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Settle down Daisher.

History:

“If at first you don’t succeed, BASE jumping is not for you,” cautions Miles Daisher with his signature laugh. Miles has succeeded at BASE jumping more than 2,485 times – unofficially more than anyone else on the planet. “You’ve got to keep yourself physically strong and mentally awake,” he says. “You need to practice safety and good healthy lifestyles.” The athlete’s fitness was put to the test in 2005, when he set a BASE jumping “hike and huck” record by launching fifty-seven times in a single day, climbing a total of nearly 29,000 vertical feet to do so. “That’s almost Everest!” he exclaims. “And I'm talking from the beach to the top, not from base camp!”

Like all Red Bull Air Force athletes, Miles excels in a variety of disciplines. He has logged over 2,400 skydives, and he can’t get enough of the new wingsuit technology. Always amped, in his earthbound moments Miles even writes songs about airsports, like the rap he composed called “Living the Dream Falling.”

A United States Air Force brat well before he joined the RBAF, Miles grew up on military bases, which is how he was able to win a U.K. wrestling championship and pole vault title. Back in the States, he took his first solo skydive at age 25 and made his first BASE jump two years later. With a competitive nature that urges him to “win at everything, even when no one else is competing,” Miles soon was making a living at the sport he loved best. Today, the 39-year-old teaches others how to fly at Miles D’s BASE Camp in Twin Falls, Idaho; and he and his wife Nikki, proud parents of two girls, also organize the annual Perrine Bridge Festival to raise money for special needs kids. Miles is stoked pretty much all the time. (“If I’m not on fire going a million miles an hour, I’m sleeping, resting up for the next cool moment in time,” he comments.) And two of the things he’s most stoked about are working with his wingsuit and shooting footage for the new “Human Flight: 3D” movie. “Flying in a squirrel (wing) suit is totally surreal,” he announces. “You’re falling, but zooming forward so fast that time slows down. It’s like…like ‘Rocky and Bullwinkle!’” As for the film, it’s going to dazzle audiences with “the most amazing footage,” Miles declares, practically bouncing out of his chair as he counts off a brilliant list of worldwide locations. “People are going to feel like they’re right in the harness with us!”