It was only a few years ago that the Kluge Athlete Machine video from Red Bull dropped, and I haven’t heard or thought about it since. That’s either a comment on the constant onslaught of media we’re being bombarded with on an hourly basis these days, or the never-ending deluge of sheer uncontainable awesomeness that always seems to be bursting out of Red Bull’s seams. In any case, this video is too cool to fall into obscurity. Let’s have another look.

When this video came out, I happened to be writing content for Red Bull on the side. I interviewed Robbie Maddison about this video, and he said it was the strangest shoot he’d been part of. Turns out he’d never even done the jump in the video until that day.

“The jump that they wanted me to do over the building had never been done before, and it was lucky that I had that ramp left over from New Year’s. I unbolted half of the ramp and used the first section of it to boost me up six stories up over the top of the building and down onto that giant landing. It kind of evolved, too. Originally I was just supposed to jump over that building, then we thought about doing the ramp-to-ramp to where I could backflip it. It went really good, and I managed to pull it off. It took me about five times to get over it smoothly. It was a lot of fun seeing it all come together and seeing that whole machine work.”

Yep, no big deal, just modify the ramp to boost you over a big building—and, you know, throw in a backflip for fun, I guess. Rhys Millen’s part, although it didn’t involve leaving the ground, wasn’t easy, either. In fact, the stunt driver they hired while waiting for Millen to arrive couldn’t even do it cleanly. But when Millen arrived, he did it on the first take.

“The guy that stood in for him [Millen] just could not do it at all,” Maddison said. “I was thinking, ‘This is going to be tough for Rhys!’ He had to go through this ten-foot-wide track, and to go through the whole thing without hitting a Tuff Block seemed like it would be impossible. The driver that stood in for Rhys could not make it work at all, but when Rhys showed up the next day, he did it on his very first take. It was really impressive to see that level of driving and how precise he is.”

Add in the other parts from some of the world’s most talented athletes, and you’ve got one of the coolest—and strangest—videos of the last several years.