What age did you start skydiving?

[firstime 0]

started at 46 now 48, and glad I did not start in my
20's because I had no respect for my motorcycles or
anything at that point in my life. Once you lose respect it will bite you in the butt. Loving my non swooping wuusy ass canopy rides.

[drdive 0]

51 Wish I hadnt waited so long.

"We saved your gear. Now you can sell it when you get out of the hospital and upsize!!" "K-Dub"

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[eUrNiCc 0]

First jump 2/1/04 Age: 21

Egad, A BASE life defiles a bad age.

[psipike02 0]

My first jump (tandem) was last summer on July 17th and I was 20 at the time. Now i'm 21....I'm glad i started early...

Puttin' some stank on it.

----Hellfish #707----

[Peej 0]

22

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[bianuan 0]

I started AFF when i was 27. Wish i had started sooner but know there was no way i could have ever afforded to take up this sport any earlier.

Ann

[Tonto 1]

I started when I was 22. I'm 43 now.

t

It's the year of the Pig.

[rushmc 23]

18 47

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[wmw999 2,447]

20 when I started, 50 now. 13 years not jumping in the middle of that.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

[Mike111 0]

16

[SkymonkeyONE 4]

I will be 42 in under one month and I started skydiving when I was 17

[bert_man 0]

I made the decision when I was 13, when I talked to a then-AFF student that I randomly met through a family friend. I decided that on my 18th birthday, I would make my first skydive.

My 18th b-day rolled around, and after looking out my window and seeing two feet of snow (Dec 1, cleveland, ohio) I figured that I might have to wait a month or two. Once the snow melted I called the nearest DZ and tried to sign up for their first static line class of the year. It kept getting delayed, and I called them every week until I eventually talked them into running a class. My first class had a total of two people in it. That was April 3, '04. I'm now 19 w/ 180 jumps.

Fly Free!

-Ghetto
"The reason death cannot frighten me, is because life has cured me of fear."
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Cleveland Skydiving

[Bolrog 0]

First tandum at 16, 2 tandums at 18. Started aff 3 months later. 3 months later at 47 jumps

[Jill_UK 0]

I was 16 when i did a tandem, 18 when i did AFF and now im 19 with 114 jumps...

i was thinking that i started quite early but apparently not!

[Eule 0]

Started at approximately 32.3. I am now 32.5. :)

Eule

[RogerRamjet 0]

Lets see, I was 6 when I saw the Shooting Stars (now defunct Navy parachute team) at an airshow and was hooked. Read everything through school about skydiving and then entered the "real" world.

In early 1973 decided to try it but ran into a roadblock. I was 20, but the legal age in Florida was 21 and my parents were "not about to sign a release to jump out of a perfectly good airplane."

So, I watched my older brother jump for nearly 6 months until the Florida Government screwed my parents by lowering the legal age to 18 on July 1st, 1973. I made my first static line jump at Z-Hills that day. I already had my riggers license (had to do something besides just watch all those months), so packed T-10 static line rigs for jump money and moved to the dropzone for a couple of years.

I'm now 52 and haven't jumped in 25 years but am entertaining the idea of re-entering the sport at least for a while.

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Roger "Ramjet" Clark
FB# 271, SCR 3245, SCS 1519

[daniel_owen_uk 0]

Did first jump in January, raised just over £1300 (approx $2300) for charity.

Only 10 weeks 6 days till I fly to USA for AFF (not that I am counting or anything)
edited to say I was 24 when I did it (kinda missed point of post there

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[WrongWay 0]

I was 18. I'm now 22.

Wrong Way
D #27371 Mal Manera Rodriguez Cajun Chicken Ø Hellfish #451
The wiser wolf prevails.

[Blue2003 0]

35 first tandem AFF 35. Injured 36, healed. Still going and going. Jump 200 this weekend going to be 39 in 2 weeks

"Cloudy Skies look different through skydivers eyes. Is that a hole in the clouds I see?" Let's get driving!

Blue Skies and Sweet Dreams

[upndownshop 0]

Started on 12-12-84 at 17 years old. Only made 10 jumps a year until 1999 then really got back into it.
Now 37. On my 21st year with USPA..

[hemphog 0]

first jumps when i was 18. I wasn't a dz kid

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"Ya we'll rape the local objects, and maybe do some jumps too!"

[SkyDiveCoastie 0]

My 1st jump was on July 21st 2005, Age 20...now im going to be 21 in 7 days, and im going on my 12th jump already!

Danny
The Sky Divin Coastie

[monkycndo 0]

Tandem at 33.

Waited too long for AFF at 36. A friend gave me the push. Now I jump more then her.

50 donations so far. Give it a try.

You know you want to spank it
Jump an Infinity

[unpacker 0]

I was thinking exactly the same thing i'm 43 now and have mellowed quite a bit but if i had started in my 20's i would be in the incident reports by now

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[bob.dino 1]

Started at age 25, now 27. 350 jumps in my first 18 months, and looking at having about 450 on my two-year anniversary. It's been a quiet few months on the jumping front.