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what you are about to see is not just unbelievable,

It's also dangerous.

Do not try this at home.

Imagine a suburban mom with super strength,

More formidable than the world's strongest man.

- She starts lifting the car.

- It's something you see in a comic book, it's superhuman.

- Or a man who is immune to lightning.

- It burns through his shoe,

But twice is apparently not enough.

Roy struck again.

- How about a mere mortal who's faster

Than a speeding bullet?

- It's too small and too fast for the naked eye to see.

- These are the humans so surprising.

They are truly unbelievable.

It's April, 1942 in shenandoah national park, virginia

And a violent thunderstorm has park ranger roy sullivan

Taking refuge in a fire tower when suddenly

The tower is struck by lightning.

- After eight lightning strikes on that tower,

It's now ablaze and roy has to escape.

Well, on his way down the tower he's struck.

It burns through his shoe, yanks off his toenail,

But he lives through it.

- When you are struck by lightning,

An extremely large amount of electrical current flows

Through your body to the ground.

This is potentially lethal, for most people.

the odds of being struck by lightning

Are just one in 15,300, pretty low.

But ranger roy is about to defy those odds again.

- He is driving his pickup truck during an electrical storm

And a tree adjoining his truck is struck.

The lightning rebounds into the cab of his truck,

Setting his eyebrows and hair afire.

- But twice is apparently not enough for roy.

The third time lightning bounces off of a transformer

And strikes him, but this time it leaves its mark.

It's a lichtenberg figure, so called, across his back,

In the shape of a lightning bolt.

roy is now tied with a man named walter summerford

As the only known people who have been struck

By lightning three times,

For at least two years that is until-

- Roy struck again.

Fourth time, this time it sets his hair on fire

And he's got to put that out.

He takes a wet cloth, pats it on his head,

Puts his hair out.

- So now roy, the most struck by lightning man on earth,

Travels everywhere with a can of water at the ready,

Just in case he's struck and set upon fire again.

unfortunately, that can of water

Is going to come in handy.

- He's driving down a mountain road.

He sees evidence of a lightning storm on the horizon.

He flees in the other direction.

- He starts driving away as quickly as possible,

A can of water at the ready,

Appearing to be at a safe distance from the ominous cloud

That he feels is following.

He emerges from his pickup truck only to be struck again.

Hair on fire, eyebrows on fire, can of water over the head.

Roy was prepared this time.

- It's the same show all over and over again.

incredibly, roy has struck two more times,

The last after he leaves what already was for him,

A dangerous job.

- When roy finally retires from the park service,

His seventh and final time happens while he is at leisure.

He gets struck while fishing.

- Roy, in short, is a miracle man.

The chance of being struck by lightning

Seven different times is one out of 10 to the 28th power.

The chances of being struck and surviving seven times

Put the odds even

Further off the margins

And it would be considered impossible,

But for the fact that it happens to roy sullivan.

- So of course people want to investigate.

They want to understand if there's something special

About roy's body or study the effects

Of all these lightning strikes.

But when a doctor goes to examine him,

Lightning strikes happen nearby

And the doctor is no longer interested.

even his own wife isn't safe around him.

- It's no surprise that his wife would be dismayed

Because when she's hanging clothes one day

When he's a hundred some feet away,

She herself gets struck by lightning.

surprisingly, she doesn't file for divorce.

- The way roy chooses to deal with this attraction

That he has for things that kill anybody else

Is he decides to own it.

He becomes the guinness world's record holder

For the number of lightning strikes

That someone can live through.

He gives lectures, he has the artifacts

From when he's been struck.

He essentially becomes the human lightning rod, for real.

- His superhuman ability is that he shows us

That the word impossible should be used

Very sparingly, if at all

- Maybe roy's most superhuman feat after all

Is that he was able to stay married.

Must be his electric personality.

But perhaps that phrase should belong

To a guy in india known as current mohan.

Kollam, india.

A 7-year-old boy named rajmohan niar

Is reeling from a terrible tragedy.

- His mother dies when he's a child

And he simply can't bear it.

So he attempts to kill himself.

He climbs a utility pole and grabs a transformer.

but something surprising happens,

Or should I say doesn't happen.

- He's not electrocuted, he's not killed.

even more unbelievable,

Mohan's survival isn't just good luck.

He seems able to absorb any amount of electricity.

- He can take electrical wire that's plugged into a wall,

Grab the open end of the wire

And he serves sort of as a

Conduit for the electricity

To run through his body and to power an appliance.

- Blenders, toasters, lighting light bulbs.

He runs all of those things by driving power

Through his body.

- Raj becomes a local celebrity

And he basically spends his life displaying

These electrical shocks and running appliances.

but how is this possible?

- Some tests have been run on him, including hooking him up

To a multimeter,

Which is going to measure the amount

Of current going through him

And the amount of electricity

That he can handle is on average 10 times

What a normal human being could handle.

- Raj is sort of a mystery.

No one knows if his organs are wired differently.

If for some reason biologically he just is resistant

To electricity, we really cannot ever actually know.

or can mohan's gift be traced back

To that fateful childhood day as just another

To that fateful childhood day as just another

Superhero's origin story.

- In 2020, icelandic strongman,

Hafthor julius bjornsson sets the world record

For a deadlift when he hoists 1,105 pounds

Clear off the ground.

Impressive, yes,

Until a suburban mom does something unbelievable.

April 11th, 1982 starts off like any other spring day

For angela cavallo inside her suburban georgia home.

- Angela is in her kitchen

Doing mom stuff

And her son, who's a teenager,

Is out in the garage working on his chevy impala,

And she hears a crash.

- Angela rushes into the garage,

She sees the impala on top of her son.

He is lying there,

Pinned under the car, immobile.

Like any mother, she's terrified and she starts to scream

For help.

that's when 11-year-old johnny edwards,

Shows up, not exactly the muscle she was looking for.

- Bless this kid's heart.

He recognizes he's probably not gonna be much help.

He starts running the neighborhood, knocking on doors,

Trying to get another adult or two to help,

And then she tries to move the car.

This is a 3000 pound vehicle.

This is not something you can easily lift up.

is it possible that tiny angela,

Can really best a strong man

And lift a 3,300 pound car?

- She starts lifting the car.

- Angela is there alone holding up this car.

If she lets it go, her son could be killed.

she holds on for an agonizing five minutes

And then-

- The kid shows back up with two adults.

Angela has been holding the car this whole time.

They managed to get tony out from under the car.

He is taken to the hospital.

He's released a week later on easter Sunday.

- Powerlifters in gyms who train for competition,

Who put themselves through arduous routines

Are able to lift maybe a thousand pounds.

What allows a everyday woman to not only lift

But to hold a 3000 pound automobile for five minutes?

angela has just experienced a phenomenon

Called hysterical strength.

Could this superhuman trait lie dormant within us all?

- Everybody has the experience

Of a trigger of adrenaline

And we know that it rushes

Oxygen and blood to the muscles

And it can improve physical performance.

But at moments of life-threatening crisis,

These biochemicals may actually give us

A spurt of superhuman strength.

- To lift up a vehicle is something way more superhuman

Than just your regular adrenaline dump.

That's motherly love mixed into that.

- Lifting a nearly two-ton car

And holding it for five minutes, incredible.

It's also a feat so far beyond the normal limits

Of human strength that a few doubt angela's story is true.

Luckily, this next strange event was captured on film.

- It is 1988 and the television show magnum, p.I.

Is immensely popular and one of the icons

Of magnum, p.I. Alongside magnum's ferrari

Is the mcdonnell douglas little ball helicopter.

- When the helicopter isn't featured on the show,

It is sometimes used for commercial tourist flights.

Other times it's used to help out the local utilities.

So on this day of Friday the 13th,

The helicopter is flying, hauling some equipment.

There is an electrical problem with the flight system

And the helicopter begins to lilt to one side

And the pilot immediately decides to land.

but just before touching down disaster strikes.

- The pilot after the crash landing is trapped under

This 3000 plus pound copter,

- His leg is stuck, his leg is stuck.

Which is now taking on water from the drainage ditch

And is leaking highly flammable fuel.

- And as it slowly, slowly starts falling to its side,

The water starts rising.

It's getting pretty dire as the water fills the cabin.

- The situation might be fatal were it not

For the appearance on the scene

Of a local vietnam vet named warren amaral,

Or as he's better known

By his nickname, tiny.

The trapped pilot is a friend of tiny's,

A fellow vietnam veteran.

Tiny runs up to help.

He witnesses a scene that is out of a nightmare.

- Initially, tiny goes to pull the helicopter pilot

From underneath the wreckage and his leg is stuck.

- Get help. Get help.

- So, he decides to take another course of action,

Which is lift up this 3000 pound helicopter

And save the pilot, steve.

- Come on.

Come on, steve!

Come on, steve!

Come on, come on.

Help me get his leg out of underneath the chopper.

Okay, watch your hand.

Get his leg out.

Okay, two legs.

Okay

- They're both vietnam buddies.

They've both been to combat together.

They share a bond that your average

Civilian couldn't fathom.

- Alright, it's okay, my man.

Just relax, chill.

- But to be able to lift up that 3000 pound helicopter

To save steve, it's absolutely superhuman.

while scientists understand the concept

Of hysterical strength, they still don't know exactly how

It's triggered.

- It would be very difficult

To recreate the situation in a lab

Or to find drugs that induce that situation

That don't have catastrophic side effects.

So far we haven't found a trigger

Other than life threatening crisis.

- Sounds like something out of incredible hulk,

Capable of lifting thousands of pounds.

Capable of lifting thousands of pounds.

It is something seriously straight out of a comic book.

- Tales of great warriors defeating countless enemies

With their razor-sharp swords are often thought

To be exactly that, just stories.

But what if there were a modern samurai so skilled

He'd give those legends a run for their money.

- Machii is not only deadly with a sword,

But he demonstrates super human speed with a sword.

among his most impressive feats,

Slicing a baseball flying towards him

At a hundred miles an hour with ease.

- Now if you ask anybody

Who covers sports,

Hitting a baseball

Is the single most

Difficult thing to do in sports.

- Isao machii was able to hit it with a samurai sword,

Not a baseball bat with a big fat barrel,

A piece of steel that is millimeters thick.

- So how does machii become the ultimate

21st century samurai?

- Isao machii grows up in kawanishi,

A part of japan that has a long, rich history

Of swords fighting, dating back to the 10th century.

- The samurai tradition no longer continues in japan,

But there is a tradition called kendo,

Which is basically the inheritor of the samurai tradition.

kendo is the art of fighting

With bamboo swords developed as a non-lethal

Form of training.

- And this is the practice in which he trains

And excels starting at the age of six.

- Then he gives the ancient practice of tsujigiri a whirl.

- So tsujigiri basically the idea is you take a tatami mat

And you place it vertically and you slice through it.

And the reason you take the tatami mat

Is because it mimics the texture and the hardness

And the resistance of a human limb.

- You can imagine these

Tatami mats rolled up

And as soon as you slice it,

You impart a force on it

That's going to destabilize the tatami mat

And make it fall over.

The quickness and the precision and the accuracy

Required to do that is mind blowing.

- So machii sets his first world record by slicing cleanly

Through the tatami mat seven times before a tips over.

then in 2007, machii adds another record.

1000 mat cuts in just over 36 minutes,

Slicing a full hour off his previous record

Like a human cuisinart.

- Imagine this master swordsman makes 1000 cuts,

Effectively severing 1000 limbs in 36 minutes.

It's the stuff of legend and it's playing out

In the 21st century.

over the next decade,

He goes on to break six more records,

But they're nothing compared to what he does in 2013.

- He's going to slice a pea-sized, a six millimeter

Size pellet in two.

He's going to stand 70 feet away from a bb gun

And slice this tiny little thing, not just hit it,

But slice completely through it

As it's coming at him at 200 miles per hour.

at that speed, a normal human

Wouldn't even be able to see the pellet

Much less slice it in two.

- I watched this about five times

'cause I could not believe it.

- It's too small and too fast for the naked eye to see,

But when you slow down the footage you see that he does it.

how is this possible?

Well, according to math and all logic, it's not.

- The normal human reaction time

Is around a quarter of a second,

Which means if you receive a visual stimuli,

It takes you about a quarter of a second

Before you're able to physically respond to it.

In less time than that, the pellet travels from the gun

To him and it's not just speed, it's also precision

- Crazier still, he closes his eyes at the moment,

He cuts the bb out of the air.

That man is not of this earth.

- In machii, we're seeing a being who surpasses

What we as human beings are understood to be capable of.

He possesses superpowers, in fact.

isao machii might be faster than a speeding bullet,

But there's another superhuman whose superpowers

Might be even more impressive.

No wonder they call him the batman.

- Daniel kish may very well be one

Of the most remarkable human beings

I've ever come across in my life.

- Every superhero or every superhuman has an origin story.

At 13 months old, daniel is diagnosed with cancer

Of the retina in both eyes and daniel's eyes

Have to be removed.

- With blind infants, very often they will clap

Or stomp their feet or make a noise

And it will elicit a response from the world around them.

- Very quickly, daniel develops a very specific sound,

A click that you can make by pulling your tongue

Off the roof of your mouth.

Just like that.

Thankfully his parents encourage him to keep doing this

Because they can see that he's using it as a tool.

it's more than just a tool.

Daniel is cultivating what will become his superpower.

- Daniel developed, on his own, a technique

Known as echolocation, where you emit a sound

And the sound wave bounces off of all the objects

In the room and comes back to your ears.

And different objects in different rooms

Will have different sound characteristics

That you can learn.

it's a technique not often seen in humans.

- So bats use echolocation.

They constantly emit sound waves

And allow those sound waves to bounce off of trees

And insects, and then they listen for those reflections

And they use that to navigate in the night.

Daniel is doing the exact same thing.

but how exactly does a human develop this gift?

- The visual cortex is a big part of our brains.

Without having visual input that cortex

Is looking for a job.

So in essence, that visual cortex

Is now gonna be rewired and his ears become his eyes.

- He is able to not only tell spatial distance,

He's able to tell what material something is made of.

If it's concrete, if it's wood.

He can tell if someone is clothed or not.

the batman channels his gift

To accomplish something even more unbelievable.

- He takes his bike and goes against a brick wall

And first trains himself to ride in a straight line.

- And then he bikes to his friend's house

And then a little bit further.

And now he's able to confidently ride his bike

Through busy streets and unknown intersections.

- I have two working eyes and I don't want to ride

A bike around traffic.

He is the modern batman and he is amazing, inspirational,

He is the modern batman and he is amazing, inspirational,

And, without question, superhuman.

When people turn 30, they often take stock

And try to make significant life changes.

But how far do most of us actually go?

In the case of this next superhuman,

A lot further than you'd believe,

- Dean karnazes is out celebrating his

30th birthday with some friends.

Now he's a little bit bummed about turning 30,

So he gets out of the bar and he starts running.

I don't know about you, but when I've done

A ton of tequila shots, my first instinct

Isn't to start running, but 10 miles later

The tequila wears off and he's sober again.

Most of us would've stopped by now, but he keeps going.

- He ends up running over 30 miles in one night.

30 miles is longer than a full marathon.

- And the remarkable thing here is

That dean karnazes was not a trained marathon runner.

He was not a trained distance runner.

He had run in high school but hadn't run in 15 years.

- And he begins to wonder,

What do I have here

That I've been neglecting?

then this real life energizer bunny

Takes an incredible leap of faith.

- He decides to quit his job in corporate marketing

And become a distance runner, to make this his life.

within three years,

Dean isn't just running marathons,

He's running a hundred mile ultra marathons

And winning.

- We can't overstate how difficult on the body

Ultra distance running is and the idea that he's able

To withstand these beatings only having been training

For a few years is really quite remarkable.

in 2005, dean tests the limits of human stamina

And endurance, running distances that sound impossible.

- He runs 350 miles in 81 hours.

- 81 hours straight without sleep.

That's more than three days.

- The thing is he didn't stop running

Because he couldn't keep running physically.

He stopped running because he couldn't stay awake

For more than three days.

He got sleepy.

and dean's record setting runs

Are just getting started.

- In 2006 dean runs

50 marathons

In 50 different states

In 50 days,

Culminating in

The new york city marathon.

- He ends up finishing in three and a half hours,

Which is about an hour faster than the average finish time.

- 50 marathons, 50 days, 50 states right here.

- Well, one, I wanted to see if it could be done.

Two. I wanted to see is this bad for the body,

Good for the body, neutral for the body.

so how does dean keep on

Going and going and going?

- Lactic acid is a byproduct of our normal

Metabolic functions.

If you exert yourself too much,

The lactic acid can build up in your muscles

And this is what makes them feel sore

After a serious workout.

But dean doesn't feel sore.

- His ability to essentially metabolize

Lactic acid is better than most.

- Dean estimates that he's run more than 100,000 miles

Enough to circle the earth four times,

Almost enough to get him halfway to the moon.

But while he might be the ultra marathon man,

Even dean would probably admit that he's not quite as cool

As the iceman.

- Wim hof is a dutch madman.

He can hold himself submerged in an ice bath

For hours upon hours.

- Wim hof can hold his breath for 10 minutes.

For reference, the average navy seal

Can hold their breath for three minutes.

- He had the guinness worlds record

For swimming 188 feet under ice.

he even holds the guinness world record

For running the fastest half marathon in ice or snow,

While barefoot.

His time, two hours and 16 minutes,

Fast enough to make dean karnazes jealous.

- Taking it to the other extreme,

He runs a marathon in namibia in the desert

Without drinking any water.

so is the iceman truly superhuman?

- Wim hof credits all of this to trauma suffered at birth.

He was the second of identical twins

And after his sibling came out,

They found that he was still in there.

He almost suffocated to death.

By the time he was actually born, he was purple.

his near death experience

Puts him on a strange path.

- Later on as a young man, he sees ice on the river

And he decides I should jump in

And instead of freezing to death

Or even feeling cold, what he claims is that he feels power.

but how is wim tapping into this superpower

At will in ways that defy logic and science?

- Our brains like to keep us comfortable,

And so anytime we have exposure to an unpleasant

Or a very painful stimulus, our brain will release

Its own pleasure giving chemicals.

Some of these compounds are known as endocannabinoids,

Which basically make you feel high and euphoric.

his incredible ability to unlock

These chemicals allows him to barely even feel the cold.

- Experts find that his extremities have more heat

Than they naturally should.

So is he willing his regulatory system to create heat

Where there isn't or is he just built differently?

We can't tell.

- The ultimate irony may be that wim hof

Actually doesn't enjoy what made him famous.

In a 2022 interview, he said quote,

In a 2022 interview, he said quote,

"please don't tell anyone, but I hate the cold."

- If I asked you how many windows your house has,

Could you tell me?

Maybe.

How about the house across the street?

Probably not.

What about that office building on the way to work?

Not a chance, but what if I told you there's a man

Who can tell you every single intricate detail

Of a skyscraper he has seen only once?

They call him the living camera.

- One day artist steven wilshire boards a helicopter

And flies around the city of new york for about 20 minutes.

- After his 20 minute flyover,

He goes into a studio

In brooklyn for five days with nothing

But a pack of pencils, an 18-foot-long canvas,

And his memory of the vision of the city.

when steven emerges,

He's achieved something that friends

And acquaintances just can't explain.

He's drawn an exact replica of the most complicated skyline

On the planet from memory.

- It's not like he draws just shapes.

It is exactly what he saw from the air

Down to the number of cables on the manhattan bridge.

- It is as if he has taken a photograph,

But it is all lodged in his memory.

but how does he do it?

His story begins in london, in the late 1970s.

- Steven wiltshire was mute as a kid

And when he was three years old,

He was diagnosed with autism.

One of the first ways he was able

To express himself was through drawing.

- Steven's parents sent him to a special school

That is designed for the learning experience

Of children with autism.

- And this is a place where

His proclivity for drawing

Just flourishes.

- And more and more he's able to recreate things

That he's only seen once on a field trip

Or on tv or in a magazine.

He clearly has this incredible ability to recall things

That he's seen and put it on paper perfectly.

- So I've got lots of detail drawings

On the st. Paul's cathedral there.

- And that was all just from memory?

- Yeah.

you've probably heard of photographic memory,

But what steven has is far more rare.

- One of the consequences of autism is that areas

Of the brain don't develop properly.

Yet these are very sophisticated

And computationally intense parts of the brain.

As a result, certain people with autism

Develop a type of neuroplasticity

Where these areas

Of the brain are used in other and more unique ways.

- And again, it presents us with the prospect

Of life's power of compensation.

Our neuro systems will compensate for a difficulty

Or a challenge in one area by creating exceptional

Ability and capacity in another.

- The new york taxis are from the memory

Just had in my head.

- On any given day, I can't find my keys

And steven is able to recreate an entire city.

while steven was born with this gift

For 39-year-old derek amato,

All it took was a good whack to the head.

- It's a normal summer day.

Derek and some friends are playing football

Around the pool.

Derek dives for a pass.

He lands in the shallow end of the pool.

His head strikes the bottom.

He suffers a severe concussion.

- He's floating in and out of consciousness

For the next four days in a semi-coma.

When he comes out of it, he's lost a significant amount

Of his hair, a significant amount of his memories.

But while derek's recovering, he's at a friend's house

And he's suddenly, inexorably drawn to a piano.

- Now derek has played a little guitar,

But he's never trained on the piano.

- And out of nowhere

He just starts playing

And it's not bad.

In fact, it's quite good.

- He describes actually seeing black and white bars

In his head, announcing to him the notes to play.

soon derek surrenders

To this strange new gift.

- If he starts humming a tune,

Derek immediately sees the sheet music in his head,

Not just for the main instrument,

But for a whole orchestra, for percussion and horns

And everything else to fill out that melody

And overnight becomes a fully fledged composer.

but what exactly happened

That fateful day to turn derek

Into an overnight beethoven?

- So one of the hypotheses

Is where the head injury

Inhibits the left hand side of the brain,

Which is the logical side of the brain,

Thereby allowing the right hand side of the brain,

Which is the more creative side to take over

And to function without any limitations.

- There's another theory that says the injury

Can release new neurotransmitters

That create completely new pathways in the brain

That allow you to develop these new skills.

- It's also possible that he has an extremely rare condition

Called acquired savant syndrome.

There are no more than 30 cases reported in the world.

- In most instances, the new

Ability is something numeric.

Some people have a

Sudden ability to say

What day of the week it

Was on July 15th, 1972.

Other people become really, really good at math.

whatever happened in that instant

One thing is certain derek's life changed forever.

- To this day, he is traveling the world performing music

For audiences on a global scale.

I don't know if there's a superhero called savant,

But if there was, it'd be this guy.

- It's the biggest mystery we could ever imagine.

I cannot wait to see what the science

On this learns in the coming 10, 20, 50 years.

I hope I am around when we figure the whole puzzle out.

I hope I am around when we figure the whole puzzle out.

Stral music) I hope I am around when we figure the whole puzzle out.

- We have seen humans with superior reflexes,

Extreme mental fortitude, unparalleled strength,

Incredible memory, and just plain, unbelievable talent.

What happens if you combine all these gifts into one person,

Meet the birdman.

- Wingsuit flying is about mimicking flight,

But also pushing it to the edge.

- People call it wingsuit flying,

But let's just be honest.

It's a controlled drop, that's what it is.

- It's not like a thing where, like,

On the weekend I'm gonna go

Wingsuit flying or something like that.

It's like, no, you either do this

To absolute perfection

Or you die.

in fact, roughly

One in 500 wingsuit jumps

Ends in death.

- Wingsuit flying is no joke.

It is a dangerous sport.

There's been some years where dozens of people have died.

- Jokke sommer, aka, the birdman is perhaps

The most talented wingsuit pilot alive

And the fact that he is still alive is superhuman in itself.

- Jokke is an adrenaline junkie from birth.

As a child, jokke loved snowboarding and launching off

Of big cliffs and jumps just to get that feeling of air

And that sensation.

- Snowboarding isn't enough for him.

So now he takes up motocross.

And he's taking off into the air.

Still not enough.

So now he graduates from motocross into skydiving.

He's an obsessed skydiver.

- Jokke does 250 skydives in his first two months.

Two months? It's crazy.

but again, not enough.

Apparently jumping out of a plane is too tame.

- It is not long before he is attempting wingsuit flying

And a very specific genre of that which is proximity flying.

It's an incredibly dangerous activity

Where you're actually testing yourself,

How close can I get to these surfaces?

- Just jumping and jumping safely is kind

Of considered being a bit of a wussy.

You have to fly as close as you can to the rocks,

The cliffs and the trees of the terrain.

I like watching it from the safe distance of my couch.

- In 2010, he has his

Closest brush with death

When a wind gust sends him too close

To the surface he's flying near

And he just barely adjusts his trajectory

To escape crashing into these jagged rocks.

at speeds of more than 120 miles an hour,

Jokke has just milliseconds to make

Life and death decisions.

- There is a high fatality rate in this sport.

Jokke has thousands and thousands of proximity flights

Without incident.

It's as if he's a bird. He is superhuman.

and when we thought humans

Couldn't get any more daring, someone ups the birdman.

- Despite the fact that jokke sommer is our closest thing

To superman that we have, somebody is gunning

For his extreme sport throne.

And that guy is luke aikins.

- Luke aikins is nuts.

I mean, what he pulls off in 2016

Is the ultimate skydiving commitment.

on July 30th, 2016,

Luke prepares to jump out

Of a plane flying 25,000 feet above simi valley, california

And land in a net, all without a parachute.

- My whole life's been dedicated to skydiving

And pushing the boundaries.

- It's a square net that stands 200 feet off the ground.

It's a hundred foot by a hundred feet.

- From five miles above the earth,

You can't see a 100-by-100 net.

So you literally are taking a leap of faith.

This is a one and done.

at 5:45 pm luke jumps, beginning his descent

Towards superhuman glory or a tragic death.

- There is zero room for error in a stunt like this.

- By straightening his body or moving his arm slightly,

He can adjust his trajectory, but he is hurtling

Through space, which means that the smallest correction

Can send him miles off course.

- The two companions that are diving with him

Pull their rip cords, and now it's just him.

as he nears his target at 120 miles an hour,

There's one final thing that he must pull off.

- Just before he hits the net he has to flip himself over

In order to land properly so that his back

Doesn't bend the wrong way.

- If he comes straight into it,

The impact will snap his spine in half.

- For me, it was terrifying and I still have trouble

Watching it.

That's the new bar. You can never go back.

- This is a superhuman achievement

Accomplished by a normal human being.

And yet you could almost tear this from a comic book.

It's that incredible.

- Some amongst us push the limits of what's possible,

Whether it's through strength, power of the mind,

Pure talent or unshakeable courage,

All of these super humans are truly unbelievable.

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