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- Well, today we're going to be indoor skydiving.
- Did anyone know you could skydive inside?
I didn't.
- My goal out of this is I really
want to twerk on a handstand.
- I have a fear of heights.
I went on a hot air balloon once,
and I've never been more afraid in my life.
- I think it's one of those experiences where
looking at it's really terrifying, but then
as soon as I get in there, I'm gonna be tearing it up.
- I'm ready to try it.
Put me in the air.
- Hey guys, my name is Marco.
I'm a trainer here and instructor at iFly Ontario.
I've been doing it for about seven years now.
I have four sessions with you guys.
The first time, it's really going to be
just introducing you guys to the wind.
Second time in, trying to get you guys really
just controlling yourselves, getting yourselves
in the center of the tunnel.
By the third and fourth session, I'm really hoping
to get you guys starting to fly together.
Maybe trying to come up with a really simple routine.
Trusting the wind is probably one
of the hardest things to do.
It might start a little rough at first,
but it should get a lot easier towards the end.
[Jordan] All right, so we're suiting up.
Anything we need to know about these suits?
- Zipper in the front.
If they smell, let me know.
It should be nice and baggy, you want it
to be about a size too big.
It give you guys a little more lift.
It's going to make it a little easier for you guys to learn.
- What's the purpose of the suit?
- So that your clothes stays on.
- Would it pull your pants and underpants off?
- If the wind's fast enough, it could.
- [Daysha] Man, it's like, now that we're in them,
this is becoming more real.
- [Ryann] So like, what does it feel like
when you're flying?
- If I had to compare it to something though,
it's really similar to swimming.
The more you freak out, the more you're
going to sink a little bit.
Once you learn to trust a little bit,
everything's kind of supporting you.
Let's go and take a class.
First thing you guys got to keep in mind is,
I do have somebody controlling the wind speed for us.
Everyone's gonna fly at a different speed at first.
My goal's to try to get you guys around the same
wind speed so we can get you guys flying together.
Once we get the wind going, I'm going to
have you guys walk up to the door.
You're going to try to get as close to it as you--
we're just consistently always creating a box.
It should be going about 90 to 100 miles an hour.
It's going pretty fast.
I'm gonna have you guys kind of bring those arms up,
you're going to bring that chin up as well.
This is gonna help you guys cut through that wind.
So soon as you see a thumbs up from me,
just go ahead and lean on in.
You're gonna feel that wind starting to push on back.
- [Ryann] We're falling into the--
- [Marco] Reverse trust fall right into that wind.
Daysha had a little trouble trusting the wind at first.
- You know it's a wind tunnel, but
that's a lot of fucking wind.
- By the second time around, she definitely
knocked that out of the park.
We got her off the net and she was flying awesome.
- So if you turned it all the way up,
would we just fly into the ceiling?
- [Marco] Uh-huh.
- Whoa, how would you stop?
What are the brakes?
- We're never gonna give you that much wind
unless you're ready for it.
From here, your hands are gonna come right up to eye level.
If you feel me adjusting one side in any way,
just kind of help me out with the other side.
Nice and slow movements.
Symmetry is everything once you guys are in there.
Fingers are straight.
You're gonna want to start pushing those legs out.
You're gonna feel a bit of resistance.
So as you straighten out, you're gonna feel
the wind wanting to push you legs back.
So you do have to be a little strong here.
- When we got to the part where we actually
lifted off the ground and we're in midair,
I felt like I had no control over myself.
- He was bending his legs a lot.
We just have to get him to
keep his legs a little straighter.
That'll pull more towards the center, but it
will also give him a little more lift.
For turning, so you're gonna tilt your hands
a little bit in the direction you want to go.
We want it to look effortless.
Jordan's killing it.
He knows and memorized everything that we went over
in the class, which doesn't happen very often.
- So like, twerking in like, 'cause we're trying--
- Yeah.
- To work on this routine.
- How do you twerk?
- I've never twerked.
So if I teach you guys how to fly,
maybe you can teach me how to twerk.
- I find it really funny that I was the most scared
out of everyone and that I was the most relaxed.
So I'm gonna take it.
- Daysha was so good and I'm just like,
I don't want Daysha to be better at this than me (laughing).
So make sure we get a shot of my butt.
- [Jordan] Day two, what are we in for?
- Everything we did on day one,
but we're gonna kick it up a notch.
I want you guys to try stay off the net as much as possible.
- I was really having trouble with the commands.
I was definitely getting frustrated.
The first time I was like, okay, I'm cool.
The second time I was like, oh my gosh,
I'm really losing it with the directions.
- Now we're gonna focus on a little bit of up and down.
So I want you guys control how high you go in the tunnel.
- I came in here really scared that once the wind speed
picked up, I'd just like fly into the ceiling.
And I'm not scared of that anymore.
I feel like I know how to come back down when I need to,
and I know how to do it slowly.
That said, there were several times today where I was like
up doing something then I was like, wanted
to come back down, and then I came back down
too much and bounced against the mat.
I probably bounced against the mat like three or four times.
- And then for you, you're just booty flying a lot.
- Marco was saying I poked my butt out a lot,
and I didn't mean to.
In my mind, my butt was clenched.
- It's causing you to rock a little bit.
Your butt should be the lowest point in the tunnel.
You need to know how to go up, but you need
to know how to go down.
As soon as I see that, then I can start
backing off a little bit more.
Which is what I felt like towards the end of yours.
- I felt towards the end, that I was starting to master
being able to lift myself up and down a little bit more.
There was something about watching him do the chest,
pulling yourself in, it's like halfway to a twerk.
- I'm still trying to get the twerk down.
Daysha's better at it than me.
- So I wasn't that excited about today.
I'm not really excited about the third session.
- [Daysha] Day three.
- Here's the goal, try to get you guys together.
By day four, the goal is to get all three
of you guys in there.
- I still need some work.
- We keep starting a little rough, but that
was probably your best session yet.
We're all at the same wind speed now, which was honestly,
that was probably like my biggest goal for today.
We've just gotta get you a little more control,
which is, we're almost there.
- Except for the exit.
- Jordan went in first, and Jordan looked like
a badass, and I was like, this is not my day today.
- That exit, when you crawled out of the bottom,
was my favorite thing on the planet.
- I'll have you guys start flying over me.
So we're start kind of introducing burble hopping
once we start getting side slide down.
So a side slide is you just moving directly across.
I'm going to explain the box position for you guys.
One's gonna up, the other one stays down.
This person creates a box down here,
while this person creates a box up here.
We're just consistently always creating a box.
Now, it's just going to be you guys experimenting,
playing with that tunnel awareness, trying to find a corner
and really just trying to stay away from each other.
Right, you're sharing the tunnel.
- I was never that good at sharing, I should let you know.
We'll see.
- How much different is it having two
or having three people in there?
- I feel like I improved by leaps and bounds today
and then rapidly lost all of my skills
once Ryann and I were in there together.
- That little figure eight thing, it makes sense in my head,
but then the process of doing it was just,
oh, this is not gonna happen.
I kept falling on Jordan, and then my legs
would fly in the air.
We did crash a lot though.
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- [Jordan] Why did I wind up flailing
on my back like twice? (laughing)
- You were rushing the side slice.
It's one thing to kind of calmly do it when you're
by yourself, but for some reason
when you throw somebody else in the mix,
then we start rushing things.
So both of you guys were kid of popping your hips
back a little bit and you were dropping your legs.
That will make you want to roll over to your back.
- That was insane.
- It was incredible.
- But it's definitely really, really hard.
You jump in, you can't breathe.
You need to like straighten your leg and move your arms
and tighten your core, but not concave
'cause then you'll go straight to the top.
- Ready for a little bit more?
- [Ryann] Yeah.
One, two, three.
- [Speaking Together] Do you even fly?
- Today's day four.
We're gonna get all three of you guys in there together.
That's the goal for today.
- [Jordan] It was like more comfortable,
and then we all three got in there,
and then it was kind of scary.
- We're going to do something new today.
It's called tunnel ball.
- Marco comes in with this little ball
and he's like, I got a game.
And I was like, didn't nobody tell me
that we was playing games today.
- It's really just one on one.
You guys are gonna fight for the ball,
and you're going to try to make it through that door.
Kind of like Quidditch.
It's a way to kind of get yourself
out of your head a little bit.
That way you're not so focused on, how do I get there?
And you just see the ball and you go get the ball.
- And then I'd be paying so much attention to the ball
that I wouldn't be paying attention at all
to whoever else was in there with me.
- I don't know actually what started it, but like
all I know is I see Jordan coming for me,
I've got a face full of net.
- I was like, oh my God, poor Daysha.
- My goggles are halfway coming off.
I can't see, I'm like Marco, take the wheel.
And can we talk about crawling out of the tunnel.
Like getting hit by Jordan, everything was worth it
just to see Marco twerk on a handstand
because he tried to act like he couldn't, and he did.
- And one day that'll be you Daysha.
- I know, gave me goals.
- Did we do better or worse than you expected?
- You know what though, for four sessions,
you guys crushed it way better than I expected.
- This is actually like really therapeutic.
Like there were times where I was like,
I can take this back to life.
Like, when things are getting crazy,
you just like fall to the net, breathe,
and then when you're ready to lift yourself up again,
you do it.
- [Marco] Oh wow, that's deep.
- [Daysha] I know, I'm taking it there (laughing).
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