Andy Stumpf

So they will get permission to go off of buildings or you can go to Dubai where for I think it was a year they had this huge just it was fully just set up for legal base jumping off one of the top floors of one of those skyscrapers, which is unbelievable.

And then Earth, which is obviously that and cliffs.

My first base jump off of a actually was from the bridge.

I have actually I have done an antenna

Buildings, not many buildings, but my first jump off the earth was Monte Brento in Italy, which you jump, open your canopy, land, walk across the street, and there's an Italian espresso just waiting for you.

Perfect.

It's basically heaven.

And then we stayed there for two and a half weeks and went into Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland.

But I had been skydiving and-

flying a wingsuit, then I had to learn how to base jump.

And then at some point you have to combine those two.

So one day you have to go from never having pushed off of a cliff in a wingsuit and having time flying it in the air to kind of bridging that gap where now you have this first four seconds that you have to deal with where the suit feels really sloppy.

It doesn't feel rigid and you can't really do anything until it powers up and you can pull away.

So that's kind of the activities.

The why, I can't answer for anybody other than myself, but the why for me actually had nothing to do with the activity itself.

And it is dangerous.

There are some people who try to romanticize the danger of that.

If people want to participate in things because they're dangerous and that's how they want to define themselves, I leave that to you.

Just be aware of the potential consequences you might get yourself into.

For me, I got into that about three years after I got out of the Navy, and I didn't realize what it was I enjoyed so much, but it was the mental reset associated with that.