This is the first video i’ve taken during a skydive.. It’s just with a cheapo (99$) digital video camera, only 32 jumps, i didn’t try to tape the jump, i just pulled high at 6,000, pulled the camera out of my jumpsuit, and video’d my decent down to 2500.
25th jump Finally here… last dive to get my A license. To celebrate even, my mom and my little sister came up to watch, and i talked my mom into doing a tandem too! On this jump, i was a little bit nervous again, not because of the jump really, I’m comfortable with that, but [...]
Jump #24 Wow… getting very close! Only one left to go. This jump was very similar to the last one, another clear & pull, only this time, from ONLY 3500 feet. (Let.s do some math…) I’m sure everyone remembers a mile is 5,280 feet (right?) and 3500/5280 = .663, so my just was from LESS [...]
Jump #21 Well, I bummed around the house for an hour or two, and then finally decided to head over to Tecumseh for a few dives. I got there just in time for a caravan load going up, so I started to get my stuff together and be ready. I ended up using a Falcon [...]
Jump #15 Met up with Mike and got ourselves manifested for the load. We didn’t have a lot to go over on the ground as we would be doing the exact same jump from last night, more swoop & docks until I got them just right (or at least close enough to be safe to [...]