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Old 05-06-2013, 07:50 PM   #39
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Originally Posted by houstonwhodat View Post
I had a chance to go skydiving once with a radio DJ friend of mine. The whole jump was free too.

Had it all set up to jump out of a little Cessna type plane but I chickened out at the last minute.

I have no problem diving down 100ft with sharks but I'm scared as shit to jump out of an airplane.

I'm afraid I might piss or shit on myself.

How was your first jump????????
It was awsome. I started out on the static line. Once you jump out the rip cord is pulled for you so no free fall just flying the canopy down. After doing a couple static line jumps simulating pulling the rip cord, ( I acutally pulled a handle that wasn't attached to anything and I had to have it in hand when I landed.) I progessed through what they call hop and pops (no static line but no delay in pulling the rip cord either) to a few seconds of free fall I actually got up to 10 seconds.

Once you progress up to the 60 second freefall you were then required to do manuevers in the air. I never made it that far before I quit jumping.

My wife recently did a tandem jump that was a gift from her sister. She kept trying to get me to do it as well. I was not really interested in jumping with someone strapped to my back. Also I am the kind of person that when I get involved in things I usually go all out buying equipment and spending all my free time doing the thing until the next thing comes along. So I opted not to get hooked on skydiving.
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