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…
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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…
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…
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…
The hazards of skydiving:
Posted: 31st May 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, belly-fly, first jump, first time, injury, my blog, nauseous, parachuting, plane, Puke, scared, sick, skydive, tandem, twin otter
So, as all of you know, skydiving is a sport with certain risks, people can get hurt, people can get scared, people can get sick… Well, the other day at the DZ, one of the tandem students did just that, he puked all over his tandem master’s leg… Poor guy’s jump suit went from black to orange…. Now, to make matters worse, the next day, THE VERY SAME tandem master was up with a student who started puking… and guess what… … … … … He avoided it hahaha Seriously speaking though, one of the tandem students didn’t listen to… » Read more…
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