Ep. 642: Paragliding & Perspective - Ari “in the Air” Delashmutt
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ari in the Air joins us again to talk about the world of paragliding. He spoke on his highlining adventures in episode 632. Listen to it here. Ari is an immensely fascinating person who thinks deeply about the ‘why’ behind doing adventure sports. Even if you never plan to paraglide, Ari’s reflections are something we can all learn from and can enjoy listening too.
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| 0:00.0 | when we have an input that is so viscerally different than everything we have experienced before, |
| 0:09.3 | it either breaks us or we have to integrate that new experience. |
| 0:18.1 | This is the Adventure Sports podcast, where we hear stories of adventure from every corner of the planet. |
| 0:24.0 | We interview all sorts of folks who are using their sport to explore the world around them |
| 0:28.3 | and give you the inspiration you need to get out there and have some fun. Today's episode is with Airy in the air. |
| 0:46.7 | And he was on episode 632, if you remember talking about highlining. |
| 0:50.7 | And highlining is like tight rope walking across, you you know a canyon or a gorge or a valley |
| 0:55.9 | and in this case in his episode it was an abandoned asbestos mine which was a world record actually |
| 1:01.5 | so it was pretty an incredible episode and it's linked in the show notes if you want to hear it um but |
| 1:06.6 | today we're talking about paragliding something else the area is just very much experienced in |
| 1:12.8 | and very skilled at and even if it's something you never imagine yourself doing he talks about it |
| 1:17.6 | in such a way that you can learn something from him we talk about meteorology philosophy |
| 1:22.8 | social issues all from the perspective of paragliding. And what's so timely about this episode is that |
| 1:30.7 | it talks about perspective. If you've ever heard of it, the overview effect that astronauts experience |
| 1:36.7 | is a real thing. When you see the world, the shape of the world, and you see it so small from |
| 1:42.4 | like the international space station or something, |
| 1:44.6 | your perspective for the world changes. You don't see obviously any country lines from up there. |
| 1:50.3 | You don't see any disputes. You don't see wars. And you gain this compassion for the world. |
| 1:57.1 | You never knew you could have. And astronauts talk about it extensively. It's been |
| 2:01.7 | studied for quite a while now. So I highly encourage you to check that out. And so ARI says you, |
| 2:05.8 | you do experience that paragliding too. So you come back to Earth, you know, after being up there |
| 2:11.0 | 10,000, 15,000 feet, kind of in control of your own kind of destiny flying around and everything. |
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