Skydiving rush!

[roy.nz]

Okay this is one big rave..........:banana:

Saturday came and i was looking forward to my first skydive, couldn't wait to throw myself out of a good plane.....

Okay now here is what im raving about..... The rave is the pure rush you get as soon as you hang your legs over the edge of the planes exit door. Okay braking from 240kph and over to do the esses at the end of taupo's back straight and getting through is good and doing some high speed cornering and all things fast on a bike is good.
But as soon as you leave the plane and feel how the earth sucks you back is something nothing as can do, the rush of going from a sit to over 200kph falling and in under 5 secs is just pure.
I could easly do that everyday.
Just checking if other bikers who have skydived feel the same:headbang::headbang:

[Kendog]

It was a while ago, but yeah it is a rush.
I know what you mean about the legs hanging out the door, a strange feeling followed by pure adrenaline as you fall out of the plane.

[rachprice]

whoohoo!!!
Yeah, good times, where did you do it?

[R6_kid]

I did it for my 15th birthday, one of the last civvies to jump at Whenuapai through the club.

I sent Miss.L up for her 22nd birthday and now she wants to do it for a job! :2thumbsup

[discotex]

It's on my list of things to do this year. Can't wait :)

Would really love to go wingsuit flying but don't have the cash to do a license etc.

[Blackshear]

It's a good thing OTHER people get a kick out of terminal velocity with a duffel bag attached to them. FAAAAARK THAT BRO. I'd cry like a little girl.
I wouldn't care if Zooey Deschanel was waiting on the ground for a root. And goddamnit she's a cutie.

YOU'RE ALL NUTS I TELL YA, NUTS!!!

[klingon]

I've done a few static-line jumps from little planes. Excellent fun! Climbing out on the wheel and hanging from the wing strut then... LET GO!

The best thing is after the plane has gone and it's just you up there in the quiet, all alone. You can hear dogs barking from waaaay down there but you kind of feel detatched from the whole thing. Marvellous. Would do it every weekend if I could afford to.

[Owl]

Yep great fun!:woohoo:

So were you doing an AFF jump or tandem?

[Shadows]

Yeah man, awesome stuff. I'd recommend paying to be pushed out of a perfectly good aeroplane to anybody.

Bungy jumping is for pussies.

[Lias]

It's one of the things I'm going to do once i've lsot weight and am actually light enough to get thrown out of a plane.. apparently fat bastards break parachutes or something :-P

[Nagash]

My folks have just paid for my first skydiving jump for my birthday in March..

I can't wait!

[roy.nz]

whoohoo!!!
Yeah, good times, where did you do it?

Taupo !!!!! on a very clear, beatiful and hot day. Could see coast to coast :Punk:

[roy.nz]

I did it for my 15th birthday, one of the last civvies to jump at Whenuapai through the club.

I sent Miss.L up for her 22nd birthday and now she wants to do it for a job! :2thumbsup

Yeah when summer comes round in Dec im going for my jump licence, screw being a mechanic, jumping is much better..

[roy.nz]

Yep great fun!:woohoo:

So were you doing an AFF jump or tandem?

Cant wait to do a AFF jump cos i think that'l be a bigger rush..

[vifferman]

Must do eet one day. I've dreamed about it for years. I'm not really into "adventure sports", and can't stand roller coasters or other thrill rides, but I'd give skydiving a go.
Was out at Parakai the other day, and there was a guy jumping from 12000 feet - you could hear him yahooing when he was still a VERY long way up.

For anyone that wants to try something that's a buzz, but not so much of an adrenaline rush, try a trial plane flight. $80 for 30 minutes, which counts as your first lesson if you decide to go for your private pilot's licence. :niceone:

[pixc]

My experience.

The plane was like..chity-chity-bang-bang. Sitting next to the perspex door, watching the wheels WOBBLE as we go down the runway. The pilot looked to young to hold a drivers license and I envisioned the rivets popping out of the wing. I was so keen to get out of that plane. ( I have a vivid imagination)

That free-fall thing really is a great rush. Going thru the edge of a cloud was the best part.

I did the tandem jump and we yakked all the way down after the parachute had been deployed. When he cried "Shit", that was about the worse part for me. I had distracted him and we missed our landing zone. Not by far, but it still gave me a fright. ...i cant wait to do it all again.

[Swoop]

It could be said that I have done it more than once...

[klingon]

My Dad used to be a parachutist in the '50s. They used ex-army parachutes and used to do display jumps over A&P shows and other public events.

Those were the days when parachutes were round and designed to get you down to the ground as fast as possible so you wouldn't be an easy target to shoot at. (I mean during the war... not during the A&P shows :blink:)

Also it was the days before you could steer your chute so they relied completely on calculating wind speed etc to make sure they landed anywhere near the target. Needless to say, Dad had a lot of exciting jumps where he ended up miles from where he should be, or landing in farmers' chicken coops, or in the tops of trees, or in the middle of the Country Women's Institute cake-judging contest. :done:

[vifferman]

My Dad used to be a parachutist in the '50s. They used ex-army parachutes and used to do display jumps over A&P shows and other public events.
A guy I work with used to be a paratrooper. He'd done over 170 static-line jumps, but never experienced free fall. So last year he went down to Taupo and did a tandem skydive. He raved about it so much that another employee went a few weeks later.

[Nagash]

My old man did the same, display jumping with the old style round parachutes.

Many interesting stories aswell.

Which is what got me so into it.



My Dad used to be a parachutist in the '50s. They used ex-army parachutes and used to do display jumps over A&P shows and other public events.

Those were the days when parachutes were round and designed to get you down to the ground as fast as possible so you wouldn't be an easy target to shoot at. (I mean during the war... not during the A&P shows :blink:)

Also it was the days before you could steer your chute so they relied completely on calculating wind speed etc to make sure they landed anywhere near the target. Needless to say, Dad had a lot of exciting jumps where he ended up miles from where he should be, or landing in farmers' chicken coops, or in the tops of trees, or in the middle of the Country Women's Institute cake-judging contest. :done:

[Hans]

I remember a particularly harsh practical joke from my days as an employee of the state /not nz/:
Step 1: remove packed round 'chute (rated for 150 kg) from pack.
Step 2: replace with round chute rated for despatch motorcycle+gear@250kg.
Step 3: issue to unsuspecting colleague, who needs to learn a lesson.
Step 4: on a hot summer day /thermals/, collect colleague from anywhere up to about 10km from intended landing.

[Little Miss Trouble]

Yeah when summer comes round in Dec im going for my jump licence, screw being a mechanic, jumping is much better..

I'm keen to do mine ASAP, just gotta get the cash together first


My folks have just paid for my first skydiving jump for my birthday in March..

I can't wait!

Where are you jumping from?

[MotoGirl]

I went skydiving about a year ago over Queenstown. I loved every minute of it and would definitely do it again. My first jump was only 12,000ft so I'd want to go up to 15,000 next time.

[phantom]

"she who must be obeyed" paid for me to be thrown out of a plane for my 50th birthday ( plus another 49 individually wrapped gifts ). I think she was trying to tell me something.

[Dooly]

Did quite a few jumps early/mid 80s.
Used to be the old chutes, not much use cept a little steer and hit the ground hard.
Was a buzz hanging out the door of the plane and swinging onto the wing strut.

Alas my last jump went wrong, had to choose between a row of pines or 6 rows of power lines to hit.
Chose the pines, clipped them, crashed thru a grape vine, result, leg bent in all angles and breaks.
End of skydiving, end of rugby career!
But first ride in ambulance!

[Ixion]

Okay this is one big rave..........:banana:

Saturday came and i was looking forward to my first skydive, couldn't wait to throw myself out of a good plane.....

Okay now here is what im raving about..... The rave is the pure rush you get as soon as you hang your legs over the edge of the planes exit door. Okay braking from 240kph and over to do the esses at the end of taupo's back straight and getting through is good and doing some high speed cornering and all things fast on a bike is good.
But as soon as you leave the plane and feel how the earth sucks you back is something nothing as can do, the rush of going from a sit to over 200kph falling and in under 5 secs is just pure.
I could easly do that everyday.
Just checking if other bikers who have skydived feel the same:headbang::headbang:

I thought they made you go down tied to some dude? That never sounded very exciting to me , just sort of a parcel being delivered.



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Those were the days when parachutes were round



They have another sort? Like, square maybe :rofl:

[klingon]

I thought they made you go down tied to some dude? That never sounded very exciting to me , just sort of a parcel being delivered.

Nope, you can do a solo jump, but it has to be a static-line jump. They don't trust you to pull your own ripcord until you've had a bit more training and experience.


They have another sort? Like, square maybe :rofl:

Yes. Square and steerable. Fly through the air at about 15 knots. Great fun.

[klingon]

examples...

[Swoop]

Nope, you can do a solo jump, but it has to be a static-line jump. They don't trust you to pull your own ripcord until you've had a bit more training and experience.
Not so.
Accellerated Free Fall training is designed to get the student to pull their own ripcord and deploy the main parachute.
The Instructors are holding on to you in freefall but are a backup to your actions and training.
The best way to learn!

[klingon]

Not so.
Accellerated Free Fall training is designed to get the student to pull their own ripcord and deploy the main parachute.
The Instructors are holding on to you in freefall but are a backup to your actions and training.
The best way to learn!

OOooooOOoo!! The only options I was given were a tandem jump or static line. Where do I go to try out this accellerated free fall training? I'm signing up for that! :D

[gatch]

If it wasnt for the thin-ness of my wallet I would be up there ASAP, as high as I could, and free-fall for as long as I could.

I watched a vid on smoo-tube about the wing-suit flying, the dude reckons most countries recommend 500 dives before you are allowed a suit..

That, fellow KB nerds, would be alll kinds of bad ass.

[Swoop]

OOooooOOoo!! The only options I was given were a tandem jump or static line. Where do I go to try out this accellerated free fall training? I'm signing up for that! :D

http://www.skydiveballisticblondes.co.nz/
http://www.nzskydive.co.nz/auckland/links/learn.html
http://blueskiesskydiving.co.nz/

See you soon.

[Little Miss Trouble]

OOooooOOoo!! The only options I was given were a tandem jump or static line. Where do I go to try out this accellerated free fall training? I'm signing up for that! :D

Come do it out at Parakai - BlueSkies - with me! (I just have to figure out how to afford it without selling the SV first)

[Usarka]

Cant wait to do a AFF jump cos i think that'l be a bigger rush..

It is nothing short of awesomenessly good.

Your first completely solo jump is one of those rare occasions that you'll remember vividly the rest of your life.

[Little Miss Trouble]

It could be said that I have done it more than once...

hehe just once or twice though aye? :lol:

[Swoop]

hehe just once or twice though aye? :lol:
Yeah.
You don't want to get silly about things.

Stamp collecting. Now there's a rush.

[Owl]

See you soon.

Oh how times have changed! Love the user name by the way and are you still jumping Swoop? I still miss it sometimes!:weep:

[Swoop]

Oh how times have changed!
Yes. Yes, they have...

[Nagash]

Where are you jumping from?


I'm doing the Blue Skies jump, tandem with a camera crew.

Folks have said they're just gonna get me a voucher of some sort so the date is up to me.

[McWild]

Wow thank you for this thread.
I have my 18th coming up in April... and I think I know what I'm asking for now!

[Little Miss Trouble]

I'm doing the Blue Skies jump, tandem with a camera crew.

Folks have said they're just gonna get me a voucher of some sort so the date is up to me.

They're good guys out there, lol btw no one looks good on video in free fall

[The Buzz]

Even though my one and only jump was a few years ago, I can still close my eyes and vividly remember the rush and exhilaration of those first few seconds of total freefall after jumping out of the plane, something that a bungy or bigswing type activity can never replicate. Something you could get addicted to. The guy that I jumped with had done over 4000 jumps or something crazy like that, what a job!

[Charlie41]

I'm hoping to (FINALLY) do it on Monday, big birthday celebration?!!??

[roy.nz]

Must do eet one day. I've dreamed about it for years. I'm not really into "adventure sports", and can't stand roller coasters or other thrill rides, but I'd give skydiving a go.
Was out at Parakai the other day, and there was a guy jumping from 12000 feet - you could hear him yahooing when he was still a VERY long way up.

For anyone that wants to try something that's a buzz, but not so much of an adrenaline rush, try a trial plane flight. $80 for 30 minutes, which counts as your first lesson if you decide to go for your private pilot's licence. :niceone:

A ppl livence is way to dear,but id also love to get that...

[roy.nz]

OOooooOOoo!! The only options I was given were a tandem jump or static line. Where do I go to try out this accellerated free fall training? I'm signing up for that! :D

TTS in taupo...

[Swoop]

TTS in taupo...
A little inconvenient if you live in Auckland...

[roy.nz]

Wow thank you for this thread.
I have my 18th coming up in April... and I think I know what I'm asking for now!

You wont regret that jump, its beautiful.......

[roy.nz]

A little inconvenient if you live in Auckland...

On the bike its 2 1/2 to 3 hours on the bike :bleh:

[Skyryder]

Just had one jump. Static and solo.

Total silence is deafening.


Skyryder

[XP@]

First time I did it was cool, I was only 16.

The last time I did it was boring compared to the gravel roads I had just been attacking.