Turning a chair into a rock climbing challenege

@redbull turning seats into sets 💪 🧗: Domen Škofic 🤝: @redbulladventure #redbull #givesyouwiiings #energydrink #bouldering #climbing ♬ original sound - Red Bull

Some IRL inspiration for the next Final Destination movie

@thenullhypothesis Bumped into a birthday balloon as I flew into the Sunset… #Paramotor #RealFairy #Paragliding #flying #ppg ♬ Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

@ms.capricorn1985 The way they watched the wheels roll away… 😭😭#fyp #fypシ゚viral #hilarious ♬ Originalton - @easy_edit415

Kite surfer on a day so windy he needs a team to get him safely aloft

@redbull mother nature delivered 💨 🏄‍♂️: @jason_kiteboarding 📍: @redbullned last day for your chance to enter #RedBullMegaloop hitting the coast of the Netherlands this fall 🪁 #redbull #givesyouwiiings #energydrink #kiteboarding #watersports ♬ original sound - Red Bull

Pit Boss Grappling--I guess it's UFC with a John Wick veneer?

@pitbossgrappling Kill or be killed. When the clock hits OT… the weapons come out. Every single overtime finish from JWI-3 🔪💥 This is why overtime is our favorite time. #JWI3 #SuitJitsu #JiuJitsu #BabaYagaDivision ♬ original sound - PitBossGrappling

@pitbossgrappling Every submission from JWI-3. No Points. No Decisions. Submit or Kill. #JohnWickInvitational #JWI #BabaYagaDivision #SuitJitsu #GunJitsu #KnifeJitsu #JiuJitsu #SubmitorKill ♬ original sound - PitBossGrappling

@pitbossgrappling Brace for Impact. This isn’t flow rolling—this is JWI. Control the descent or pay the price. #JohnWickInvitational #JWI #TakedownHighlight #SuitJitsu #GunJitsu #KnifeJitsu #JiuJitsu #GrapplingWithConsequences ♬ Infinite Ammo - Le Castle Vania

Championship-level lion dancing

@iinsynced they’ve got SKILLS 💯 #liondance #gentingliondance #fypsg #nikonz6iii @NikonSG ♬ original sound - insynced

Taser knife fighting competition

@nicolesummerhsing this is what I do when I’m not being a founder or teaching u guys ai 🤣🤣🤣🫡🤍 #muaythai #mma #sf #hobbies #yolo ♬ HAVHAVHAV - Rapfelsefesi

@nicolesummerhsing part one LOOOL gonna post a mini series for the next few days abt this 🤣🫶 #sf #hobbies #grwm #getreadywithme #muaythai #yolo ♬ beans - yawn.

Underground robot fighting league

underground robot fight pic.twitter.com/JESF3uliDD

— Sam D'Amico (@sdamico) July 6, 2025

it’s happening pic.twitter.com/a48u6c8USH

— Sam D'Amico (@sdamico) July 6, 2025

when I quit my job at a humanoid robot company to start an underground humanoid robot fight club, barely anyone believed in me or this idea. I had no money to buy robots and knew very few people who had the ability to get robots. thankfully, I was able to find the best of the… https://t.co/DOpBDkDhYS pic.twitter.com/Ao8lCaMnVk

— verda🪄✨ (@verdakorz) July 7, 2025

Drones being used to deliver supplies and remove trash at Mount Everest

@bbcnews Mount Everest is often described as the world’s highest garbage dump. #MountEverest #Nepal #NepaleseArmy #Asia #SouthAsia #Rubbish #Waste #Drones #Technology #BBCNews ♬ original sound - BBC News

A longer write-up at CNN:

Airlift currently has two DJI drones, only one of which is being operated on Everest this year. The second one is a backup, and if there’s need for more drone flights, they’ll consider deploying both.

One challenge is money. Each drone costs $70,000, and that’s before they even begin operating.

“Everything is expensive at Base Camp,” Bikram said.

“Because there’s no electricity we need a lot of fuel to charge batteries.

28 people have died at a California skydiving center

the best yelp page I ever saw with for a skydiving place in Lodi because majority of reviews were very positive and like "we had a GREAT time, check out these pics!" and then every third one would be like "this is the place that killed all those people."

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— William B. Fuckley (@opinionhaver.bsky.social) June 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM

SFGate from April 2024:

It’s impossible to calculate the fatality rate per jump at the [center], because no one keeps track of how many people jump out of planes there — or how many have died while doing so. In 2018, [the former owner] told Sacramento’s KXTV-TV even he wasn’t sure how many deaths had occurred at his business. 

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FAA communications manager ... told SFGATE the agency does investigate skydiving deaths, but not the cause of them, and its authority to regulate the sport is limited.

NYT in October 2024: 

A skydiving instructor who used someone else’s credentials to train people in tandem jumping at a troubled facility near Lodi, Calif., was sentenced this week to two years in prison.

Yelp.

Via.

Mountaineers violated "climbing ethics" by dosing themselves with xenon gas to make it easier to climb Mt. Everest

Long article (that questions whether the gas even does anything meaningful):

The British group, which included four former special forces members, took a different approach.

About 10 weeks before the expedition, the men began sleeping in hypoxic tents, which lower oxygen levels in the air and gradually acclimatized the hikers to conditions on Mount Everest, [the organizer] said.

While hypoxic tents have been used by some climbers for years, the big innovation for the British expedition came two weeks before the excursion, when the men flew to Limburg, Germany, outside Frankfurt, where a doctor ... had been experimenting with inhaled gases in his clinic.

The men wore masks hooked up to ventilators as an anesthesiologist slowly introduced higher levels of xenon into their systems.

Elite indoor team skydiving

@kyrapoh Replying to @bubble_tea_forever This was team #singapore free routine!!! #worldchamps filmed by @Mairis Laiva ♬ original sound - Kyra Poh

James Jean designed a parachute for Pom Klementieff

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Not dead, btw:

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Training on Cirque du Soleil's shifting stage

@cirquedusoleil The coolest stage ever (we’re not biased we promise) #KA ♬ sonido original - Taci Méndez

A roller skating trick where the skate goes off on a journey

@itsjackmatthew Trick Shot👻🛼 . . @sxtekkis #fyp #skating #ghostboot #blackpeopleskatinginlondonseries #londonskater #omg ♬ original sound - Jack Matthew

Carlos Sainz Sr. is 62 years old, and this rollover crash at Dakar delayed him ... roughly 20 minutes

Envido pic.twitter.com/8W28qyJlVM

— Enrique Naranjo 🇪🇦 (@Quique_Naranjo) January 5, 2025

Delightfully unhinged cinematic trailer for the Fury vs Usyk rematch

Move over paintball, here's bow-hunting

@compoundbow5 #indoorandoutdoor #tools #type #fyp #bowhunting #hunting #compoundbow #usa #Youtube #ArcherySeason ♬ Big Dawgs - Hanumankind & Kalmi

Skating through a drowned, frozen forest

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"Tony Hawk wanted to track down a mysterious skateboarder from 1979. We found her"

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Key sentence:

I turned to the people you turn to when times get tough: Librarians.

The LA Times asks whether anything can stop the "surf gang" at Lunada Bay in Southern California

(I posted about the intimidation tactics almost a decade ago.)

The new article is about a legal settlement and whether it will bring change:

The culture of localism runs deep in Palos Verdes Estates, a tight-knit, wealthy community with around 13,300 residents and its own police department. In fact, maintaining local control of the coastline was one of the reasons residents voted to establish their own city in 1939, according to historical news articles.

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The Bay Boys’ reign has sparked years of controversy and emerged as a flash point for beach access in the upscale community of Palos Verdes Estates, culminating with a landmark lawsuit demanding the city do more to protect surfers from harassment.

The city agreed to settle the suit last month with a promise to protect public access to Lunada Bay. Additionally, 11 alleged surf gang members agreed to either pay steep fines or stay away from the break for a year.

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The recently settled lawsuit was filed against Palos Verdes Estates and a dozen alleged Bay Boys members, alleging that the surf gang’s behavior and the city’s failure to uphold public beach access violated the California Coastal Act.