Andy Stumpf
π€ SpeakerVoice Profile Active
This person's voice can be automatically recognized across podcast episodes using AI voice matching.
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's people who like to do it vertically, either feet down or head down.
People who fly on their back.
There are formation jumps where they'll get a bunch of people together.
I think the world record is hundreds of people linked up in free fall.
You can watch it from the ground.
It's crazy to see.
They'll have eight aircraft and you just see these just people bombing out of the back.
And they'll make these snowflake configurations and people just sitting there on the ground watching either naked eye or with...
with binoculars and then at break off altitude, everybody's tracking away and then all these canopies open up and then on landing, it gets a little bit wild.
So it can get as much as you want and then wingsuiting is just a part of that.
But you can jump a smaller wingsuit.
So if the suits I ended up jumping had a lot of fabric because I wanted to have a nice glide ratio and I wanted to be able to extend the amount of time in the air.
You can get suits with a smaller wing, which give you more maneuverability and you learn in those and then get a little bit bigger.
A little bit bigger and bigger and bigger.
So as safely as possible, graduating your way towards those larger suits that can have more consequence.
You can end up on your back in the wingsuits in flat spins.
And I've seen people β you can get out of it.
You need to get out of it quickly.
But we're talking fully blown red eyes when they get to the ground from centrifugal force.
And pretty quick too.