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Skydiving with No Parachute at 25,000 Feet

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4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Bet-David sits down with Skydiver, Luke Aikens, to talk about his introduction into the world of skydiving, his world record stunts, and how he physically and mentally prepares before every jump.


Watch the full interview here: https://youtu.be/eHqhqqjmYCY

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0:00.0

They say, hey Luke, we got this idea we want you to jump without a parachute.

0:03.0

I laughed. I got a wife and a son and I want to be here to talk about it, you know?

0:08.0

How much of this has to do with math? How much is science? How much is psychological? How much is preparation? How much is science how much is psychological how much is preparation how much is the right team I mean how do you go about preparing for some like this

0:17.2

I think if you don't have all those things I'm not here talking to you today

0:20.5

I think you have to stack the deck in your favorite I can only imagine the conversations are you sure you want to do this what were those

0:25.4

talks like best talks that we've ever had in our whole relationship I've been married 19

0:29.6

years Luke if you had to do it how could you do do it, is there a way to do it safe?

0:33.6

You don't have the level of fear that people have.

0:36.2

What do you fear?

0:37.2

Yeah, I think I got this.

0:38.3

I think everything is gonna work out great.

0:39.7

What if it doesn't, then why would I want to do something like this?

0:42.2

I need to treat this just like

0:43.5

another jump I saw a video I can't even tell where you're landing it's tiny it is so

0:48.4

small I mean I've over 20,000 jumps I did about 350 jumps getting ready for this. You could do something that seems impossible

0:55.7

if you go about it the right way. Really it's a simple physics problem.

1:00.5

Let's take 220 pounds going 130 miles an hour and we need to stop it in about 200 feet.

1:10.0

It's insane.

1:12.0

You know a lot of people consider themselves thrill seekers.

1:16.6

I myself yesterday at my house, my dad was in town.

1:18.9

My dad is sitting there to myself on a few of our friends and he says this jalapeno is very spicy can you take it

1:25.7

Mario takes it he starts crying I'm like give me a break I can have this jalapeno so he gives me

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