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I am just curious if anyone else feels this when they jump. From the moment i let go of the pilot chute till the point i am sat up by the canopy, i get real nervous. The thoughts of nothing happening, something going wrong, and "did i make a packing mistake" all go running through my mind. It only lasts a second and is not going to keep me from jumping by any means. Anyone else get this feeling? Just got to thinking about that today.

B Moore

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that will happen until you are confident with your pack jobs....BE VERY AWARE of what you are doing and you will be ok! 99% of malfunctions come form packing errors.....


Oh yea and a bit of personal advice...make sure your clothing doesnt have any loops or catches on it!
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not really I did a few jumps after Marc went in, but those dissappeard.

However, I must say that I did my scariest yet funnest jump last Sunday (11/30). I rode in a raft with B^2 and boy was I ever scared at the thought of my altimeter not working right or my audiables... let alone the fact that if we did not exit the raft at the same time it could fold on us... it was fun and I got video, but I doubt that I will ever do it again...well maybe...

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I think everyone is different. My nervous time is suiting up. Once I'm on the plane to altitude I feel pretty calm. I do get a brief moment of anxiety when I realize it is my turn at the door, but it passes quickly. Once out the door, nothing but pure excitement.

Disclaimer: I've only jumped out of an airplane 8 times.

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This doesn't surprise me. I read somewhere about a jumper doing studies that involved jumping with a portable pulse meter device that would record pulse rate vs time.

After studying the information for several jumps it was deteremined that pulse rate spiked at pull time...

so there may be something to it..

Age
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..It is far worse to live with fear, than to die confronting it.

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Honestly.. I think it is waiting for the canopy to fully inflate.. watching it and wondering is it going to open fully, do I have a bag lock etc. Once it blossums around, that's the really fun part begining. I LOVE flying the canopy! :D:D
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I think I'm with you here...I'm not afraid of any mal's with partially opened canopies...had one once, and I'm not afraid of those anymore ;)...but I am afraid of just nothing being there. I got a lil' panic-y once when I counted to five during my student progression and saw just a center cell above me and I was still falling fast o' course, but it did finish opening nice and pretty albeit SLOW as hell. I said to myself "Canopy, you've got another 3 count and then yer gone"...but it came around. Just nervous that (and I KNOW this is dumb so don't anybody say it :P)...that I'll cut away a perfectly good one some day and never live it down around the DZ...I know, I know, better to cut a good one then keep a bad one, but I just get embarrassed easily :$ it would be hard for me to look people in the eye again without feeling kinda silly...
~Jaye
Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action.

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After studying the information for several jumps it was deteremined that pulse rate spiked at pull time...



-Do you think that might have something to do with anticipating the opening shock? Or no? I know I had a hard time holding my arms out right after pull, because the harness I jump is too long and the chest strap snaps up under my throat and chokes me out on deploy...so scared of that my hands instinctively started going to my neck, which tipped me head down, which made it worse...:S Took me awhile to fix that...

But seriously, does that have something to do with other jumpers' anxiety at pull ya think -not the chest strap issue but just the fear of having a real slammer on deploy like Skymama did in November?

edited to correct a detail
~Jaye
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This doesn't surprise me. I read somewhere about a jumper doing studies that involved jumping with a portable pulse meter device that would record pulse rate vs time.

After studying the information for several jumps it was deteremined that pulse rate spiked at pull time...

so there may be something to it..

Age



I have done this, at about 200 jumps or so.

I got almost complete ratings on my heart rate, except for in the A/C.. the device worked on radio signals that were cut off in the A/C but the stronger radios.

resting: 69

Suiting up: 130

Walking to the A/C 150

Immediately out the door 177

middle of freefall: 177

After deployment, during snivel, 188.


the heart rate was maxed during deployment.

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I had a "slammer" once - a premature in the middle of a track....talking about hurt, wow. My chin touched my chest and a millisecond later my heels touched the back of my head. I felt like a pretzel for a week. But bottom line is, IMO, everyone had a few jitters at some point in time, whether he/she has 1 jump or 10,000 we all experience jitters sometimes.

TripleF

"Upon seeing the shadow of a pigeon, one must resist the urge to look up."

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aint normal if you aint afeared:P

my heart rate is MAX 50 feet from the ground, after 1030 perfect deployments (maybe 4 haven't been so special) but if anything deployment is time to be absolutely "in tune." I take real special care in every pack job so do not have to fear packing mistake.

SMiles;)

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The scariest part for me is driving to the DZ ... not because
of an auto accident, but because I keep asking myself, "Why
do I want to jump out of an airplane? This is crazy!" I almost
convince myself to turn around and go home.

The answer comes on jumprun when I'm at the door.

The best part of a skydive for me is that brief moment jumping
into nothingness.

Luckily, I've had only one cutaway. It was probably a "good"
thing because it convinced me that my rigger really DOES put
a reserve in there sometimes.

But I've got to be honest ... after throwing out the PC, I still
say, "Thanks God", each time the main fills with air.


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Nah, not really. I always had a habit of yelling sweet things to my canopy as it opens, like "Come on baby, you can do it!" or "I love you sweetie, open for daddy!!", my canopy likes that. ;) I bet yours would too. It helps, really, show it you care and it'll save your ass every time. B|

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Reposted from an old thread;
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Anticipraytion

That feeling you get between the time you throw your pilot chute and when you (hopefully) actually feel your main parachute pull you up.

(by Speedracer)

For me, this is the most intense moment of the skydive. It was a bit scary on student ripcord systems when pc hesitations were a daily occurence, but now I feel as if my whole existence narrows down to a single point in time and space when I pitch that piece of fabric into the wind and faithfully wait for the laws of physics to do their job.
Naturally, I usually get much more pleasure from freefall and canopy ride/landing, but in a certain way, the deployment is the peak of every jump I make.:)

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I can completely relate to the feeling you described. I'm usually asleep or totally relaxed in the plane. Everything slows down for me in freefall and prejump planning and instinct do most of the work. I haven't had gear fear since my first cutaway about 1K jumps ago and I totally trust my packing.... but there is that split second after a wave off when I'm letting go of the pilot chute when I get that feeling of anticipation you described. Hasn't ever changed for me and I don't imagine it will.
Interesting enough I get the same feeling with a cord pull when doing tandems.

-Biffin



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you can't get into a sidespin, since you're not doing tandems, those are fucking scary.


Only the first one is scary. If you've recovered from it once you know you can recover from it again. I'll have to show you my sidespin video someday Dave. :S

Pull time only scares me now when I'm flying the wingsuit, and that's only because I've done so few wingsuit jumps.

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