The sport of banzai

Banzai

Banzai may refer to:* A traditional Japanese exclamation meaning "Ten thousand years"** Banzai charge or banzai attack, a last, desperate military charge* Banzai! , a 1991 album by Tigertailz...

 skydiving

Parachuting

Parachuting, also known as skydiving, is the action of exiting an aircraft and returning to earth with the aid of a parachute. It may or may not involve a certain amount of free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal...

involves throwing a parachute out of a flying plane and then jumping after it, the aim being to catch up with it, strap it on and deploy the parachute before hitting the ground.

Craig Glenday, editor of Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records , is a reference book published annually, containing a collection of world records, both human achievements and the extremes of the natural world...

, has used Banzai Skydiving as an extreme example of the book's policy to keep records for record categories in which only the life of the participant would be put at risk. As a counter-example, he indicates that record attempts that might put another person or animal at risk, such as "fattest pet," are not allowed.

Sources

• Guinness World Records 2007, page 95.
• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/74d66136-899e-11da-86d1-0000779e2340.html
• http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/long430.html