female athletes are breaking down
barriers and breaking records including
some ladies who do stunts like this okay
that just makes my heart just like speed
all right last year redbull flag girl
skydiver a Mishima Leki and 26 of her
peers made history breaking a skydiving
world record now this year Amy and other
skydivers will achieve something else
very exciting and this week some members
hosted a panel right here in Central
Florida joining us right now
Amy shitemo Lepke and Maya couch in sky
red bull athletes thank you guys for
joining us thank you for having us first
of all tell us about this world record
you broke that's pretty big news so I
wasn't there last year but yeah yeah
last year we went into it wanting to
accomplish something as a team and we
did the world record it was so amazing
because we did it in one jump which I've
been doing this for a long time and that
was the first time that happened to me
so yeah it was exciting it was it was
the number of people at one time that
made it the record yes it was all women
and there were 26 of us and we did two
formations in one skydive which takes
extra time so that was yeah that was our
Guinness accomplishing many oh we saw
yeah the record Wow what's that feel
like to freefall for how many minutes we
that was about a minute and it feels
amazing it feels really free and to me
it feels calming oh it does yeah
sometimes and this was because of the
record nature of what we were doing we
had a mission describe what we're seeing
here I've never seen anything like this
these are the women all together and
we're forming holding hands we call them
grips and we're all forming around the
center now we're separating from each
other so we can find open air space to
safely open our parachute
it's all very organized and rehearsed on
the ground everyone has this very
specific job now we're landing our
parachutes so synchronize the way you
have a graceful and my and I know your
first jump was when you were 10 yeah
that was a tandem jump yeah so tell us
about that so my dad's a skydiver and he
took us myself with my whole family
to do a tandem I was obviously really
scared but super excited and the first
thing I did after I lied I was like can
we go again please can we go again I
actually started skydiving as a like by
myself
just last year though so I have about
125 jumps oh just 125 jumps and you guys
hosted a panel here and you're really
trying to get results for women and
sports a variety of sports tell us about
that yeah we did the Red Bull fly girls
and we had a few different missions
education advancement in people's skill
level competition and this panel was
very special because we had women from
different sports and skydiving women
from all around the world come we had a
hundred and twenty women involved in it
and we discussed things about topics for
women in sports and the main goal was to
inspire and uplift the platform the
platform for women to experience sports
and understand that they can do it and
basically live a life that makes you
happy and you know there aren't a lot of
female tandem skydive instructors and
you think there need to be more and
that's important yes it's very important
because there's only four percent
females in tandem instructors and the
experience you have when you first go to
skydiving facility to jump it it's a
tandem so it's all men you see all men
so we wanted to create some more women
so now when you come and skydive with us
next year you you are all invited it
would be great
so there will be women to take you and
women to greet you so it's a different
experience for people and people who are
maybe watching and saying this is not
something I could ever do what would you
tell young girls who are maybe watching
and their mothers like don't even think
about it what would you say to young
women and girls that I mean it's always
possible I'm really young and I did it
and again I did it at 10 years old so
unfortunately here you have to be 18 to
do your first tandem but it's possible
for everyone and it's really fun what
would you say I I would say that if
there's something you want to do if you
want
do it a little bit just go and do it and
and give it a shot you won't regret it
the skydiving is not for everyone but in
general if there's something that makes
you happy that's not harmful to other
people I think you should just do it how
do you know if it's for you what if
you're like maybe I could do that I just
feel like there'd be that moment when
you're standing at the plane door where
you're like I think if you're maybe you
need to do it sometimes we confuse know
with go it happens
Oh amazing yeah well I think Candice is
definitely on board yes
great let's do it we'll be back here
we'll be back in Florida next year we
got big plans in the works oh I want to
be a fly girl oh yeah I'll be waiting
for you on the ground with a mimosa
that's a person come to the party well
thank you guys so much thank you for
having awesome job
yeah thank you