Some moments are so impactful they can split your life in two — there's before it happens, and everything that comes after...

For skydivers Lucch and Ben, that moment came in mid-air over Byron Bay, when a routine jump went catastrophically wrong. A shocking collision in freefall obliterated Ben's leg, and knocked Lucch unconscious, sending him cartwheeling thousands of feet toward the ground and almost certain death...

Miraculously, Lucch survived, but what followed was the hardest chapter of Ben's life, as he reckoned not only with the brutal road to physical recovery, but also the trauma, guilt and identity loss that came with it.

They've emerged from this life altering event with a remarkable story to tell and important mental health message to share with the world.

It's all captured in their new documentary called Impact — which is yet to be publicly released.

This is Mark Lucchiari and Ben Lucock...

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Teenage boys are growing up in a world where manhood is being put under the microscope and redefined in real time.

The mixed messages are everywhere — be strong, but vulnerable; speak up, but don’t say the wrong thing; just be yourself, but only if you fit the mould...

And while adult voices dominate the conversation on how young men should behave, very few are actually asking boys what they think and feel.

18-year-old Jesse has been doing just that...As a member of White Ribbon Australia's youth advisory group, he's spent the past few years helping shape how issues like respect, masculinity and consent are spoken about with young people.

We explore the quiet conflict young men face — the pressure to live up to an image that's not who you are: and the mass appeal of the ‘alpha male’ narrative'.

From everything labelled 'toxic', to missing the point entirely, from peer dynamics to the search for meaning, this is a perspective on what it’s actually like to grow up as a teenage boy today — and what to do when the world’s telling you who to be.

This is Jesse Rothgrew...

In Australia, around 1.5 million men report lifting weights regularly, with countless young guys in their teens, twenties and beyond structuring their lifestyle around building their body in the gym.

For many, the gym is a safe haven providing structure, growth and community providing huge physical and mental health benefits. But there is a dark side… with research showing one in ten gym-going men may experience muscle dysmorphia, a body image disorder based on an obsession with not being muscular enough.

The dramatic rise of young fitness influencers, and constant exposure to extreme, often steroid-enhanced physiques on social media, has raised the standard of what’s now considered impressive to heights that would’ve been unthinkable a few decades ago. Making it harder and harder for young men to separate their expectations from what’s realistically attainable.

For gym rats, bodybuilders, and teenagers just starting their fitness journeys, the drive to get bigger and leaner can easily become all consuming if not tempered with a healthy perspective.

Oli and Rayan are 21-year-old natural bodybuilders prepping to compete for the first time. Their journey started like many others — as overweight school boys chasing confidence and control. Years later, they’ve built the bodies they used to wish they had, but it’s hard to love the way you are when the goal posts keep moving.

This is Oli Wright and Rayan Abou-Hamdan.