His Instagram bio reads professional gravity tester; his jaw-dropping social media posts show him jump between cliffs. What exactly does this Superman from Malad do? “I am a B.A.S.E. jumper, which means I leap from buildings, antennae, bridges (aka spans) and the Earth [cliffs] itself,” says Sajid Chougle, 39. To put it in simple terms, Chougle jumps off a point, relying on a parachute to descend to the ground. “It is a licensed profession and very safe,” he tells mid-day, adding, “While training, your gear has an automatic activation device that pulls the parachute open, if you forget or fall unconscious.”

B.A.S.E jumping is a recreational sport that unlike skydiving, which involves jumping out of an airplane, lets you jump off of fixed objects that tend to be less than 2,000 feet tall and descend to the ground using a parachute. It was back in 2010 that B.A.S.E jumping was introduced to Indians when Captain Lt Col Satyendra Verma jumped off a 235 metre-television tower in Delhi, making it the first legal B.A.S.E jump in the country. This was part of the activities planned to celebrate the centenary year of the Corps of Signals.