Check out the final race from Red Bull Aces, a wingsuit slalom race at 8,000 feet above the ground. In the three-day competition in Cloverdale, Ca, four Americans (out of 40 athletes from 18 countries) made it to the final race. Andy Farrington, who also won the competition last year, was able to best Noah Bahnson, Matt Gerdes and Scott Palmer to take the victory. Red Bull Aces is the world’s first-ever wingsuit slalom competition, with athletes racing four at a time through a one mile-long course made of five 112-foot long gates suspended thousands of feet in the air. Athletes jump in heats of four from a civilian Bell Huey helicopter at an altitude of 8,000 feet above sea level, and must weave between five gates positioned at descending levels between 6,500 feet and 3,500 feet. The winner is based not only on how quickly the finish line is crossed, but also on how many gates he/she correctly passes through.
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Sebastian Steudtner (Nuremberg, Germany) cracks the whip and puts on a speed run display for the crowd at Praia do Norté, Nazaré, Portugal on October 27, 2015. Video by Nuno Dias. An entry in the Billabong Ride of the Year category of the 2016 WSL Big Wave Awards
Urban snowboarding by Drayden Gardner, Segment from East to West movie
16 years old, Bear Mountain, California