Skydiving

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Anyone here done it?

Almost two years ago I tried to do it but couldn't follow through.

It's still on my bucket list tho overcoming the fear of jumping out of an airplane is easier said than done.

Hmmm.... To be honest, I rarely think about sky-diving, but this is the second time today it's been mentioned. Earlier today, I was told that a friend's son is in hospital with two broken legs and maybe other injuries after a sky-diving accident.

I don't. It sounds fun though.

After a friend of mine survived a fall when her chute failed to open (she fell 3,500 feet or so, but has mostly recovered), I don't think I'll have anything to do with skydiving or any other sport that involves significant heights, for that matter. Link: Web Page Name

I'd very much like to do a Sky Dive. It would be AMAZING!! !

There was a local airfield in northern England which used to run skydiving courses. It was very popular with people doing charity jumps, and had an accident-free record for years. Then, a couple of months before it closed, a girl doing a charity jump overshot the field, landed on a nearby road and was run over. THAT is bad luck.

I did as a freshman in college.
It was fun.

I wasn't even really scared till I woke up the next day and realized what I had done.

Yeah. I made 11 jumps. I was nervous each time, but that was part of why I did it, to do something that required mastering some fears.

As for the experience itself, it was always thrilling and in my estimation actually very safe. But in my time we packed our own main chutes, even the very first time, had lengthy ground schools and jumped with simpler/slower round chutes, not the rectangular ones they use today. Really as long as you followed the procedures nothing would go wrong, and in the event something did anyway, you had a backup emergency chute.

I just finished watching Band of Brothers for the first time and got a renewed interest in skydiving. I think, though, that I would go for one of those piggy-back jumps where I would be harnessed to an experienced jumper rather than learning to do it all myself.

I've never done it, but I want to. I'll probably book some training lessons next week.

Just remember, there's a world of difference between doing something that's dangerous, and doing something that's just scary. You must never shrink away from doing something that's scary.

Yep! It's on the right side of the fine line between exhilaration and sheer terror.
Try watching some Youtube videos to see if it's your thing.

I'm a certified skydiver who recently graduated highschool.