Daredevil Performs Handstands On The Edge Of Skyscrapers Around The World

This dude is both nuts and incredibly talented. Freerunner Scott Young seems to enjoy nothing more than hanging out on the edge of very tall building, while doing a handstand!

They say thrill-seekers enjoy living life on the edge, and one extreme sportsman has taken the phrase literally by performing death-defying handstands all over the world

Daredevil Scott Young, 25, from Baskingstoke, Hants., has travelled as far afield as India and China, and has even completed one handstand on top of a 40-storey skyscraper.

Scott climbs to the edge of the building's roofs and performs a handstand without any safety ropes – and films the vertigo-inducing views on a camera built into his shoe.

He said: 'When you do a handstand, you have to focus on the ground in front of you to keep your balance. If it's only a few feet away that's fine, but I look right down to the bottom of the building – it's so far I just have to block it out of my mind.

'It's more of a mental thing than anything else – you've just got to focus your mind on what you're doing, not what might happen.

Professional freerunner Scott, part of the 3RUN team of acrobats, has so far performed his 'Handstands in High Places' in three countries.

Scott first filmed himself last month doing a handstand on the edge of a 20-storey derelict building in Delhi, India. He said: 'We were in India filming and I just thought 'why not?' It was scary but I'm very confident with my body and what I can do.'

via The Daily Mail