Andy Stumpf on Extreme Risks: From SEAL Missions to Skydiving Seven Continents | Ep. 271 | Pt. 2
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Mike Ritland
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🗓️ 25 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | I'm right there with you. I mean, for me, it's even more so about the risk versus reward. |
| 0:05.3 | You know, it's like the gym that I train at is very competitive that way. You know, they compete |
| 0:10.1 | constantly. I mean, they go to everything or a lot of the members do anyway. And I mean, |
| 0:16.6 | in almost every case, multiple people are injured afterwards. |
| 0:24.8 | You know, it's like, it's far more common that they get injured, which makes sense. |
| 0:29.4 | You know, you're going against somebody who has no interest in your, you know, |
| 0:32.2 | joint health or not injuring you. |
| 0:33.7 | Some of that is on them. |
| 0:36.0 | Like if you're caught, well, sure. |
| 0:58.2 | But still, I mean, I guess just the competition, here's the thing, a lot of the times, yes. Most of the injuries, though, you'll find is not because the person you're competing with is trying to hurt you. It's you're doing everything you can. Yeah. Because it's in that competition setting. I know people are like, yeah, I just let my elbow melt because I didn't want to tap. |
| 0:56.2 | I'm like, that's on you for clarity. |
| 0:58.1 | Don't pitch that as, oh, the competitor was trying to kill me. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm like, you just told me you let your elbow melt. |
| 1:04.5 | I guess just the general frame of competition, it's going to lend itself to a higher percentage chance of being injured than not. Well, the pace is way higher too. Yeah. And it's people you never trained with, you know. Totally. And like you said, both people are there for their own reasons. I never really met anybody who signed up for any type of competition with the intent to lose. So, yeah, it's going to be, you know, and again, leading up to those competitions, I've watched my wife do this. She has to tell people, like, listen, I'm preparing for a competition. I need to pace this up. I'm going to go a little bit harder. This isn't personal, but brace for impact. Yeah, I'm coming after you. Yeah, and it's not that she's coming after them. It's she has to do what she has to do to prep for that. Right. Yeah. And yeah, I just, I don't have the time or interest. Skydiving. Is that something that you've kept doing a fair bit of? Not since I moved to Montana as much because there aren't any DZs up there. I could take a decade off of like basic skydiving and be okay. |
| 2:05.2 | I haven't done any wing suiting in a long time. |
| 2:07.2 | I haven't done base jump stuff in years. |
| 2:08.8 | The amount of currency required to do those things safely, |
| 2:13.0 | I don't have the ability to do that anymore. |
| 2:15.8 | So at this point, it's like, hey, do you guys, you guys, do somebody want to go do a cool jump trip or a jump project? I would hop back in, get current on whatever I needed to and then be able to do it. So kind of the same question with specifically the wingsuit stuff and the world record stuff. Was there a catalyst, a light switch of wanting to go all in and take it to that level. |
| 2:35.5 | I wish I could say there was. |
| 2:37.8 | I got into wing suiting because I had gotten out of the military. |
| 2:43.4 | I had stopped working for CrossFit. |
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