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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 craze is born. extreme ironing. in short order, its all over the place. >> weve seen people extreme ironing on the top of a mountain, under water extreme ironing. on the back of fast moving cars. >> no one takes it to greater extremes than andy ford and mike frost. two professional sky drivers ...

Are focusing on another extreme sport. a mix of sky diving and surfing. youre burning a big trail through the sky. as much sun as you really want to. what am i going to do this time? am i going to fly back, up side down and spin. if im going to spin, how fast can i spin? >> how do you make that much more extreme? you add a little home appliance to the mix. in autumn of 1998, the two decide to do a little extreme ironing of their own. >> what excited us the most is we saw the other guys were doin...

It all starts an man named bill shaw. >> basically i just 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 craze is born. extreme ironing. in short order, its all over the place. >> weve seen people extreme ironing on the top of a mounta...

Sport. a mix of sky diving and surfing. youre burning a big trail through the sky. as much sun as you really want to. what am i going to do this time? am i going to fly back, up side down and spin. if im going to spin, how fast can i spin? >> how do you make that much more extreme? in autumn of 1998, the two decide to do a little extreme ironing of their own. >> what kited us the most is we saw the other guys were doing. we thought, yeah, we can do that. >> and boy do they. on a spectacular day ...

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 camera. >> once hes got hold of the board, i think we had about 15, 16 seconds for me to move into place and kind of like the aerial tripod, as it were, for the camera. theres quite a few things to try to get right in 45 seconds. >> all this is happ...

>> 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 camera. >> once hes got hold of the board, i think we had about 15, 16 second...

That really is an iron. this is what you get if you cross extreme sports with that ultimate home appliance. it all starts an man named bill shau. >> 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 craze is born. extreme ironing. in s...

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 an man named bill shau. >> 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 craze is ...

>> 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 camera. >> once hes got hold of the board, i think we had about 15, 16 second...

tremors up to a magnitude 7, which is the maximum on the japanese scale, and it could predict the area could experience tremors of 6-plus. the government says such a quake could collapse or heavily damage 47,000 buildings and if the quake hits at 6:00 p.m., fires could destroy 200,000 buildings. >> translator: i cant imagine what might happen. >> translator: when i think of last years disaster in tohoku, we could be next, so we have to prepare. >> millions of people would be stranded i...