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When fear suddenly returns to extreme sports you thought you'd mastered

I've been base jumping for three years and yesterday I froze on the exit point for the first time ever, just stood there shaking while my buddies jumped without me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The body's wisdom is reasserting itself against the mind's false confidence in its invulnerability.

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