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 ‘AFF’
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
Helicopter jump
Posted: 2nd October 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, AFF, awesome, belly-fly, blue skies, Bungee, community, excitement, first jump, first time, freefall, fun, fun jump, Helicopter, parachuting, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving
So it’s nearly the end of the season in Quebec and in most places actually… Although there’s still a couple of weeks left to the season, it’s over for me at this point. I ended it with a bang though, got my first helicopter jump done (4000 feet). And yes, I bought beer… And rum actually haha. To give some of you a quick description of what it’s like to do a heli jump as opposed to a normal skydive from a plane, when you jump from the chopper, you’re getting off out of a vehicle that’s barely moving, so… » Read more…
Night Skydive follow up :)
Posted: 18th September 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, AFF, awesome, belly-fly, blue skies, first time, freefall, freefly, fun, fun jump, Night Skydive, parachute montreal, parachuting, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, story, twin otter
Hey everyone! I had a very eventful day last Saturday, it started off with my celebration jump for my B license. We did a 7 way that went to hell, was someone’s 100th jump and the idea was that we would do a hybrid (some belly fliers, some free fliers). The plan was that we’d have a 4 person base (I was in the base). With 2 people hanging onto us and one stinger (He was on camera filming and would randomly hook on and off in freefly) Our exit was fairly unstable and I ended up separated from everyone,… » Read more…
A letter to skydiving – By Sydney Owen
Posted: 17th August 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Addiction, Adrenaline, AFF, blue skies, community, fear, injury, scared, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, story
Sydney, Ashley’s Life twin, and one of my recent new acquaintances wrote a letter to our beloved sport… I know exactly where she’s coming from, and I felt that this deserved a re-post… Check out her blog here Dear Skydiving, I’m going to tell you a little bit about me. You know when you get to that place with something new in your life where you kinda shock yourself by how full-steam-ahead you’ve been approaching things? I’ve been there. A lot. It happened with rowing when I jacked up my hip flexor and was out for the rest of the… » Read more…
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…
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…
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