ExAFO 0 #1 December 19, 2007 Who did the jump with the Union Jack Paracommander after going off the mountainside??Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Shell666 0 #2 December 19, 2007 Quote Who did the jump with the Union Jack Paracommander after going off the mountainside?? Umm ... James Bond?? 'Shell Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #3 December 19, 2007 Rick Sylvester Its (the name) on the opening credits, if you were paying attention to SpikeTV instead of posting right now you would have noticed. --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ExAFO 0 #4 December 19, 2007 Quote Rick Sylvester Its (the name) on the opening credits, if you were paying attention to SpikeTV instead of posting right now you would have noticed. Busted.Illinois needs a CCW Law. NOW. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #5 December 19, 2007 According to the intarweb Sylvester recieved $30k for the skiing BASE jump.--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SwampThing 0 #6 December 19, 2007 Notice how the released ski lands on top of the canopy during deployment!? The Pessimist says: "It can't possibly get any worse!" The Optimist says: "Sure it can!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLFKING 3 #7 December 20, 2007 QuoteRick Sylvester I call bullshit. It was Roger Moore........I mean, they show his face under canopy and everything. That scene was what motivated me to do my first jump. ps.....what finally happened after 7 1/2 years ? Don"When in doubt I whip it out, I got me a rock-and-roll band. It's a free-for-all." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolas 5 #8 December 20, 2007 Quote ps.....what finally happened after 7 1/2 years ? Don Dave got banned for posting the logout link. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skyberdyber 0 #9 December 20, 2007 IMDB.com says it was Rick Sylvester that performed the "ski jump". He also did the climbing sequnce in For Your Eyes Only, which of course was THE best Moore film. They should've made more "dark" Bond films like that. http://www.skydiveatlanta.com http://www.musiccityskydiving.com Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkeenan 13 #10 December 20, 2007 I believe it was either a Piglet main or some sort of modified reserve that was used._____________________________________ Dude, you are so awesome... Can I be on your ash jump ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #11 December 20, 2007 Quotesome sort of modified reserve You mean you couldn't get reserves that were done up to look like the Union Jack from ParaGear back then?--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkeenan 13 #12 December 20, 2007 Rick Sylvester donned skis for the breathtaking ski jump that has been ranked among the ten best stunts ever captured on film. The cliff was Asgard Peak on Baffin Island in Northern Canada. Sylvester, second unit director John Glen, and 14 crew members braved freezing temperatures and snowstorms for 10 days while waiting for a perfect opportunity to make the jump. (An excellent account of this stunt can be found under the entry "The Asgard Jump" in Steven J. Rubin's "The Complete James Bond Movie Encyclopedia.")_____________________________________ Dude, you are so awesome... Can I be on your ash jump ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ryoder 1,394 #13 December 20, 2007 If we're going to talk about, may as well let the young'uns see it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzA5R9aSFCI"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kkeenan 13 #14 December 20, 2007 Cool. Thanks. Yeah, that ski sure does its best to get involved in the deployment of the canopy - certainly would have been an unusual malfunction. Here's some more from a site about the jump: ---------- In his audio-commentary, Roger Moore comments on the opening parachute ski-jump that could have gone horribly wrong for stuntman Rick Sylvester. After the jump, a disengaged ski clipped the unopened chute as it was falling. The ski could could easily have prevented the chute from opening. It can still be seen in the final footage that the ski clips the about-to-open parachute. Rick Sylvester was paid $30,000 for the skiing stunt in the opening sequence. An advertisement inspired the famous opening skiing sequence. It was for Canadian Club Whisky and featured Rick Sylvester jumping off Asgard in Greenland. The ad had actually been staged elsewhere and had really been performed off the El Capitain Peak, Yosemite Valley, California. The ad read: "If you Space Ski Mount Asgard...before you hit the ground, hit the silk!". Sylvester performed the stunt for the film which famously ended with a parachute of the Union Jack opening. This opening sequence was recently parodied in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and was imitated with the air balloon in Octopussy (1983) and paid homage to in the Gustav Graves parachute drop in Die Another Day (2002). Sylvester also did the Meteora mountain fall in For Your Eyes Only (1981). The famous Union Jack parachute ski jump stunt during the film's pre-title sequence was (reportedly) originally suggested by former Bond star George Lazenby to be used in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), but the necessary equipment to film it was not available then._____________________________________ Dude, you are so awesome... Can I be on your ash jump ? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diablopilot 2 #15 December 20, 2007 SkiBASEer's eat your heart out. ---------------------------------------------- You're not as good as you think you are. Seriously. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
