I did it!!!

[skymama 37]

Congrats! Did your jump meet your expectations of how it would be?

She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man,
because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon

[Southern_Man 0]

Did you buy your beer yet?

"What if there were no hypothetical questions?"

[JohnMitchell 16]

promise5

Yes, I'm sorry I was confused.

Well, just keep your handles straight, esp. the order you use them.

Glad to see you got up in the air.

[CanuckInUSA 0]

Congrats on the jump. For some reason I had assumed that you were already jumping. But better late than never.

Try not to worry about the things you have no control over

[christelsabine 1]

CanuckInUSA

Congrats on the jump. For some reason I had assumed that you were already jumping. But better late than never.

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4537729;#4537729

dudeist skydiver # 3105

[Amazon 7]

christelsabine

***Congrats on the jump. For some reason I had assumed that you were already jumping. But better late than never.

http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4537729;#4537729

Looks like a couple tandems last year.... in Sept in Alaska.... Talk about the end of the season.. She even mentioned that no AFF till this year.

[promise5 17]

It was amazing !! I got to make a second jump with the instructors. That was great too. Flared to high and bounced my bum a little hard but it was sooooo great!!!
Had another jumper fly around us and wave but I was concentrating.
Isn't it the most amazing feeling!!! It's the ultimate feeling of freedom and the peacefulness under canopy.

It's NOTHING like doing a tandem. I love being in control of my own chute !! Holy crap it was amazing !!!

Thanks everyone for being so supportive till I got to this point.

Oh and yes I did tandems last year. Sorry for the confusion.

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[Remster 30]

rwieder

Quote

Jumped with freefall and two instructors holding on to me
Now doing a second with same to instructors.

If this is what you did, it's classified as an "AFF" jump. AKA: Accelerated Free Fall. You really should have done the FJC 1st.

No. The original AFF program was just this: first jump is 2 on 1

Congrats girl! Bout time!

Remster

[turtlespeed 220]

promise5

And loved it!!!!

Thanks everyone that put up with me!!!

Good job!

You didn't stub one of those toes did you?

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[promise5 17]

Nope, didn't stub a toe just bounced my bum!

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[promise5 17]

Holy crap!! I get to update my profile !!!

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[keithbar 1]

promise5

just bounced my bum!

cute young blonde post about bouncing her bum.and nobody makes a crude remark boy you guys are slippingwelcome to the sky girl

i have on occasion been accused of pulling low . My response. Naw I wasn't low I'm just such a big guy I look closer than I really am .

[oldwomanc6 52]

Bounce is a bad, bad, bad word.

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[turtlespeed 220]

oldwomanc6

Bounce is a bad, bad, bad word.

But . . . umm . . . it's so . . . picturesque

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[oldwomanc6 52]

turtlespeed

***Bounce is a bad, bad, bad word.

But . . . umm . . . it's so . . . picturesque

Only till you've observed a dozen or so.

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[Divalent 137]

Congrats on making the transition from groupie to real skydiver!

(And also for slashing in half your posts/jumps ratio with just a weekends effort! )

Before too long you'll soon be jumping without an instructor hanging onto you, which means that pretty much *you* will have to take care of yourself.

So in that regards, might I humbly suggest some of the other forums here beside the Bonfire:
Gear and Rigging
Safety and Training
General Skydiving Discussions
Incidents

There is a lot of good stuff in those places, although I should note a very important caveat: don't believe anything uncritically that you might read in those forums. Some stuff is not good. They're only useful if you expend the effort to build your own knowledge base. Always run any particular bit of advice you might read there by your actual instructor. But I found that reading those forums to be very useful to help me understand gear and techniques and safety.

BTW, there are also some excellent skydiving-specific threads in the Women Only forum. For example, here an excellent thread on the challenges of being a woman at a DZ that you might want to check out:
http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=3224190

Good luck with your training. You think you will be able to get your license before the winter sets in?

[promise5 17]

That's my goal!!! Lol

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[BillyVance 34]

promise5

That's my goal!!! Lol

Better hurry. Winter starts up there in early September, doesn't it?

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[promise5 17]

Billy you're on my list for people I want to jump with.
You'll have to suffer through jumping with a newbie like me

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[ryoder 1,590]

Are you going to jump with SansSuit?

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[promise5 17]

Who?
Ok googled it and how should I put this.

NO, NEVER,NOT A CHANCE IN HEAVEN WOULD I SKYDIVE NAKED!!

No matter how slowly you say oranges it never sounds like gullible.
Believe me I tried.

[turtlespeed 220]

oldwomanc6

******Bounce is a bad, bad, bad word.

But . . . umm . . . it's so . . . picturesque

Only till you've observed a dozen or so.

That depends on what is bouncing.

And I have seen MANY more than a dozen of those . . .

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

[oldwomanc6 52]

turtlespeed

*********Bounce is a bad, bad, bad word.

But . . . umm . . . it's so . . . picturesque

Only till you've observed a dozen or so.

That depends on what is bouncing.

And I have seen MANY more than a dozen of those . . .

Unfortunately, so have I.

lisa
WSCR 594
FB 1023
CBDB 9

[BillyVance 34]

promise5

Billy you're on my list for people I want to jump with.
You'll have to suffer through jumping with a newbie like me

I've jumped with plenty of newbies. I ain't scared. Just better hope I don't remember to "fruit loop" you.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[Amazon 7]

BillyVance

***Billy you're on my list for people I want to jump with.
You'll have to suffer through jumping with a newbie like me

I've jumped with plenty of newbies. I ain't scared. Just better hope I don't remember to "fruit loop" you.




I prefer to take em on a speed dive.... LOVE that freaked out wide eyed look in their eyes right around 200 MPH