Skydiving

[Noah]

In all honesty, why you hatin on the kids that are more involved with the thrilling side of life?

This is exactly the kind of bullshit I'm sure Gen referred to. You're saying that like jumping out of airplanes is the only ways of getting proper thrills in life, and that if you don't you have no thrills.

There's tons of things I'd rather do than skydiving, but I admit I'd like to try it once, but it is FAR from being on the top of my list.

[genocidal]

Agreed, Noah. Like I said, I've done it and it's fun but it's nothing to pee your pants over.

Why did someone let Xog's ban expire?

[Xog]

This is exactly the kind of bullshit I'm sure Gen referred to. You're saying that like jumping out of airplanes is the only ways of getting proper thrills in life, and that if you don't you have no thrills.

There's tons of things I'd rather do than skydiving, but I admit I'd like to try it once, but it is FAR from being on the top of my list.

No, I'm not saying "like jumping out of airplanes is the only ways of getting proper thrills in life, and that if you don't you have no thrills."
What I'm saying is he made a very bland generalization on all skydivers based on a single experience he had. In no way am I saying if you don't skydive you're a lame pos.

Agreed, Noah. Like I said, I've done it and it's fun but it's nothing to pee your pants over.

some people pee.

edit: and for clarification, when I said "why u hatin on the kids that are more involved with the thrilling side of life" i meant it as that. It's true, they most likely are involved with the more thrilling side of life if they skydive. A "boring" person won't be out skydiving like them, so I don't know how you could categorize them as boring unless you are hatin.

Suffice to say, I never said you don't enjoy thrills.

[Bioture]

some people pee.

I feel bad for the dude whos gonna be attached to me then.

[duel pasta]

ask fit of rage he did it last month i think, he even made a video for it on youtube

[Fit of Rage]

I was just about to say:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYqmwJRey6A

It was awesome. Highly recommended. It's an expensive hobby, so do it for a birthday or other special event. I'm going with my roommates at the end of this year to celebrate getting my master's degree.

[Adman]

So... I'm not dead!

This was ulitmately the time of my life...

My friend and I arrived at the dropzone around 7:30 and it was foggy as hell. But i figured after our training the fog would lift and we'd be set to go.

So we meet our trainer, and he was so hungover. He smelt of booze, but really it didn't bother me because i figured this guy says he has done over 1700 jumps and hasn't died yet. So i figure he's legit and if i die who cares anyways.

After all the training and waiting for the fog to clear we get all geared up and into the plane. Man i feel a little apprehension as we are climbing and the instructor is showing me his altimetre (sp?) periodically. When we get up to 5000 feet he straps himself to me, because a guy is jumping from 5000 feet for his solo certification. "Don't do anywhere without me okay?" he says, i don't respond because i'm getting a little nervous.

So the door closes and we continue the ascent. We get to about 10000 feet and he says "Great View eh?" I nod because i can't speak, i'm fucking nervous as hell. There's guys all around laughing and joking and high fiving and stuff. I look at my buddy and he's joking with his instructor.

As we near our height of 13000 feet i'm getting pretty nervous and the instructor checks the attachments for him to me. and he says "no turning back now! and remember to breathe." I smile and nod.

At the height of 13000 feet The solo jumpers all go and jump. The tandems are up next. Damn i'm really nervous, i think to myself. So There's this girl with another instructor infront of me. And as they are moving towards the door she starts having a major freakout!!!! Wailing, and i hear "ONE...TWO THREE!!!!" and her and her tandem partner are gone! I can't hear anything, then the entire group of people left in the plane start laughing hard!

I'm up next, shit i think to myself this is it. I'm done. My instructor Chad, who started chewing gum, so he doesn't just smells of liquor, it's minty now too, and i get up and walk to the door. More of a kind of shuffle, but whatever. So we stand up in the door. Chad says "Be cool, breathe, ready, set, GO!" he throws us out of the plane!

SHIT i'm falling to my death. I regain my bearings. This is arlgiht we're controlled, flying fast. We fell for about a minute, He taps me on the shoulders so i can grab my harness so he can open the chute. The chute flies open magestically! We're falling less fast now and we're talking like nothing! the harness around my right leg/groin is hurting me. But it's kind of cool. I feel a little light headed but i'm alright taking in the views. Chad hands me the toggles so he can adjust my leg strap so it doens't hurt anymore.

Ah much better. We float to the ground for 5 minutes or so just shooting the shit.

We land, kind of come in and slide on our butts. Soft landing. I'm so happy to be back on the ground. Chad unhooks us we sharke hands and start heading back in. My friend James and i meet up and high five and talk about our experience.

I hope you enjoyed my story

If you haven't tried skydiving, give it a go. If you're afraid to go by yourself. Go try a tandem jump Like we did. It's pretty much safer than driving a car to work in the morning.

Take care

[Ilya]

hey Allen

[Adman]

hey Allen

Hey Charlie!

[Cops]

awesome video fit

[Pandagirl!]

Not to bump an old thread... but I just got done skydiving! I did AFF (so I was by myself with an instructor on both sides).

I took a class at OSU, so I went to three 3-hour classes before my jump today. We left at 5am and got here around 7. They read off the order of jumpers and, of course, I was first. Got off the bus, suited up, discovered my instructor is someone I'll be working with at Nationwide this summer. Then there was just awhile of practicing and going through the motions.

Finally it was time to get on the plane. We're at about 2,000 feet when they performed my last equipment check before deployment. They check my gear... and oh! My automatic deployment device (for emergencies) has turned itself off! Back to the ground. We landed, I got off the plane, and apparently everyone thought the stupid blonde girl chickened out. FALSE. I wasn't going to interpret my equipment failing as a sign of God telling me not to jump. I got my equipment fixed, and was able to go up again in about an hour.

It was a little scary in the plane once they opened the door again, because this time I knew I'd actually be jumping. Getting in the door and looking out was even more scary. But yeah, I jumped, and my first thought was, "HOLY SHIT IT'S COLD!" Then, my radio decided to come undone, and it was bouncing around just hitting me in the face. It kind of threw me off for awhile. Finally I pulled my parachute, popped my ears, and enjoyed a nice, gentle ride back to the ground.

Overall, I'd recommend it. I never got nervous at all and didn't think it was scary. It was such a blast though.

Video will be forthcoming (my netbook doesn't have a DVD player).

[Twenty Four]

It was a little scary in the plane once they opened the door again, because this time I knew I'd actually be jumping. Getting in the door and looking out was even more scary.

Overall, I'd recommend it. I never got nervous at all and didn't think it was scary. It was such a blast though.

Contradict much?

[Pandagirl!]

I said a little scary, and more scary. It was never full scary though :flowers: Although, I was referring to the dive itself not being scary.

EDIT:
The stuff of me is from like 1:20-5:30

[Material Girl]

Wow, Panda you are sooo brave. B)

[Galleleo]

That introduction thingy sounded way too much like some terrible porn thing where they "pick" chicks up on the streets.