chipiematt 0 #1 December 4, 2007 ive heard good and bad reviews/reports about this course. im considering doing it. anyone got any stories from friends who have done it?? any useful info??? its very expensive and finding it hard to decide if its worth it............. some people have said it was amazing and have further progressed quickly into tandem and camera and rapidly built jump numbers, people say you get out of it what you put in. anyhow.......id be interested to hear/learn more.did you say tequila??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spencer 0 #2 December 4, 2007 For the guy who you hand your money over to, its a brilliant course, and yes when it first started lots of students found work, mainly at the course owners DZs. others have gone on to find work at other DZs. But others have found themselves very and I mean very short of money, and NO work to pay the loans off, for the course and the gear, ie rigs. The bit of paper that says Diploma means nothing in truth. Go to a good DZ, do the aff, hang around and learn from the people who work 7 days aweek , who sit around all day when the weathers shit, learn your craft from these people, these people have nothing to sell you, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chipiematt 0 #3 December 4, 2007 cheers for your comment, seems a lot of people think that way, ive already done aff and got my b licence, its was the 32 weeks of being involved with skydiving all day that appealed, and being in new zealand!!! living in uk dz's shut down at winter cos its so cold , and even through summer weather is crap, so find it hard to jump alot.did you say tequila??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AdD 1 #4 December 4, 2007 If you have the $$, go for it. There's no substitute for good coaching.Life is ez On the dz Every jumper's dream 3 rigs and an airstream Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chipiematt 0 #5 December 4, 2007 AD!?!?! is that the ad i met in empuria earlier this year?? you said you had done the course.... i was with 6 lads we all got pissed, think it was april.....did you say tequila??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
freeflysteve 0 #6 December 5, 2007 Well as you know Nethers shuts this Sunday 9th Dec and re opens i think Saturday 26th January. So if you can afford the course and you want to go to NZ then just go and do it. Doesnt really matter if it doesnt fulfil all your needs it might be just later on you wish you had gone so theres no time like the present. I am sure most of the fun will be the people you meet and the travelling you do. Best of luck. Steve Swooping, huh? I love that stuff ... all the flashing lights and wailing sirens ... it's very exciting! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chipiematt 0 #7 December 5, 2007 cheers steve, thats what im thinkin, even if the diploma means nothing ,its 30 weeks of skydiving in nz!!! will try to get to nethers on saturday if im not workin, only got a couple of weeks now till i go to perris!!!!did you say tequila??? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
