Wingsuit speed up to 120 mph
In a high-performance wingsuit, a flyer can reach approximately 120 miles per hour while flying face-first toward terrain, often as little as 6 feet off the ground.
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The Mental Frame & Specific Daily Actions to Succeed | Andy Stumpf
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Jun 15, 2026
Where this was said
Skydiving, BASE Jumping, Wingsuit Flying; Navy
At 54:17 · chapter starts 43:06
Stumpf explains the BASE jumping world in detail: the single parachute (packed by the jumper, not an FAA rigger), the one legal 24/7 site in the U.S. at the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho, and the global landscape of other legal jump locations including Dubai's purpose-built skyscraper platform. He describes his own progression: Perrine Bridge, then a radio antenna, then Monte Brento in Italy where you open your canopy, land, and find an espresso waiting across the street, then Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland for 2.5 weeks. The real revelation is the why. Three years after leaving the Navy, Stumpf was drawn not to the activity itself but to what happened at about one minute out on the helicopter: his entire sphere of concern — mortgage, arguments with his spouse, washing machine repair — simply vanished. What replaced it was a crystalline focus on the next three seconds. He describes that headspace as one of the most powerful states he has ever reached, and notes that two weeks of these 90-second jumps could sustain that clarity for months. When friends started dying and other activities began to provide similar resets, the risk-reward equation shifted and he stepped back from wingsuit BASE.
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