Built by people who jump what they make.
Antoine
Antoine has been BASE jumping since 2010, with over 1,600 jumps, mostly as a tracker. He built his first tracksuit before his first cliff jump — after meeting a BASE jumper training at his home dropzone, and pushed on by a fellow tinkerer friend, he sewed a one-piece tracksuit at a time when nothing like it existed on the market yet.
Since then he's built every piece of his own gear himself, short of the canopy: wingsuits, integrated harness, long harness, short harness, pilot chutes — refining the builds every year. The same drive led him into paragliding, where his first flight was on a wing he'd built himself. He's since built two more, and is currently planning a parakite build for next year.
Björn
Björn has owned SBK Base in Lysebotn for the past two years, and it's his venue that hosts the workshop. Like Antoine, he's a hands-on maker at heart — welding, mechanics, woodworking, electronics, whatever the project calls for.
Beyond the workshop space itself, Björn brings a wide range of wood and metalworking tools to the sessions, available for participants' builds alongside the sewing setup.
Lysebotn is one of Norway's most iconic BASE jumping locations — a fjord-side site where exit points, workshop and landing sit within reach of each other. It's a fitting home for a workshop built around the idea that gear should be tested where it matters: on exit.
LOCATION: Lysebotn, Norway
TERRAIN: fjord, cliff, water