Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Skydiving



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What do you want to do before you die? There are hundreds of possibilities that come to mind when making a bucket list. Ever since I was young I have always wanted to sky dive. The rush that you must get free falling from the sky must be an adrenaline rush like no other. However, to really appreciate this experience I don’t want to go tandem I want to jump out of that plane by myself. To do that you must first go through a sky diving course. There are a couple ways to go about this other than going tandem; static line training and accelerated free fall. Static line training is when you go up in the air in a plane and you jump out of the plane and the parachute is already deployed in the plane. This allows the jumper to experience about 2 or 3 seconds of free fall. Accelerated free fall is when the diver jumps out of the plane with two instructors that will assist the diver, but they aren’t attached. Static line training costs about 175 dollars while the accelerated free fall is a bit more expensive at 275 dollars. After about 15 to 20 jumps each with different tasks divers will be able to jump out of the plane without an instructor. 



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