Hi I'am Syam Kumar

"Falling from the sky felt like rising above every limitation life placed on me."Skydiving wasn't just a sport it was a statement. In November 2023, I became the youngest person to complete a solo skydive from 13,000 ft with a prosthetic leg. That moment in freefall, where gravity surrendered and silence roared, was when I realized: the sky is no longer the limit it's my home. For someone who once spent more time in hospital beds than classrooms, this was freedom in its purest form. Every second I spent up there reminded me that I was never meant to be grounded by fear or disability. Skydiving taught me to let go of doubt, of pity, of everything that ever told me "you can't." Now, I'm training for even higher jumps, aiming for a record breaking 45,000 ft leap. Because the only direction I've ever wanted to go is up.

"Every pedal stroke became a silent rebellion—a refusal to be defined by pain."Before the sky, there was the road. I turned to cycling at a time when my body was breaking down kidney failure, infections, surgeries. But I kept moving. I rode 230 km in just 12 hours, and later embarked on a 1,000 km solo journey, carrying not just my prosthetic leg, but the weight of everything I had survived. Cycling gave me rhythm when life felt chaotic. It became my escape and my training ground. It was on those long rides through Kerala's roads and hills that I rebuilt my stamina, my courage, and my belief in what's possible. For me, cycling wasn't just a sport it was resistance. Against illness. Against limitation. Against every time I was told to "slow down." I didn't. I never will.