Epic Wingsuit Stunt Wins Go Pro 2020 Challenge Award

My heart is going off dude. Right now he's going that's harder to see than I thought. Oh there he goes. There's his glider. That's the line. Yeah Dicko! Here he comes. Oh my god. Oh my god. That was insane. Hi I'm Ryan Jinx and welcome to my gear room. November 2019 right before the GGBY festival we rigged the net to do some wingsuit fly throughs. It was an idea that Lorenzo DiMuro, Andy Lewis helped, Daniel Rostow and all of us kind of came up with this idea as we were building the GGBY net to make the hole in the middle big enough to fly people through. We set it up at this 45 degree angle in order for it to be more or less at the angle they would fly into it. We had four wingsuiters go through it and we're going to show all their clips as we go throughout this video. So we'll start with Ben Dicko. He exited from a paraglider that was towed up from the back of a vehicle in order to get him to altitude even though he wasn't very high. I believe only 1500 feet and so that doesn't give him a lot of time to find the net and fly through it. And Dicko used smoke cans so it was actually a lot easier to see him as he was coming in and since he corkscrewed it made it look pretty damn cool. Now I was on the corner of the net and Sylvan Christensen was on the other corner and then Andy Lewis was on the top and they both had GoPro maxes which came out to be really cool footage and I was filming with a couple different things. They submitted their footage and we won the GoPro million dollar challenge award and no we don't win a million dollars it's a marketing gimmick. We did win a few thousand dollars that was spread out across many people because it was also part of a rope jump and stuff but everyone shared and it was pretty cool that we all got to benefit from it. Now keep in mind we do these stunts because we love the art behind it. I personally love combining multiple sports into one stunt and in this case a target that was an enclosed hole was actually a pretty neat unique kind of stunt and from my perspective it was quite shocking how quick everything went by even though we've got all of our slow motion videos and stuff. It was and it was over it was crazy and the build up from it and when I saw him release from the paraglider it was my heart just sank. I had more adrenaline for those five seconds than I had on any other thing we did that entire month. So now let's hear a little bit from him about his experience. Yeah normally you might cut away back here like say 3,000 feet back but because I only had like 1,500 feet I have to come over top and then just like My name's Dicko and yeah the process starts back at the launch. So you set up wearing the wingsuit, the parachute, you've got the paraglider, you've got a toe bridle linked to the truck which has a hydraulic winch on it and then there's two cutaway systems. So the first one is to the toe line and the second one is to release the paraglider. So as soon as we launch and get flying the whole game starts. Basically I have a list here on my arm, safeties, water, wingsuit, leg zips, goggles, camera, smoke, altitude, arm zips, pull smoke, cutaway. Wow you can't forget any of that shit. No I do. The checklist is game changing. But yeah for the whole five minutes on the tow up you're just like setting up gear, removing safeties, prepping and then it's game time. And what point do you decide whether or not you're going to go for the hole or if you're just going to fly above and just bail? I mean you always have the option to bail even until the last five seconds but first of all you have to decide whether you're before you cut away from the glider to even fly the wingsuit at all. And if we weren't near enough for me to fly the wingsuit then I would just cut away the toe line and fly the glider down to the road and land and then reset and go again. Once you know you're going to cut away with the wingsuit then basically you cut away you're on your back flying in the wingsuit you have to flip over and then the first thing you're trying to do is get eyes on. Was it easy to see? Yeah it was. It was. It's neon yellow and orange. Okay. Yeah. Okay. We were wondering. Indicators on a flag, flags on either side down there. Yeah. To get an idea of the winds. But yeah from 1500 feet you probably only have you know four or five seconds really to get set up and then I mean I was making adjustments all the way until the last couple seconds. How did it feel those last three seconds? Did you feel like it was very doable because the hole was big enough or you're like you just had to stay super focused? Yeah I mean definitely still flying a suit. If you cut away higher you can line it up and you can make those micro adjustments a lot earlier and then it's just a straight flight in. Definitely with the lower cutaway altitude I'm flying until the last couple seconds. Way harder. Yeah. Yeah it's fun. My heart when I saw your smoke. Yeah. And as my heart just started racing as much as it did right before I base jumped with Andy. Like it's just like I was like oh **** this is gonna happen. It was so cool. Good job man. Thanks brother. Cheers. Thanks for hooking it up. Yeah. So the next day my three friends also flew through the net. Daniel Rostow, the one who helped come up with this idea, came in at a perfect angle and he nailed dead center through the through the net. It was gorgeous. It was awesome. He executed it perfectly. And something interesting Daniel said about this project specifically because he does flybys all the time, close proximity projects, is he can get closer and closer and closer to the target and always back away if he's not feeling comfortable. But this had no way of lining up and getting just inching closer until you kind of find your personal limit. You had there's nothing to guide it so you just had to nail it. And I always thought that that was a super interesting difference between proximity flying and this target flying. You got it. You got it. You did it man. Daniel is the one who flew by me when I was on a highline which we have in another episode which was super cool and you can check out on our YouTube channel of course. And then Tristan Henley flew after that and he also came in quite well. It was a little low and he just kind of flattened out to hit dead center for the most part as well. And you can see the different angles in the footage that we have. And then Jordan Kilgore came through and I didn't realize he was only about 20 seconds behind Tristan and he came in and apparently his glasses fogged up and he couldn't quite see the target which is probably pretty stressful. And he came in and clipped the net with the kind of the back half of his suit. It obviously freaked everybody out because you've got so many times before it doesn't work. Luckily the net was super loosey-goosey but it wasn't super rigid. He hit it and it ripped off the GoPro that was on his chest and I believe it tore his right wing and then made his hand go numb because he hit that. And so when he had to pull his chute it kind of destabilized him a little but he kept his flight actually pretty good. He had to stick his numb hand inside of where the pilot chute is and the bridle and pull it out and it went well. So we were fortunate there were no accidents but being right next to it was so intense. As you can see in my video of my phone that I just pulled out at the last second as I realized he was coming you can hear how intense it was when you're just a few feet away. A quick disclaimer this was with the net that we built for GGBY before GGBY. This had nothing to do with the festival and it was just a shenanigan that we did with the net prior to it. However if you want to get on this net you can at the GGBY festival. You can get your tickets at ggbygathering.org. It is a festival around Thanksgiving every year in Moab, Utah. So go check it out on the website and grab your tickets for this coming festival. And please leave a comment below about what you think of this stunt and other stunts that you think that we could try. The sky is not the limit. We love combining sports and trying ridiculous and try to be as responsible as we can. But leave in the comments below what you think and things that we should do. Andy Lewis and I jumped out of the net right after Ben Dicko flew through it which was super special. That's in another episode. You can check that out and go to Base Jump Moab if you want to hook yourself off a cliff. And no winning a few dollars from the GoPro challenge doesn't even start to pay for the that we've done. And no I don't make money on YouTube. You need millions of followers for that. So if you can help support this channel through PayPal or get a coffee subscription at brewjuno.com. I started a coffee business with my friends where we make fantastic espresso. Freeze dry it so all you have to do is add hot water. So if you want to help support this channel go get some coffee. And instead of smashing yourself against the net smash that like button and don't forget to subscribe like and follow on YouTube Instagram and Facebook because we are posting stuff all the time on all those platforms. Cheers. 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