Skydiving

• Midstate01

  

  Anyone been? Thinking of doing it fpr mothers day for my wife. But anyone have experience doing it? Is buying the pictures or video worth the outrageous price? They wont let you use your own gopro. Gay!
  
  Anyway, im all for suggestions or tips.
• Fab4Runner

  

  I went a couple years ago while visiting my brother in AZ. By far one of the coolest things I have ever done. I would love to go again.
  
  I got the pictures and he got the pics and the video. All of it came out very well. I would recommend getting the pictures at a minimum, but the video isn't that much more, and as I said, his turned out to be really good.
  
  My instructor looked like a busted George Clooney, so that was fun, too.
  
  
• said_aouita

  

  No thank you. Gravity is scary.
• Belly35

  

  If it&#8217;s on the bucket list ... do it ... good time and great experience</SPAN>
• SnotBubbles

  

  Fab4Runner;1432528 wrote:I went a couple years ago while visiting my brother in AZ. By far one of the coolest things I have ever done. I would love to go again.
  
  I got the pictures and he got the pics and the video. All of it came out very well. I would recommend getting the pictures at a minimum, but the video isn't that much more, and as I said, his turned out to be really good.
  
  My instructor looked like a busted George Clooney, so that was fun, too.
  
  

  Were you boobs flopping all around in the wind?
• Fab4Runner

  

  SnotBubbles;1432609 wrote:Were you boobs flopping all around in the wind?

  The were not. Safely under the jumpsuit and also under a tshirt and sports bra.
• Midstate01

  

  Belly35;1432603 wrote:If it’s on the bucket list ... do it ... good time and great experience</SPAN>

  
  Its on my wife's. Im scared shitless. But im still gonna do it.
• Tiernan

  Went back in the day when you had to jump out yourself instaed of being cornholed by an instructor on your back. First & second times were great, third time had a high speed entanglement of main chute and CO2 cartridge blew the packet on my reserve chute. Landed hard in a cornfield with broken arm and eye-socket. fast forward 35 yrs and last summer did the instructor on your back deal...kinda felt pussified after the jump on your own experiences.
• Pick6

  

  Would love to do it sometime. Aiming for this summer if I can talk a friend into doing it with me. (Im scared shitless)
• Midstate01

  

  Tiernan;1432711 wrote:Went back in the day when you had to jump out yourself instaed of being cornholed by an instructor on your back. First & second times were great, third time had a high speed entanglement of main chute and CO2 cartridge blew the packet on my reserve chute. Landed hard in a cornfield with broken arm and eye-socket. fast forward 35 yrs and last summer did the instructor on your back deal...kinda felt ****ified after the jump on your own experiences.

  
  Scary!!!
  
  I dont think its pussifying at all. Im.never doing it alone. No thanks.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  SnotBubbles;1432609 wrote:Were you boobs flopping all around in the wind?

  your*
• Fab4Runner

  

  Tiernan;1432711 wrote:Went back in the day when you had to jump out yourself instaed of being cornholed by an instructor on your back. First & second times were great, third time had a high speed entanglement of main chute and CO2 cartridge blew the packet on my reserve chute. Landed hard in a cornfield with broken arm and eye-socket. fast forward 35 yrs and last summer did the instructor on your back deal...kinda felt pussified after the jump on your own experiences.

  Midstate01;1432723 wrote:Scary!!!
  
  I dont think its pussifying at all. Im.never doing it alone. No thanks.

  Agreed. I have no desire to enter a training program or become licensed. I will do as many tandem jumps as I can (or that they will allow), but I am not jumping alone.
• Tiernan

  All I'm saying is if the chute dont open and you go the instructor strapped to your back route...your buddies have all of eternity to bust your chops about what you felt at the the moment of impact. And you know damn well they would do it everytime the story came up and beers were involved.
  
  You want that kind of legacy? ...not me, no thanks.
• Midstate01

  

  Tiernan;1432812 wrote:All I'm saying is if the chute dont open and you go the instructor strapped to your back route...your buddies have all of eternity to bust your chops about what you felt at the the moment of impact. And you know damn well they would do it everytime the story came up and beers were involved.
  
  You want that kind of legacy? ...not me, no thanks.

  
  You have EXTREMELY fucked up friends. Because its likely that you're dead and so I doubt it'd be a topic used for jokes.
• Heretic

  

  Midstate01;1432878 wrote:You have EXTREMELY fucked up friends. Because its likely that you're dead and so I doubt it'd be a topic used for jokes.

  "Man, the last thing ol' Bill probably felt was his instructor's dong going in his ass as his body was pulverized. Poor guy, he died a ghey!"
  
  "Dude, this is his funeral...you're really upsetting his family...and get your fucking beer off the casket!"
• OSH

  

  Been there. Done that.
  
  I enjoyed it. But, I probably won't do it again. Cost too much.
• dlazz

  I am terrified of heights. I'd probably faint as soon as I looked out of the plane and then it'd be a waste of several hundred bucks.
• Midstate01

  

  Today was awesome!! Mothers day we got canceled because of rain. Today we went and it was amazing. Can't wait to jump again.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRCpwbVQdw
• Trueblue23

  

  Midstate01;1445017 wrote:Today was awesome!! Mothers day we got canceled because of rain. Today we went and it was amazing. Can't wait to jump again.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bRCpwbVQdw

  Wow! That's badass. I'm actually going to Hawaii next year on my honeymoon, I'd love to go skydiving there.
• Midstate01

  

  Trueblue23;1445071 wrote:Wow! That's badass. I'm actually going to Hawaii next year on my honeymoon, I'd love to go skydiving there.

  
  Do it. It's not even that expensive to jump. What gets expensive is buying the pictures or video.
• Mohican00

  

  knowing my luck, I'd die
• ActionJackson

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• FatHobbit

  

  Tiernan;1432812 wrote:All I'm saying is if the chute dont open and you go the instructor strapped to your back route...your buddies have all of eternity to bust your chops about what you felt at the the moment of impact. And you know damn well they would do it everytime the story came up and beers were involved.
  
  You want that kind of legacy? ...not me, no thanks.

  Heretic;1432883 wrote:"Man, the last thing ol' Bill probably felt was his instructor's dong going in his ass as his body was pulverized. Poor guy, he died a ghey!"
  
  "Dude, this is his funeral...you're really upsetting his family...and get your fucking beer off the casket!"

  These made me laugh,
• thavoice

  Any of ya'll follow through with fulfilling their bucket list to jump?
• Belly35

  

  Mohican00;1445138 wrote:knowing my luck, I'd die

  I did it you can to. We are all going to die so go big in