the sky is the limit a sentence that we
normally use to say there is no limits
for what we can achieve and when while I
was a child I took it literally I think
to be like Superman I tried hard but as
you can see the plane was not as what I
expected I even used to wear glasses
when I was 8 years old like Clark Kent
but I discover that no Mara was strong I
could not have Superman’s superpowers
like speeds like the x-ray and above all
I could not fly so the closet sing of
flying because human beings are not made
to fly a skydiving when we are
free-falling
we have a sensation of completely
freedom and compared to everyone we are
free-falling with we have control of our
movements 360 degrees so we have the
sensation of flying I discovered that in
my own town I could take two options or
I do a tandem jump or I do a training to
be autonomous skydiver in a tandem jump
which is the thing that we normally do
we are a passage here we are taken by
someone who is technically doing the
jump is the one that is in the driver’s
seat we are like in a car the only
difference is that we have a guy
breathing down your neck doing the
entire journey which is not sometimes
comfortable so I decided for the second
option to be an autumn skydiver I choose
the skydiving school and at the
scheduled day then I was prepared to
have this training I took the technical
parts the ground exercises and the day
of my first channel came I we keep
myself I put all the gears parachutes
all the altie meters everything and
I entered in a plane and when we were
climbing I had the opportunity to enjoy
the view below all the trees the small
houses cars likes everything and the
faces of my skydivers colleagues and I
discover that we have two types of
skydivers the crazy and Epione guy the
guys that do a lot of jokes and jokes
like for example hey guys if you are at
the door and freak out please don’t say
no because we might hear like girl and
we run and jump and the other ones the
guys with very pale faces who either
yellow smile thinking maybe this is not
a good idea after all
I also noticed that below below No above
the door there were two sets of lights a
red one and a green one the red light
usually switched on when we reach the
14,000 feet a safe a safe altitude to
jump at that time we hear a loud two
minutes to jump and everyone changes
their faces all the skydivers start
checking and double-checking all the
gears the left and also the joke stops
and are replaced by serious faces and
the other ones they replace fear for
Terror at that moment starts reviewing
mentally my jump and I thought maybe
I’m ready or not well let’s let me ask
to one of my instructors look do you
think I learned everything right do you
think I’m ready to jump and the guy
smile at me and said you are about to
it’s not a very comfortable situation
and feeling so the green light switches
on and the jumpmaster runs to the door
opens the door and makes a signal for me
to go to the door there I was ready to
jump that was the moment of truth the
moment where I had to decide it do I
jump or do I stay on the plane I had two
instructors by my sights because they
were going to follow me doing the entire
jump in the free fall part but I had to
decide if I took the risk or not because
I didn’t knew I didn’t know what I was
expecting was completely new for me so I
had to take a decision because the time
to jump was passing away going by I took
a deep breath I count three two jump and
then I was in the air flying at that
moment at the moment of maximum danger
was the moment of least fear
I was completely thrilled I was in with
the sensation completely well impossible
to describe all the fear all the anxiety
everything was gone I was relaxed calm
almost like everything slowed down by
one thousand times I was completely
aware of everything around me these
structures the landscape what I had to
do everything and I had new ideas which
is strange but I was completely calm 60
seconds after I opened my parachute and
there I was in the air with literally
d’lai with the life in my hands and I
flew my parachutes to the spot I decided
where I decided to land when I arrived
to the ground
I looked up and and I thought well I was
14,000 feet up in the sky I jumped out
of a plane I achieved a speed of 230
kilometers per hour with my body I land
safely and I’m alive by the way with a
smile that disappear for two weeks but I
made it I had my life in my hands and
I’m alive and you might think oh this
guy is crazy just by thinking of jumping
out of a plane I’m already scared and
you are right we are not made to do
things that scare us things that are
dangers things that put our life at risk
I don’t jump for the adrenaline knows
there is no skydivers that jump for the
adrenaline a skydiver gems to feel the
sensation of flying of freedom it’s
something that no one here in the ground
can feel also I don’t jump to die I jump
to live I tend to feel the total control
of everything I do have been the sky
because no matter what everything
depends on me if I’m afraid to die of
course I am but I’m more afraid not
leaving I want to take the
responsibility of everything I do and
I’m willing to take that risk and how
about you do you take risks on your
daily life because if we need to do
things that we want to take decisions in
our business in our life we have to take
risks and sometimes we have a fall
sensation of safety of course no one
here in the room thinks let’s go in
skydiving but we do things that are more
dangerous than skydiving we take
decisions that put our life and the ones
that we know at risk without thinking
about them so the chances are that
you most of you have completely normal
lives like me and you don’t have these
crazy adventures or impressing things
that you might do and it’s okay but you
can do things also many things if you
understand what are the value that you
have what are the knowledge you have
inside of you what are your limitations
and you are willing to take the risks
you can do anything what we need to do
is basically to look inside us and
understand what are our strengths
understand our environment and if
everything depends on us take the risk I
don’t quit
I prepare myself I define my goals and I
jump during the jump
I enjoy the rides until I reach the end
in skydiving and in life in general so I
define I challenge you to think if you
have your dreams
14,000 feets away or more
don’t say I can do anything the sky’s
the limit if it’s all on you if it all
depends on you prepare yourself apply
your knowledge look to things from a
different perspective and think that the
sky is not the limit it’s just the
starting point [Applause]