Red Bull Starman: Sebastián Álvarez Shatters Three World Records with Groundbreaking Wingsuit Skydive

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Red Bull Starman: Sebastián Álvarez Shatters Three World Records with Groundbreaking Wingsuit Skydive  March 27, 2025    Whiteville, Tennessee, USA

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00:00You

00:30You

01:00You

01:30Yeah

01:37Yeah, I

01:42Feel like an astronaut

01:45Wow, I really don't know where we are

01:48Or where I am

01:50But I'm okay

01:52And I think I beat all the records

01:56Thank you very much to all

01:58Part of this project

02:01It's been an epic journey

02:04One more for the books, yeah

02:28You

02:38What

02:40Oh

02:56All right, just drop the extra pilot you handle this man

03:10My ears on gloves

03:41You

03:42You're an animal. We're 30 miles away from where you exited right now. No way preliminary. I think you blasted the record

03:59So, my name is Sebastian Alvarez, I'm a Chilean

04:02Professional skydiver and today we are here in Tennessee. I just landed a few hours ago and we beat several records

04:10The project that I just did

04:13it's

04:14It's about

04:16Trying to break as many records as we can in only one jump. This is a wingsuit

04:22skydiving

04:24so basically try to

04:28Fly the longest the furthest and the fastest I am pretty happy to land safe and

04:36Have broke three world records

04:39It was really ambitious because no human before has ever

04:44Attempt to break three or more records in only one jump

04:48So so yes, of course

04:50I get emotional because after so long of this idea that came so long

04:54Probably six seven years ago when I just we start talking about this and then this last two years where we start focusing more

05:01And then of course these last three months where you push as hard as you can in order to to reduce your weight

05:08to to perform to train in the sky and train in the in the ground to select the proper wingsuit to

05:15Select the proper place plain day, but it feels pretty good to be

05:20Really fast, especially the fastest human alive, you know

05:23And yeah, it is very demanding to fly at that speed because your body needs to be really rigid

05:30Exactly as a wing of a plane in in short words the whole flight. It's it's a long morning where we

05:37need to do a pre-breathe because of the saturation of the blood the oxygen and

05:42Then that takes almost an hour and then it's a it's a very fast climb with this powerful

05:49Plane that I have on my back

05:51In order to reach the highest altitude possible in this case was around

05:5641,000 feet and then it comes of course the oxygen supply which

06:02Which is a very if not the most important

06:07Factor in this project after I exit the main thing is to exit the stable

06:14at that speed is very difficult, but I managed to do it and

06:19Finally, it's just glide first is going as fast as possible

06:24Then glide for the most distant possible and finally

06:30around 12,000 feet I change a bit the angle in order to create the

06:34The

06:35longest in time possible

06:37Everything that we use for this project. It was a special made thermal electrical thermal layers

06:43were special socks hands gloves and

06:48The core needs to be warm in order to stay in temperature

06:52And then the wingsuit is a special wingsuit

06:55Made for this project in order to glide and also keep the speed and also keep the time you always question

07:02Yourself and the different situation that can happen along the way

07:07But I think like it's very important to believe in what you

07:11You are your your goals are of course happens to me sometimes

07:15I think to myself and I'm too crazy because this is very ambitious

07:19You know, nobody has ever done this before so so you're entering in a tunnel that sometimes you don't see the light

07:26so

07:27but again like with the proper

07:29Proper training proper mental training proper

07:35Flights and and techno using the technology in order to

07:39Basically do the math and compare situations and and if you can do that

07:44Then you might be able to to do it in the air, you know

07:48I always said I get married with projects, you know, because you need to be fully on on this

07:53You need to believe you need to work on the project you need to

07:57Treated us as he deserved to be treated be patient, you know, there were days that of course I doubt about it

08:04There was really hard days

08:06Of training, you know, sometimes you want to quit but then it's again like mental game

08:10I don't think I'm gonna who knows but I don't think I'm gonna repeat something like this

08:15I don't feel like I need it this you reach a point as a the peak of an athlete and then you just need to

08:21let it go and

08:23What I like it is this might help to others to

08:27Have motivation in order to or become a skydiver or fly better, you know

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