Agreed. You don’t see him flying in the air. Only the take-off and landing.
I don’t see how they could have faked it, there are no breaks in the footage, and you can see him moving during flight, and curling into a ‘ball’ just before he hits the pool.
If it IS fake, they did a dammed good job!
aka Super Dave Osborne?
I don’t see how he could have gained such velocity with that low angle, but it looks like it would be fun to do.
BS.
The splash is inconsistent with the velocity.
First, the altitude of the launch point appears to be lower than that of the ramp...no launch.
Second, the rate of acceleration is inconsistant with the slope and roughness of the decent ramp...This guy would have been a gutter ball before the bottom of the hill.
Third, being really good at video photoshopping can get you a bizillion hits on youtube...Good job guys...((;O)
I still want to see Mythbusters do a segment on it. ;^)
Obviously fake for many reasons, most notably the lack of a pile of dead stuntmen from previous attempts.
There is no way that guy had enough speed to fly that far. No way.
I believe the ‘flight’ was filmed in slow motion. (hence the small splash and intact legs)
When playing the video in slow motion, you see a mid flight vertical ‘bob’, like he was suspended from some sort of spidercam rig, that, when he came off the ramp, set up some dynamics. (note the ski lift(?) towers in the background that could possibly be used in such a setup)
During the flight, no bystanders move and the camera is wide angle when bystanders are visible.
I would think that someone traveling that (apparent) speed would have planed on top of the water like a water skier. (and exited the other side of the pool)
I say, well executed (and very cool) fake.