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The Life & Death Of Skysurfing
Topic Started: Dec 1 2015, 04:05 PM (113 Views)
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Atlas Obscura: The Life & Death Of Skysurfing

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The sport of skysurfing lived a short life. Watching a skysurf video today, you'd likely guess that it’s a digitally animated stunt. But that person surfing right through the sky? That’s real—that happened. In fact, you could once get a gold medal for it.

When skysurfing debuted as one of the flagship events at ESPN’s first-ever Extreme Games (now X Games) in 1995, it had already been around for around a decade. A few daring folks strapped boards to their feet, jumped out of planes, and gave “surfing the airwaves” a whole new meaning. There were skysurfing stars, skysurfing endorsements. It was a small but global community. But within five years, the sport dropped completely out of sight. How did this insane sport climb so far and fall so fast?

-Read more: http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-life-and-death-of-skysurfing
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