For some, the search for thrilling experiences never stops! Every day is an opportunity to go beyond one's limits and test new things. These paratroopers are the perfect example.
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If for many RedBull fans, the energy drink has a primarily chemical taste, those fans should know that the company organizes many sports competitions that have one thing in common: to go further, higher, faster. In short, no limits! No wonder, then, that RedBull was behind the Mega Swing event, a swing between two balloons...
The participants were experienced paratroopers. They set themselves up in the basket of a balloon, hanging on a swing suspended from another balloon a little further away. Then, they swung into the void for a moment - something we imagine to be unforgettable!
The daredevils strung the acrobatics together, suspended in the air, and even left large coloured traces behind them - thanks to the smoke that hangs at their feet. After taking advantage of the sublime landscape and the breathtaking view, they dropped their swings to parachute into the fields a little lower down. Fortunately, their experience wasn't like that of Antti Pendikainen, who tried the same experiment but without a parachute, for her landing...
Even if it looks easy, we normal individuals probably wouldn't imitate the same thing!
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