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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. >> i'm climbing out onto the outside of the airplane, then the guy's diving out with us, flying down. >> mike inverts his body, and here's the moment of genius. the surf board becomes an ironing board. >> it's moving around at this point. i'm grabbing hold of the board. then i felt him doing the ironing. >> andy ford is behind the camera. >> once he's got hold...

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 we're 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 you're burning this great big just trail through the sky and you're having as much fun as you really want to. you think, what am i going to do this time? am i going to fly on my back, on my f...

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 i'm 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 over the place. >> we have seen people extreme ironing at the top of mount kilimanjaro and people d...

>> and boy, do they. on a spectacular day over england, mike and andy together with their buddy steve jump from this plane. >> i'm 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 doing the ironing. >> andy ford is behind the camera. >> once he has ahold of the board we had 15 ...

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. >> i'm 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's the moment of genius. the surfboard becomes an ironing board. >> once you're on it, it's good i felt him doing the ironing. >> andy ford is behind the camera. >> once he's got hold of the board, i think we had about 15, 16 seconds for me to move into ...