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Decide to do a little extreme ironing of their own. >> what excited us the most is we saw the other guys were doing. we thought, yeah, we can do that. >> we thought we could plan something that would blow them away a little. >> and boy do they. on a spectacular day over england, mike and andy, together with their buddy, steve, jump from this plane. >> im climbing onto the outside of the airplane. mike is coming out. the guy is diving out with us and flying down. >> mike inverts his body and here...

You are not seeing things. that really is an iron. this is what you get if you cross extreme sports with that ultimate home appliance. it all starts with a man named phil shaw. >> i thought, why not iron outside, rather than inside. my housemate came home and discovered me ironing in the garden and said, what are you doing? >> he has a eureka moment. >> i said, im extreme ironing. we thought, what if we took the ironing to extreme places and did it on the side of a mountain or a river or lake or...

>> we thought we could plan something that would blow them away a little. >> and boy do they. on a spectacular day over england, mike and andy, together with their buddy, steve, jump from this plane. >> im climbing onto the outside of the airplane. mike is coming out. the guy is diving out with us and flying down. >> mike inverts his body and heres the moment of genius. the surfboard becomes an ironing board. >> once youre on it, its good. >> i felt him doing the ironing. >> andy ford is behind ...

You are not seeing things. that really is an iron. this is what you get if you cross extreme sports with that ultimate home appliance. it all starts with a man named phil shaw. >> i thought, why not iron outside, rather than inside. my house mate came home and discovered me ironing in the garden and said, what are you doing? >> i said, "im extreme ironing." we thought, what if we took the ironing to extreme places and did it on the side of the mountain? a river or lake or something? >> a bona fi...

You are not seeing things. that really is an iron. this is what you get if you cross extreme sports with that ultimate home appliance. it all starts with a man named bill shah. >> i thought, why not iron outside, rather than inside. my house mate came home and discovered me ironing in the garden and said, what are you doing? >> he has a eureka moment. >> i said, im extreme ironing. we thought, what if we took the ironing to extreme places and did it on the side of the mountain? >> a bona fide cr...

It. and we thought, yeah, we can do that. >> we thought we could plan to do something that will blow them away. >> and boy, do they. on a spectacular day over england, mike and andy, together with their buddy steve, jump from this plane. >> im climbing out onto the outside of the airplane, then the guys diving out with us, flying down. >> mike inverts his body, and heres the moment of genius. the surf board becomes an ironing board. >> its moving around at this point. im grabbing hold of the boa...

Greater extremes than andy ford and mike frost. two professional sky divers from great britain. in 1998, andy spots extreme ironing in a magazine. >> so were going on a mountain top and we said, we could make a sick movie, we could really make this look good. >> at the time, andy and mike are focusing on another extreme sport. sky surfing. a mix of skydiving and surfing. >> you surf on the actual air and youre burning this great big just trail through the sky and youre having as much fun as you ...

That really is an iron. itth is what you get if you cross extreme sports with the ultimate home appliance. starts with a man named phil shock. >> i thought why not iron outside rather than inside. my house mate game comb and discovered me he ironing in the garden and said what are you doing. >> he has a eureka moment. >> i said im extreme ironing. >> we thought what would happen if you take the iron into an extreme mountain. >> a bona fide craze is born. extreme eye wrong. short order it is all ...

>> and boy, do they. on a spectacular day over england, mike and andy together with their buddy steve jump from this plane. >> im climbing out on to the outside of the airplane and mike is coming out and then the guy is diving out with us flying down. >> mike inverts his body and here is the moment of genius. the surf board becomes an ironing board. >> once you are on it, if you are flying near it, it is just moving around at this point. >> and then grabbing hold of the board and then i felt him...

We saw what the other guys were doing. we thought, yeah, we can do that. >> and boy do they. on a spectacular day over england, mike and andy together with their buddy steve jump from this plane. >> im climbing onto the outside of the airplane. mike is coming out. the guy is diving out with us and flying down. >> mike inverts his body and heres the moment of genius. the surfboard becomes an ironing board. >> once youre on it, its good i felt him doing the ironing. >> andy ford is behind the came...