Photographer Rutger Pauw recently captured the always-epic Danny MacAskill completing an amazing run with the most beautiful backdrop you could imagine — a solar eclipse on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
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Using Night Vision in Extreme Sports
Note: this post comes from Jim Van over at Integrated Components, a company that sells night vision equipment to extreme athletes.
If your favorite outdoor sport is not challenging enough, try doing it on a moonless night under night vision goggles. If you’re a top performer, the learning might be shorter than you think.
The two major things you’ll need to overcome:
1. Limited Depth of Focus
It takes practice. You may not be in an ideal position to reach up and to refocus, so you’ll have to take your best guess as to how far out to set the focus.
2. Less Than a 180-Degree Field of View
So far, only one person had an issue with vertigo until she realized she was moving her head up and down way too fast. Everyone is quick to realize there are many more shooting stars every night than are visible to the naked eye!
Ice climbing, downhill skiing, and dog mushing are among the first three activities we’ve tried.
Spelunking, fly and float fishing, back country boarding and skiing, motocross and desert racing, as well as Rocky Mountain 4X4 ing on 100 year old mining roads to ghost towns at over 10,000 ft are all on the docket in the coming month.
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Perfect Berlin Skate Session At Mellow Park
Before the brutal Berlin winter set in, a bunch of local skateboarding legends took to Mellow Park for a perfect late-fall session. This video features Sami Harithi, Dallas Rockvam, Danny Goodman, and Hirschi.
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The World’s First Brother And Sister Tandem FMX
Nitro Circus has continued it’s tradition of bringing some of the world’s best extreme athletes together — this time featuring Matthew and Emma McFerran, an epic brother and sister team. In this video, the McFerrans complete some incredible FMX tricks over a 65 foot gap.
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Extreme Mountain Biking In The Engadin
The Engadin is known for being home to some of the best extreme mountain biking in the world. This is a great video of Vertriders taking on some of the most epic terrain this iconic valley in the Swiss Alps has to offer.
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Rick Koekoek’s Incredible Climb Up ‘The Stairway To Heaven’
Rick Koekoek is one of the best MTB athletes in the world, so it’s not exactly surprising when he pulls off something as incredible as what you’re about to see in this video, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive. This is one of the most heart-pumping stunts we’ve come across in a while, which Koekeck completed at the famed ‘stairway to heaven’ in Montserrat Catalonia, Spain.
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At 10 Years Old, Jackson Goldstone Hits The Mega Ramp
This kid has a seriously bright future. Watch as Jackson Goldstone, at just 10 years old, takes to the Mega Ramp at Woodward Camp with the composure and skill of a seasoned pro.
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Logan Binggeli Tests An Epic Track
Pro mountain biker Logan Binggeli recently took to a new test track, and of course, ended up completing an insanely epic run. The crazy pace this video takes on as it goes on is incredible.
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Nyjah Huston: Fade To Black
Simply put, this is five minutes of some of the best skateboarding you will see anywhere, courtesy of Nyjah Huston.
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DC Initials Tour Highlights
Beautiful locations across Portugal and France were visited by the DC team over the past summer, setting the stage for some perfect shredding and a fun atmosphere for everyone involved, both skaters and the hordes of fans who came out to watch. This video features some of the best highlights from all the epic skating that went down there.