Coach
Close your eyes.. and think skydiving.. What is in your mind? The airplane, often seen from a distance, but now so up close and personal. The ride up, in the beginning seemed to be that last slow walk down the green mile, but later becomes an unbearable delay from your own sweet release. The open [...]
Ahh, a great time as come and past, for me at least. All summer I’m able to enjoy spending Monday and Wednesday nights at the dropzone, but with the kids returning to school after Labor Day, my summer fun is winding down to an end. This was probably be the last weekday at the DZ, [...]
It’s been over a year since my first “hump day jump” (7-9-08, #57) and I can certainly say they’ve turned into being one my favorite days at the dropzone. It seems there is a different group around and a different pace. It’s not about cranking out the jumps and turning the loads like on a [...]
Well, the jumps have picked back up over the last few weeks, and trying to balance that with work and the kids at home has been tricky – much less trying to make sure I get everything documented here! But no excuses, after a few posts in rapid succession this weekend, I’m hoping to get [...]
Well, July 2009 has come to an end, but what a great month it was – in more ways then one! The month started with jump number 229 on the 3rd, a pseudo coaching dive with a Christian, a jumper back from a 7 year layoff. He’d already done a recent recurrency jump with an [...]