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 ‘excitement’
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
Been a while… Lots more blogs coming up :)
Posted: 29th January 2012 by AJ in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, awesome, BASE, Base Jump, belly-fly, blue skies, Corliss, excitement, freefall, freefly, fun, fun jump, injury, Jeb, Jeb Corliss, Jump, parachute montreal, parachuting, plane, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, stoked, story, welcome
Hey everyone! It’s been quite some time since my last post, I’m so sorry about the fact that we haven’t come up with much new content this past while. I’ve had to take a year off from skydiving to sort of reassess where my life is as well as pay off some debts that I sorta just left lying around… I’ve been staring at the skies waiting till my chance to get back up there. I missed the 100 way Canadian record attempt that was done at Parachute Montreal. They didn’t manage to break the record due to weather issues,… » Read more…
Skydive Varadero
Posted: 11th November 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, belly-fly, blue skies, excitement, first time, freefall, fun, fun jump, Helicopter, injury, instructor, my blog, parachuting, plane, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, tandem
So I just got back from Varadero Cuba… Absolutely had to pop into the local DZ to check it out and hopefully to do a few jumps with the locals… Turned out it’s a tandem factory, but they’re fairly welcoming to other skydivers. Weather didn’t permit us to jump on the day of my visit, so we played dominoes together… (I snapped some photos, but haven’t developed them yet) The DZ is actually owned by the government there, they fly a 20 seat soviet chopper (didn’t get to snap any photos of it though) Depending on wind conditions, you either… » Read more…
Quick update
Posted: 14th October 2010 by AJ in AJ's Skydive BlogTags: Addiction, Adrenaline, awesome, blue skies, community, excitement, skydive
Hey guys! Quick update while I have time between classes – This weekend is quickly approaching, and I’m extremely excited about it. Basically the University of Minnesota Skydiving Club is headed out to Skydive Twin Cities in Baldwin, Wisconsin for a day like no other. We’ve succesfully signed up over 80 tandem first-jumpers from the U of M! We weren’t expecting this many people at all, but I’m super pumped. This club has also afforded me the opportunity to meet some awesome new people. Kaleb Lommen, our club president, introduced me to a bunch of his friends (and coworkers) from… » Read more…
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…
Where am I?
Posted: 8th September 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, awesome, B license, belly-fly, blue skies, community, confession, dream, excitement, Factory Diver, freefall, freefly, fun, fun jump, instructor, my blog, parachuting, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, story
As a follow-up to my post My original plan for this year… My actual results I’m now at 62 jumps, I’ve spent about 5000$ on the sport (not counting the 1750$ for the solo course, the 350$ for the jump suit, the 280$ for my protrack, 260$ for my full face, my 100$ for my Altimaster II or the 1200$ spent going to Florida to take that solo course) I’ve just passed my B license, (Yes, Got my B 15 jumps after passing my A). I’ve not only passed the B license exam… I got 96.25% on it… According to… » Read more…
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