The GoPro Bomb Squad: The World’s Most Exciting Job
Extreme Sportsmen Marshall Miller, Neil Amonson, Jesse Hall and JT Holmes are the GoPro Bomb Squad. They are daredevils who have made their love of extreme sports into a full time job. This video has many heart-racing scenes from the GoPro cameras the guys carry. They jump off buildings and from helicopters and airplanes, and they plummet off the side of sheer rock faces. As you watch you feel as if you are right there with them as some of the world’s most beautiful scenery flies by. The twists and turns, from the point of view of the jumpers themselves, will have your heart in your throat and your stomach turned inside out even as you watch from the comfort of your computer chair.
- + Who
This is a video from Barcroft Media, an international media company based in London, England. They specialize in “the amazing side of life.” They deliver and market extreme content to clients all over the world. The video was directed and shot by the GoPro Bomb Squad themselves, a team of four friends. They formed the Bomb Squad in 2008 after securing sponsorship from GoPro. They were able to turn their hobby into their careers. Now they travel the world and showcase their skills and guts in paragliding, speed flying, wingsuit cloud surfing, base jumping and skydiving. The GoPro Bomb Squad are Marshall Miller, Neil Amonson, Jesse Hall and JT Holmes.
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This video was shot in various locations. The video makers don’t outline exactly where the team is performing their exciting stunts, but they range from the top of a building in a city to remote and more exotic locales. They hang from helicopters and jump out of planes over sparse, desert terrain and beautiful, mountainous locations.
- + What
The video gets started with the team hiding out in a bathroom and they quickly move to the roof of a building (0:18) and jump off, landing in a parking lot nearby. Then they dangle from the skids of a helicopter (0:30) and jump off. The team is introduced at (0:41). They ascend in a helicopter at (1:00) for further jumps wearing wingsuits. At (1:20) we see several breathtaking jumps off of cliffs. (1:39) shows a jump off of a very tall tower and (1:48) is a jump from a rock towards a street and body of water below. At (1:54) we see a jump from a plane and at (1:59) a helicopter jump and the landing.
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