Friday morning...usually our morning to wander round the town a bit. After friend called, we went to my favourite makan stall. Lil Rainbow and Son came along ... today the sun rises real early for him. 8) Anyway, after we finished eating, I asked Nancy to turn into the Menara area so that I can check out the time for the BASE jumps. Had read about it in the papers a couple of days ago but they didn't state the time. Turns out they were practice jumps and there were BASE jumpers coming down every now and then. So we stood around and waited. Didn't wait long though.Suddenly there was this whoosh sound and when we turned our heads up to the sky, there was this guy almost landing.
So we waited some more. There were a couple more jumps after that. The guys would jump off from the pillars jutting out by the side. This is not a sport for those faint hearted! 8)
Another pic of a jumper making his run. The landing area is actually almost at the foot of the tower.
Managed to capture one of the jumps on video... Anyway, today I learnt a little bit more about base jumping. BASE actualy is an apronym for Buildings, Antenna, Span and Earth. An apronym basically means the word itself is relevant to the phrases in it. Thus BASE is also relevant to this particular sports in itself.
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I went there soon after I read your post. Thx.
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