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 ‘scared’
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
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…
34 and counting: Part I – The Tandem
Posted: 29th June 2010 by Allan in Allan's Skydive BlogTags: Addiction, Adrenaline, AFF, awesome, belly-fly, community, dream, excitement, fear, first jump, first time, freefall, fun, fun jump, group tandem, my blog, parachuting, PFF, plane, scared, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, story, tandem
“It’s the closest you’ll ever get to God.” I guess my story begins with this quote from the movie Point Break, a film my friend and I watched incessantly and memorized line for line when we weren’t slingin’ drinks behind the bar together back in the early 90’s. In our early 20’s at the time, with an abundance of adrenaline and a deficit of good sense, we’d reaffirm our commitment to jump together one day each time we’d watch the exciting but (as I now realize) unrealistic skydiving scene from the movie. At the time, it seemed as sure 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…
My mom went co-pilot!
Posted: 30th May 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, Adrenaline, AFF, awesome, belly-fly, community, excitement, fear, first jump, first time, freefall, fun, fun jump, my blog, parachute montreal, parachuting, plane, scared, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, stoked, tandem, twin otter
So I was having a very hard time convincing my mom to come jump with me… When she got there, she loved the atmosphere and the people and everything, so I popped up the idea of letting her ride co-pilot. She asked me to go find out how much it would cost, so I just manifested her, and brought over the form for her to fill out. She looked at me and said something along the lines of “I didn’t tell you to book me, I told you to ask how much it was!” So I pulled her chair up… » Read more…
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