Considering jumping out of an airplane....

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  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    crap...have to wait until next weekend...more time to talk myself out of it


    SERIOUSLY WHEN THE CHUTE opens,,your crotch gets ripped apart

    enjoy ;)
  • Kushikushun
    Kushikushun Posts: 1,263
    My bf just did it two weeks ago. He had won it as a prize and felt really reluctant to go forth with it. But he did it and had a fantastic experience....my hero :)

    I still dont know if I would do it, I would be soooooo scared. I am afraid of hights too, but even worse I am afraid of gravity's pull. And from what he told me gravity is pulling fucking hard!

    He said you cant compare it with a rollercoaster-fall, because you are falling totally free with nothing to hold on to. It is so surreal that it is really cool. Adrenaline rush for sure. He has got some great pics of him doing it and got a video as well. Sure looks cool, but I dont know....

    Well, I am sure you will really enjoyed it when you do it. The biggest bump is probably just doing it and going over the edge.... :eek:

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  • MattCameronKicksButt
    MattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    cutback wrote:
    100% PURE ADRENALINE!! :D

    You dork!

    (This was the first thing I thought of too). :o
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    who's_pearljam? wrote:
    Yeah man,,,

    Do it!

    I did quite a few jumps years ago, before the tandem things. It was like a 4 hour school then you went up in the plane, and man, I remember the first time where the instructor said, "Step out and stand on the strut and hold on."
    So I looked out and thinking, I'm F*N stepping out of a damn plane! So I'm standing on this wheel strut looking down and he yells "It's time to let go"

    So I let go and:



    HA hahahahahahahaa!!!!!! :D


    It's fantastic!

    The first jumps were with a static line that pops the chute open automatically but it's REALLY cool when you get a few jumps in and can do a little sky maneuvering.

    I've never been scared of heights, or much, I guess, but friends of mine who did it were scared of heights and said that it didn't affect them like being on a building. It was all so surreal to them that being scared of heights didn't even enter into the equation.

    Do it!
    :D I'd love to do one... definitely! I get a bit of vertigo at times... but weirdly only when I'm low down, like standing on a stool or something :D leaning over cliffs or looking down from buildings or anything don't bother me... what's that about? Lol
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    mattcoz wrote:
    Well of course it is, after that gravity pretty much takes over. But I know what he means, I've never done it but it's similar in repelling. You get to the edge and the guy says "ok, now lean back and step off the cliff", and you just think "DO WHAT?!". It's such an unnatural thing to do, but fun and I'm sure everything is just multiplied with jumping out of a plane.
    :D that made me laugh.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
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  • myhook
    myhook Posts: 284
    I have been skydiving twice and it was a blast both times. I am not scared of heights and am an adrenaline junkie. The actually free fall didn't feel like I was dropping out of the sky though. I guess since you are up so high and the ground isn't rushing up at you I just felt like I was floating with a very loud fan blowing in my ear. Plus from that height the ground just looks like a bunch of big squares. And once the 'chute opens it gets so quiet and surreal. It was some of the most fun I ever had. I have been bungee jumping a few times as well and that got me more rattled than sky diving.
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  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    NY PJ1 wrote:
    SERIOUSLY WHEN THE CHUTE opens,,your crotch gets ripped apart

    enjoy ;)
    is that the excuse you use?

    'Uhhh :o ... it was a skydiving accident... I swear' :p
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    Remember The Crotch !!!!!!
  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    damn, now I am more worried about my crotch being torn apart than plummeting to my death.
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • NY PJ1
    NY PJ1 Posts: 9,533
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    damn, now I am more worried about my crotch being torn apart than plummeting to my death.


    lol it hurt like a bastard,,then again im ya know well off ;)
  • rival.
    rival. Chicago Posts: 7,775
    do it. it will be an experience that you will remember for the rest of your life.
  • Buru
    Buru Posts: 8,473
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    Friend at work wants me to go with him and another guy Saturday....I gave nevr done it before and I am scared shitless of heights (even in my roofing days) but somehow I think it will be so surreal that it wont bother me.

    anyone ever do it...have any suggestions? comments?

    Do it... do it... do it!!

    You'll love every second of it.
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    I never did it or ever will...

    but hey if that's your thing go for it :)

    I think some people should do it w/o a parachute :D
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  • Baystone
    Baystone Posts: 111
    myhook wrote:
    I have been skydiving twice and it was a blast both times. I am not scared of heights and am an adrenaline junkie. The actually free fall didn't feel like I was dropping out of the sky though. I guess since you are up so high and the ground isn't rushing up at you I just felt like I was floating with a very loud fan blowing in my ear. Plus from that height the ground just looks like a bunch of big squares. And once the 'chute opens it gets so quiet and surreal. It was some of the most fun I ever had. I have been bungee jumping a few times as well and that got me more rattled than sky diving.
    Nobody ever mentions the silence once the parachute opens. This was the most amazing part for me after the violence of freefalling and all of a sudden it just feels like you are floating. It was also nice doing above the great barrier reef! If you are doing a tandem jump it isn't hard at all, all you have to do is hang your legs out the side of a plane... I'd find it much harder to bungee because I'd have to make the decision to jump.
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  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    I'd love to do this one day
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    singularity wrote:
    do it. it will be an experience that you will remember for the rest of your life.

    Or your last

    ;)
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Slip Kid wrote:
    I'd love to do this one day

    I find this hard to believe...the most mundane things scare you....perhaps you will be drunker then a skunk when you do it :D.


    BOO!
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    libragirl wrote:
    I find this hard to believe...the most mundane things scare you....perhaps you will be drunker then a skunk when you do it :D.


    BOO!

    :rolleyes: yeah
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Slip Kid wrote:
    :rolleyes: yeah

    awww..I was messing with you...you need to chill ya know ;)
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  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    Friend at work wants me to go with him and another guy Saturday....I gave nevr done it before and I am scared shitless of heights (even in my roofing days) but somehow I think it will be so surreal that it wont bother me.

    anyone ever do it...have any suggestions? comments?

    My only comments would be better you than me, and you don't have to do it, if you don't want to, but if you do, good luck and have fun. And post the minute you get back, so we know you survived.
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