labrys 0 #1 October 6, 2003 This forum has been an amazing source of information and plain 'ole "feel good" to me for the past few weeks. I did a tandem jump with a friend about 7 years ago and have talked from time to time since then about wanting to do the AFF 1 jump just to experience the thrill. My friend, who is now my S/O, called my bluff after all this time and bought me that AFF jump for my 40th birthday a couple of weeks ago. I went to the DZ (AerOhio) that morning expecting to do the level one and file the experience away under "done that" without looking back. Observation of the super staff at the DZ and the level of understanding and confidence I felt that I had for the gear after the FJC made me feel WAY more psyched than I imagined. I was ready to go and very, very dissapointed when weather and time delayed my jump until the next day. I thought long and hard that night about how I was feeling and realized even then that if I made that first jump I wasn't going to stop there. My level one video is a riot. I look like a 3 year-old on a candy high. I was on the next load for level 2. In the 2 months since then I've finished the AFF course and completed 28 skydives. I know now what other people mean when they talk about not being able to look up at the sky without wanting to be there.... and I NEVER hear a plane passing overhead anymore without hearing "DOOR!" I can't say enough good things about the people I've met and the wonderfull staff at the DZ. I feel like I got the most fabulous birthday present anyone could ever get. A new outlook on life and new partners in crime to hang out with..Owned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alanab 0 #2 October 6, 2003 hey! welcome to the forums... have we met yet?? i jump at aerohio too. hmm? were you there this weekend? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
labrys 0 #3 October 6, 2003 Hiya. Yes, I was there today jumping with Billy's groups (ok, ok... watching Billy's groups from a distance because my exits really suck) I'm the tall gawky woman with short, dark hair :-) My name is KellyOwned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alanab 0 #4 October 6, 2003 yes yes!! i just checked the graduates page and we have met!! i remember now (im a little slow with names!) we talked at the fire one night and you were drinking liquor straight from the bottle! hope you come to the dark side so we can jump together soon! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alanab 0 #5 October 6, 2003 shit... i missed you today... i was there friday and saturday. shitty weather sucks and i only got 2 jumps in this weekend. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
labrys 0 #6 October 6, 2003 Heh.. what an intro! Yeah, that was me with the scotch (it was my graduation night. Sometimes I bother with a glass) I'd love to go to the dark side, I just think I'd better get a few more jumps under my belt first, eh?Owned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #7 October 6, 2003 Hello back at ya...always good to have other tall gawkey mature women in the sky Soon you will be going to boogies and partying like you were 20 again... Jeanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
labrys 0 #8 October 6, 2003 Good to meet ya, Amazon. Oddly, I use that name on a couple of other forums.. and my middle name is Jeanne. Separated at birth? Nah. Thanks for the greeting... hope to see you at one of those boogies. I've already got one thing down, been partying like I was 20 since I was 15. The strange thing is that jumping has slowed me down. I can't imagine trying to jump with a hangover... ack.Owned by Remi #? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #9 October 6, 2003 OH you have SO got to jump with a hangover... I have been to a couple boogies since starting jumping again.. and the Mad John Almost Sober Loads are a riot.... It makes for some interesting combat RW....I had pretty much given up drinking.. I liked to keep my wits about me. Oh well so much for that Might I recommend the Lost Prairie Boogie next summer... get some good belly flying skills... we need some more women for the record attempt.. we got 34 out of the 35 jumpers in so the old record stands from last year at 33. They are great jumps... with a lot of good women. Jeanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skymama 37 #10 October 6, 2003 Welcome to the forums! She is Da Man, and you better not mess with Da Man, because she will lay some keepdown on you faster than, well, really fast. ~Billvon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
