Skydiving anyone?

[hunter4life]

I know this is a snake forum but I did the coolest thing of my life on the 29th..and it was skydiving! I just wanted to share on how cool of an experience it was to me, and wanted to know if anyone else has skydived or is going to in the future? :) I liked it so much I paid for another tandem in September and next season I have it paid for to get my AFF (Accelerated Free Fall) License! Here is a video of me jumping, this is one I slightly edited (just edited out the interviews they did of me) and put it to Radioactive by Imagine Dragons! Me Tandem Skydiving :D - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3mgHLexEe0)

this is the one they did for me if you guys want to see it
Tandem Skydiving! - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkgwndunfcA)

I've attached my favorite pictures from jumping, I have 62 pics of it all! The place I went to was called Midwest Freefall in Michigan btw :)

[TeaNinja]

awesome. i remember when my brother went skydiving. he said the scariest part was winding up in circles in the plane to gain altitude with the door open :P that would freak me out lol.

[Starbuck]

i went about a year ago and it was incredible; its amazing how many different sensations you go through in such a quick period (vertigo, fear, awe, excitement, floating....)

I cant wait to go again, good luck with your AFF course!

[Abraxxos]

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Love skydiving. I recommend it for anybody. Absolutely in love with it over here. Still only doing tandems. I'm not confident enough to try AFF. I really want to but I think I want to increase my strength before I try it.

[sweatshirt]

Awesomeee! I would love to try it one day. I'm kind of a wimp...

[hunter4life]

Awesomeee! I would love to try it one day. I'm kind of a wimp...

It really isn't that scary! You really should, I feel like since I've gone I've been missing out on something so awesome in my life and now I'm doing it a lot! I'm going in September and then in October in Chicago! It will be fun :)

[hunter4life]

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Love skydiving. I recommend it for anybody. Absolutely in love with it over here. Still only doing tandems. I'm not confident enough to try AFF. I really want to but I think I want to increase my strength before I try it.

Love the pics, looks great! It was so fun and exhilarating to go, and I think AFF is totally for me! I've got the money and everything but season is coming to a close inOctober so I may just wait till spring so I can go all summer!

[hunter4life]

i went about a year ago and it was incredible; its amazing how many different sensations you go through in such a quick period (vertigo, fear, awe, excitement, floating....)

I cant wait to go again, good luck with your AFF course!

Thanks! I just can't get enough of it so I need my license, so much cheaper to jump once I have it haha :)

And TeaNinja, we had our door open for a bit, it got hot in there being in August..it was interesting to have it open to listen to the wind roar past it!

[EL Ziggy]

That was an awesome video.Skydiving is definitely on my to do list. I love the thought of flying and free falling. Thanks for sharing .

[poison123]

I like to think that I'm not scared of many things but falling helplessly to my death is one of them. You guys are crazy! Nice pic though.

[EL Ziggy]

I like to think that I'm not scared of many things but falling helplessly to my death is one of them. You guys are crazy! Nice pic though.

That's what the parachute is for. So we don't go splatt!:shocked:

[poison123]

That's what the parachute is for. So we don't go splatt!:shocked:

Ever seen star treck? lol

[Abraxxos]

Ever seen star treck? lol Oh god, now I'm going to be paranoid about Romulans every time I jump now. >_>

[hunter4life]

That was an awesome video.Skydiving is definitely on my to do list. I love the thought of flying and free falling. Thanks for sharing .

You're welcome! Thanks for enjoying it, everytime I watch it I get chills when I jump! :) It's just so fun!

I like to think that I'm not scared of many things but falling helplessly to my death is one of them. You guys are crazy! Nice pic though.

As El-Ziggy said..we have a parachute for that lol but I mean skydiving is inherently dangerous so something could go wrong, but for as long as MidWest Freefall has been doing this, they only had an engine problem and people jumped early.

That's what the parachute is for. So we don't go splatt!:shocked:

haha yes I'm glad I didn't go splat! :crazy:

[RandyRhoads]

I did AFF about 4 years ago but never got my A license. If you do complete AFF make SURE you get your 25 in for your A license or after a while you will loose it all and have to start over.

A couple months ago I decided to finish up and get my A license. Called a place local and they said you have to start over with a tandem jump. I told them to piss off I'm not paying to be strapped to a guy having several solo jumps under my belt. They just wanted the extra money.

Once I get taxed out on some more closer hobbies I'm going to go for broke and drop several grand on about 150 jumps and start wing suiting. The problem with all this is it is so damned expensive.

[Abraxxos]

I did AFF about 4 years ago but never got my A license. If you do complete AFF make SURE you get your 25 in for your A license or after a while you will loose it all and have to start over.

A couple months ago I decided to finish up and get my A license. Called a place local and they said you have to start over with a tandem jump. I told them to piss off I'm not paying to be strapped to a guy having several solo jumps under my belt. They just wanted the extra money.

Once I get taxed out on some more closer hobbies I'm going to go for broke and drop several grand on about 150 jumps and start wing suiting. The problem with all this is it is so damned expensive.

I'd recommend Skydive, DeLand if you're ever in Florida. They don't force you to jump tandem, but if you don't have your AFF stuff, you have to sign a bunch of waivers. If you have experience though, it won't be a problem. They also do wingsuit training according to the site.

[hunter4life]

I did AFF about 4 years ago but never got my A license. If you do complete AFF make SURE you get your 25 in for your A license or after a while you will loose it all and have to start over.

A couple months ago I decided to finish up and get my A license. Called a place local and they said you have to start over with a tandem jump. I told them to piss off I'm not paying to be strapped to a guy having several solo jumps under my belt. They just wanted the extra money.

Once I get taxed out on some more closer hobbies I'm going to go for broke and drop several grand on about 150 jumps and start wing suiting. The problem with all this is it is so damned expensive.

My whole course costs $1,300 for the class and all my jumps, so paying all that up front I will have my license after my last level of jumps :)

[Abraxxos]

I like to think that I'm not scared of many things but falling helplessly to my death is one of them. You guys are crazy! Nice pic though.

My boyfriend feels very similarly. He see's no point in 'jumping out of a perfectly good plane'. In my opinion, you never know when you're plane is going to go bad, it's best to have the experience in skydiving and parachuting in case **** hits the fan. I'm a very paranoid person and I personally hate planes and I'm pretty sure I'm having minor panic attacks over every bump and jiggle as you fly upwards but once I'm out of the plane I'm just.... Happy. And Chill. And you can't worry about things. I found I had the literal inability to worry about anything while falling because once you're out of the plane, there isn't a point in worrying. It's very relaxing and exhilarating at the same time.

[RandyRhoads]

My whole course costs $1,300 for the class and all my jumps, so paying all that up front I will have my license after my last level of jumps :)

AFF is normally 7 -10 classes. A license is 25 jumps. For 1,300 they are taking you on 25 jumps as part of the class??

[Freebody]

i did a small course and did couple solo jumps a little over 5k feet years ago, it is amazing, i am going to continue getting back in shape and by next year i think im going to do the AFF course and pay for all the jumps for the licence. Grats on your jump!!

[poison123]

Oh god, now I'm going to be paranoid about Romulans every time I jump now. >_>

Who do you think was driving the plane? If you look closely you can see him trying to shoot holes through your parachute.

[RandyRhoads]

i did a small course and did couple solo jumps a little over 5k feet years ago, it is amazing, i am going to continue getting back in shape and by next year i think im going to do the AFF course and pay for all the jumps for the licence. Grats on your jump!!

5k feet?!?!? What was it a static jump?? That's like BASE jumping out of a plane. I'm guessing you deployed almost instantly or it was static and auto deployed upon exiting?

[Freebody]

[QUOTE=RandyRhoads;868090]5k feet?!?!? What was it a static jump?? That's like BASE jumping out of a plane. I'm guessing you deployed almost instantly or it was static and auto deployed upon exiting?[/QUOTE


the jump master layed on the bar that supports the wing, and I climbed out on the landing gear and reached over and hung off the bar the master was laying on, and hes holding my pilot shoot in his hand. ya as I open my hand and fall off the btm of the plane buddy tosses my pilot shoot, so the only free falling is the time it takes to pull my shoot out of my pack, very exciting but I want some free fall, I had a mic to hear the ground direct me back in. my second jump the corner of my shoot on one side was not openend, I had to pull on my straps over my shoulders apart a couple times, looked back up and and it finally rolled open, and we were rocking and rolling, felt like eternity tho, we had another jumper in the day had the same thing, a few planes loads before me, and the jump master ended up actually having to pull his emergency shoot just before my second jump of the day. here they teach us a 1/5 chance of having something go not as planned, from small glitches like my case to full out main shoot failure, and sure enough at the end of the night the count was pretty much on, 3 problems out of about 10, each doing 2 jumps that day. But ya Basically base jumping out of the airplane now that you mention it.

[hunter4life]

AFF is normally 7 -10 classes. A license is 25 jumps. For 1,300 they are taking you on 25 jumps as part of the class??

Yes they are!

[guidofatherof5]

Did my first jump in 1990. Never had the money to continue. Loved it.