The Action Adventure Blog

Slo-Mo Surfing/Bike City Ride/World Base Race

Super Slo-Mo Surfing

This video, the first-ever of its kind, was shot in slow-mo and HD. The surfer in this video is Dylan Longbottom, who looks to be back in full form after a pretty intense surfing accident on The Superbank in which he obtained a broken jaw and fractured check bone.

The Bike City Ride

The video starts out kinda slow but about a minute in, it gets ridiculous. To date, it has over 17 million views on YouTube.

Danny spent 6 months filming the video with a friend and after it hit the internet, he said goodbye to his full-time gig as a bike technician. 

WORLD BASE RACE

The 2010 Base Race will be held at the Romsdalen Norwegian Mountain Festival July 12-17. I'm not sure how long this competition has been around but if I had to guess I'd say 2007....??? But, my oh my, this event is definitely most excellent. Of the 32 jumpers, 17 call the United States home.

I'll keep you posted as to how this year's competition goes.

Freestyle Skydiving - what it be...

As you may already know, Danyelle and I will be competing this September at USPA's Nationals competition in the Freestyle category. So here are the nuts and bolts of what that means:

We have 45 seconds of working time after leaving the plane.

The competition consists of two types of routines, Free and Compulsory. The Compulsory routines are outlined in USPA's competition manual starting on page 94. We haven't decided what we are going to put together for the Free routine but stayed tuned, I'll keep you posted.

There are seven rounds:

• Free

• Compulsory

• Synchronized Back Turn Sequence
• Robin Spin Sequence
• Back tracking
• Robin spin
• Cartwheel Sequence: two cartwheels
• Straddle Backstop (Cradle) Sequence
• • Layout back-loop
  • Straddle backstop
  • Straddle kip
  • 180 degree head up twist
  • Second straddle backstop and straddle kip
  • Layout front-loop

• Free
  
• Free
• Compulsory (starts at the bottom of page 95)
• • Straddle Headstand Sequence: straddle 360 degree pirouette
  • • Straddle headstand
    • Straddle headstand pirouette
  • Orbiting Compass
  • • Compass position
    • Compass turn
  • Layout Loop Twist Sequence
  • • Layout front-loop
    • Layout front half twist
    • Layout back full twist
  • Carving Sequence (performer and videographer must orbit 360 degree around an imaginary center between them while flying head down).
• Free
• Free

And there you have it. But, if you'd rather just watch a video to get an idea of what we're doing then here is one to get you started. Hopefully one day we can pull off something like this.

Freestyle training at SkyVenture Colorado

This Silly'ol Blog

I guess its kind of vague when you name your blog the "Action Adventure Blog." I'm not sure I put a whole lot of thought into that part. But, I can say I put a lot of thought into what will be posted here. Its pretty simple....

• So this September, Danyelle and I will be competing at the United States Parachute Association's Nationals competition in the Freestyle Category. It's our first year to compete and we are still pretty green in terms of the competition so we've set a goal of, Judgeable Video! This blog will serve to capture that journey as well as any other skydiving adventures that come dancing along.
• Next Post. There is a lot of adventurous stuff I'd like to do but can't for whatever reason. So I'll be posting about that. Some of it will be about travel and some will be about sports - the action/adventurous kind. For example, I sure wish I could pull off a double back-flip on a motorcycle but we all know that will NEVER happen, however when Mr. Pastrana pulled it off a couple years ago I would have posted something about it. Or, if some guy decided to travel around the world on his bike attempting to break the world record and is currently crossing Texas, then I would probably take some time to follow it.
• The web is a massive place and I find it hard keeping up with all the stuff I like, and would like to do. If I come across some little adventure like traveling through the thick of Africa with a New Zealand guide whose parents sent him to a foreign land at 11 years old because he refused to eat anything but raw meat and to this day, may or may not be on America's Most Wanted list, BUT he is a totally rad dude who's best buds with every village chief across the entire land and could take you on the adventure of a life time...then I'll post about that too.
• And finally, I may post something that is adventurous in its own way but not necessarily in the cookie cutter mold of what might be labeled such.

Now, I'm thinking you may have already asked where 'Boolla' came from. Well, I really wanted to buy Bula, but it was already taken and I didn't feel any other connection to any other word that I would want as the domain for this blog. 

Back in 2008 a few friends and I took off to Fiji for a 9 day sea kayaking adventure. Some of the individuals I'd known for years, another I'd just met a few months prior during a backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon, and the rest I was meeting for the first time. We were guided through tiny villages by a two man adventure company experiencing Fiji in the most pure sense. One of our travel mates decided the trip was so worth it he decided to do it again, except this time instead of 9 days, he opted for 365. He writes about it here and is working at one of the little resorts we camped at. Given that bit of background information, here in the U.S. we have tons of greetings, but in Fiji there is just one...Bula. It is a word I like, and its stuck with me everyday since coming back.

Happy readings.