- We're going skydiving today.
- Woo. Bad moms for life.
- And this is how the try moms
will celebrate mother's day.
- And I am so excited.
(screaming)
(thrilling music)
- Don't look outside.
- I'm sweating just talking about it, actually.
- Listen, the risk is higher now
than it once was. Now I have kids.
- [All Yelling] You ride together. We die together.
Bad moms for life!
- Today will be successful if I don't
pee my pants.
(upbeat music)
- My name is Romulo.
I'm the manager of the sky diving
school here at Skydive Elsinore.
One of the biggest drop zones
in the south, California.
The idea of jumping started when I was a teenager.
I saw that movie point break and was like,
oh my God I need to try this at least once.
- Today, we decided to do something
that has never gotten off the ground
with try guys because they're too scared.
Well, you know who's not afraid?
Your mom.
- I've said since the beginning I'll never do it.
I don't see what I would learn from it.
It's too scary.
- But the Try moms are doing it.
- The try moms are doing it.
(laughter)
- I'm actually super excited about this.
It's something I wanted to do
for a very long time.
I know that that probably means
I'm a little unhinged, but I have been
Bungee jumping, parasailing.
Strap something to me, and I will do it.
- We're gonna be doing a tandem sky dive.
Which you girls were gonna be
strapped to the instructors.
The instructor has the parachute system on his
back and you're just attached to the front.
Like those baby carriers that you probably
already use with your kids, right?
- I get to be the baby.
My name is Joey.
I have a three year old named Fox
and a three month old name Romoly.
I'm gonna stand like this cause I heard
that if you like put yourself in a superhero pose
you feel more brave.
I'd like to think of myself as
not really being afraid of anything
except for my own impending mortality
and today I'm definitely facing
the prospect of death.
- So we're gonna climb all the way
up to 13,000 feet above the ground.
We're gonna perform free fall position.
So we are gonna reach speed
of 130 miles an hour in free fall.
- You're going 130 miles per hour.
- No, I'm not. Am I?
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow.
I just got sweaty.
I'm Kira Cook and I have a three year old
named Zoe and a four year old named Rowan.
So we had my son biologically he's now four.
And then when my daughter was two weeks old
we picked her up from the hospital, and we
fostered her until she was two and three quarters.
And then we were able to finally adopt her.
My friend Melissa texted me and said
my friend Rachel is producing a show
where moms jump out of a plane.
And I said, wow, Melissa you know me so well,
I am absolutely interested.
What makes a mom strong?
I think you can't really go into it
with a weak constitution
because your constitution is no longer yours.
It's somebody else's too.
You know, I've never skydived before
but just seemed to be the most scary thing.
Today, I'm taking my body back completely.
I mean, it was kind of crazy to say goodbye
to my kids and be like, mommy may not be home tonight.
- There are factors that we control.
There are factors that we do not control.
Weather wind gusts, dust devils, you know
it's not like you're playing video game.
You're actually doing it.
If something doesn't go well, you're not
paying attention and committing a hundred percent
you can get hurt.
- You know, my son said, I wanna do it with you.
He started crying.
And I was like, sorry, it's only for adults.
It's just mommy's time in the air today.
- So the way it works, we're gonna be sitting
in the plane. When it's time to get ready
I'm gonna have you kind of stand up
and then you're gonna sit on my lap.
- Let's film.
- Yeah
- Just us here. We do around 12,000 tandems a year.
- How many jumps do you have now?
- Right now I'm in the edge of 10,000.
I was counting the other day, yeah.
- This is your what time?
It's like a hundredth time?
- Today?
- No, you know like jumping.
- Oh, it's like a 5,547.
- Wow!
- Are there stats on how dangerous it is?
- So interesting fact is
that 2021 was the year with less fatalities
since they started counting.
In the entire country we had 10 fatalities skydiving.
There was a research somewhere seen
which was the most dangerous activity.
And skydiving is not even close to the top.
- That's good to know.
That's a good stat to know.
It makes you feel a lot better.
- Four points of attachment two
on the hips and two on the shoulder.
Each one of these hook takes 2,500 pounds.
So basically one is enough.
- Okay.
- But you're still having four.
- We have four.
- If I remember.
- If you remember?
- Yeah that's the first joke.
Hang on. There's five more.
(laughter)
- I'm not adventurous.
I am super cautious, very risk averse.
Which is why I'm a good match for the try guys.
Now, if I injure myself or die, who's gonna
take care of June and poppy?
I was excited this morning.
I don't know how I feel right now.
- Right now, let's talk about the jump.
It's real simple.
We're gonna get to the door.
I'm gonna have you hold on to your harness here.
Squeeze on the straps.
Squeeze on tight.
Now, we're gonna get to the edge of the door.
Let's imagine this crack right here is our edge.
We're gonna put our toes on it.
We're gonna squat down with you.
Chin up to the sky, big smile
ready set go, we're gonna leave the plane.
- It's a celebration of strength and overcoming fear.
Yeah. And I think not peeing my pants.
- The plane's not super tall.
We're gonna kind of bend down.
We're gonna waddle to the door.
- Peeing my pants is my worst case scenario, Alex.
I don't wanna pee my pants.
We got weak pelvic floors
and we're all really concerned about it, okay?
- I'll give you a little tap on the shoulder's
my signal to arms out, then
(screaming)
- But if I land dry, I'll be like, yes!
My pelvis did it!
We got it.
- If you forget everything I just said,
you'll be all right.
- Okay.
- Is it common to pee yourself?
- No.
(laughter)
- But it has happened?
- Yes.
- Wow.
- Ooh
- Oh
- All right any final words to the people?
- Face your fear
it's really hard to do this before we do it.
Face your fears cause it's super easy to.
(thrilling music)
- Okay, Alex, Jake, Jonathan.
I love you very much.
You're very important to me.
I love you.
- Five minutes
- Whoo!
(plane engine whirring)
- Whoo!
- All right off we go.
(thrilling music)
(yelling)
(thrilling music)
- Why am I so close to the door?
(thrilling music)
- Whoo!
- The buzz under my butt feels kind of fun. It's like.
I'm autistic, so it's really hard for me
to recognize negative emotions.
It's called Alexithymia.
So, I tend not to feel fear about anything.
- Joey, this is the hard part.
- Okay. You know, I thought I was gonna be more scared
but now I'm like let's go!
- I know that I'm gonna be sitting
on that airplane with everything ready to go.
And I'm not gonna wanna jump.
It's cold up here.
- Don't worry, adrenaline's gonna take over in no time.
- Like I'm telling you now, I want to do this.
So if I say up there that I don't, I do.
- This is a crazy way to live.
- Yeah. It never gets old.
- Now we're 7,000 feet basically
- Almost set.
- Almost there.
- Don't look outside! Don't do it.
- I know I immediately regretted that.
(laughter)
- You know, my father is a personal injury lawyer.
So I grew up not being able to do anything.
On the way here I called him.
I was like, guess what I'm doing today?
And he was like, I make it my motto
not to do anything that could end in death.
(orchestra trumpets)
- All right Rachel, I'm gonna start hooking you up.
I want you to sit up on my lap.
- Okay.
Pardon me!
(orchestra trumpets)
- It's like being on Santa's lap.
But instead of presents
you get kicked off a plane.
(orchestra trumpets)
(laughter)
- I feel good. I'll try to smile.
- Take a deep breath, and then blow it out.
Perfect, all right girl you're not going
anywhere without me.
- Sweet.
- Keep your legs as far back as you can.
All the way till the parachute opens.
- Okay.
- All right put the goggles on.
(thrilling music)
- Ah, Oh my God.
- Holy shit.
- It's so high.
- No I'm not ready.
I'm not ready.
No I'm not ready.
- What makes a mom strong?
- That's a great question, and I have
thought about it many times and I think it
is just sheer willpower that makes a mom strong.
(thrilling music)
Something about, something about juggling
a million things and also trying to keep humans alive.
There's something that is so
inherently dangerous about that.
Just like keeping a human alive.
That you sort of, you just have to be strong.
(thrilling music)
- Woo.
- Ride together, die together Ariel.
(Thrilling music)
(screaming)
(thrilling music)
- I don't think this will be the hardest thing
I do this week on a day to day basis.
The hardest thing is like negotiating
with my three year old for like basic routines.
So like today I will jump out of a plane
but at nighttime I'm gonna have to
convince him to stay in bed.
So, no.
(exciting music)
Cowabunga! Whoo
(screaming)
- So when we jump out of the plane
gravity brings us down.
Takes us around 10 seconds to reach terminal speed.
So we are gonna reach speed
of 130 miles an hour in free fall.
If you have a camera guy in front
of you and you haven't had a reference
in the same level it's more likely gonna feel
like you're floating.
If you do more aggressive turns
you'll feel the G's a little bit.
- I just want my kids to be impressed, you know.
- But my goal is generally keeping you calm.
So we have a great time.
Relax and have fun.
We'll take care of the rest.
- Ride together die together Kira!
- Okay, come on!
- We're going.
- Okay.
- Whoo, bad moms for life.
- Okay. The last time I pushed through fear
in a really big way
I have to say was when I gave birth.
That's the thing that I was the most afraid
of my whole life.
My mom had a horrible birth with me and I heard
never heard the end of it.
On the other side of the fear, and true days
of pain was the biggest bliss
a life can possibly afford.
And I would do it again a hundred times.
I won't, but I could, if I needed to.
(exciting music)
- When was the last time you pushed through fear?
- Oh, when I gave birth.
I was really scared to give birth.
The last time I pushed through fear was
when I pushed two humans outta my body.
That was fucking scary.
But you know, I did it and the reward was super high.
All right Rom this is you and me baby!
- Let's go.
- No fear!
The feeling of autonomy you get from being really
really like in your body, physically scared to do something
and just pushing through that is thrilling.
I, I can't wait for that feeling
and I'm willing to do it to get that.
(exciting music)
Try guys.
Come on.
We can do it.
You can do it.
- At 5,000 feet you're gonna deploy the parachute
and fly safely to the ground.
(jazzy music)
(screaming)
And now you're like just floating in this low pace.
- Is it peaceful
- If you're not freaking out?
Yeah, it's peaceful.
- [Rom] High five?
- High five.
- [Rom] Whoo!
- Holy shit.
(laughter)
- Oh my God.
That was great.
- Oh my God.
- Awesome job.
- Oh my God.
- How you feeling up here?
- I can't, I can't talk.
- Now we free fall about 50 seconds.
- Seriously?
- All right tell something for your kids
watching you right now.
- Oh, June and poppy.
Listen, on the other side of fear
is the feeling of breathing again for the first time ever.
- If we wanted to go right.
Look to the right.
Pull down on the right side.
- Wow!
- Where are we going?
- Look straight down to the left you see that little
patch of grass over there?
(cheerful music)
- Whoo
Yeah!
Yes!
Oh, thanks Louis.
(screaming)
- I don't remember leaving the plane.
No, no, not ready.
I think I came back right when we, like
I was like in the air and, and we were
free falling and then he pulled the parachute.
So I was fully out for like 30 seconds.
- Okay.
I, that was really scary that
that the free falling part was terrifying.
I really liked when he pulled the parachute
then I was able to enjoy it.
(screaming)
- It was incredible.
I think I died!
- Well done!
Try moms!
(cheering)
- Are you glad you did it?
- Yeah.
- So glad!
- Yeah.
- So glad
- For sure.
- But I, I don't wanna go again, but so glad.
(upbeat guitar music)
- Oh my God.
- I think I died
- I didn't pee!
- I didn't pee but I thought about it.
(upbeat music)