@@benjamingonzalezjr7021 if u jump out of an airplane and u try to deploy your parachute and it doesn't open. You will have from that point until u hit the ground and die to figure it out. Thus you'll have the rest of your life to figure it out, even though the rest of your life will not be very long.
Is it bad that when they pulled up the picture and description, I started laughing? Just the wording alone. It's like, "Creator of the first car, dies in car accident."
I DID a chill music video to film shots of the wing sky divers that died ..Respect to them .. Giving a 20 th Century meaning to Balls of Steel ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-orksDEBfHys.html
Agreed. I've watched every episode with him. Extremely intelligent and well-spoken individual with more knowledge and wisdom than men twice his age....
@@@Yog99504 thanks, I'm definitely checking it out. I like his...what would you call it....thoughtful honesty? There's no bullshit with him. It's refreshing
Jump with an experienced diver. They can deploy your parachute for you thus saving you. If you pass out of course they wont deploy your chute right after you jump out the plane. Plus the tips they have can save your life. You have to approach it like a boyscout if getting it right the first time is not your priority then this is not for you.
Exactly what I was thinking. I was just telling a friend of mine the other day that I would never trust myself packing my shoot. But I would be willing to jump if someone else did it. LMFAO!
@@mercurygirl6897 lmao...I'm not laughing at the guys death...he had balls of steel....but the way the guy said oh hes dead and then you see that picture...I literally laughed for a good minute
The second guy died trying to show off his design and tested himself instead of using a dummy or dumbass person so he put it in himself and jumped to his death in front of a crowd trying to prove that it would work ,,, it didn’t work
I was eating a Johnny rockets this weekend when ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6oMBgBQRJt0.html I felt that clarity I would not wish for agian but I was good to clear your mind.
yeah, that didn't make any sense since it restarts your computer, and has nothing to do with your hard drive it's the operating system that you restart
Wow you took the joke that's as old as planes, that goes how far can I glide in a plane without an engine? All the way to the crash site. Clever man, clever.
I know that feeling of "nothing else matters right now" leading to a sense of clarity. I get the same thing from my job and it really helps. I think it's very similar to what Radiohead describes in Subterranean Homesick Alien, where the protagonist wishes to see the world and how insignificant everyone's issues are from above instead of being uptight all the time.
"People live their lives reminiscing about the past or dreaming about the future. Only when they absolutely are in fear for their lives are they at NOW." - Charles Manson
During my time as a german paratrooper a deadly accident happend because the automatic first parachute didn't deploy (it was cut by a sharp edge on the plane). So the soldier tried to open the reserve but because the height was to low (like 250-300m at jump) there was not enough time. The medic told us that the reserve parachute was open but had not enough time to fill with air. So our buddy died. It was in Oktober 2000 I think. Rest in peace! Glück ab from Germany!
I feel like any simple physical activity accomplishes the same thing, to a lesser degree of course. There is a large segment of the population that literally do not do any physical activity at all...
I was thinking something along the same lines... anything where you have to push yourself and focus. But obviously the level to which you are thrust into 'you must focus' mode, must be other wordly for something like wing suit/base/solo jumping.
There is that - endorphins work to a degree - but there's nothing like endorphins + a major surge of adrenaline in a focused environment. It really does CTRL+ALT+DEL as Andy says, and can positively affect every aspect of your life
I was in the 82nd Airborne Division and I have never heard it explained so perfect. Then when you can’t do those things anymore it is hard to replace those feelings in the civilian world. Even after many years have passed I still crave that clarity and I believe it will always be with me.
Really depicts skydiving for me. Clears your head in a "this is dangerous" sense, makes you focus on what you are doing and detach from other worries in life you might have.
My first jump was a static-line at 6000ft, my chute twisted up bad and kept spinning tighter and tighter. The shit that was going through my head while I was trying to kick out of it was crazy, I was so close to pulling the reserve when it finally started to untwist. All that kicking around moved my harness a bit, when the chute filled I received the biggest hit to my nuts I've ever experienced! The 2nd jump was much smoother and far less terrifying :)
I flew a hang glider not even close to being as dangerous. It was fun nonetheless, why? You find a thermal and turn in circles, you can climb up a mile with no work. Maybe there will be hawks to fly with. Where you go from there is unknown, I have ended up at a soccer match, golf course, even a wedding party and invited in. Hang gliding is underrated as a sport because it’s not very dangerous, but nature is full of surprises.
trillrif axegrindor I said “not near as dangerous as wing suit”, but it is dangerous.. it can be fairly safe if you follow ALL the rules you are taught in the training, same with flying small powered planes, similar fatality rates, eg JFK junior, was breaking many of the flying rules on his fatal flight
By far and away, for me, your interviews with Andy Stumpf and Mark Lait are my absolute favorites. You two guys had me screaming with laughter here, as well as listening so intently. When Joe shouts, "Jeeziz Christ, Andy" ... I lost it! BAAAH!
I love this guy and can relate 100 percent. This is why I love high elevation backpacking, and long distance road biking, and snowboarding. You are just focused at the task at hand, all the other bullshit it the world floats away. And its also fun. You are the most alive, when you are almost dead.
Lol. I was just about to write "Meditation" down and candle concentration exercise when he spoke about hearing Transcendental Meditation was as similar as that zeroing in experience.
His explanation of the clearity of the flow state and your affinity to it once you've lived it is DEAD ON ACCURATE! Those moments force you to be hyper focused on only the task at hand. It rips the other periphery out of your mind and plants you in a moment that is much larger than your every day life! Once you're done and have survived the ordeal, the rest of your life gets the volume knob turned down in terms of significance of danger and hence level of stress. From experience that's what's addicting not the adrenaline! It's the mind space
I've been riding motorcycles my whole life and it's my form of therapy. When I'm riding, the only thing I think about is what's going on around me at that given time. And when I get back from the ride I'm much calmer than I was before. The only time I've been in an accident was at low speed and was thinking about something else and not about my situational awareness in that moment. I've skydived a few times and after, was on an emotional high while also feeling extremely calm in the week that followed.
I think the reason for this extreme calm is that your psychological state is based not simply on the amount of neurotransmitters and other substances in your body (dopamine, serotonin, adrenaline, etc.), but on a comparison of the difference between your previous state and your current one. When you cause extreme stress to your system, you will feel super calm for a while afterwards because, well, whatever amount of stress you experience in your normal life is nothing by comparison. After a while, your baseline re-equilibrates and you revert to your old state where you are again more sensitive to stress. It works like that with everything. For example, after a cold plunge you will be walking in a t-shirt and enjoying yourself in weather that would normally give you the shivers. It feels mild and pleasant instead, based on the comparison to the extreme cold you experienced before. This is also why people feel like shit after using drugs. The drug causes an abnormal high and everything after feels horrible by comparison.
I don’t think he’s simply talking about not worrying about things, I think he’s talking about a state of awareness when you can sense everything around you down to the clothes on your skin and hum of the Earth in your ears.
"Living in the moment" technically happens any time you do something dangerous that needs your undivided attention. Car racing, motorcycle riding, sky diving, parkour, hunting... You get the idea.
@@weeral1 we all have our fears. I personally would never go skydiving coz that scares me to death... But I had gone 160 mph on a motorcycle which is faster than free fall speeds that you get while skydiving.
I went skydiving a couple years ago. I asked the guy if anyone has went splat here, he said never. A month later two women died jumping out of the same tiny rickety plane I jumped out of.
He made things sound like second nature. How much training is needed for a person to feel like this Ex-Seal? Damn thing is terrifying! Props. Mad Props.
I can relate to allot of what was said here, as a former 82nd airborne soldier with two active combat ribbons (2 bronze stars) Panama, and the gulf war (desert Storm) that left me seeking that clarity that he spoke of for the rest of my life. From one dangerous activity to the next. And also the jump master would make a speech prior to EVERY jump... If your main shoot fails to deploy, you have the rest of your military career to deploy your reserve.. that will put you in the (ZONE) EVERY TIME!!!! Anyone who has ever done a static line jump in the military has heard that saying as many times as they have jumps under their belt.
ive noticed this one thing when i play video games. if i stop playing a game for a while im really focused and good at it but the more i play it the more my skillset loses its sharpness.
Most people do this, the reasoning could be that after a while we start doing the same things in the game, versus trying the new moves or risk we apply when first starting or joining back. Our minds become used to the game and what it takes to play, we become less focused naturally and place more brainpower in other places such as thoughts on whats for dinner later etc. If you go back and play Black Ops, I am sure you would be a lot more focused on the moment because you are more excited for it than rather halfway through the games prime and endless hours of playtime.
Basically the more you play, you build a sort of roster in your head of available routes. Playing a game freshly, you would have all possibilities open. Say someone comes around a corner in a shooter, playing the game for a long time you will try a usual route such as drop shotting even if the situation didn't really call for it. In a fresh game you are doing whatever first comes to mind to work for the situation in front of you.
@@mrmurdog100 Exactly, after so long you just go into a sort of auto-pilot mode. If you are able enough to drive surely you have been on the highway before and realized you were mostly out of it the last thirty minutes but still drove fine, same premise I would say. Same with a job or anything else, its scary but if you get too comfortable in life or stagnant, it will pass you by in the fastest manner.
I totally identify with what he says about clarity of mind. Every time i made a skydiving jump from the moment of exiting the airplane to deploying the parachute ... there is absolutely nothing going on in my head other than what is happening in that moment. It is pure presence. I've often had the same experience riding motorcycles and bicycles to an extent. That release of all the bullchit in your head for that brief moment in time carriers for hours after. It is very refreshing in a weird way.
I’m a skydiver. You have more odds of dying driving than skydiving. BASE jumping on the other hand is different. The reason why skydivers like Skydiving is the same reason pilots like flying airplanes. The pure sensation of flight. The advancement of Skydiving equipment is so advanced that most likely the way your going to die is because you fucked your landing up under a good canopy. Or you pulled your emergency handles out of sequence. We even have back up computer systems on board our skydiving equipment designed to deploy your reserve parachute Incase your unconscious for whatever reason.
nah I would say we are actually sick and tired of these paradoxical challenges life and society presents us with. So, we just want to smash our brains into the universe (not trying to hint at suicide or anything like that). How many of us are stressed , depressed, burnt out? I'm pretty sure most people want to throw a tantrum everyday, but they cant cause it's not acceptable thing to do as an adult. So we do things like skydiving, etc.
As a dad that now has to homeschool his child and not work and being an adventure junky, I agree 100%. The focus and thought for an event does make you a better parent and partner. The clarity in focus, keeps it simple. You can see what is important now. KISS & WIN.
I’ve always tried to explain why to this day, I’d rather be back in the sandbox as EOD on one of my 5 deployments, rather than in the civilian realm with bills and obligations. He just explained it perfectly.
This reminds me of a quote from Fast and the Furious. "I live my life a quarter mile at a time, nothing else matters, not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and their bullshit, for those 10 seconds or less, I'm free."
New subscriber - just saw this video. Danger brings clarity, and it can be addictive as any other drug. When my team or boss get stressed out, I tell them life is good, no worries, no one is shooting at us, we get to go home and eat a meal tonight. Andy is spot on, too many folks worried about shit that they cannot control and doesn't matter in the larger view of life.
@Mad Dog Fifi - Forigen SF wouldn't know, dipshit. The US Military created the strongest SF in the world. Period. "Spetznaz" means all Special Forces in Russia. LOL You dont even know what you're talking about.
@Mad Dog Fifi I'm not sure where you get your information from sir, but I can tell you that you a wrong, from firsthand experience. I have had the privilege of serving as an operator and I am a combat veteran and I have the injuries and aches to prove it lol. These teams that you are talking about specialize in many different areas and certain teams are called upon depending on their area of expertise and the situation at hand. But, overall and across the board, the top two most respected, highly trained, and mission capable teams in the world are the US Navy Seal and the UK SAS. Everyone else is behind them, but a semi-close third is Russia's "Alpha Unit" or GRU. SPETSNAZ is just an umbrella term encompassing all of the Russian SF units. Any of these teams are very capable and I can assure you are only the laughing stock of the uneducated and inexperienced. Cheers.
Andy seems like an extremely "wound up" dude. This makes me even more respectful and appreciative for his service. As to date: Police officers, in our country, now have the highest suicide rate of any profession. As for our vets, 22 kill themselves each day. I have horrible depression and anxiety, and I bet it never turns off for these guys either. Thanks Andy.
I'd never be so bold as to compare myself to this guy. He's obviously more accomplished and has been in more dangerous situations. But I can weigh in on how danger brings clarity. When I was in flight school, and would be planning or going up for a flight, it was like meditation (and I kept waiting for him to use that term). I could have had a fight with my girlfriend an hour before a flight and it was not resolved or we were still mad at each other, but when I was in the air absolutely nothing else mattered. I was so intensely focused that everything not immediately life threatening was completely stripped from my mind. And when I'd land and get back in my car and the adrenaline and super focus ebbed down, I would have a totally new mindset towards that fight with the gf. Everything that had happened before even just a 1 hour flight FELT like it had happened a week ago. And I'd be able to call my gf, or family or friend or whoever I was having the argument with and be totally reasonable and be able to defuse the situation and any anger or hurt I felt about it was totally gone and I was able to just resolve problems without any of the emotions or fear I may have had before that. I could be totally objective and cool and calm about that day-to-day-not-so-significant-bullshit...after having just flown an aircraft.
Yo! I didn't know other people put language to this like you have done so well! I'm practicing to believe that when resolving an issue, I should talk to people as if I knew they (or I) were going to die. What really doesn't matter fades away afterwards.
I had a operation once during said operation my heart stopped so for a moment theoretically I had died...Now I did came back pretty quickly and had zero problems after this near death experience...Lesson learned or experience taken from this event is I know longer sweat the little things and I’m a much better person communicator than I had ever been....Yes everything falls away and it’s very soothing ad comfortable....about it...It changes your thought pattern and choices about people all around you...It changes you...♥️🇦🇺
I would describe it as an intense focus, tunnel vision where in those instances the adrenaline causes your brain to focus on that one thing and it causes your synapses to fire quicker making things seem like they slow down and you see only what is in front of you.
The whole thought process he explains about living in the moment and just thinking about where you wanna be now or living from situation to situation is exactly how i am. My woman hates it.
I fly a paraglider, a sport chute is basically a mini glider wing ; banking with any wing, without power or more specifically appropriate speed, will result in an impact with the ground or a rapid loss of altitude depending on how high you are..
