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First time Skydiving! (tandem)

hellnferno - 22-7-2015 at 03:35 PM

So I'm in Germany for seasonal worker. Decided to go tandem skydiving with the discount for working here... I have no words to explain my experience.. WOW! I want to do it again.. take class.. do solo jumps.. buy my own gear! :D :D :D I did it with Skydive Colibri in Germany by the way!

PHREERIDER - 22-7-2015 at 03:56 PM

yeah man! gravity seems to have gotten your attention. cool man

smoo - 23-7-2015 at 01:40 PM

Yep, one for the bucket list.

Bladerunner - 23-7-2015 at 04:00 PM

If you think you might only ever want to try this once go the tandem route! :thumbup:
The place I went to also had the option of jumping alone with a static line from 3000 feet.

It was ALL about the freefall experience for me . ( After I proved to myself I could actually go out and let go of a perfectly good plane.)
After only a few seconds it settled out and for about 50 seconds I was living my flying dream! :cool:


Windstruck - 23-7-2015 at 04:36 PM

I have to agree with Blade - the longer the free fall the better, to heck if somebody is strapped to your back. Remember, the person on your back has thousands of jumps to your, err, none. I only jumped once years over 20 years ago and jumped from 15500 in San Diego so we had a LONG way to fall. It was totally cool. What I wasn't prepared for was having the snot in my sinuses get driven back into my brain, but I guess that's just par for the course when facing an unrelenting free-fall speed wind. :o

Do-it - 24-7-2015 at 05:43 PM

I was introduced to kiting by my skydiving mentor back in 1999. I couldn't afford both sports at the age of 19, so I went the skydiving route. I just got back into kiting 3 years ago,and haven't made a jump other than base in quite some time. If you do go down the skydiving path you will greatly enjoy it. FYI being,a Tandem master is the equivalent of being a ferris wheel seat. It's horrible.

hellnferno - 25-7-2015 at 03:22 PM

Haha yeah, I think we jumped somewhere around 15000 feet, I wasn't prepared my sinus as well. I forgot about releasing pressure to my ears so it was painful when I hit the base, my ears brusted. But other than that it was awesome! I probably won't be able to afford another for a while.. (This one was with discount for working here)