sistaluv 0 #101 January 6, 2003 This is my first year. I did my first few jumps at 24yrs and did my first freefall just before my quarter of a century birthday. Blue Skies and Terminal Memories 4 Life Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f1freak 0 #102 January 6, 2003 Hit the SL when i was 26.....HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
numbknuckle 0 #103 January 26, 2003 I did my first jump (AFF) on my 30th B-day. I wish I would have started alot sooner. Don't we all though? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
KenKnight 0 #104 January 26, 2003 Started AFF at 38, the same day my Dad did his AFF jump at the young age of 58. I kept jumping, Dad said once was enough._______________ D28695 PoPs #9237 "Mix ignorance with arrogance at low altitude and the results are almost guaranteed to be spectacular" — Bruce Landsberg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magistr8 0 #105 January 26, 2003 I was 19 when I made my first jump. I havn't had the time to get out in the last year so I havn't seen the numbers I wanted. Just to give you guys an idea, I will be doing my 22nd jump on my 22nd b-day in June. Okay maybe earlier if I have the cash. "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." Napoleon Bonaparte Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moodyskydiver 0 #106 January 26, 2003 Tomorrow is my sky birthday! Did my first tandem at age 19 one year ago.Did another tandem and started AFF before my 20th birthday. "...just an earthbound misfit, I." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jumperconway 0 #107 January 26, 2003 39 and holding! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lizard 0 #108 January 26, 2003 Finished airborne school with the military when I was 17, but didn't start skydiving until I was 30. The government canceled one too many jumps on me and pissed me off so I said screw it, I will learn to skydive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SkySlut 0 #109 January 26, 2003 AFF, 26, 2 years ago, 1000 jumps and never looked back!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hobbes4star 0 #110 January 26, 2003 wish i had started younger.... oh well going to spend the rest of my life trying to catch up.. if fun were easy it wouldn't be worth having, right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gemini 0 #111 January 26, 2003 Quote Wish I had started younger Me to! I was 52 at time of first tandem. Enlisted in 1967 for Airborne when I was 19, but got sent to OCS instead. 33 yrs later Trent says "I bought you a skydive!" At least I am not the "old man" right AirMail? Go POPS! State & World Record attempt at Spaceland, Summer of 2003. Blue skies, Jim Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chopchop 0 #112 March 5, 2003 like mouth and airann and a few others on here - I was 36 when I went through AFF 2 short years ago... 17 months 'til I'm a freeflying POPS.. chopchop gotta go... Plaything needs a spanking.. Lotsa Pictures Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CanuckInUSA 0 #113 March 5, 2003 Quote 17 months 'til I'm a freeflying POPS.. Only seven more for me. Try not to worry about the things you have no control over Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flailchick 0 #114 March 5, 2003 Static Line, 20 Years old, 20 years ago. There was no tandem at that time and we only had one AFF instructor at our DZ (The other AFF instructor was the pilot....) Long, long ago... in a land far, far away.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jraf 0 #115 March 6, 2003 Did my first SL at 27, out of a Junkers 52, in 1940 at the Komando Brandenburg training camp. Sturmanfuhrer Skorzeny was a bastard, but a fair bastard.jraf Me Jungleman! Me have large Babalui. Muff #3275 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #116 March 6, 2003 I started S/L when I was 20, I'm almost 23 and still going strong! --"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiver51 0 #117 March 6, 2003 I was 21 and in the marines. It was one year before I got out. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
racer42 0 #118 March 6, 2003 First jump was my 40th birthday.L.A.S.T. #24 Co-Founder Biscuit Brothers Freefly Team Electric Toaster #3 Co-Founder Team Non Sequitor Co-Founder Team Happy Sock Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aero04 0 #119 March 6, 2003 Did my first jump at 18 with AFF, but with no $ I couldn't continue. I picked it up again at 22. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ffhunne 0 #120 March 6, 2003 Did my first IAD at 20. 21 now, 109 skydives! Hope to have many more... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freakshow 0 #121 March 6, 2003 Quote After being away from the sport for over 1 1/2 yrs. with 1 tandem JUMP and 4 AFF JUMPS, I still WAS a skydiver because I KNEW that I was to return someday. It was my telling people that I was still a skydiver after not jumping a while that made me live the promise to myself to return I agree I started April 27 2002 at age 22 made 20 jumps have not made a jump in 5 months due to money. I still consider myself a skydiver because I know that I'll be back in the sky someday hopefully soon....I have a whole $86.17 saved that's not very much I know but for somebody who makes a whole $28 a week and is in school it's a good start. And I could make a skydive this weekend with that money but I've decided that when I start again there won't be a huge break again before I get my license. Edited to add it was a S/L B.L. (the brain) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kmcguffee 0 #122 March 6, 2003 First static line at Airborne School in the military in 1992 at the age of 22. I didn't start sport skydiving until the age of 31. It is a whole lot better than military jumping, plus there is no long walk afterward (unless it is a really bad spot). "Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do." Ben Franklin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
judyindeskys 0 #123 March 6, 2003 Did my first tandem the day before my 45th birthday and started AFF two months later. My husband did his first tanden for his 50th birthday and is getting ready to start AFF in spring. Does that make us Moms & Pops? judy Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MC208B 0 #124 March 6, 2003 44 first jump. Did a lot of hang gliding in my early 20's tho, does that count for anything?!? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
flyerac 0 #125 March 6, 2003 i did a tandem at 17 first solo at 18 and i just did my 100th jump under a para commander last sunday one year and one month later Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
