TEDxTromso - Audun Hetland - Base jumping

Audun Hetland (32)'s passion is to chase experiences and to study different experiences. Right now, Audun is studying a PhD in Psychology at the University of Tromso. Audun will talk about base jumpers -- why they jump and what makes them they jump off a 100meter high cliff. That is what Audun is studying -- how people react while doing extreme sports.
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[@andycopland3179]

BASE jumping is a lot like doing mushrooms, you'll never know unless you do it.

[@brniesenders4288]

Amen

[@brockmurray6372]

I guess I have the second comment after 8 years

[@lotusfreestyle1131]

Hi wow not many people here

[@RogerThat1637]

Well said homie!

[@basejumpingmonkey]

As a 30 year veteran base jumper i totally disagree with everything stated here in the sense that this is the experience for all base jumpers, whilst it may be true of the civilian majority essentially there's a group within the group for whom it's absolutely not true nor about adrenalin, excitement and high five's, for us through danger we find clarity and calm, most of this type are guys with high end military experience (Para's, Marines, SF etc) whom typically have previously jumped into enemy territory for whom the complete control & self regulation of emotional & mental states has been hard wired since enemy contact can occur at any moment, such guys in civilian life experience base jumping very differently to their non military experienced counterparts.

[@alberthiggins383]

great talk!