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- I got an email from the
world champion wingsuit team that said,

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"Would you like to learn to fly
in the world's only diagonal wind tunnel?"

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I've got to start saying
no to these things.

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- My name is Jarno Cordia.

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As part of the Wingsuit Tunnel here

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I've actually been setting up the coaching
here the last two years.

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And together now with Jenna, I teach here
and try to get everybody flying.

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Currently Jenna and myself,
we won the last World Cup in Italy

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in both indoor skydiving
and outdoor skydiving.

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We're at the moment the reigning team
in wingsuit acrobatics.

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This wind tunnel was around since 1935.

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Used for testing aeroplanes ,
cars and those kind of things.

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I think they tested the Saab aeroplane and
the Huygens space capsule here.

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This tunnel was up for auction
a few years ago

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and then four of the local Swedish guys,
who are also skydivers,

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they basically thought,
what if we can convert this

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into an angled wind tunnel
where you can actually fly wingsuits.

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And because that hadn't
been done yet, nobody

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really knew if such a
thing would be possible.

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So, they basically took the
horizontal wind tunnel here.

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They put a small angled tube in it.

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Once they had done the initial testing,

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I was called in to actually see,
besides stable flying,

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what else can we do in the tunnel.

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When that was all a big success,
they raised the money

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and actually built this amazing machine.

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Now it's essentially an angled
tube that is on a pivot point

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and that can actually rotate
the tunnel up and down with a piston.

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I would say in terms of physical workout
for a beginner, it's insanely heavy.

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And that is mainly
because, in the beginning,

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you are not flying super efficient.

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So you're using a lot of muscle tension.

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You're tending to bend the arm
which creates a round wing

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that really creates
drag on your body.

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In the beginning, maybe 40
minutes a day is the max

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and then people really feel like
they ran three marathons.

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I currently have the world record,

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which is definitely the most
boring thing I ever did,

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but somehow the most
watched thing, and it's

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flying six and a half hours
non-stop in the tunnel

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without touching the
floor, walls or anything.

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- I can't think right now.

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Ah.

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The last 10 seconds, you
were giving me instructions

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but my brain just wasn't
parsing anything.

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- What we start with is this cable system

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where essentially you're
on two pulleys that are on

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the ceiling that allow you
to move around, but they

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don't allow you to actually
get close to the walls.

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The cables definitely influence
you a little bit as well

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with like the bounciness
of cables, but it

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essentially limits the motion
to safely learn to just control your body.

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Kind of like an aeroplane.

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Like you lean a bit left,
the wing goes left.

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You raise the chin and the chest gets air.

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That changes your angle,
pushes you backward.

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With those kind of motions, you need to

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really learn to fly.

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And even for skydivers that have a lot
of wingsuit experience,

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they tend to fly more by instinct

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and even for them, this
is a lot more precise

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than what you normally do outdoors.

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- So am I too far back or too far forward?

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- Too far forward.

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From that point where you can actually
control yourself on the cables,

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there you can continue to
flying without the cables.

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There's a small, intermediate step we do,

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which is flying with a leash on the belly

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Which allows us to let people fly free but

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in case they do anything less smart,

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we can still put them on the floor.

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The difference between
flying in the tunnel

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and flying in the air is
definitely the lack of space.

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So in the air, if you're
learning to fly and you're

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essentially all over the
place, that is not an issue.

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In the tunnel if you're
all over the place,

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you can be all over the
place for about two metres

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and then the wall stops you.

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Another thing that is
definitely different is

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your reflexes that you
have from the ground.

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Like if you're flying on your back
and you're falling backwards,

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we tend to put our butt down to cushion our fall,

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which of course in the sky,
you would never do.

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And definitely the walls and the floor,
they introduce these reflexes

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that we've trained over the years

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to put your arms in front
of you or to the sides

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that in flying don't have the best effect.

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A big thing that the tunnel brings
that skydiving doesn't get you

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is the amount of training you can do
and the reference you get

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where normally in the sky,
if I'm flying with a training partner,

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when we're having a little bit of movement
between each other,

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we don't see who is making the movement.

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In the tunnel, because you
have a static reference,

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you see every little move so you learn

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so much faster because
this gives you so much more feedback

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in terms of what you're doing.

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Once they showed that they can fly well
with the belly leash,

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that comes off as well and then
you're flying fully free.

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And then from there it's
quite a rapid progression

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to learn to fly on your back

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and then actually learn
to do the transitions,

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carving around the tunnel.

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Typically that whole
progression takes around

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two to three hours of
flying for most people.

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in general, it's quite cool to
see that where normally

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people would have 200-300 skydives
before they could even try this,

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now we're taking people off the street
and teaching them to fly in one or two days.

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- I did not get to the point where, like,
I could just fly free in the tunnel,

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but there was four or five seconds
in there where I felt stable.

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And I don't think you were pulling on me?

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- No, no no.

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- Thank you.

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-You're more than welcome!
Super good, man.

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- Thank you very much.
I'm done!

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- The amount of flying you did now is what
the super trained people usually do

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after building that stamina.

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So you flew more than most people do
on the first day in a very short time span

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so all the muscles you're feeling that
you've never used before, that's quite normal.

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- Yeah!

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But you did really good.

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And you're going to sleep
really well tonight.

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- Yeah! Yeah I am!

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- Should we just turn off the lights here
and leave you here?

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- No, because then it's a slow slide
down into that!

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All right we're good. We got an outro.`
Thank you so much.

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All right, yeah.
We're good.