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and the influence of islamist extremists. the country's democratic institutions now face a serious threat to the law and we call for the rule of law office not of. violence dominates the headlines we've just continue notion of this should be made you cannot change. bangladesh that this law is all starting april twenty first on t w. everyone welcome to today's special edition of euro max focused on extreme sports is what we'll be seeing today. dad evel deeds introducing french
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popcorn champion you on live. on the prize before my accrued since go from poland is a top indoor skydiver. and online sensation the thrill seekers mad cow or a huge internet. now when you think of extreme sports it usually involves mountains rivers or even the skies as athletes battle nature to test their limits but that's not the case when you're an ace pacu up the urban environment provides the obstacle course for free run as they run jump and climb their way over anything and everything and for frenchmen you on the rooftops of paris are the perfect playground. you on the roof has only one chance to make this jump. there are no safety nets below the rooftops of paris park or is a kind of extreme sport the roos been doing it professionally since two thousand
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and nine. he's built a philosophy around. here. is the art of forward motion pushing limits it involves adapting yourself and your body to a certain environment does becoming obstacles but mentally and physically is upset . it also means being in continual motion and. you want has found an ideal place in the center of paris to get in shape not far from the rusty . pedestrian bridge over the center offers a wide range of opportunities to practice. viewers are advised against trying this at home no matter how easy it looks when you on go strolling across the railings. was to. feel as if i'm in any kind of an unusual situation all that i have to be especially careful because ultimately just imagine i'm walking a straight line on the ground if i go by that principle i feel no stress.
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and there's no reason for me to fall as long as i can walk a straight line. but even the most experienced park or athlete slip up every once in awhile. i was holding on at this very spot and went to make a three hundred sixty degree turn when i executed the move i slipped and fell in the water. this bridge is ten meters high fortunately i can swim and i got out of the water by climbing up a notch but i'll definitely remember that mishap forever only you can't afford that kind of mistake in this case i was lucky enough to land in the water. so when passers by see him in action how did they react. it is what you might cure some people are curious and ask questions they're interested others don't want to hear anything about it they're scared of what they don't know but. i always try to communicate courage instead of fear.
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just say to. the park or pro is always on the lookout for new locations to practice his passion there are plenty of rooftops in paris but it isn't always so easy to reach them. a little east west and so on the roofs of paris are a gray area in legal terms where tolerated by the people who live there but you aren't allowed to access the routes via private entrances and there's no way to avoid that really. today johan has once again found a way up. his concentration before a jump like this is ferocious one wrong move could kill him. he says he doesn't want to think about the dangers. try personally don't connect what i'm doing to death in any way for me that's
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a very negative consent and you have to be careful employing it that you can also die just trying to cross the street what extent there are so many external factors that can be calculated and live with it but at what point i'm out here on the rooftops then it's just me and my body coping with potential dangers of what others view as dangerous lies at the root of my walk with. you one has taken part in many international competitions in two thousand and thirteen he won the world champion title in the discipline he's also founded a french park or team and set up an academy where he teaches others of what he knows. to dance book on it's a sport that anyone can practice no matter how old you are or what kind of shape you're in there are no excuses excuses it's about the art of movement and locomotion we all have bodies that we should be using regardless of age or experience experience. but no one says you have to start by leaping across paris
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rooftops. next up is a sport that is uplifting to say the least indoor skydiving if like me you're not too sure about jumping out of a plane this is the perfect alternative it's just like real skydiving except there's no parachute and no risk of plummeting to certain death when it malfunctions it all takes place in a vertical wind tunnel maya could since gust started skydiving in her early teens and showed us just how to dunce with the wind. this floating dancer earned my own place in sports history with the first ever title of junior world champion in indoor skydiving. the air in the wind tunnel blows at up to three hundred kilometers an hour every movement is perfect the wind
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storm doesn't bother the polish athlete she likes it. obviously it kind of feels like sticking your whole body out of a moving car like it's just the same kind of like air pressure but you can control it certainly makes it work orders whatever you do your body does in the area but in the space you get. she takes her moves from other sports. fast dynamic twists come from figure skating. long stretches and figures from projects. where my uncle jim crow combines them it looks like she's flying. her favorite figure is the pistol. she devises many of her moves in the tunnel cause she has a completely different sense of husbandly when she's. like
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that i don't know on the ground i'm really. so we're flying it's not like you don't you can't translate anything from ground to fly there's no like skills that except things like flexibility she was inspired to take home a sport by her father a huge fan of extreme sports. meyer joined him for her first parachute jump when she was just ten years old. the father supported her from the beginning this sport isn't. exactly cheap fifteen minutes in the wind tunnel cost up to seventy euro's in poland maya has been training several times a week since she was thirteen and all skydiving has become the focus of her family's life for those of the systems goes on the slopes but i do this sport to. most of ship so i try to accompany a liar every step of the way you know going to the so you know i take care of the
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organizing and i'm kind of like her manager. i look for sponsors who want to work with my me also by me because those like those of on the documents that back up she knows about them that's my role in her career is where the. maya trains outside of the wind tunnel to and completely without professional coaching. i don't really need any more i could come up with my own things the people who are at the top of the sport right now are at the top of the sport so we look at our own routines and we are the best judges so we know what's going to. fire lives in iraq. she has a time she rarely has time to stroll in town every weekday she's in school until three then she trains or has media appointments on weekends she often travels to competitions there's no time anymore for national perceives. i do miss it sometimes but i think what i'm doing is worth it so.
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my kitchens because performances in a wind tunnel of followed the world over she has numerous online fans. in those kind of living is a fairly new sports scene is small and maya wants to reach the top she can't bat defeat. goes up what our scope is but come out i get every setback is like a little tragedy and god i always need a few hours to motivate her again and to make it clear to her that this isn't the end of the world is. why i took second place in the indoor sky diving world championship in twenty seventeen but her ranking isn't her main interest i want to try to gravitate more dynamic type of flying i want to be able to show really beautiful moves but at the same time mix them up with like super dynamic fast just you know have like my own different style. is currently the star of european
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indoors kind of sponsors are hiring her to appear in a such response. nonsense on becoming the face of indoor sky diving the world. now we're diving deep underwater usually snorkeling and scuba diving enthusiastic choose tropical locations for the underwater adventures but there are plenty of opportunities in colder climes for instance in iceland where tourists can explore a hidden oasis of lakes among the volcanic landscape reaching them involves quite a bit of hiking so it's best to be in good shape and wrapped up warm if you fancy going on one of these expeditions.
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so crystal clear that you can see more than one hundred meters throughout. the night is home to some of europe's last remaining under go to secrets. in the forthcoming or got to be as close as specializes in showing visitors icelandic diving highlights today an almost unknown place is on the agenda to help. unexpectedly it's located in iceland's highlands a diving paradise found from the coast. states wine and guns presented we're going to a very special diving site because only a handful of people have dived here before we didn't even discover it until recently and it's something very special that's on the list. to be as strong as it has been the head of the dive organization in reykjavik for almost twelve years today it is iceland's best known diving company. its
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international clients include actors like the american ben stiller and pierce second from the next. sweden's king calcutta. and hollywood star tom cruise. liners from the icelandic kinds are characterized by spas vegetation and fast flowing streams just guessing here is an adventure in itself. after crossing a number of mountain ridges and rivers the drivers reach a plateau. this is as far as they tried but there's still no body of water in sight . to b.s. instructs everyone to get their diving equipment together. the divers strapped. to their bodies. so. then c.b.s. confirms what they've begun to suspect the daubing sponsor can't be reached by car
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they will have to continue on for. hours. sleep. sleep sleep to reach a strenuous but would only effets in the end they come to mountain lake shaped like a chair. does this man boy can cut this is a volcanic crater lava one shot up and float him and then at some point there were eight of filled up with water food you can't see it here from the road it's completely hidden it's for a stick. you come on top for though only a handful of people can have a day and only in the two or three months of summer a lot of football i don't associate it with diving in this new top.
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kill is there and his colleagues have named the day. after the god in norse mythology. according to legends after the death of his beloved son down to odin nature to fall to earth containing all his son's beauty gentleness and goodness. the boss in this mountain lake has a temperature of two degrees celsius and comes from a glacial hyaena. before it reaches the lake it is repeatedly filtered through the . like chemists and top. one conspicuous by them talk on you can even take out your mouthpiece and drink a few mouthfuls and special could think now if you must but i have to warn you this is a fountain of youth the tears abode in our intellects in school. it really drink it and never age again it used to take it from me and at the age of two hundred forty
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five the sky know what i'm talking about found out from fits in with. this of all ages however can enjoy the remote mountain lake. and since can't be found in any tourist guide or on the internet there's hope its pristine beauty will remain unscrewing for a long time to come. want to know more about european lifestyle and culture visit your own macs on facebook. you'll find highlights from our programs. three hundred sixty degree videos of the most beautiful places in europe and snapshots taken by our reporters take an exclusive look behind the scenes at how the program is produced and follow us on facebook life. we love it when fans visit our facebook page and give us their feedback visit d w euro max on facebook. now for some football
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a great passion of mine although i'm afraid i'm not all that skillful myself but kitty sauce is in fact she's probably better at juggling the ball than the top players here in europe even brazilian superstar neymar as praised her skills she's a football freestyle and performs at events around the world while football is a team sport she prefers to perform a routine solo and was never interested in actually playing on the pitch. whether she uses her head or her feet tongue gary and kitty shock can do pretty much anything with a soccer ball after all she is one of the world's top football freestylers. the sport involves performing tricks with a ball using most any part of the body coordination balance on ball control are vital the funny thing is that i haven't played football i never. i did for a theft but ten years it has nothing to do with it but i found how i like the
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traits just the traits not the bombing of the team play but but the small table centric. earns her living from these tricks ten years ago she saw a video on the web and tried the moves herself now she trains several hours a day. now if i were if i will be. paid. i have to be on a constant thing in my life that i long. before. she makes appearances around the globe takes part in international tournaments and has won the world championship title four times. including here in tokyo in twenty thirteen but she's met famous athletes like for time formula one world champion sebastian federal and
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a freestyle football idol. that may be the highlight of my life my respect carrier but maybe i'm our in-breath you know we played together for the economy. and so from three falsehood came from craig and he said that you have never seen. any girl before that the kind of the ball so well like me. could be shot shows off her ball handling skills in central budapest while her performance could rival any man's many still. her soccer to be on male sport for women still earn far less money and public recognition in the freestyle scene knows that people take her seriously but in everyday life a woman who can kick the ball around like she can really stands out. i've played when i was younger and it's a day for mother and i and the youth team and i was about twenty seven probably put on the. that i could never do. mays better then.
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we'd be home because. the. indulge will serve a national football team. for the girls and also support the girls. to get a challenge keeps proving that freestyle football isn't strictly a male domain that's made her a role model for young girls around the world she is already looking forward to that next championships. twenty six years home and i have no idea how i'm going to come to do. i can compete. but i try to try to come back. to the tricks that i dreamed of becoming i'm going to be happy even if i make my time. once her active career is over cha she wants to work as a coach and hopes that one day freestyle football will become and i'm limping
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discipline. well i hope to juggle the ball like that some day but i'll have to practice some more at home on next report features some activities you should definitely not try yourself the extreme sports enthusiasts mad cow pushed themselves to the limits and tried to invent a few new extreme sports along the way they've gone to a big following online getting millions of views for their videos we decided to follow them around for a few through. racing over grass on skis in the heart of france is over your reach are. taking a dip with the self-made catapult. just the thing for the french extreme athletes mad cow. when they're you off. in the air and you're like. you're off thinking. that.
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consists of ten young extreme sports enthusiasts between the ages of twenty and twenty five today they're going to try something new. something involving jumping and water. the guys head on to a disused railway bridge attached to steel cables normally used for cranks. they tie up bungee cord. at the age of twelve. were used to go in there would. always make sure i tried to make any. of. the members of mad cow also built an eighty meter long water slide. the group is always causing us millions of same stunts like these on facebook.
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old. ski runs through the forest provided an internet sensation. the philosophy behind mad cow extreme sports shouldn't be too serious they should be fun and communicative. we just bring originality and. no very type of things in the world type of thinking and we try to do things that that the bar never seen before we. started with a video shall goes a posted on the internet it on a model feedback and some when twenty fifteen he and some friends found it to take . the members all come from the town of the hack in the old them year and have known one another since grade school. they wanted journalists physiotherapists and businessmen. in their spare time they make videos most of them
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a film home region. before they start their latest stunt they check everything one last time. safety is even more important than fun. we took a rigorous one match i.r. each day and we will test everything we test everything we send bag first all year we will. we put things that resistor were really really very station so there is no reason that. the group tested whether this lake was
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deep enough for the jumps by using a rope and the weight still you need to be a trained dancer lee to do stuff like this. like that trisha you have to be strong but they are well. it's amazing aus the first time it was a bit carrying because you don't know really what without then but after you are good fitting in. one thing is sure the french extreme athletes mad cow certainly know how to live life to the fullest the be. mocked oh. well that's all from us for today but we're back tomorrow with off final special edition of the week thanks for watching bob barr for now.
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