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rock and religion clash that brings many parallels i. wanted to really some of the reconcilable. comedy the devil and rock'n'roll stars august nineteenth on d w. everyone welcome to today's special edition of your max focused on extreme sports is what we'll be seeing today. dead level deeds introducing french popcorn champion you on live. prize before maya christians go from poland is a top indoor skydiver. and online sensation thrill seekers mad
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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 at pacu up the of an environment provides the obstacle course for free run as they run jump and climb their way of anything and everything and for frenchmen you on the who the rooftops of paris of the perfect playground. you on the roof has only one chance to make this job. 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 and nine. he's built a philosophy around. here. is the art of forward motion pushing
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limits it involves adapting yourself and your body to a certain environment often does becoming obstacles but mentally and physically it's that while. 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 a 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 go on go strolling across the railings . and feel as if i'm in any kind of an unusual situation know that i have to be especially careful because of them i just imagine i'm walking a straight line on the ground if i go by that principle i feel no stress. too much 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 a while. i
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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 and. but i'll definitely remember that mishap forever normally you can't afford back 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 you know. i always try to communicate courage instead of fear and you can watch. them all just sitting there. the park or pro is always on the lookout for
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new locations to practice his passion there are plenty of rooftops in paris but it isn't always so easy to reach them. by lucius western so the roofs of paris are a gray area in legal terms we're told by the people who live there but you aren't allowed to access the roofs via private entrances and there's no way to avoid that really. today your aunt has once again found a way out. 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. of the oil light personally don't connect what i'm doing to death in any way for me that's a very negative concept and we have to be careful employing it. you can also die just trying to cross the street what extent there are so many external factors that
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can't be calculated in life what about it when 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 what he knows. to dance a book on the it's a sport that anyone can practice no matter how old you are or what. kind of shape you're in now no excuses excuses it's about the art of movement and locomotion we all have bodies that we should be using an accomplice of age or experience. but no one says you have to start by leaping across paris rooftops. next up is a sport that is uplifting to say the least indoor skydiving if like me you're not
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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 dumps 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 but every movement is perfect the wind storm doesn't bother the polish athlete she likes it.
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honestly 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 so it's like sit with for years whatever you do your body does in that 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. when my kids in school 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 how forty when she's. like that i don't know on the ground i'm really. so fly it's not like you don't catch translate anything from ground to fly there's no
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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. sadly cheap fifteen minutes in a wind tunnel cost up to seventy euro's in poland maya has been training several times a week since she was thirteen and also kind of thing has become the focus of her family's life for those of us just of those things but i do this sport to. publish it so i try to accompany every step of the way that i take care of the organizing i'm kind of like her manager. i look for sponsors who want to work with my feels about me that is obama back into the country knows about them that's my role in her
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career. my trains outside of the wind tunnel too and completely without professional coaching. i don't really eat 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 we know what's good . lives in iraq and she has a time she really 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 leisure pursuits. i do miss it sometimes but i think what i'm doing is worth it so. my kitchen's because performances in the wind tunnel of followed the world over she has numerous online fans. indoor skydiving is
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a fairly new sport the scene is small and maya wants to reach the top you can bat defeat. those up but ask of those that come out i get you know every setback is like a little tragedy 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 it is. my i took second place in the indoor skydiving world championship in twenty seven teams but high ranking is in time the 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 start of european indoors kind of sponsors are hiring her to appear in
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a so this is a nice. side to now since i'm becoming the face of indoor sky diving the world. now with diving deep underwater usually snorkeling and scuba diving enthusiastic choose tropical locations for their 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. is so crystal clear that you can see more than one hundred meters through an. isolated is home to some of europe's last remaining underworld to see queens.
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coming or going to be as close as specializes in showing visitors icelandic diving highlights today and almost unknown places on the agenda to help. unexpectedly it's located in iceland's highlands a diving paradise far from the coast. states so i am guns was on the 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 ops on the us. to be used to 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 international clients include actors like the american ben stiller pierce second
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from the left. sweden's king called good stuff. and hollywood star tom cruise. in these first one the icelandic cannons are characterized by spas meditation and fast flowing streams just getting his neck bench and itself. up to 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 dubbing sponsors can't be reached by car they will have to continue on for.
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me as. you seem to be too strenuous but would only effets in the end they come to a mountain lake shaped like it's here. does this mean volcom contents is a volcanic crater the larger one shot up and followed him and then at some point to the right of filled up with water food you can't see it here from the road it's completely hidden sophistic. you come on top for the only a handful of people coming in our day and only in the two or three months of summer following to fall by i don't associate it with diving in this new top you. close it and his colleagues have named the day. after the god in the us mythology. according to legend after the death of his beloved son down to odin no six here to
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containing all his sons beauty gentleness and goodness. the boss in this mountain lake has a temperature of two degrees celsius and comes from a glacial hina. before it reaches the lake it is repeatedly filtered through volcanic stands like chemists and time. are. constantly fighting talk on you can even take out your mouthpiece and drink a few mouthfuls and social could think now is a must but i have to warn you this is a fountain of youth the tears abode in our intellects in school. if you really drink it you'll never age again take it from me and at the age of two hundred forty five the sky know what i'm talking about found out from fits in with. this of all ages however i can enjoy the remote mountain lake. and since
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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've never. i've been caught out there for ten years it has nothing to do a bit but i somehow i like the traits just the traits not the running of the team play but but the small table trick. shot earns her living from these tricks ten
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years ago she saw a video on the web and tried the moves herself now she trains several hours a day. now it's my word is my whole being. paid. to be on a constant thing in my life that i love them i do for. her . she makes appearances around the globe takes part in the international tournament and has won the world championship title four times. including here in tokyo in twenty thirteen she's met famous athletes like for time formula one world champion sebastian federal and a freestyle football idol. that may be the highlight of my of my respect carrier but me and rescue we played together for the economy. and so from three to five
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so it came from trade and he said to me you have never seen. any car before that kind of the ball so i like being. a kid he shot shows off her ball handling skills in central budapest while her performance could rival any man's many still can see. her soccer to be a male sport women still earn far less money and public recognition in the freestyle scene shocks knows that people take her seriously but in everyday life a woman who can kick the ball around like she can really stands out. played when i was younger and it's a mother and i in the youth team and i was about twenty seven probably put on them . that i could never do. maisie better. because. they can mean. indulge me also have
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a national football team. for the girls and also support the girls. to the challenge keeps proving that freestyle football isn't strictly a male domain and that's made her a role model for young girls around the world she is already looking forward to the next championships. twenty six years old i have no idea how long i can do this. and i can't 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 it's time. once her active career is over she wants to work as a coach and hopes that one day freestyle football will become and i'm limping discipline. well i hope to juggle the ball like that some day but i'll have to practice some more at home on
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next report features some activities you should definitely not try yourself the extreme sports enthusiasts mad cow push themselves to the limits and try 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 thrills. racing over grass on skis in the heart of france's auvergne region. taking a dip with the self-made counterpunch. just the thing for the french extreme athletes mad cow. when they're you off. in the air and. you're off thinking. consists of ten young extreme sports enthusiasts between the ages of twenty and twenty five today they're going to try
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something new. something involving jumping and water. a guy's head onto a disused railway bridge they're challenged to steel cables normally used for cranks . they tie up bungee cord to them. at the age of twelve. where we all use the. chair. when feeling. real was made. with love make. the members of mad cow also build an eighteen metre long water slide. the group is always causing a stir millions have seen stunts like these on facebook. old. ski runs through the
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forest provided an internet sensation. the philosophy behind mad cow extreme sports shouldn't be too serious it should be fun and communicative. we just bring originality and. no better type of things in the world type of thinking and we try to do things that that people never seen before. started with a video shall go say posted on the internet economy model feedback and in twenty fifteen he and some friends found it to take. the members all come from the town of new venue and have known one another since grade school. they wanted journalists physiotherapists and businessmen. in their spare time to make video games most of them a filmed in their home region. before
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they start their latest stunt a check everything one last time. safety is even more important than the fun. we took it really swung much i.r. each time and we will test everything we test everything we send bag first of all there is a cable we put things that resistor were really really very station so there is no reason that. group tested whether this lake was 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.
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trisha you have to be strong but they know what. chords are amazing hours a first time. carrying because you don't know really what without then but after you have a good fitting in they are. 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 babar for now. in our next special edition. congress for andree and his mob of animals. away from home cameras can be found in northern norway.
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