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Happy Thanksgiving

Grateful for the people around me. My family, the ones who accept me exactly as I am, and the ones who genuinely care.

Grateful too for the things that took me longer to value: a settled nervous system, a future I’m actually looking forward to, and a bit of peace on the inside.

Life has its own way of teaching you. Listen when it taps you on the shoulder, because if you don’t, it’ll keep punching you in the face until you do. I’m listening now, and I’m better for it.

Wishing you all a good one. Send the love to your people!

#thanksgiving #grateful

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KL Tower BASE Event 🇲🇾

I’ve been to this event a few times over the years. This one was different, but also very much the same…

205 jumpers from 38 countries, 2,762 jumps in 3 days. With that many people and a wide range of experience levels, it could easily have gone another way. Instead there were only a few minor injuries, and a lot of jumpers helping each other and staying within their limits. That’s what makes an event like this work.

For me it was a whistle stop trip: a 5 day turnaround, long-haul flights and a 15 hour time difference. 22 jumps, and worth every hour of travel.

Thank you @kltowermalaysia for letting us use the tower, great meeting some old friends again and making new ones. Finally huge thanks to @rockwellwatches for sending me off to work; It’s a hard job, but someone has to do it 🤘🏻

#SquamishLife #BASEJump #KLTower #RockwellTime

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3 Days jumping at KL Tower 🤘🏻

It’s been a few years since I was last here… even tho I’m not as crazy as I was back then; I had a blast with my mates.

#SquamishLife #Malaysia #LetsGo

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August Recap (08/12)

I’m lying here at the end of it, sick as a dog, knowing it was a good one!

Flew home from Europe and got straight back to jumping off the Chief with old friends who came to visit. Search & Rescue callouts, and met some of the new potential SAR recruits. Helped @the.cookie.dror at the PNE and deliver cookies when it didn’t go to plan. Skydiving for fun and for work @whistlerskydive doing tandems & I love it. A Wear White event down in Vancouver. Played rugby for the Fire Dept and we got new vehicles at the Flynn residence.

Somewhere in the last few years, I lost myself. This year I found myself again, cliche AF I know…. The confident paratrooper is back the one who’s self-sufficient, self-reliant, and doesn’t need your approval to sleep at night. I know that rubs some people the wrong way and good; we are different!

One of the lines we had to recite in the Paras was “I ask nothing from those who gave nothing”

I’ve learned to set boundaries. Relationships are give and take and today’s world needs to learn this, I show up for the people who show up for me, and I’ve stopped pouring into the ones who only take. If there’s silence between us, we both already know why... I’m not angry and when you want to apologize my door will always be open. I won’t defend myself against the stories being told, because the truth has a way of surfacing on its own. When it does, you’ll find me exactly where I’ve always been: moving forward, heart on my sleeve, still heading to the top and taking people with me.

August has always been my hardest month. It carries the anniversary of losing a friend on my first deployment to Afghanistan in 2006. For the first time in 20 years, it didn’t swallow me whole, and I put that down to the work I’ve done this year and last year with EMDR, advanced neurofeedback and TMS therapy. I’ve always said they taught us how to go to war; They never taught us how to come home… but these systems have.

20 years later, I’m home, I’m happy and have a great future

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars”

#SquamishLife #SummerRecap #LoveLife

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The moment before goodbye…

On the ground, a high five means “we made it.”

On the exit, it means something else entirely:-

It’s a look, a grip, a silent fuck yeah, have fun, I love you, see you at the bottom… And then you’re gone.

Nearly 20 years in, and every jump still scares me. That will never leave me, what changes is who you’re standing next to when the fear peaks, because the people you share those final seconds with, right on the edge, are some of the most alive human beings I’ve ever known.

We don’t say much up there. It’s calm. The whole friendship lives in that one touch before we step off into the void.

See you at the bottom. 🤙🏻

#SquamishLife #Friends

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July Recap(7/12)

Somewhere between the coffee and exits, I got myself back...

I spent the month cutting noise instead of chasing it. Trimmed the loose ends; the people who only surface when they need something, and started giving time back to the ones who call just to call. The ride gets a lot lighter once you stop carrying people who were never really in your corner.

It started at BC Place, working Switzerland vs Algeria game at the World Cup. Then a few more tandem skydives, taking someone on their first jump is so rewarding. Then the Fire Dept vacation kicked in and I disappeared into Europe to be a BASE bum for a month. Jump, pack, eat, sleep, repeat.

Italy, Switzerland, France, the UK. Hiked a lot, threw myself into canyons, flew through couloirs and waterfalls, buzzed a coffee shop, drank far too much coffee and ate my bodyweight in pasta. Sat across the table from old friends I hadn’t seen in over a decade, and made a few new ones who’ll probably be around for the next ten.

I also walked down from five jumps. No footage, no story, no regret. The sport keeps you honest, the ego wants to jump, but walking down because you don’t feel it or conditions are shit is the skill that keeps you around long enough to keep jumping.

My only advice to the new guys this trip: “if you’re going in, go in like a man and don’t scream; I’ll be watching the footage.” Dark humour earns its place up here…

A hard year behind me, and I feel reset, refreshed, lighter and back to normal; and somehow happier than normal’s ever been…

Thanks to @tdfireacademy & @rockwellwatches for believing my vision for this trip and being in my corner to make it happen. And thank you to someone who is back home and was happy for me to go on this wild adventure, having someone in your corner no matter what is what this is all about 🤍 @dror_barnea

#EuropeTrip #LadsOnTour #BASEJumping

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Yesterday I took a gondola to the rare air above the most Austrian corner of Italy, and watched some strange birds fly fast!

Behold!
@julsbotelho
@_ryandesantis_
@jamieflynnbase
@officiallydb
@sendy_mcsendface
@sharqawii
(not in order of appearance)

The more time I spend following this crowd around the more respect, love and awe I have for the BASE community. One day soon enough you will be able to read all about it.

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@boogiedoslencois 💛 🇧🇷

First time in Brazil and completely in love with the country and this place ❤️

Thank you @julsbotelho 🚀

@goprofr @gopro
@squirrel.ws
@lbaltimeters
@movsport_

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Switzerland & France in the books…

The heli got cancelled, weather had other plans, so we went and jumped the simple stuff instead. And there’s a lesson buried in that. Somewhere over the years I stopped chasing “epic” and started finding fun in the ordinary exits too. A clean jump an on-heading opening, good people on the exit. That’s the whole thing, really.

Got Varan done been on the list for longer than I’d like to admit. Ticked off a few new exits too. But the best part? The old friends... People who’ve been on this ride as long as I have. Some retired now, Some still charging, just a little smarter about it. Wild to see how far we’ve all come and how many of us are still here to tell the war stories of “the good ole days of BASE”.

The new generation coming up remind me of me. Fearless, Confident and some are deaf to anyone telling them to slow down. I was that guy... And if I’m honest, if I met that Jamie today, I probably wouldn’t have liked him either.

Two or three years into the sport someone told me something it took me two decades to actually understand:

“There are old BASE jumpers, and there are bold BASE jumpers. But there are no old, bold BASE jumpers.”

These days I won’t hike if the weather looks off. I don’t just follow the group. Not because I’ve lost the fire because I want to still be doing this in years to come.

#BASEJumping #Wingsuits #Friends

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Would you ever have the courage to do this? 🏔️🕊️

The definition of pure adrenaline and absolute freedom from the edge of the world! Tag someone who would jump with you 👇

Did you know?

Modern wingsuits were invented in the 1990s by Patrick de Gayardon, transforming human bodies to mimic flying squirrels and drastically increasing horizontal glide distance.

Flyers can reach downward speeds of 100 to 120 mph while converting that descent into horizontal speeds exceeding 60 mph.

Jumpers are required to complete hundreds of standard skydives before earning the strict certification needed to legally fly a wingsuit.

#extremesports #wingsuit #basejumping #adrenaline #adventure

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This is what breathing feels like…

BASE jumping is dangerous. You survive it by managing your margins, widening them when it counts, narrowing them when the fun needs to happen. But you can still have fun without being inches off the ground or jumping when the weather isn’t ideal. Stay in the sport long enough and that’s where the real rewards live. The next generation coming through is refreshing, just remember, the wheel’s already been invented, improve the sport, don’t take it backwards & the experienced guys, don’t gate keep, don’t try and keep it the same, let the next generation push our sport in a better direction.

I’ve got people who want to see me fail; they watch everything and that’s reality. They were watching while the storm was happening, didn’t want to help and waiting for it to take me down.

But here’s the thing about resilience, it’s the same skill set you need in BASE jumping. You manage your margins, you know your line, know your limits and find the route through, no matter what’s thrown at you.

I came out the other side, and this is what they’re seeing now:

This is me happy, this is me content, this is me living a life I built, with the weight of the world off my shoulders.

This is me in my element; and the future looks amazing.

“The best revenge is becoming the person you knew you could be.”

#MensMentalHealth #Wingsuit #WeatherTheStorm

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Brothers Base You Call We Fly #321fcku
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