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"Human Arrow" stunt over Great Wall of China

Monday, May 30 2016 by SNTV
  • Top base jumper and wingsuit pilot Jeb Corliss spoke to SNTV on Sunday (29th May) after successfully performing his 'Human Arrow' stunt at the Great Wall of China.

    SOUNDBITE:(English) Jeb Corliss, Base-jumper and wingsuit pilot:

    "I feel great. This is a project about 10 years in the making, something I have been dreaming about for a long time. Doing something over the Great Wall, which is symbol of a nation is amazing. It's amazing to do something over a historical monument like this. And to be able to do something that involves so much precision, you know, to strike an apple size target with something with the size of a GoPro, it's really challenging, especially you jump from a mile away and with the wind condition that we had, it was super hard. But you know, we did it and I feel really really relieved that we were able to do it because it was hard, super hard."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Jeb Corliss:

    "We are trying to do something very precise precision project. So you know archery is one of the ancient sports that people compete with each other. And we decided to take this ancient sport and bring it to modern times, and now we become the arrows and we are hitting the bullseye with our head at 120 mile an hour after getting off a helicopter over a mile away which is incredibly challenging. It was tough, really hard and I spent all last week training, and I got sick first day I got here, I had to take antibiotics and I had a bacteria infection, so I was training sick and then we had rain, we had wind, it was really hard. "

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Jeb Corliss:

    "I get out early, I jumped out and I am still going too fast. I'm like, 'Oh no!' and I was losing the altitude and losing the altitude and all of sudden, I lost too much altitude and I ah…trying to ah…and I just barely make it. And I basically hit maybe a couple inches below the bullseye and a about a foot to the left to it and I was just like …close but I realise the wind conditions were just too challenging. It was too hard to be accurate with that tail wind pushing on me, so I felt that I was as accurate as I could be with the tail wind. But I feel really good because I did get the GoPro through the bullseye the day before we went live. So I feel really good that we accomplish this stunt we were trying to accomplish, I was as precise as I need to be."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Jeb Corliss:

    "In the end of the day, I like try to do stuff for other people, not just about me, I want other people to be entertained, I want other people to have fun and I want other people to be inspired. And I want people know that if you have dream you might have to work hard for it, it might take you 10 years to do it but just don't give up, just keep pushing towards your dream, you work hard enough, and you have enough people behind you, it will come true, you will make it happen."

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