In 2012, in La Guajira, Colombia, he set four Guinness World Records: longest time in freefall (9 mins and 6 secs), longest horizontal distance (26.257km or 16.31 miles), highest wingsuit jump (11.358km or 37,265ft), longest total distance (28.163km or 17.5 miles). Jhonathan, a native of Medellín, Colombia, now lives in Sacramento, California, and is the current gold medallist in the World Wingsuit League (WWL). You can do either skydiving or Base jumping with a wingsuit,” he says. Wingsuiting is not a sport: wingsuiting is a sub-discipline of each one of these sports. Skydives are always performed from a helicopter or plane, while Base jumps are from a cliff or fixed object. This is skydive proximity flying, also known as wingsuit flying. Jhonathan’s goal is to drop down and into a valley, below the treeline, and fly at 127mph – terminal velocity – while using his feet as rudders to steer. He accelerates, arches his chest and climbs slowly, then heads down toward a mountainside. Air fills the chambers in his suit and causes him to go from dropping to floating in a Batman-esque display. He dives, his black-winged arms pulled inward until he clears the plane he extends his arms, pivots his shoulders forward and spreads his webbed legs.
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