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How many jumps do you consider as "experienced" in this sport?
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I'm just thinking there is a better word/phrase to use than "experienced". Cause even after 100 jumps, that's a "lot" of experience (though maybe not as much as many) but you wouldn't necessarily be a person I could consider an authority on the sport.
I'm just thinking there is a better word/phrase to use than "experienced". Cause even after 100 jumps, that's a "lot" of experience (though maybe not as much as many) but you wouldn't necessarily be a person I could consider an authority on the sport.
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QuoteI think 1000 or more is respectable...
I look at it different, I think one makes it respectable, someone is fighting a fear. They are fighting their natural survival instints by jumping out of a airplane and having a planet thrown at them, relaying on only some nylon and strings. It only takes one jump in my opinion. As far as experienced well, thats not always in the jump numbers, Ive had advice from people at your numbers all the time that had helped me , and I had advice from someone with 1000 ish that didnt. Its all about how they handle the progression and what they do to continue learning.
Its also perspective by peers, my family thinks I am a skygod where as my sky friends know I am a 100 ish jump wonder wanna be. Ill never feel experienced no matter how many I do. I can arch .... and I can land.
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I think it's a pretty weird question. Could a person with 2,000 jumps and no cutaways be considered "experienced?" Would a person with 500 jumps and a cutaway be "more experienced?" That person has "experienced" more things.
I think it an interesting question.
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Depends on a bunch of things.
If a person has say 1500 jumps but just won the open class at the nationals...I'd tend to say she was experienced. But take that same jumper and she has no tandems...She would be inexperienced with tandems.
Now if you are talking about regular "fun" jumping. I tend to say...It depends.
It depends on the persons skills and attitude. I had a friend that had 800 jumps and did not know how to assemble a three ring.
But if I had to come up with a number...Say 1,000. AND 5-6 years.
If a person has say 1500 jumps but just won the open class at the nationals...I'd tend to say she was experienced. But take that same jumper and she has no tandems...She would be inexperienced with tandems.
Now if you are talking about regular "fun" jumping. I tend to say...It depends.
It depends on the persons skills and attitude. I had a friend that had 800 jumps and did not know how to assemble a three ring.
But if I had to come up with a number...Say 1,000. AND 5-6 years.
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QuoteHow many jumps do you consider as "experienced"?
I think 500 because that is when you can become a tandem instructor, then you are responsible for another persons life on each jump . I wouldn't like that this was the case if most people thought the TI was inexperienced
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Another way of looking at it, being experienced is more of a journey, then a destination. Could it be judged by how much you learn from each new experience? Kinda like how fast you're going along the road of experience.
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Another way of looking at it, being experienced is more of a journey, then a destination. Could it be judged by how much you learn from each new experience? Kinda like how fast you're going along the road of experience.
Eugene
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
Jumps plus time in sport gives you experience.
I dont' consider someone that makes 1000 jumps in a year that experienced.
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I dont' consider someone that makes 1000 jumps in a year that experienced.
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QuoteJumps plus time in sport gives you experience.
I dont' consider someone that makes 1000 jumps in a year that experienced.
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Time in sport does indeed count for something.
I consider 1000 jumps to be like a black belt in martial arts.
Any experienced practitioner of martial arts will tell you that that is when you are ready to BEGIN learning.
Well, experience is knowing things. If you know that you don't know something, that's still knowing about not knowing. So, if you don't know a lot of things, and know that you don't know, and you know that, you know a lot. Get it?
Eugene
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."