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Acrobatic jump The price ranges from $140 to $190 per jump, per person. However, renting the equipment is not as expensive. Once you complete about 7 levels of training you are more likely to love it and maybe qualify for your license to skydive. Yes, you can then call yourself a Skydiver and save money on your future jumps as well. The jumps will cost only $18 dollars after you have gained your certificate and license. How about the experience? The instructors are world famous personalities who have hundreds, even thousands of jumps under their belts. They have mastered the sport and will be able to show you the necessary skills and ensure your safety and vest your knowledge. Once your registration, orientation and safety training is taken cared of. It is time to decide which type of jump you will do: Tandem (one hour class) or Accelerated Free Fall Assisted Jump (six hours ground training). With a tandem jump, your harness gets secured to your instructors harness. Basically, you go along for the ride while your instructor does all the work. On the other hand an assisted jump involves 6 hours of ground training and two master skydivers jump with you holding you by each side help correct your dynamics and posture while falling and make sure you will deploy your parachute at the right time. Ground training is an experience in itself. It consists of a thorough lecture regarding the equipment, communication, navigation, safety, mechanics while falling, basic physics, landing, and last but not least dos and donts in case of emergency. Soon after your class and weather permitting, you get to don your skydiving suit and rig (parachute pack) and wait to board the airplane. If the conditions are right, your airplane will take you to an altitude of 14,000 feet. When you reach the right altitude and drop off position in relation to your landing zone, your pilot will give you the okay to jump and off you go at 120 miles per hour. In approximately a minute you will have dropped 8,000 feet, circle of awareness checks. At 6,000 feet you wave off your instructors and other skydivers in your close proximity. That will alert all that your next move is to deploy your main parachute. Immediately after you pull your pilot, in fractions of seconds your parachute deploys while you count for 5 seconds and inspect if it will inflate. Once your parachute is inflated and you have tested it through a gentle toggles pull, you are good to start your navigation and approach to the landing zone. Continued On Next Page (nude skydiving, Page 3) ... AUTHOR: Jonathan Rosillo  TAGS: Extreme sports skydiving Sport extreme Life BOOKMARK: Digg it | Add to Del.ICIO | Add to FARK ACTIONS: Comment Save Print Register free acount  |
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