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Garden and said, what are you doing? >> he has a eureka moment. i said, i'm 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, it's all over the place. >> we've 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 from great britain. >> we're ironing on a mountain top. we said we can make this look good. >> at...

Are focusing on another extreme sport. a mix of sky diving and surfing. you're 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 i'm 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 doing. we thought, yeah, we can do that. >> and boy do they. on a spectacular day over england, mike a...

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, i'm 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, it's all over the place. >> we've 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 e...

Sport. a mix of sky diving and surfing. you're 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 i'm 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 over england, mike and andy together with their buddy steve jump from this plane. >> i'm climbing ...

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 place and kind of like the aerial tripod, as it were, for the camera. there's quite a few things to try to get right in 45 seconds. >> all this is happening at 120 miles an hour, with the guys in free fall at 5,000 feet. >> i think that's one of ...