In The Air

Skydive Blog on September 1st, 2008

This is the dirt-dive and my 100th jump.. I’m in the black jumpsuit with yellow grippers.  If you’re wondering why we had the dirt dive recorded.. well, we knew it would be the only time we’d be in the same frame!  My 100th came out just in time for the Labor Day Hellfish Boogie at [...]

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Skydive Blog on September 22nd, 2007

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.

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Skydive Blog on September 15th, 2007

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 [...]

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Skydive Blog on September 9th, 2007

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 [...]

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Skydive Blog on September 3rd, 2007

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 [...]

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