It’s no insult to tell Miles Daisher to "go jump off a bridge." He’ll eagerly take you up on it.

Daisher regularly jumps off the Perrine Bridge — an almost 500-foot drop down to the Snake River, near Twin Falls, Idaho.

On New Year’s Eve, weather permitting, he plans to leap from the 31-story Sheraton Waikiki.

Daisher is the world’s top B.A.S.E jumper, a parachutist who drops from buildings, antennae, spans and earth (hence the acronym) rather than airplanes. His planned jump from the Sheraton will be his 3,000th, extending his record for the stunt.

The jump will involve more than just dropping off the building and pulling the rip cord. He needs to free fall for a few seconds to build up speed for a small "pilot" chute to open, which then pulls open his main chute. "Right about the time when my parachute opens is when everybody (starts) to freak out for me and go, ‘Oh no, he’s going to fall!’" he said by phone from Idaho.

Even his free fall requires some technique. Daisher, who sometimes does flips off a building before opening his chutes, said he needs to come off the building in balance and under control. He was a wrestler and pole vaulter in school.

"You want to be perfectly balanced in your harness container system when the parachute opens so that you’re on that perfect on-heading opening," he said. "If you get an off-balance opening, that’s going to mess up your whole flight, especially if you’re jumping off a building."

Those first few seconds, however, are often the best part of his jump, he insists.

"When you push off, there’s no air moving,’ he said. "Basically, for the first four seconds you’re an astronaut, zero gravity. There’s no forces acting on you. It’s the coolest feeling to just jump and not land for like four to six seconds."

If all goes well, Daisher will get a night view of Diamond Head when his chutes open, and he’ll guide his "ram-air" parachute around the area for about 20 seconds before landing at the Sheraton’s Rumfire restaurant.

Daisher got introduced to parachuting going to air shows with his father, who served in the Air Force. As a college student in California, he got a job with a bungee-jumping company and then got into sky diving.

"My first time sky diving was 1995, and it was hook, line and sinker," he said. Now, he jumps professionally for Red Bull at air shows, does stunt work for films and teaches sky diving.

It will be the first time that the Sheraton, which recently was used as a rappelling venue, will be used for B.A.S.E jumping, said Diana Su, a spokeswoman for the hotel. Daisher’s reputation was an incentive for the Sheraton to give him permission, she said.

"He’s jumped off every tall hotel in the world," she said.

Daisher has been watching weather reports, expressing concern over the recent high winds. He can attain a top speed of about 25 mph in his ram-air parachute, so he prefers not to jump in wind speeds higher than that.

"That could put me coming straight down or even backwards," he said. High winds "might add a little excitement or cancel the whole thing," he said, a comment that suggests that while he’s passionate about jumping, he’s not crazy.

"A lot of people think I’m fully crazy, off my rocker," said Daisher, who plans to jump just before midnight so as not to disturb anyone’s New Year’s kiss.

"But you learn to trust your gear and how it works, then what your limits are, then how you can perform within a safety envelope. … You know how to make good, confident decisions. That’s the biggest thing. Once you start making bad decisions, things can fold up on you really quickly, especially when you’re B.A.S.E. jumping, because you only have limited time."