Andy Stumpf

The guys who are around the longest, the ones that I know who are kind of the titans in the sport, it's not that I don't worry about them.

I worry less.

I think it's maybe more... Honestly, I think it's that Dunning-Kruger curve where it's going to get people, especially when...

Let's say you do this amazing job, right?

You're ripping around a corner and things you learn later on, like, hey, is it ascending or descending thermals right now?

Where's the wind coming from?

What type of day is this?

Is the slope... I'm just jumped off.

Maybe it was a...

Western facing slope that I jumped towards and I felt this amazing uprush of air, which is what you wanna feel on an exit point.

Same thing as why airplanes take off into the wind, it helps with performance.

Well, as I am cruising down this mountain, am I thinking about the fact that three quarters of it is covered in the shade and maybe the thermals have switched along the way and you're gonna start feeling this pressure of almost a hand on your back?

The first time you do that jump and you survive,

The dangerous thing to say is, nailed it.

But did you nail it or did you get away with it?

And that's what kills people.

And that's that perfect Dunning-Kruger ascending line.

I got away with it more than I nailed it.

No.

No, you don't know what you don't know until you see somebody else get bit by the same thing.