Unconventional Athletes Issue 5

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‘All the senses are firing at once taking
everything in while being so honed in
on the jump.’ -Tim
Lastly where is the most epic place you
have BOTH jumped from together and
individually? What are your plans for the
future?
Tim: One of the most incredible places
we have jumped is kind of a secret,
but we drove off-road for 2 hours,
hiked on a compass bearing for 4km,
jumped into a canyon with the sheer
walls either side of us, then had to
cross a raging river and climb out of
the gorge for another 6km back to the
car. Something I’m training for at the
moment is a link up of three mountains
in a day, to climb and jump them.
Ewa: As for future plans, Tim is
in progress of finalising his “North
BASE” project where he is climbing
the 6 great North faces of the Alps
and wingsuiting by means of descent.
Having done 2 already, I plan to join
him for the wingsuit descent of
the Matterhorn.
http://www.t1twenty.com/north-b-a-se-project/
There’s still a long list of places we
want to visit together and fly over e.g.
being back in USA to combine climbing
and wingsuiting in magnificent scenery.
Tim: For me everything I do is like a
stepping stone for the next project,
like building blocks that you can put
together to create harder projects that
require more skills and techniques.
FINAL WORD
Wingsuiting is definitely great fun! Looks
attractive and accessible when watching
YouTube videos of guys performing
proximity flying only inches close to the
ground, cliffs, and other objects. What
it’s really like, when done properly, is
months (if not years) of hard training,
tons of jumps off an aircraft, coaching
sessions with better fliers, maintaining
general fitness and mental health
to eventually transfer those skills to
mountain environments. Step by step to
get where we are, took a lot of time
and quite decent amounts of money.
Being dedicated rewards us with
satisfaction and great experiences,
preventing at the same time other
activities and thrills that simply are
out of budget or suffer by lack of time.
A matter of choices and priorities.
At the end, if you want something
badly, you’ll achieve it; regardless of
how long it takes to get there and how
you’ll struggle along the way.
You can see what TIM and EWA get up to by following the links below!!
Tim: Twitter: @t1twenty | Instagram: @t1twenty
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TimHowellADVNTR/ | Web: www.t1twenty.com
Ewa: Facebook: www.facebook.com/ewakalisiewicz
Instagram: @ewakalisiewicz
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