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I have a V3 as well. I like it but no where near as much as my stealth. V3 has only one speed, fast :) Sometimes it's nice to slow things down without just falling out of the sky :) Still waiting for the stealth 2 but find it hard to believe they can make it better :) How do you make perfect more perfect :)

I find it funny how everyone is talking about these super scary big wing-suits causing pilot chute hesitations :) The worst pilot chute hesitation I have ever seen was on a classic and it lasted for almost 4 seconds. It has very little to do with the size of the wings and way more to do with the way a person collapses the wings during the pull. If you go right back into flight after the pull there will be no hesitation. But if you collapse the wings and keep them collapsed you will drill a hole in the sky and a hesitation is more likely. This is true with all wing-suits no matter what the size of the wings :) Also, the matterhorn has a 50 degree slope :) So no matter what wing-suit you fly you will have to dive the shit out of it to get close and fly down that ridge :) The bigger wings just give you more range if you get your self in a bad spot. I love the stealth for proxy and it is my wing-suit of choice for everything :) It just has so much range. Stable suit, easy to fly, easy pull with out having to put the pilot chute in a leg pouch and performance that is unmatched in any other suit I have flown. If you want to go fast you can go fast. If you want to go slow you can go slow. It's a perfect suit... Jeb

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It's almost ready :) www.journey-movie.com http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=9BdZo39imyo

I have noticed all these post say Luigi and Jeb :) I just wanted to clarify I did exactly what I was trying to do and I repeated it 4 times. I made no mistakes and new exactly what I was doing. As for Luigi, this project could not have happened and would not have happened had it not been for him. The amount of work he put into this project goes beyond comprehension. I have never seen a person work harder for something in my life. He trained his ass off for months before this project getting ready and he did an amazing job. I have nothing but the highest level of respect for this man. As for his close call, they happen. They happen to anyone who pushes their limits to the absolute edge. They happen to every base jumper at one point or another in their jumping. For some of us that is what this is all about. Pushing the limits of what people believe possible. Luigi knows what happened and has learned from it. As Dwaine use to say, you start out in life with two jars. A luck jar and an experience jar. When ever you do something dangerous you take one piece out of your luck jar and put it in your experience jar. Eventually you will run out of luck and all you will have to keep you alive is your experience. Luigi has just used a big chunk of his luck jar but he has gained a huge piece of experience that I am sure he will never forget. I am proud of him, imagine watching yourself go in and then tell me if you would not freeze up. He kept flying where others would have just kissed their ass goodbye... Jeb

Everything I do and everything I have done over the last 4 years has been heading to one thing, the landing. We have just made monster breakthroughs both in bringing costs down and in getting additional funding :) Every barrier that has been standing in my way is being crushed. The landing is coming :) All you have to do is sit back and watch. Because it will be here very soon... Jeb Corliss

I was using a Flik a troll and a blackjack on this job :)

Yes there is... But he is moving fast and the footage is taken from above. It is very hard to see from that angle. But you can see where he makes contact because his tail wing collapses a bit. We still have not gotten to see all the camera angles yet, we are hoping there is one that shows it better. All I know is I landed next to him and he was as white as a sheet. He then told me he hit a tree in free fall and I was like bullshit, you would be dead. He then showed me his wing-suit. There is no question he made contact... Jeb Corliss

He made contact with the tree 100%. He had stains on his suit from the leaves brushing his body.

This will be the last post I make publicly about this subject. The day was selected because of the perfect wind conditions. The jump could only be done in a safe manner with wind between 5 to 10 mph coming from the north. I was slated to jump the building the week before but the winds were 13 mph out of the south making the jump unsafe so we pushed the jump to a later time when winds were favorable for the jump. The next week we got a perfect steady wind blowing from the north at 8 mph. Perfect wind for a tiptoe landing. I chose rush hour on purpose. I had watched the traffic patterns for days at all different times. Rush hour was the best time because it creates grid lock. When the cars finally start moving again they move very slow. The lights on 5th ave turn red all at the exact same time affectively shutting the whole road down for 45 seconds. That time is extended during rush hour. The time it would have taken me to jump, track over the roof of the building across the street, open and then land would have been under 30 seconds. Giving me plenty of time to get to a side walk. There are also outs everywhere. There were roofs with huge open spaces to land on all over the place. Park ave is a 5 lane road and the space between cars is huge. I have landed in worse traffic on much smaller roads. I have also landing in an area the size of 4 king sized mattresses in the middle of 300,000 people. I have zero doubt that I would have landed safely and could have given you a high five as i was doing it. Think of what it's like to land with an 8 mph head wind? How hard is that landing on a 265? Also I didn't have to prove in court that I wasn't going to hurt anyone. All I had to prove was that i didn't have a depraved indifference to human life. The fact is I had done nothing wrong but the prosecution wanted to still punish me. So they charged me with something they knew they couldn't make stick. To cost me money. That is pretty much all it came down to. They wanted to punish me by making me hire lawyers and making me defend my self against a totally bogus charge. They could have charged me with murder and they would have just about as good a chance of getting me on it. But don't worry, to all those who think I was unpunished or deserve to be punished worse, this will make you feel better. A failed attempt at the empire state building has cost me close to half a million dollars. I had to spend all my lives savings to defend my self against a total bullshit charge and now they are trying to sue me for 12 million dollars which actually kind of makes me happy :) You see the empire will have to spend allot of money to find out I am broke :) They will not even be able to cover there lawyers fees with what they can get from me :) So there will be a little justice there... Jeb P.S. just so you know, what you have seen on video is only a very small portion of my jumps. The major majority of my base jumps have not been filmed. Trust me when I say I know the risks of what I do. I don't need a lesson from you...

What makes you think I was going to open my parachute over people? I was going to be jumping from over 1,000 ft high. Do you have any idea how far a person can track with tracking pants and jacket? Let me put it this way, there is a cliff in europe that matches the empire almost exactly. Same hight, same ledge system, same small two lane road at the bottom. I have over 60 jumps from this cliff and when I jump it, I track over the ledge system over the two lane road and I open my parachute over a small field. So at empire i would have tracked over it's ledge system, over the two lane road and opened over the roof of the building across the street. Had my parachute not opened I would have impacted the roof of the building across the street hurting no one but my self :) I truly believe and live by the concept that your right to swing your arm ends where another persons nose begins. Hurting your self is one thing, but hurting others is completely unacceptable...

Let's put it this way, the chances of my parachute not opening and me squashing someone on the ground is about as likely as the brakes in your car going out on your way to work tomorrow and you squashing someone on the sidewalk. The biggest difference between the two things is peoples brakes have actually gone out in their cars and people have been squashed because of it. In the 1,500 year history of people jumping off structures with parachute like devices not once has a person been squashed or even injured because of the fixed object jumper... Jeb P.S. for the historians out there, base jumping came long before skydiving. It is much more ancient then most people realize...

The law has already said I was no danger to anyone :) I already won that case remember :) I love the empire, they have given my life so much more purpose...

We must come together and fight this. This man must be stopped. We must send as many letters from as many people as possible. I am so sorry everyone, this is not how any of this was suppose to go down. This is is a fight for freedom in a country that's motto is land of the free... Jeb Corliss http://www.senatorgolden.com/contact_info.asp [email protected]

To me base jumping is not an activity, it's a philosophy. It's a an understanding of ones own mortality. It's about knowing one day you will die and not allowing the fear of that inevitable fact to prevent you from living your dreams and doing what you love. To be honest I don't even feel a person needs to jump off things with a parachute to be a base jumper. I have met people that have yet to do their first base jump but you can see in their eyes that they already are base jumpers. You can see that deep down in their heart that nothing will ever stand in the way of their dreams. I have also met people that have been base jumping for years. Yet they are not base jumpers. You can see it in their eyes and in their actions. They jump off things with parachutes but they don't fully understand what that really means. For some of them jumping off things isn't their dream. It's not even important to them. Some of them don't even like it. It's not worth dying for something that means nothing to you. These people seem to be the ones that watch someone die in base and then go "holly shit, you mean people can die doing this"? I have always felt that if a person stops base jumping because of an injury or because of witnessing an injury then that person was never being realistic about what they were doing in the first place. Any person in base that does not understand that getting injured is not only possible but very likely is living in a total delusion. So many people wonder through life without really thinking about their actions and what it really means. Don't get me wrong, a persons dreams can change depending on where they are in life. If a person stops base jumping because they have grown and have fulfilled their dream, then that person will always be a base jumper. Even if they never jump again. At one point in life maybe base jumping is fulfilling your dreams and then at another point it might be helping cure cancer and then at another point maybe it's raising children. To me base jumpers are people that turn dreams into reality and don't let fear stand in their way... Jeb Corliss

Eddie and I jumped all over the world together for many years. Not only was he a good camera man, he was a good person. He had one of the biggest hearts I have ever seen. Eddie will be sorely missed... Jeb Corliss

You are a very good guesser :) They didn't barrow a canopy from me but they did buy one :) It was an old south african impi that wasn't really safe to jump anymore. They told me it was going to just be used to hang the actor from a pole and then would be destroyed. I am pretty sure they used a vertex for the container seeing Apex was there contact for gear... Jeb

Vented canopies do not surge more then non vented canopies. They do pressurize faster which is a good thing in all cases. Wether you have an on heading or a 180. If you get a 180 it means the canopy will be pressurized quicker making it possible to turn from the object faster. I jumped non vented canopies for years because vented canopies didn't exist. But once I started jumping vented canopies it didn't take long for me to realize the difference the venting makes. I don't know how I lived for as long as I did without them. My life has been saved by them more times then I can count. I will not jump a canopy slider down that isn't vented ever again. I would never let a person i was training to jump a canopy slider down that wasn't vented. Venting was one of the most important innovations sense the tailgate... Jeb Corliss

Hello everyone going to bridge day. I am going to be landing in Charleston on wed. at about 6:30 pm and was wondering if anyone would be getting in around the same time. I am looking for a ride if anyone has some room... Jeb

The landing project is on hold till I am able to find additional funding. I am working on it... Jeb

Thank you very much Nick :) I knew I could count on you... Jeb

Hello everyone, I need a little help getting some information. What were the names of the first two men to jump the empire state building. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you...

Tension knots, two broken femurs. Left femur broken in 2 places, right femur broken in 21 places. She opened high and the canopy appeared to be fine and flying strait. After unzipping her arms from the wing-suit she released her brakes and went into a spin. She looked up and could see tension knots. She tried to cycle her brakes to clear them but it did nothing. She tried to pull down on one side to control the spin and it did nothing as well. She hit with a very high rate of speed. Tension knots are probably the most frightening thing in base jumping. They happen at random and with out warning. Karina did nothing wrong. She has one of the cleanest and nicest pack jobs i have ever seen. This was a very unfortunate accident and totally undeserved... Jeb