A friend of mine who happens to be a Francophone skydiver from Quebec only took up the sport a few years ago. She’s someone who impresses me. She has her motorcycle license, she has her skydiving license and she’s just an overall “bad ass” woman. She gave me permission to post an article that she wrote up for Canpara (Canadian version of Parachutist) This is the article: Skydiving in your early 50s? Written by Normande Cournoyer Translaled by Gaëlle Vercollier Yes, it is possible. ln 2004, around the end of the summer, I was looking for a special project to… » Read more…
Posts Tagged ‘A license’
You’re never too old to skydive!
Posted: 2nd February 2012 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: A license, Addiction, Adrenaline, AFF, awesome, blue skies, community, dream, excitement, fear, first jump, first time, freefall, freefly, fun, fun jump, group tandem, hello world, injury, instructor, my blog, parachuting, PFF, plane, scared, sick, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, skyventure montreal, stoked, story, tandem, twin otter, welcome
What a birthday!
Posted: 4th August 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: A license, Adam's Story, Adrenaline, AFF, awesome, belly-fly, birthday, blue skies, excitement, fear, first jump, freefall, fun, fun jump, group tandem, Head Down, instructor, my blog, parachute montreal, parachuting, PFF, plane, scared, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, stoked, story, tandem, twin otter
It’s been 4 days since then, and I’m still feeling the after effects of Saturday. I started everything off by partying with some friends Friday night and got to bed around 4:30AM… Woke up the next morning at 8:00AM to pick up some friends at the Metro (Subway) and then head to the DZ. My mom, being a pastry chef decided that she wanted to make me some cookies and brownies to bring with me, so I had about 3 boxes of junk food with me along with my skydive gear, a small ziplock back full of cherries, my box… » Read more…
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…
Jumping in SA is cheaper than here =(
Posted: 22nd July 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: A license, Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, AFF, awesome, belly-fly, blue skies, community, excitement, freefall, freefly, fun, fun jump, my blog, parachuting, PFF, plane, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, story
Well, as far as I’ve been able to read, as it stand, Lance has got it way better than I do in Canada… A jump ticket here is 35$ Canadian (34$ us give or take) Packing is only 6$ though. So if you have your own rig, it’s 41$ if you have your rig packed. Add another 30$ if you rent a rig. It’s July, I’ve done 2 jumps this month so far, (Not kidding) I’ve done 48 overall this year, 10 of which were my AFF, 10 were my RW course, 2 were with camera men to film my… » Read more…
Skydiving in South Africa
Posted: 22nd July 2010 by Lance in Lance's Skydive BlogTags: A license, Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, AFF, awesome, belly-fly, blue skies, community, dream, excitement, first jump, first time, freefall, freefly, fun, fun jump, hello world, my blog, parachuting, PFF, plane, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, stoked, story
Right – I guess I should start off with describing how EXPENSIVE skydiving is here in relation to the general income (I’ll try make this as easy to understand as possible). Skydiving in South Africa has unfortunately reached a point where it is reserved for professionals. I am sure not why this is, but it a major factor behind skydiving here not being as accessible as it is in the rest of the world. To put it in context – A jump ticket cost me R200 (roughly $26.50), gear hire and packing – $9.90 each jump. Considering I normally take… » Read more…
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