Skydiving journey
I have been thinking to do a skydive for few years now but never took the plunge. My daughter gave a tandem skydive as a birthday gift and now I had no excuse. It made even more exciting is she will also do the skydive for the first time. Great birthday gift for a 50+ years young!
I am sharing my experience of the dive. You can read about tandem skydive here. We went to the Lincoln, near Sacramento - it was hot almost 100 degrees around noon. After waiting for few hours and signing a 6-8 pages waiver document, we were ready. My wife was cool with the process .. which made this a exciting process (Thanks!). When the time came, we were suited with the harness belts and instructions were given how to get out of the plane. The plane was a single engine propeller plane and like a card board box. We had to sit facing back in the floor in a tight way; us in the front with legs stretching and the instructors on the back tethered to us. The plane ride was scary a bit .. noisy single engine propeller plane. After 20 minutes, we reached the 13,000 feet (2.5 miles) and it was 55 degrees - the view from top was awesome! Just before the jump, there was a moment of realization of what is about of happen. We stood on the jumping rod and then we are off - floating in the sky and going down in (some point it was 120 miles per hours as I was told). It felt free ... the wind at blistering speed on the face and the vastness of the land below ... it was an awesome feeling and to me that was the best part.
After 20-30 seconds, parachute opened and you feel safe. We started to descend but after 10 seconds, the instructor said, we need to speed going down and he did some twist and we started falling at a very fast speed in a twisting way ... I felt nauseous .. the same feeling when u go to the rides which goes in circles (I have no problem in roller-coaster but rides which goes in circles, I get dizzy). You get the same feeling in stomach like when to go to drop-zone rides where the ride drops you 100 feet in few seconds. I felt like vomiting also, lots of people do. My daughter fared much better. We landed after 20-30 seconds. Those seconds felt like a long time to me.
I loved the free fall part - an experience I have never felt before. Awesome experience and it was even more exciting was doing it with my daughter. We celebrated the jump by going to Samurai Sushi, a very good sushi place in Folsom.
What the dive was to understand the sense of fear and freedom. Even in a tethered position, jumping from 13k feet, can be very scary for a first timer. This was another stop of my journey to understand oneself. Thanks for being part of this journey!
Will I jump again? Possibly ... give me ping if u are interested :-)
I am sharing my experience of the dive. You can read about tandem skydive here. We went to the Lincoln, near Sacramento - it was hot almost 100 degrees around noon. After waiting for few hours and signing a 6-8 pages waiver document, we were ready. My wife was cool with the process .. which made this a exciting process (Thanks!). When the time came, we were suited with the harness belts and instructions were given how to get out of the plane. The plane was a single engine propeller plane and like a card board box. We had to sit facing back in the floor in a tight way; us in the front with legs stretching and the instructors on the back tethered to us. The plane ride was scary a bit .. noisy single engine propeller plane. After 20 minutes, we reached the 13,000 feet (2.5 miles) and it was 55 degrees - the view from top was awesome! Just before the jump, there was a moment of realization of what is about of happen. We stood on the jumping rod and then we are off - floating in the sky and going down in (some point it was 120 miles per hours as I was told). It felt free ... the wind at blistering speed on the face and the vastness of the land below ... it was an awesome feeling and to me that was the best part.
I loved the free fall part - an experience I have never felt before. Awesome experience and it was even more exciting was doing it with my daughter. We celebrated the jump by going to Samurai Sushi, a very good sushi place in Folsom.
What the dive was to understand the sense of fear and freedom. Even in a tethered position, jumping from 13k feet, can be very scary for a first timer. This was another stop of my journey to understand oneself. Thanks for being part of this journey!
Will I jump again? Possibly ... give me ping if u are interested :-)
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