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 ‘skyventure montreal’
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
How I got started
Posted: 11th July 2010 by Greg in Greg's Skydive BlogTags: first jump, forget tandem, nerd, sensory overload, skyventure montreal, solo certification
I’ve been putting off writing my intro post for months now and Adam’s been patient, even though he technically deleted my account once already! Anyways, I’m Greg — an adrenaline junkie and software engineer. I love rock-climbing, biking, running and have a long list of other activities I’m planning on getting to. I’ve always been enamored with skydiving, and knew that I’d eventually do it. I landed an awesome job last year and finally had the means to start the PFF courses this season (it’s an expensive hobby). Adam had finished his solo certification the winter before, and he suggested… » Read more…
Mike’s Facebook status…
Posted: 22nd May 2010 by Adam in Adam’s Skydive Blog, Mike's Skydive BlogTags: Adam's Story, Addiction, AFF, awesome, community, excitement, Falling, fear, first time, Free-Fall, freefall, freefly, fun, fun jump, group tandem, injury, mike's story, parachute montreal, parachuting, PFF, plane, skydive, skydiveaddiction, skydiving, skyventure montreal, tandem, twin otter
Earlier, I read mike’s status to say: “so it’s official, I enjoy falling.” All I have to say to this is: I don’t enjoy falling… I’m addicted to it… In my dreams, I’m falling, in my nightmares, I’m falling, in my DAY dreams I’m falling… I look outside and I simply want to fall… Soon enough I’m gonna make a living off falling, then I know for sure that I have a problem
The wind tunnel…
Posted: 9th May 2010 by Mike in Mike's Skydive BlogTags: belly-fly, first time, freefall, freefly, fun, instructor, skydiving, skyventure montreal, wind tunnel
I posted a week ago about experiencing freefall for the first time, and this past Friday evening my little brother and I went on over to SkyVenture to get our fly-on. (lol) The staff was super friendly! Which didn’t help the excitement levels, nor did the hour long wait which seemed like forever watching the other flyers in the tunnel. The wait wasn’t their fault at all, we got there earlier than we should have and just had to wait till our scheduled time. I’m nowhere near skilled enough to make the waiting part seem interesting by throwing big words… » Read more…
Stoked! (a little update)
Posted: 3rd May 2010 by Mike in Mike's Skydive BlogTags: excitement, freefall, skyventure montreal, stoked, windtunnel
So it’s on for Friday, I’ll be in the windtunnel for the first time experiencing what freefall should be like. All I can say for the time being is that I’m super stoked and can hardly wait! You can count on me keeping you updated! -Mike
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