You should try it once in a lifetime and you will love the experience.
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You should try it once in a lifetime and you will love the experience.
Absolutely do it. I’d recommend doing it at a time in life that feels “right”. Only you can know when this is.
I had wanted to do it for a while, was about to move. Went on my birthday.
Try to go from as high as possible. Once you’re up there, it goes by so fast. I went from 18,000 ft.
I HATE heights, can’t do a baby ropes course. But, for some reason, wasn’t nervous at all to step out of plane. I even asked my instructor to do a flip out as we ascended to spice it up.
Once we were out, I was shit scared. Felt out of control, turns out we sort of were bc instructor was smaller than me. But after one minute of falling, I realized I probably wouldn’t feel it if we had a chute failure. I calmed down, and enjoyed. Try to accept that you have little control, and let life do its thing.
Lots of parallels to scary firsts on skis. The fucking best feelings.
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That can be interpreted a couple of different ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cupulate
Re: Lodi--since the last post about them there have been several more deaths including a tandem with an uncertified instructor and the recent death where a woman hit a semi on the freeway. My son jumps there and says the general standard is poor--many people who jump there have poor canopy control skills. He took a canopy control course there and said the instructor passed everyone, even though most of the class had poor skills. He sometimes jumps with AF pararescue jumpers so I assume he has the knowledge to judge.