this is an honor. i feel like i'm meeting one of the wright brothers in the garage where flight was invented. >> somewhere flying around the world. >> back in the '80s he was another kiwi ski bump when his buddy a.j. hackett said i have an idea. he'd seen a tribal witchual called land diving and he wanted to duplicate that rush with rubber bands and a bridge. >> we threw a bag of potatoes off first so we knew it was safe before we subjected ourself. and we brought our friends and saw this transformation in people absolutely terrified. and they came out if to a state of elation. it was pretty hard to replicate. >> after experimenting with higher, higher jumps, they decided to make an international splash off a certain tower in