BoogieFever

Visualization. Play the movie in your mind 10 or 20 times a day...like you're day dreaming. Picture the whole process from putting on your gear to getting in the plane, sitting on the floor, climbing up to altitude, seeing the door open, etc...focus on it and try to recreate the feel of it...do this as often as you can the week before you jump. It will help greatly as the whole process will seem less foreign when you get there...because you will have seen it a hundred times or more.

I'm 41 so I'm finding this sport late...or early depending on how long I live.

Sweet! Post back and let us know how yours went...I can't wait to hear about it!

I've wanted to jump for as long as I can remember. I told my wife one time that I wanted to go and she got all nervous and chatty and I put it off because doing so was easier than dealing with her being a nervous nellie over the whole thing. Well eventually she came around to the idea and she got me a tandem jump at a place near us. This would be a 14,500 foot jump with 10,000 feet of free fall. All I could think was DUUUUUUUUDE...that's gonna be awesome...and scary...and hopefully awesome again. She got it for me last Christmas but I just got time to go last weekend. I don't want to take up too much room here so I'll post a link to the story I wrote about the jump. If you're thinking about making the jump or know someone who is then this should be a good read too. I can't wait to go back. This place has an accelerated free fall course and I can't make it through a day without thinking about it. Heck I took 4 commercial flights the next week and all I could think about was jumping off the planes. If you want to hear the full rookie rant on the first jump here it is: http://southernoutdoorsman.blogspot.com/2011/09/good-morning-this-weekend-i-took-ride.html