Jimmy Pouchert

Nick name: Unpronounceable

Born: Oct. 12th, 1966

Height: 6’

Weight: 175 lbs.

Hair: Brown

Eyes: Brown

Home (Drop Zone): Moab, Utah

Describe your character: I’m out to have a good time. If I’m not laughing, then I’m asleep.

Air sport, when and where did you start: I started skydiving in 1991, started BASE in 1998. I now have about 4,000 skydives and 800 BASE jumps.

Fame: Did a reverse bungee for Stunt Junkies. Member of Perris Valley Structure Fire freefly team for about 5 years. Various shows teaching people how to BASE jump- racecar driver Gunnar Jeannette on MTV’s Real Life, National Geographic’s ”The Adventurist” teaching the host Joby Ogwyn.

First flight: I had made my own wingsuit in about 1997 out of my RW suit from pictures that I were published in some magazine about Patrick’s suit and ended up at a boogie in Hawaii with Patrick DeGuyardon himself. I showed him my suit and asked if he thought that I would die jumping it or if it was ok. He said it looked ok and I asked if he would go fly with me? He looked me up and down, thought a moment, and said, ”why not”? So my first wingsuit flight was with the original master through cloud valleys above the island of Oahu.

Most memorable flight: The first one with Patrick and the Eiger.

Longest (BASE) flight: The Eiger

Why do you jump: Not an option. Have to.

What do you still want to do in the air: Now BASE wingsuiting is all that I can think about. Not to set any records or impress anyone or do better than anyone, just to see the visuals that wingsuiting allows humans. It’s different watching a video and seeing something with your own eyes. BASE jumping a wingsuit changed my perspective forever.

Your advise to somebody who wants to get started: Take your time. What’s the rush?

Greatest aviation accomplishment of all time: Don’t really have one, I tried to invent the airplane one time, but they already had a bunch.

I want to give thanks to: My wife Marta, for giving me the knowlege not to kill myself and for having the nicest butt I have ever seen.

I fly: The S3 and Blade

Other sponsors: Go Fast

Testimonial (about BIRDMAN): Best suits out there for quality workmanship.

My web site: www.apexbase.com

B.A.S.E. jumping: 550 + jumps

Skydiving: 3500+ jumps, former member of the Freefly/Canopy team Perris Valley Structure Fire, US Team Member of “Extreme Air” Endurance/Adventure competition in South Africa in 2002, Member of the BASE jumping team that jumped into Super Bowl XXXVIII, Primary Talent for 2006 Stunt Junkies “Reverse Bungee/BASE” Show on Discovery Channel.

Bungee jumping: 150 Bungee jumps. Started bungee jumping with Martin Tilley in 1999.

Best bungee to date: 800 feet down into the Royal Gorge canyon from a suspension bridge during the Go Fast Games in 2005.

Licenses: USPA, Sport Skydiving D (Master) license, Skydiving PRO Rating holder, Senior Parachute Rigger.

Business: Co-owner of Vertigo Base Outfitters from 2000 until 2004, Moab, Utah. An air sports rigging company. Co-owner of Apex BASE from 2004 until present time, Moab, Utah and Perris, CA. An air sports rigging company.

Skydiving awards:

• 2nd Place Eloy Money Meet Freefly Competition
• 2nd Place Skydive Cross Keys Freefly Competition
• 2nd Place Overall Men’s Blade Running Individual
• 1st Place Team Event Blade Running Pairs
• 1st Place Team Event Blade Running Quads
• 1st Place Daddy Phats award at Flyboyz Film Festival, Perris, CA

Television:

• 2007- National Geographic’s “The Adventurist” on camera BASE instructor for host
• 2007- Discovery Channel “Stunt Junkies” Marta Empinotti semi-truck BASE jump-talent/aerial cameraman
• 2006- Discovery Channel “Stunt Junkies” Reverse Bungee/BASE Jump-talent
• 2005- HDTV “Pit of the Swallows, starring Dean Potter”-Interview
• 2004- BASE jump into the Super Bowl during Aerosmith performance
• 2003- Continuum 2 DVD Prominent talent/interview
• 2002- Endurance/Adventure Competition in South Africa
• 2001- “BASE Climb II” documentary (Cameraman-Italy and U.S.)
• 2000- “You Gotta See This” (Cameraman and Talent)
• 1999- TLC Documentary- “Out of the Blue”
• 1998- History Channel “History of Parachuting”(Talent)
• 1997- “The Mercenary” (Talent)

Print press:

• 2006 Several articles in Malaysia concerning the BASE Tour of Malaysia
• 2005 Sports Illustrated Extreme Sports Calendar September Picture
• 1995-2005 Numerous articles and Pictures in Skydiving Magazine

Events organized:

• 2005 Fourth of July Plaza Casino BASE Jump, NV, Go Fast Games, CO, The Turkey Boogie, UT, Angel Falls, Venezuela
• 2004 Go Fast Games, CO and The Apex BASE Turkey Boogie, UT
• 2003 Go Fast Games, CO and The Vertigo Base Outfitter’s Turkey Boogie, UT
• 2002 Bridge Day, WV and The Vertigo Base Outfitter’s Turkey Boogie, UT
• 2001 The Vertigo Base Outfitter’s Turkey Boogie, UT
• 2000 Structure Fire Swoop Competition

Demonstration jumps:

• 2005 Skydive into Moab Fat Tire Mountain Bike Competition II
• 2004 Skydive into Moab Fat Tire Mountain Bike Competition
• 2004 BASE Jump into Superbowl XXXVIII
• 2004 BASE jump from the Plaza Hotel 4th of July Event in downtown Las Vegas
• 2003 BASE jump from Petronas Tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• 2002 4th of July Skydive into Redlands Stadium, CA
• 2001 4th of July Skydive into Redlands Stadium, CA
• 2000 Skydive into Gunnison, CO Airshow
• 1999 Skydive into Aspen Airshow

Rigging jobs:

• 2005 “The Courier” Pilot made for Television Film – Parachute Rigger
• 2002 “Austin Powers in Goldmember” Primary Parachute Rigger
• 2001 “BASE Climb II” Parachute Rigger
• 2000 “Charlie’s Angels” Parachute Rigger

Best jumps: Sotano de Las Golondrinas(the 1,200 foot deep cave in Mexico), El Capitan -Yosemite, California, Petronas towers, Malaysia, Circus Circus in Las Vegas, Mt. Brento in Italy.

Hobbies: Snowboarding, Rock Climbing, SCUBA diving, Mountain Biking, Powered Hang Gliding.

Who is Jimmy Pouchert

Jimmy Pouchert (pronounced Powchert) moved to Perris California after snowboarding full time for 5 years in Colorado. He moved to Perris to focus on skydiving. During the 5 years he spent in Perris at one of the world’s largest dropzones, he was sponsored by the dropzone to train with his team, Perris Valley Structure Fire.

The team’s main focuses were freeflying and canopy swooping. Jimmy worked as an instructor for the Flyboyz freefly school. He also got his parachute rigging license from the F.A.A. and worked full time at the parachute loft on the dropzone.

While doing a freefly seminar in Hawaii, Jimmy met Marta and they became fast friends. Eventually Marta moved to Perris, and their relationship became serious. Getting married and moving Marta’s longtime business, Vertigo Base Outfitters to Moab, Utah was the beginning of an incredible journey.

Vertigo and Basic Research merged in 2004, becoming the largest BASE manufacturer in the world – Apex BASE. Jimmy and Marta are in charge of BASE -courses and events, as well as test jumping in Utah, while Apex Perris has taken over production.

It is difficult to find Jimmy without a smile on his face. Recently, Jimmy has appeared in several television productions with the most recent being two shows for Discovery Channel’s Stunt Junkies. Jimmy was the primary talent – he reverse-bungeed 400 feet into the air in a narrow canyon, released himself from the bungee and BASE jumped back to safety on the ground.

The second Stunt Junkie show was Jimmy’s wife Marta BASE jumping from the top of a moving semi truck, as it travelled across the Forest Hill bridge in Auburn California.