BASE is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennas (referring to radio masts), spans (bridges) and earth (cliffs).[1][2] Participants jump from a fixed object such as a cliff and, after an optional freefall delay, deploy a parachute to slow their descent and land. A popular form of BASE jumping is wingsuit BASE jumping.
Seems bacronym-ish
Photographer Carl Boenish helped coin BASE as a description of the sport’s adrenaline-inspiring launch points (buildings, antennas, spans, earth) in 1978, when he videotaped early jumps from Yosemite National Park’s El Capitan rock formation.
What about BASS jumping?
I cooked you a delicious bass
That’s illegal unless you work for the FBI.
I always heard it as Bridges and Skyscrapers, but since it is a very international sport then “spans” makes more sense.
They had a chance to call it BABE jumping and didn’t take it. Weak. /s
I thought the base is what you hit when the chute doesn’t open.
