How old were you when you started skydiving?

[Squeak 17]

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41.

I don't really have any regrets about starting when I did. I'm not sure how much I would have stuck with it 10 or 20 years ago.

I'm pretty certain I'd be dead now if I had started jumping 20 odd years ago. I was bloody reckless in my youth

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?

[drae 0]

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[wes. 0]

did my first jump on the the first load on my 16th birthday had a bit of tunnel time befor ethat from when i was like 13 aswell

my cosine did his first jump at 12 and a friend of mine when i was little traveled to belgim or somehwere to jump when he was 8 but got in the doorway and changed his mind

Falling from the top floor
your lungs fill like parachutes

[pkasdorf 0]

I really wonder who the 2 skydivers that answered "80 or more" are... They figure in the poll from the start, I've asked this question before and no reply... May be a joke?

HISPA # 18 POPS # 8757

[Katinka 0]

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I wonder if I am eligible for the Dinosaur Award? Is there anyone else who was older than 52 when they started and went on to get their 'D' license? I'm just four jumps away from that milestone. I hope to have it by next Saturday.

Most women start much younger and stop skydiving by the time they are my age.

Hey there ms. dinosaur: started at 54, taking my time, have a long way to 500 jumps, but watch out...

[JENNR8R 0]

Hey there Ms. Dinosaur: started at 54, taking my time, have a long way to 500 jumps, but watch out...

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Catch me if you can! As of 07/21/07, I earned my 'D' license. And that was less than three years after earning my 'A' license. I'll gladly hand the award over. I'd love to welcome you to the sorority!

What do you call a beautiful, sunny day that comes after two cloudy, rainy
ones? -- Monday.

[pkasdorf 0]

288.... 12 more votes!!!

HISPA # 18 POPS # 8757

[FallingDuck 0]

4 months after my 18th b-day.

[pkasdorf 0]

3 more and we reach the 300...

HISPA # 18 POPS # 8757

[pkasdorf 0]

OK, on a total of 304 votes here are the gross numbers:

+ Nearly 70% do it before age 30

+ An additional near 20% do it in the next decade

+ Near 10% do it in the next one

+ Near 5% do it with 50 or more. My sincere admiration to those who do!

Thank you all for voting and participating!!!

HISPA # 18 POPS # 8757

[mpuettman 0]

I was 50 and now have 500+ jumps at 56 -- and feel like I'm getting younger every jump...

[JENNR8R 0]

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I was 50 and now have 500+ jumps at 56 -- and feel like I'm getting younger every jump...

Boy, not me... I'm sore everywhere, and I need surgery on both rotator cuffs... I'm trying to put it off until the jump season is over.

What do you call a beautiful, sunny day that comes after two cloudy, rainy
ones? -- Monday.

[mpuettman 0]

I think I probably just have a high tolerance for pain. Since February I have torn the cartilege in my knee (from laying hardwood floors in my house) and I have fractured my foot in 2 places (from 4-wheeling), but I have continued to jump. I've perfected the butt-slide and have been told that it looks like I do "touch and go's" on landing. I prefer to call it "butt swooping"...

[pkasdorf 0]

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I was 50 and now have 500+ jumps at 56 -- and feel like I'm getting younger every jump...

My case is similar to yours, in numbers (start at 48, 600 + jumps) and feelings!!!

HISPA # 18 POPS # 8757

[EPX 0]

First skydive - 16 yrs old (thanks rocky, flagler beach gone but not forgotten)

First BASE - 18 ( thanks smitty - you crazy cracker)

you want me to do what???

[psipike02 0]

Did my tandem when I was 20, and then started the FJC when I was 21. I'm 23 now...

Puttin' some stank on it.

----Hellfish #707----

[Alskyguy 0]

First Jump at 10
Static line at 16
First and second BASE one month after 18 birthday
Now 18

[pkasdorf 0]

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First Jump at 10
Static line at 16
First and second BASE one month after 18 birthday
Now 18

WOW!!!

HISPA # 18 POPS # 8757

[brianfry713 0]

First jump, AFF L1 at 18. Second jump, AFF L1 at 24 when I had enough money and the desire to actually continue jumping.

[JohnMitchell 16]

First jump I was 17. Folks wouldn't sign for me so I forged my dad's signature. They've since forgiven me, even made a tandem with me.

I really, really wanted to jump.

[Lastchance 0]

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I may be getting old but I got to see all the cool bands.

[daremrc 0]

I made a Tandem at 25, Licensed at 27.


Sometimes I think "Geez I wish I'd have started when I was 18, do you know how good I would be by now?"


But when I realistically think about my life at 18, I wasn't ready then and may not have lived to be a 28 year old skydiver

Good judgement comes from experience, and most of that comes from bad judgement.

[avenfoto 0]

i started at 20, my mentor did his first basejump at 16...

[tbrown 26]

I was eighteen. My parents refused to sign off any earlier, so I just had to wait. And than I started jumping.

Your humble servant.....Professor Gravity !

[Trae 1]

I was 18 ......but I didn't start skydiving .
Some monk in the dark ages did that