Andy Stumpf

And I had found other activities that had started to provide that.

It crossed the metric for me where the risk was no longer worth the reward.

I have been skydiving since 1999.

I could take five years off and go jump out of an airplane and I'd be fine.

But I can't do that in the base jumping world.

The currency and competency piece is so important.

And then when I moved to Montana, my access to the drop zones and the ability to maintain currency and competency in that wingsuit really decreased.

So it got to a place where it just, it wasn't worth the risk.

Skydiving's still a bunch of fun, but I found other activities that I could kind of lose myself in.

Maybe not to the same, I don't think to the same degree.

It's hard to describe zipping up in that suit with a maximal heart rate to the point where you're looking over your buddies like,

Are you hearing my heart too?

Because it's pretty loud.

You know what I mean?

Like that thrush in your ears.

Because at some point you grab your little tail wing and you make a little nice little teepee with it and you get your toes to the edge and you check all your stuff and then you are just looking out into the abyss.

And you have to make yourself rock forward past the point of no return that if you change your mind, whoopsies, that doesn't work anymore.

And then you need to have maximal human performance for about the next four seconds of your life if you want your life to continue.

So if you're not scared in that environment, I would recommend you stop that activity immediately because you're not paying attention.

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