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
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…
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…
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…
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
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
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…
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