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Nestled away in Fortescue Bay on the south east coast of Tasmania, Australia sits the 105 foot tall abrasive dolerite rock formation called Moai Tower. While this is more commonly a climbing route Ryan Paul Robinson had other ideas. Check out this jaw-dropping slackline.
There’s a pervasive thought among a surprising number of people in action sports when they reach parenthood: disappear from the game for the sake of the children.
For some it’s a conscious choice; for others, it just happens. This is a case for why you should keep on going.
That doesn’t mean you should (or shouldn’t) take the same risks you did before becoming a parent. It means don’t stop, don’t pause, even for the first few months.
Don’t let a month go by, even if it’s just to get a few miles in on the bike trails closest to your house. Keep that stoke alive because your children need to grow up in that fire.
Here’s how and why to do it from the parents who’ve mastered it … More
Take four skydivers, two hot air balloons, a 125m long rope with a seat on the end, climb to 1,800m in a hot air balloon…and this is what you get – MEGA SWING, the physical realization of that childhood dream we all have. “It’s the dream of everyone,” Lettner says. “To swing higher and higher, and finally jump off and fly.”
“We just wanted to go bigger,” says Austrian, Marco Waltenspiel, who with fellow skydivers Georg Lettner, Marco Fürst and Dominic Roithmair made this project happen.