Wingsuit

“a lot of people call them Squirrel suits, its just a wing suit. Squirrel is actually a manufacturer of one of the suits. Fantastic branding. They happen to be the suit that I jumped.”

“and then you pitch through that and there is terrain below you, that's how a lot of people die. But the suit itself is basically that. There's wings. There's a large wing between your leg, a wing underneath your arm on both the left and right hand side. And they come in a variety of sizes. So learning it is simple, not easy. First off, skydive before you throw a wingsuit on in the skydiving world.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You see that in the wingsuiting community. I would say specifically the wingsuit-based jumping community. The fatality rate is high. I would never tell anybody that it is a safe activity, but I think you can do it as safely as possible.”

“Yeah. Yeah. I think he had gotten away with it more than he had nailed it. And I had to. Would you let your kids squirrel suit? Do I have the right to stop them? Yes. No.”

“Yeah, I didn't, uh, it, to me, it just seemed natural. I didn't even give it a second thought. Yeah, but you're also jumping out off mountainsides in squirrel suits. Yeah, but I'm telling you, if you've ever tasted that nine volt the way I did, you might, you might actually be like, so what is this progression?”