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The Powell Movement

TPM Episode 25: Andy Farrington, Wingsuit Pilot, Red Bull Air Force

The Powell Movement

Mike Powell

Athlete, Oakley, K2, Hobbies, Ski, Skydiving, Mountains, Redbull, Leisure, Sports, Sking, Basejump, Moto, Powdermagazine, Snowboard, Outdoors, Extreme, Powder, Biography, Party, Olympics, Snow, Fun, Music, Xgames, Skate, Basejumping, Podcast, Skatepark, Snowboarding

4.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In a world of big personalities, adrenalin fueled exploits and high risk, Andy Farrington is the calm voice of reason.  The youngest member of The Red Bull Air Force, Andy is looked at as the quiet, badass who can pilot a wingsuit like no-other.  From cancer at age 2 to 25,000 skydives at age 33, to wingsuits and Hollywood, nothing can stop Andy Farrington

Andy Farrington Show Notes

1:51:  His last big trip to Jordan with Miles Daisher

3:20:  His family history of skydiving starting with a downed plane in the war

6:54:  Checking skydiving off their bucket list

7:44:  Jumping in the womb and growing up with skydiving in the blood

9:36:  Cancer at two years old

11:48:  Making money in skydiving in the 90’s

12:07:  What sports did he play growing up?  Traveling the world for Paraskiing with his parents

13:40:  How many kids in the Farrington family and what’s the craziest thing that happens when the family gets together?

15:19:  Who sponsors Andy these days.  Red Bull, Squirrel Wingsuits, Smith and K2

16:20:  Evo (listen for special offer) and Diecutstickers.com (Listen for 10% off your first order with DCS 15) 

17:56:  How are they traveling all over the world on a skydiver’s salary?

19:09:  Getting his first tandem jump in Austria at age 12 and then waiting for four years to really jump while dreaming of being a skysurfer

22:46:  Jumping 16 times on his 16th birthday

24:20:  Spending his life in the air and close calls

27:00:  How many people close to him has he lost and what does he think of the risk?

29:40:  How has technology changed everything that he’s doing? How has it changed in wingsuits?  The flying up video

32:19:  How has proximity flying upped the game?

33:18:  Being in the movies:  Transformers, Godzilla, Iron Man

37:00:  Speed riding and when he started doing it and the Red Bull Unrideables

39:17:  Red Bull Aces and how competitions change the game

42:58:  What’s next?  How do you push it?

Transcript

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0:00.0

You ain't going nowhere.

0:01.3

Welcome to the Powell Movement.

0:10.3

Welcome to another episode of the Powell Movement.

0:13.7

I'm your host, Mike Powell, and I hope everyone out there had an amazing Fourth

0:17.4

July holiday.

0:18.6

One of my favorite holidays out there.

0:20.6

When else can you blow up a ton of

0:22.5

stuff and drink a ton of beer while you're doing it? Hope everybody kept all their fingers and are

0:27.5

ready to hear the interview with Andy Farrington that we have this week. If you're not familiar with

0:32.2

Andy, well, he is one of the premier wing suit pilots in the world, and his family got into skydiving

0:38.9

like 50 years ago.

0:40.6

They have skydive Capowson, which Andy Farrington works at.

0:43.9

He is also a member of the Red Bull Air Force.

0:46.5

You can see him in Hollywood Blockbusters, the Transformers, Godzilla, and Iron Man.

0:51.5

Andy has jumped off just about anything you can possibly imagine.

0:55.2

He knows all about taking risks,

0:57.0

because that's what his life is all about,

0:58.6

is risk-taking.

0:59.7

But before we talk about Andy Farrington and Risk,

1:02.2

I need to thank my sponsors.

1:03.7

They are evo.com,

1:05.1

dyecut stickers.com,

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