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Base Dreams – The awesome new base jump series with Chris “Douggs” McDougall: Click Here to follow Douggs!

Navagio Beach is one of the most beautiful & insane Base Jump spots on the planet! Located on one of the Greek Island’s and also known as “Smugglers Cove” or the Shripwreck. Douggs & his friends go crazy in the beautiful Greek sunshine with some epic base jumps!

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Todd Love is a USMC veteran who lost both of his legs and his left hand to an IED in Afghanistan, who’s determined to not let that get in the way of ANYTHING. He has been surfing, skiing, scuba diving, wrestling alligators, and now learning to skydive. After completing his first tandem skydive with Mike Elliott into the start of the XTERRA Trail Run World Championship in Hawaii he was hooked! And since “impossible” and “can’t” are not part of Todd’s vocabulary, his teammates at Operation Enduring Warrior turned to AXIS Flight School to make his dream of solo skydiving come true.

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Over the years, the Torrey Pines Gliderport in San Diego has become a mecca for paragliding and hang gliding, largely because the unique structure of the Torrey Pines cliffs above the ocean produces wind conditions that make flying possible over 300 days a year. The Gliderport also employs some of the world’s best paragliders as instructors—the port’s Max Marien holds the world record for most end-over-end revolution loops in a paraglider—and it’s likely the busiest paragliding school in the world. Best yet, the Gliderport offers tandem flights, meaning any person of any age, no matter their experience in the air, can go up in a paraglider or hang glider to float above the water and gaze at sights like Black’s Beach, Scripps Pier, and downtown La Jolla.

Paragliders experience a rare juxtaposition of adrenaline and a feeling of   …  Great pictures and more

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