Talk:Banzai skydiving

Multiple issues with the article

There are so many things wrong with this article that I can't even be bothered fixing it. In case someone else feels like it, here you go:

• Yes, (silly) people do skydive without parachutes occasionally.
• The only person to call chuteless jumps "banzai skydiving" would appear to be Yasuhiro Kubo.
• The first chuteless jump was made in the US by Bill Cole in the 1970s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvMGLJ0xww)
• Chuteless jumps have been since done at least by:

 - Travis Pastrana (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDBrdl2sZWs)
 - Antti Pendikainen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGQFmvJvQqA)
 - Andreas Dachtler (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB4uLm2wKNg)
 - Apparently (confirmed by Guinness here: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=470020) by Yasuhiro Kubo, but I can't find video of it

• It is impossible to throw your parachute out from 3000m, wait for 50 seconds, jump after it and catch it. 50 seconds is pretty much the maximum freefall time one can take from 3000m. It is much more likely that Kubo jumped out at the same time as his parachute, but it took him 50 seconds to secure it.
• Everyone else that has done a documented chuteless jump has had other people holding on to their parachute in freefall. Kubo would be the only one that actually threw out his parachute, if that's what he did.

Skydiver (talk) 02:55, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

The previous user was mostly correct, however banzai skydiving as it has been defined (throwing it out of the plane then chasing it), has not been done (or if it has a video of it hasn't been posted). The jumps where one person isn't wearing a rig is generally done with the rig being held by another person, so that person can assist with matching the altitude and fall-rate of the rigless jumper. Without a person holding the rig most rigs would fly past/bounce off of the jumper at over 30mph and would likely break the jumpers bones at those speeds, even if they did somehow track into it.

DanielArnett (talk) 02:48, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

Article topic change

article might benefit from being about "parachuteless skydiving" or something similar, with banzai skydiving as a sub topic? Considering the former has been done multiple times and the latter is dubious to have happened at all KaramelCrunch (talk) 12:05, 2 January 2024 (UTC)