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!

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

Yep, one for the bucket list.

If you think you might only ever want to try this once go the tandem route!
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!

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

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.

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)