[Closed] PSA Tonight: Daredevils: Life on the Edge inc Danny MacAskill and Guy Martin

Nice one. Thanks

i'll bump this with 50 minutes to go.

Nice one, the mrs can turn off that kardashian bull honky and I can watch something reet proper!

Recording.. thanks.

Cool, thank you.

Bloody brilliant, just in time. Thanks.

Cheers for that 😀

Thanks for this PSA! Just managed to program the skymachine 😀

here too....thanks!

Cheers for the heads up 🙂

Watching and recording 🙂 Truly insane.

Cheers

The voice over guy is really annoying! Shut up

Guy Martin on surfers 😆

Zane chuffing Lowe. I wish this fella would do one back to NZ.

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Guy Martin on surfers

Thought that too! He might be off their christmas lists. 😀 Bloody good (motor)bike rider though, isn't he?

Just caught it. Thanks for the heads up. : )

(REALLY, ZANE LOWE?)... : (

There's some good footage on this programme and it's a great way to bring cycling to mainstream TV but I can't help but think it's all a bit, well, cheesy really.

Why are people so keen on over analysing having fun?
That's all it is - we all do it. The only difference is that these guys are better at it than most of us!

@GTTH: yep, just a tad!

Changed the channel, pretty boring.

Would be better if "Come dine with me's" Dave Lamb did the VoiceOver!

Bit of a shame they filmed it just as Danny is recovering from an injury, and therefore can't fully take part.

But otherwise, very interesting, especially to understand about the common misconception about "adrenaline junkies" as they are actually not so.

like a big go ape

Turned it off for the reasons mentioned above, but did catch the surfers bit 😀

I get what they say. I was just saying to Mrs C, I ride for the satisfaction of controlling fear, not letting it control me and preventing me riding stuff successfully. It does mean I can't ride his ^ stuff yet, but it means I minimise my injuries. 😀

I guess if you live in Lincolnshire you can't be expected to know a lot about surfing . . .

I'm watching that slacklining through my fingers! The only thought in my head is What if the end comes out of the rock?! I guess they don't think that cos they know how its fixed.

The TT crash near the beginning was horrendous. Did have a chuckle at the high fiving extreme surfers comment though!

I guess if you live in Lincolnshire you can't be expected to know a lot about surfing . . .

But you may know something about doing a 130mph average speed round the I.o.M ! 😀

As is usually the case with these things the VoiceOver is cheesy/ annoying as hell, but it's some exposure for some minority sports.

Closer to the edge is a far better watch.

Some interesting bits but the 'science' aspect to it is a bit BS. 'people do extreme sports because they get a buzz and that can be addictive, maybe something to do with their genes'. Wow.

And Zane Lowe can do one.

It is interesting that Zane Lowe doesn't actually have to sound like an utter twonk. Why can't he sound like this on the radio!

Would be better if "Come dine with me's" Dave Lamb did the VoiceOver!

Omg are you guys watching random acts with the flying suits?

this programme was great and terrible. great for Danny and his parents.. terrible for the pseudo-science that just about everything on tv seems to have now... why, it's not ok just to appreciate art or sport on their own? The only interesting bit was about adrenalin, and i'm not sure that's even right.

E.B. White famously said: “Analyzing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”

Yep, change [i]humour[/i] to [i]fun[/i] and that's it.

Liked the way it will have made some people realise wingsuit guys will have a ton of skydives/base jumps behind them before they do this stuff. It's showing the progression. A lot of people would look at them and just think they are insane without realising the build up to doing what they do.

Guy Martin 'If you get it wrong you're dead'

Wish he'd stop saying this because he got it wrong big time at the TT a couple of years back and at this years North West and at least one other North West a few years back.

I really like him but wish he'd stop playing the job up.

Pretty disappointing show to be fair.
Did anything actually happen?

Why didn't they film it when he was fit and when it wasn't pretty much winter in Chamonix?

Pretty dull, no real insight... 🙁

schedules at a guess, further adding to the poor execution of this program

It's cheap unimaginative TV.

These videos do well on YouTube so they create a format around it. The format was weak but for the cost of production it will still have pulled okay numbers.

Next we'll see a program about 'Lol' catz. Why do cat owners push there catz to such extreme poses? What's the science behind this strange obsession ?

It's cheap unimaginative TV.

It's Channel 4

I think Guy Martin hit the nail on the head with his derisory comments about what is or is not 'extreme' (although really big wave surfing is pretty extreme).

How on earth did they figure that slack lining was extreme unless they were actually going to do it without a harness? And to be fair, what Danny does is more unfathomable skill than real danger.

Frankly I can't see anything getting close to TT racers and wingsuit/base jumpers. I mean in the TT each year people die - imagine each time you went out for a bike ride you figured you had a 1 in 100 chance of not coming back. That would sharpen the mind.

Hey, it was a bit crap, but it was better than 99% of the shit on TV!

imagine each time you went out for a bike ride you figured you had a 1 in 100 chance of not coming back. That would sharpen the mind.

That sounds a bit sensationalist
No competitor deaths in 2012, don't know the exact number competing but something like 70 per race and as many again for all the practice sessions.

....... and yes I have raced the course, Manx GP 79, 80 and 81

Poor TV, but Danny seems a perfectly normal and likeable chap.

I can't see anything getting close to TT racers and wingsuit/base jumpers

I know where guy Martin is coming from with his comments on surfing but I'd suggest that big wave surfing - where they get towed up to speed by wet bikes to catch the waves & have aquafoils(?) that lift the boards off the surface of the water quite probably has a similar risk of death. I'm sure there must be a fair few other extreme ends of other sports that have a high death toll - climbing Everest for one?

surfing waist high waves, pootling to the shops on a 125, cruising blue runs are not extreme. surfing massive Shipsterns or Teahupoo, skiing the nant blanc or the north face of the triolet, and racing hard in the TT are.

Extreme sports is a bit of a misnomer. You just get an extreme end.

Only saw the first half on 4OD, I was out watching Regina Spektor, who was much more entertaining.

As above - that TT crash early on was unbelievable - does anyone know anything about it? Who was it? Did they survive? If they did, in what state??

Conner Cummins

Conor Cummins.

Broken back the worst of his problems.

Back racing now.

Would have done the TT this year but for injury caused by someone else.

Come on guys, you know the rules. If surfing was really that extreme they would be all dressed up and standing around in the car park for hours in their body armour and full face helmets, before they hit the waves.

Have you learned nothing from your mountainbiking Mr Martin ?

Edit, too late...

Maybe Guy Martin ought to watch "Riding Giants" and shave off his minging mutton chops before he makes comments like that.

I'm not a surfer but do ride a motorbike and obviously don't ride the TT but the majority of people don't do really extreme stuff anyway in whatever pastime they participate in. Does Guy Martin do extreme canal boating?

Try and watch TT closer to the edge.

Footage of Guy's crash in 2009 from on board.

The way the front goes early on the way into the corner and he just manages to let it skate enough of it's way round to kind of glance the wall instead of smashing it is amazing.

I don't use that word much but yeah, it is.

Conor got it wrong didn't he, he's not dead. Yeah it's dangerous and as someone said above the only 2 things that really make me sit up and watch are road racing and wing suit flying but the danger doesn't need promotion. People have worked hard to ensure a future for road racing by taking the laymans mind from purely being on the danger aspect.

[url= http://randomacts.channel4.com/#view/103 ]This was on straight after it[/url]

So amazing.

Grinding the Crack is such an appropriate title

I thought it was good, but yeah the slacklining must be pretty safe, just a big psychological thing with the drop below. If planes had glass bottoms we'd all be doing it.

I thought it was good. I liked them showing Danny psyching himself up before doing the front flip off Edinburgh Castle - shows he is still human. Reminds me of me shitting it before doing far less risky stuff.

The slackline stuff - meh. How big a risk is it if you've got a harness or safety line. I abseiled off the Forth Rail Bridge once and it wasn't particularly scary - fair enough it wasn't 9000 feet high but the drop was still comfortably far enough to kill me. But I had a harness and a saftey rope. Whats the difference between slacklining with a harness and farting about at Go Ape?

TT riders and base jumpers are something else though!

Whats the difference between slacklining with a harness and farting about at Go Ape?

Balance?

Maybe Guy Martin ought to watch "Riding Giants" and shave off his minging mutton chops before he makes comments like that.

Too right!! I thought he came across as a bit of a prick at that point. Big wave surfing is about as extreme as it gets, with maybe the exception of base-jumping/flying.

I am happy to be corrected on this, but surely crashing while riding the TT is pretty much down to the rider making a mistake (whether it being a lack of judgement or a lack of skill).

On the other hand, with big wave surfing, there are so many things outside of your control that it often just comes down to pure luck that you come out the other side.

but surely crashing while riding the TT is pretty much down to the rider making a mistake

On 37.75 miles of country roads, there's plenty that can happen that's beyond your control.

I thought Guy was brilliant!
Surfers, high fiving each other... Class.
Sound llike a bunch of mountain bikers.

but surely crashing while riding the TT is pretty much down to the rider making a mistake

On the whole, yes
For the few crazies that ride it on the limit, the margin for error is tiny though

On 37.75 miles of country roads, there's plenty that can happen that's beyond your control.

Most of the stuff is within the riders control, the throttle works both ways
The big difference with road racing - of course - is the lack of bail out options and safe sliding areas
The IOM mountain circuit is a tough one but certainly not the most dangerous road circuit

I preferred Guy when he was pootling around on a barge and having a brew 😉

Whats the difference between slacklining with a harness and farting about at Go Ape?

I didn't really take the approach that the whole show was about extreme sports, it was about people who push their sport beyond normal levels. Slacklining 2 feet off the ground is hard and ignoring the wind, 9000ft off the ground is no different but the mental part of it must be a lot different. Same as doing that 3-foot drop is actually little different to doing the 10-foot drop but I'll be buggered if I can make my brain accept that (let alone the 20-foot ladder drops).

"On the other hand, with big wave surfing, there are so many things outside of your control that it often just comes down to pure luck that you come out the other side."

I think your kind of missing the point, and the programme kind of missed the point, but touched on slightly. In all extreme sports you want to take control of near death causing activity, its that control that is the buzz.

I'm pretty certain at least 1 person died at the TT this year, could have actually been 2.