As of May 2017, over 2,000 BASE numbers have been issued. The 1000th application for a BASE number was filed in March 2005 and BASE #1000 was awarded to Matt "Harley" Moilanen of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Upon completing a jump from all of the four object categories, a jumper may choose to apply for a "BASE number", awarded sequentially. Jumpers from a cliff wearing tracking suits A separate "award" was soon enacted for Night BASE jumping when Mayfield completed each category at night, becoming Night BASE #1, with Smith qualifying a few weeks later. Jean and Carl Boenish qualified for BASE numbers 3 and 4 soon after. When Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield jumped together from a Houston skyscraper on 18 January 1981, they became the first to attain the exclusive BASE numbers (BASE #1 and #2, respectively), having already jumped from an antenna, spans, and earthen objects. Later on, specialized equipment and techniques were developed specifically for the unique needs of BASE jumping.īASE numbers are awarded to those who have made at least one jump from each of the four categories (buildings, antennas, spans and earth). By this time, the concept had spread among skydivers worldwide, with hundreds of participants making fixed-object jumps.ĭuring the early eighties, nearly all BASE jumps were made using standard skydiving equipment, including two parachutes (main and reserve), and deployment components. Carl Boenish continued to publish films and informational magazines on BASE jumping until his death in 1984 after a BASE jump off the Troll Wall. It was this that popularized BASE jumping more widely among parachutists.
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While BASE jumps had been made prior to that time, the El Capitan activity was the effective birth of what is now called BASE jumping.Īfter 1978, the filmed jumps from El Capitan were repeated, not as an actual publicity exercise or as a movie stunt, but as a true recreational activity. Carl Boenish was the catalyst behind modern BASE jumping, and in 1978, he filmed the first BASE jumps which were made using ram-air parachutes and the freefall tracking technique (from El Capitan in Yosemite National Park). The acronym "B.A.S.E." (now more commonly "BASE") was coined by filmmaker Carl Boenish, his wife Jean Boenish, Phil Smith, and Phil Mayfield. Systematic pursuit of a new form of parachuting. However, these and other sporadic incidents were one-time experiments, not the actual
Has higher reforge stats than Mythic, but only has reforge stats for mining reforges.Fausto Veranzio is widely believed to have been the first person to build and test a parachute, by jumping from St Mark's Campanile in Venice in 1617 when over sixty-five years old.
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