Aug 18, 2026 · 21 min · 12 segments
Sam Laming has been coaching wingsuiting since 2012, across drop zones on several continents. Ask him what makes a scene thrive and he barely mentions the flying, he talks about what happens between…
Sam LamingGuest
Jack PeplowHost
in your opinion has the global standard of wingsuiting genuinely improved over say like the last decade
no um yeah of course of course yeah the tunnel and everything it's crazy um i remember sort of a few years back when we were all watching sort of like the videos of yarno and a few others doing that kind of level stuff and now instead of it just being one or two or three people doing that level there's everyone who's ever worked in the tunnel has kind of got to that level and way further it seems um yes the level is just skyrocketing i guess there's also the the wish for people who aren't quite ready to emulate that, which is like the sort of classic thing.
But yeah, the number of people who are doing absolutely unbelievable stuff is through the roof and seeing Peter Salzman doing his foil thing and all these new suits coming out.
What, in your opinion, are the core ingredients of a thriving wingsuit scene? I'd say enthusiasm,
The drop zone and the place that you're doing it, because with all the will and with all the nice people, if you're on a drop zone, that's a bit of a tandem factory.
Unfortunately, that kind of goes one way, as it has done a bit with my local place.
Maybe what you do outside of jumping, again, for the community side of things, that's such a bonding part of the jumping.
And base jumping, I think so many people are kind of saying that the jump is like a cherry on top and that the experience being in the mountains, having a load of friends, the food, being in a new place, that that's so much of what makes up the experience.
And the jumping is almost like a... like the byproduct is almost as important as the main thing.
in your opinion has the global standard of wingsuiting genuinely improved over say like the last decade
no um yeah of course of course yeah the tunnel and everything it's crazy um i remember sort of a few years back when we were all watching sort of like the videos of yarno and a few others doing that kind of level stuff and now instead of it just being one or two or three people doing that level there's everyone who's ever worked in the tunnel has kind of got to that level and way further it seems um yes the level is just skyrocketing i guess there's also the the wish for people who aren't quite ready to emulate that, which is like the sort of classic thing.
But yeah, the number of people who are doing absolutely unbelievable stuff is through the roof and seeing Peter Salzman doing his foil thing and all these new suits coming out.
What, in your opinion, are the core ingredients of a thriving wingsuit scene? I'd say enthusiasm,
The drop zone and the place that you're doing it, because with all the will and with all the nice people, if you're on a drop zone, that's a bit of a tandem factory.
Unfortunately, that kind of goes one way, as it has done a bit with my local place.
Maybe what you do outside of jumping, again, for the community side of things, that's such a bonding part of the jumping.
And base jumping, I think so many people are kind of saying that the jump is like a cherry on top and that the experience being in the mountains, having a load of friends, the food, being in a new place, that that's so much of what makes up the experience.
And the jumping is almost like a... like the byproduct is almost as important as the main thing.
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