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impulse!! 
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Have you seen the documentary about that bridge? Crazy stuff. |
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__sneaky__
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Posted: 20 November 2009 at 8:22am |
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FreeEnterprise
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Posted: 20 November 2009 at 9:28am |
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Man, the sky was amazing for those jumps. That last video was really good.
My friends are always trying to talk me into jumping out of a plane... But, I haven't yet.
One of my friends on his first jump had the instructor on his back and the instructor told him to hold his knees up on the landing...
But he was so syked up that he ended up running when he landed and jumping around all excited... Until he felt a tap on his shoulder and the instructor asking him to let him down (he is 6'7, and the guys feet wouldn't reach the ground).
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Tolgak
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Posted: 20 November 2009 at 12:26pm |
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impulse: When you do eventually get the motivation to go, let me know so I can be there when your scared ass is moments from exiting the door.
FE and everybody else... just do it. It's nice to see that kind of sky in a plane or from a mountain, but just wait until you see it under canopy. As I said in one of my posts, I had life-shattering news that morning. It generally takes me a long time to put out any sort of smile on my best days. Skydiving has the ability to do what few other activities have ever been able to do to me, and that's to reliably make me feel joy. That fact that you saw me smile like that after a day full of tears is enough to know that just one jump is worth it. |
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Posted: 20 November 2009 at 12:47pm |
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The one I was on crashed the next time it went up and killed all six people on board. It wasn't even "kinda good." They weren't anywhere near jumping altitude when the engine started leaking oil so they decided to land, but it caught fire a few hundred feet from the ground and overwhelmed the pilot, sending them into the trees. The girl behind me in line to tandem jump died, as did my instructor, one of the guys I'd just gone up with who was two jumps shy of golden wings, and the pilot I'd had, plus two others. The jump was great, fantastic really, but wow what timing I had. There's nothing quite like seeing the world from that perspective without the frame of a window. It doesn't even feel like you're falling because you're at terminal velocity, and the ride down once the chute is out is amazingly peaceful. In a tandem jump you can speak in a normal voice and hear each other on the way down. Edited by reifidom - 20 November 2009 at 12:50pm |
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