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Does anyone here know anything about wing suits?

I'm curious as to how difficult it is. I mean, it looks absolutely awesome, and I'm sure there's a lot of technical knowledge about wind flow, etc involved, but most of the wing suit videos I've seen don't actually look that difficult. Certainly not compared to some of the bike drops, ski/snowboard jumps and so on.

Am I completely wrong and ignorant on this?
It's very often the case that something that looks easy is actually really really hard to do, and it's just a case of a very skilled person making it look easy.

And again, taking nothing away from wingsuiters.... I think it's amazing and I'd love to try it one day.

Wing-suiters aren't messing around, it takes some fit musculature and control, and definite body-mind-type reflexes under free fall conditions already plugged-in through a lot of parachute work. These guys are fit and professional that do the wing suits, I dare say if the novice strapped one on and jumped-off a cliff they'd drop like a rock without the kind of above experience mentioned.

I suggest getting to know your local airport and start a new hobby-Jumping from planes every weekend for a year or two, maybe join a chute club-Research the craft and travel to an event once the love of free-fall is all up in yer brain. You may soon claim your new drug of choice adrenaline!

Thanks for the info. Been looking into it for a while. Did a tandem free-fall a while a ago and I loved it.

As ever, the issue is finding the time for it.