When I was growing up in Nottingham there used to be an old railway bridge that overlooked an approx 100ft drop, and one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen was when one of my brother’s friends who was a gymnast did a handstand over the drop.
However, some of these backflip videos I discovered via a Digg post are just as insane. What gets me about stunts like these is not so much the nerve it takes to perform them, but how on earth do you practice or do it the first time?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qr4v_UvHNwQ
And finally a great Chase Armitage video:


