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BASE Jumping With Hooks in Your Skin: Insane, or Totally Fucking Insane?

A man willingly had hooks implanted into his back so he could go BASE jumping with a parachute tethered to his back.

Hey, here's a cool thing to do in your spare time: learn to hacky sack. It's fun, challenging, and most importantly it doesn't involved getting metal hooks implanted into your back and tethering a parachute to those hooks so you can go BASE jumping off a mountain. If I had to pick the best of those reasons to give hacky sacking a whirl, it would definitely be the last one. This dude from San Francisco is evidently not down with hacky sacking.

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This footage comes from Ton Sai, Thailand and it shows Josh Miramant performing a "suspension jump" which is a euphemism for "sticking hooks in your back and jumping off a cliff like a psychopath."

"Distracted by the hooks in my back, I hoped I wouldn't make a mistake and cause a fatal dangerous body position."

You will get no sympathy here, Josh. I am glad you had fun getting extreme, though, and gladder still that you did not die, either from a "fatal dangerous body position" or by "having all the skin ripped off your back, having that skin momentarily serve as a makeshift parachute and provide a brief moment of hope, before completely detaching from your body as you plummet to a certain death."

I'm just gonna be over here with this hacky sack.

Thanks for nothing, SB Nation.