leandercool 0 #1 November 9, 2011 Title says enough. I wonder how you started skydiving. when did you have that moment where you said: "This is what I am going to do!". Tell us your life story I always liked skydiving, but I've never been into it in any way. Until that one day, when one of my teachers told me about himself as a skydiver. He showed us video's and pictures of himself. Suddely my entire body yelled at me to do it. That's the moment I started looking how, what, where... When! I promised him that if I was qualified to jump with others, I would jump with him.From 0 to 12.000 in 9 minutes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nutz 0 #2 November 9, 2011 Went on a dare. The other 2 guys never jumped again. (I don't know what's wrong with them.) "Don't! Get! Eliminated!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Flyerer 0 #3 November 9, 2011 My wife sent my daughter and me for "Father's Day" three years ago. My daughter checked it off her "bucket list" and I signed up for AFF. Actual we both did AFF to begin with because we're both "hard-heads" and did not want to do a tandem. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Pendragon 1 #4 November 9, 2011 I was already a hang glider pilot (this had captured my imagination when I was 7 and saw them on the Dunstable Downs, just north of London) and came across wingsuits at the Coupe Icare festivale in France, which looked to me a lot like pocket hang gliders! I'd always fancied skydiving, but this gave me the impoteus to start with the goal of wingsuit BASE at the end, which I managed 7 years after I first had the idea.-- BASE #1182 Muff #3573 PFI #52; UK WSI #13 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Willi91 0 #5 November 9, 2011 My father has been jumping since '78, so on december 31st 2007, I made my first solo jump. 16 years and 5 days of age. I've been waiting my whole life more or less. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #6 November 9, 2011 i was trying to enlist for a golf-course; but once they spotted i didnt came with the lambo that pulled up with me, i had to go elsewhere.. i still spit on their course when we fly over it! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fossg 0 #7 November 9, 2011 They gave me the "skydiving speech" at the bowling alley. (How was I supposed to know that ya gotta keep the stupid ball in the SAME lane all the time) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Chris-Ottawa 0 #8 November 9, 2011 To check it off the "to-do" list....then, I just had to come back. Now, I just can't stop...skydiving is unlike any other sport I've ever done. It is ALWAYS on my mind and I get stressed out and my mind is lost if I don't jump regularly."When once you have tasted flight..." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jrh 0 #9 November 9, 2011 I moved to a new town and needed a job. The dropzone was the first place that would hire me as a pilot. I had absolutely no interest in jumping, but the DZ had a deal where they'd give their pilots a free jump for every 25 hours of flying if they wanted it. I'm a sucker for free stuff. Even though I had no interest in jumping, I figured if I was going to do it, I might as well go all out--so I asked if I could use the "free jump" credit for a first jump course rather than a tandem. They said I could. So one fine Saturday afternoon in April I found myself hanging from the strut of a Cessna, hooked up to a static line, scared to death. As soon as I let go, I finally understood why all these crazy people kept jumping out of my plane. I was hooked. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reginald 0 #10 November 9, 2011 Divorce"We've been looking for the enemy for some time now. We've finally found him. We're surrounded. That simplifies things." CP Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #11 November 9, 2011 loving that one! “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiver604 0 #12 November 9, 2011 Use to fly gliders with air cadets, then flew small aircraft for fun, always swore up and down that I would never try skydiving (too scared),,, then a few years ago a friend of mine sent me a video of a wingsuit base jump with red hot chili peppers playing airplane as the music, thought that's really cool, did some research and found out learning to skydive was a BIG prerequesite to wingsuit flying, figured what the hell, if anything I can face the fear,,,,,got hooked on it and continued in the sport,,,,,bazinga!! "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
virgin-burner 1 #13 November 9, 2011 i do hate the both of you.. “Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” -Hunter S. Thompson "No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try." -Yoda Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TEB6363 0 #14 November 9, 2011 Quote They gave me the "skydiving speech" at the bowling alley. Perfect!!! I hope I remember this next time someone asks.... Well next time another jumper asks... I was going to go for a glider ride, but the airport with skydiving was closer... Took me 10 more years to make that glider ride Once the plane takes off, you're gonna have to land - Might as well jump out!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pincheck 0 #15 November 9, 2011 Reward for stopping smoking took up skydiving never saved a penny just spent it elsewhere Billy-Sonic Haggis Flickr-Fun Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Austintxflight 0 #16 November 9, 2011 I quit smoking pot and realized I had alot more free time and money. In my new "clarity" I decided to try jumping. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wasatchrider 0 #17 November 9, 2011 mines more why im going to start skydiving after over 100 base jumps off low objects i jumped off a couple big objects and i need freefall time and practice tracking i just need some money now i know im doing it backwardsBASE 1519 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skydiver604 0 #18 November 9, 2011 "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
adagen 0 #19 November 9, 2011 Never intended to till I found myself surrounded by people who seemed to regard it as natural. Then it gradually crept up on me.Anne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Creep0321 0 #20 November 10, 2011 Got the military to send me to freefall school, extra capability, and 75$ more a month... now i spend more than that on skydiving Jack of all trades. Military Free Fall Jumpmaster. USA Static-line Jumpmaster. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnnyMarko 1 #21 November 10, 2011 For the chicks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brucet7 0 #22 November 10, 2011 Interim reward to myself during a weight-loss program. One I lost enough, I jumped.POPS #10623; SOS #1672 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #23 November 10, 2011 This questio was asked a few weeks back, Lots of responses here. You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #24 November 10, 2011 Quote there's chicks in this sport? There is for Johnny You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JerryBaumchen 1,354 #25 November 10, 2011 Hi agent, Quote there's chicks in this sport? Don't ask me, ask Shah. JerryBaumchen Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
