How did you learn to Skydive??

[Casch 0]

I was just wondering what the percentages were for the different training methods.

[FallinWoman 1]

I did one tandem, thinking it would be my only jump I wanted to experience freefall.

Then I did the static line progression.
Anne

~Anne

I'm a Doll!!!!

[wlie 0]

Hey cool picture Josh! I knew that canopy looked familar.

My other ride is the relative wind.

[Casch 0]

You like? I'll trade ya!

[homer 0]

How did I learn to fall from an airplane? I learned the hard way with a 34' round and a belly mount reserve from 800' agl. Can you say PARATROOPER go 82nd

CSA #699 Muff #3804

[Dumpster 0]

Did one tandem so I could cross skydiving off my "been there, done that" list-

Funny thing is, now I forget what else was on that list!!

Easy Does It

[JamesNahikian 0]

Static line and then finished a few years later with AFP at SDC. Something clicked on my first jump; before then, I could not possibly have imagined I'd continue jumping for the rest of my life. A familiar story here, I realize.

D. James Nahikian
CHICAGO

[skymama 37]

I did IAF. Do they still do that?

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

[Zenister 0]

well yeah me too actually, but i didnt learn to skydive till AFF..the military took all the fun out of jumping out of a plane

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[wlie 0]

They still do, but it's now called a wedgy

My other ride is the relative wind.

[Spy38W 0]

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I was just wondering what the percentages were for the different training methods.

Ah, the memories, skydiving is something I've wanted to do for a long long time, but it is something I have never been able to justify doing. I remember December 22, 2001, I was hired as a diverdriver for a local DZ, 8 days later on December 30, 2001 (it's a weekend only DZ) I made my first tandem with the rationalization that if I'm flying jumpers I should understand things from their perspective. I still remember the door opening, and me freaking out thinking I was going to fall out, until I realized that that was the entire point. I got down from that first jump and immediately signed up for the IAF program (3 tandems + 7 1 instructor jumps.) Now our DZ lives by the motto that the best way to screw up a jump pilot is to get him jumping.

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Hook high, flare on time

[ChileRelleno 0]

My first jump: Parachutes over San Diego, Otay lakes.
Yeah I went static line progression, young, single and broke bartender who really wanted to learn but didn't have $$$ for AFF.

ChileRelleno-Rodriguez Bro#414
Hellfish#511,MuffBro#3532,AnvilBro#9, D24868

[homer 0]

I actually was going to do a tandem but there was a mid air head on collision under canopy on the load before my jump. It was some scary shit with Rick burning in from around 200'. After the ambulance left I of course wasn't doing my tandem because they closed the DZ so I said see you next friday for the static line course.

CSA #699 Muff #3804

[freakshow 0]

Just about to finish up my S/L progression.

B.L.

B.L. (the brain)

[Viking 0]

Did aff at Skydive San Diego

I swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver
My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin

[Kennedy 0]

Went through AFF three years ago. Wasn't even really that interested, but the guys in the club ( College Park Skydiving Crew ) seemed cool so I went to a meeting.

Well, that meeting was the first half of the AFF first jump course put on by two guest intstructors [thanks Mike D. and Rob J.] So I payed my fifty bucks - obviously a deposit only - and tried it out.

Turned 19 on Firday, next day did AFF 1. Got hooked, wiped out life savings to that point and did AFF 2 and 3 on Sunday.

yeah, that's me.

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Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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[SanDiegoRW 0]

I did AFF at SDSD as well. Cost me a case of beer damn it! But I drank some.... Shhhh!

-Kenny

[Cornholio 0]

Well, I did a tandem first, but I would not call that learning to skydive. I just did it because I wanted to. AFF taught me how to skydive. I was actually paying attention during that part.

Butthead: Whoa! Burritos for breakfast!
Beavis: Yeah! Yeah! Cool!
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[Iflyme 0]

Your poll doesn't include "Instructor Assisted Deployment", commonly known as IAD... unless you think it is should be included under "other".

Anyway, that's how I was taught.

[robzay 0]

AFF ground school, then grounded for two weeks waiting on wind and rain. Finally did a tandem and knew I was hooked.

[sunshine 2]

I can't answer the poll since i did 2 training programs. I started with S/L, went through the delayed freefalls, got frustrated and went to do AFP.

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[WmLauterbach 0]

first PARACHUTE jump... basic airborne school, Ft Benning GA in March 1987

first FREEFALL jump... August 1994, Military Freefall School... Ft Bragg NC

[dunesurfer 0]

I did aff at perris with jim Wallace and crew

[Casch 0]

hehe, sorry didn't consider the people that didn't have "from the book" progression courses...

[Thanatos340 1]

I first did 2 Static Line Jumps under a Piglet 23.
Then 2 Tandem Jumps a few years later.
Now trying to get past Lvl 5 AFF.