggest true motorcycle (not this). It has a 38″ front wheel and a 42″ rear wheel and weighs 1,433lb. Thankfully its 6.7L twin-cylinder engine produces 350hp and 523ft.lb. of torque.

Kelly McGarry earned the silver medal at the 2013 Red Bull Rampage freeriding contest, partly because of his sick backflip over a 72ft. gap. See it in third-person here. Makes you wonder what the guy who won the gold did.

A team of expert snowboarders and skiers substitute the sidewalks, parks and rails of the urban jungle in place of the slopes in this awesome promotional spot for sports clothing and accessory maker O’Neill.

During a training mission in 1970, the F-106 plane that Retired Maj. Gary Foust was piloting went into an unrecoverable flat spin. He ejected, assuming the plane would crash. And then the plane went into “It’s cool bro, I got this” mode.