The drone operator who flew the crazy stunts in the Bryant Lake Bowl viral video has a Duluth connection. Jay Christensen attended the University of Minnesota Duluth.

“The one thing that institution brought to me was a sense of working with people and community,” he said in a short WDSE-TV video for its series The Slice. “Honestly, I owe Duluth and UMD my life for that for sure.”

Christensen operates Rally Studios in Minneapolis. The Bryant Lake Bowl video, embedded below, accumulated 1.7 million views in its first 10 days on YouTube.