Carl Boenish was the real catalyst behind modern BASE jumping, and in 1978, he filmed the first BASE jumps to be made using ram-air parachutes and the freefall tracking technique ( from El Capitan, in Yosemite National Park ).

Sand in the jumping pit is a modern invention ( Miller, 66 ).

It ’ s the first modern film: fragmented, not told straight ahead, jumping around.

The modern pentathlon is a sports contest that includes five events: pistol shooting, fencing, 200 m freestyle swimming, show jumping, and a 3 km cross-country run.

Although competitions involving horse riding had been included in the programme of 1900, this was the first appearance of modern Olympic staples such as dressage, eventing and show jumping.

Celebrations consist of a lot of traditional and mostly Pagan elements-eating Jāņi cheese ( special recipe with caraway seeds ), drinking beer, baking pīrāgi, singing hundreds of Latvian folk songs dedicated to Jāņi, burning bonfire to keep light all through the night and jumping over it, wearing wreaths of flowers ( for women ) and oak leaves ( for men ) together with modern commercial products and ideas.

The Australians were the first to develop barefoot jumping, one of the three events in modern barefoot competition, as well as pioneer many new tricks.

Philosophers usually divide the period less finely, jumping from medieval to early modern philosophy, on the assumption that no radical shifts in perspective took place in the centuries immediately before Descartes.

Unlike other registries that are limited to locally-bred horses, or which prefer one color to another, the modern Oldenburg selects stallions and mares based only on their quality as dressage and jumping horses.

However, Dubs ' synthesis of Roman and Chinese sources has not found acceptance among modern historians on the grounds of being highly speculative and jumping to too many conclusions.

Râșnov has built a modern ski jumping centre for children and youth.

Many consider Frank Lloyd Wright's principle movement of organic architecture combined with Arts and Crafts as an American jumping point for the aesthetic of Mid-Century Modern, however one need only visit a Wright house's interior to realize the Mid-Century modern movement in the US was really an American reflection of the International and Bauhaus movements – including the works of Gropuis, Le Corbusier, and Mies Van Der Rohe.

The Dangerous Sports Club, a group of adventurers and extreme sports pioneers based in Oxford and London, were active from the late 1970s for about ten years, during which they developed modern bungee jumping and experimented with a variety of other innovative sporting activities.

They first came to wide public attention by inventing modern day bungee jumping, by making the first modern jumps on 1 April 1979, from the Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol, England.

A butterfly kick or horse kick ( xuànzi 旋子 circle ) is a jumping kick in martial arts such as modern wushu and taekwondo and capoeira.

Considered the first modern course in Olympic history, it was 775 meters in length, to be ridden at 400m / min, with 14 obstacles and 17 jumping efforts.

modern airport facilities including technical and fuel service, services under contract ( such as air taxi ), panoramic flights, business charter flights, a flight school, parachute jumping, minibus transfer, a hotel room booking service, a restaurant, a duty free shop as well as car rental services.

The history of " modern " Barra de Navidad dates back to the mid-16th century when the Spanish used it for ship building, repairs and a jumping off point to the Philippines.

Carl Boenish ( April 3, 1941 – July 7, 1984 ) considered the father of modern BASE jumping, was a freefall cinematographer, who in 1978 filmed the first jumps from El Capitan using ram-air parachutes.

This approach defined modern BASE jumping.

most modern adapters totally accept the world of a book, squeeze it dry of life, and add only one contribution of their own: stage technique.

Regarding breast-feeding capability after breast reduction surgery, studies reported that women who underwent breast reduction can retain the ability to nurse an infant child, when compared to women in a control group who underwent breast surgery using a modern pedicle surgical technique.

This is the simplest form of a technique known as instruction pipelining, and is utilized in almost all modern general-purpose CPUs.

Because of this, codes have fallen into disuse in modern cryptography, and ciphers are the dominant technique.

His technique relies heavily on the satirical poem with a joke in the last line, thus drawing him closer to the modern idea of epigram as a genre.

Use of 3270 is slowly diminishing over time as more and more mainframe applications acquire Web interfaces, but some web applications use the technique of " screen scraping " to capture old screens and transfer the data to modern front-ends.

Laparoscopic surgery, also called minimally invasive surgery ( MIS ), bandaid surgery, or keyhole surgery, is a modern surgical technique in which operations in the abdomen are performed through small incisions ( usually 0. 5 – 1. 5 cm ) as opposed to the larger incisions needed in laparotomy.

This technique is used for non-destructive inspection of devices with very small features such as those found in modern semiconductors.

In 1893 August Köhler developed a key technique for sample illumination, Köhler illumination, which is central to modern light microscopy.

* Multi-chip module, a modern technique that combines several complex computer chips into a single larger unit.

The modern technique of papyrus production used in Egypt for the tourist trade was developed in 1962 by the Egyptian engineer Hassan Ragab using plants that had been reintroduced into Egypt in 1872 from France.

The modern pole vaulting technique was developed in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century.

Cameramen of the era insisted that their cranking technique was exactly 16 fps, but modern examination of the films shows this to be in error, that they often cranked faster.

In the case of modern television receivers, no other technique was able to produce the precise bandpass characteristic needed for vestigial sideband reception, similar to that used in the NTSC system approved by the U. S. Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) in 1953, and the PAL system approved by the BBC in 1957.

In the early modern period ( 17th and 18th centuries ), the system-building scope of philosophy is often linked to the rationalist method of philosophy, which is the technique of deducing the nature of the world by pure a priori reason.

Alexis Carrel at the beginning of 20th century first described the technique for vascular suturing and anastomosis and successfully performed many organ transplantations in animals ; he thus actually opened the way to modern vascular surgery that was before limited to vessels permanent ligatation.

Since a single integrated circuit can provide a complete phase-locked-loop building block, the technique is widely used in modern electronic devices, with output frequencies from a fraction of a hertz up to many gigahertz.

In the early modern period ( 17th and 18th centuries ), the system-building scope of philosophy is often linked to the ratioanlist method of philosophy, that is the technique of deducing the nature of the world by pure apriori reason.

Lebesgue's technique for turning a measure into an integral generalises easily to many other situations, leading to the modern field of measure theory.

Cutting was often used in traditional Japanese origami, but modern innovations in technique have made the use of cuts unnecessary.

However, the resolution of the DNA-DNA hybridization technique used by Sibley & Ahlquist was not sufficient to properly resolve the relationships in this group, and indeed it appears as if the Charadriiformes consititute a single large and very distinctive lineage of modern birds of their own.

Nineteenth century enthusiasts lauded Clementi as " the father of the pianoforte ," " father of modern piano technique ", and " father of Romantic pianistic virtuosity.

Acclaimed as the father of the pianoforte and modern piano technique, this complex and influential musician was also the first virtuoso on the instrument.