WOO HOO!!! 25th birthday today, skies are blue, weather’s warm, I’ve got a rig for the day and a bunch of friends meeting me at the DZ… Gonna be a fun day! Damn I should’ve gotten more sleep! Blue ones! – Adam
Archive for July, 2010
It’s my birthday and I wanna skydive…
Posted: 31st July 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, awesome, belly-fly, birthday, blue skies, excitement, freefall, my blog, parachute montreal, parachuting, plane, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, stoked, twin otter
From Whuffo to Licensed in 12 days
Posted: 30th July 2010 by AJ in AJ's Skydive BlogTags: A license, Addiction, Adrenaline, awesome, blue skies, excitement, fear, parachuting, skydiveaddiction, stoked
First and foremost, I apologize for not updating this page as often as I wanted to. I had initially planned on updating it after every single jump, but things happened extremely fast. As the title describes – I made 25 jumps in just under 12 days time, while still working 45 hours per week. But I can honestly say it’s been one of the greatest 12 days of my life. Along the way there have been some very notable jumps, here are my favorites: Jump no. 7 Obviously my first Free Fall jump would make the list. I already wrote… » Read more…
All this planning and I forget to bring my gloves
Posted: 25th July 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: 2way, 4way, A license, Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, awesome, belly-fly, blue skies, excitement, first time, freefall, fun, fun jump, injury, my blog, parachuting, plane, Relative Work, RW, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, stoked, story
So in the end, we didn’t do a jump at 20 000 feet, the DZ wasn’t able to get the permits. So we jumped from 18000. Everyone on the plane had oxygen masks, we were 4 loads of 8-9 people. On my load, a buddy who’s birthday it was who they added to our load to accommodate (He wasn’t supposed to be jumping today, they originally limited the day at 30 jumpers) Most of the load were friends of mine I had met while skydiving, 3 of which were jumping with me. At 12 000 feet, we were told to… » Read more…
Well, AJ’s post somewhat inspired me to write about something quite common among Skydivers… Our friends and family just don’t get it. Whuffos ask us the same thing all the time, why we do it. Our friends who’ve already heard the answer to that question go even farther as to just ask what we see in the sport or why we blow all our money on it, or why we talk about it so much They simply can’t understand it. Well, I don’t understand why they find it normal that a golfer pays 25 000$ on a golf club membership…. » Read more…
Not Bad for a Wednesday
Posted: 23rd July 2010 by AJ in AJ's Skydive BlogTags: Addiction, Adrenaline, awesome, blue skies, excitement, first time, freefall, fun, parachute montreal, parachuting, skydive, skydiveaddiction, stoked
“Not bad for a Wednesday?” Ryan yelled over the noise of the small Cessna 206. “Hell no!” I answered back. It was almost sunset, and I’d been jumping since three. My training seems to be coming along nicely, I just need to work on targeting my landings better. But here I was about to get my first real freefall jump. He flashed the climb-out/get-out signal. Next thing I knew I was hanging on the strut of that little plane, looking back at a big grin and a thumbs up. “Fuck it.” I remember thinking, then I let go. Freefall. There’s… » Read more…
DZ Differences
Posted: 22nd July 2010 by Ashley in Ashley's Skydive BlogTags: addicted to skydiving, downsizing, dropzones, safety, skydive, skydive blog, skydiver, skydiving, swooping, wingsuiting
Over the course of the last year, I’ve been truly blessed to have the opportunity to travel to some amazing dropzones. What I’ve come to find is that each has it’s own unique set of qualities and it’s own unique group of jumpers. This definitely keeps things interesting. When it comes to issues like safety, I’ve come to find that each dropzone has their “danger zone” – that one element of the sport where there is constant discussion regarding jumper safety. Seems that every dropzone has their area(s) where they proceed with much caution. This really came to my attention… » Read more…
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