Trip Report: Mission Accomplished but...

[thrillseeker420 0]

...But now I have a new addiction...and I love it. I signed up to this site a couple months ago but just remembered today. I was gonna post this trip report and just found it on my computer so I decided to post it. Give it a read. I made a journal up to the skydive. Best experience in my life. Check it out:


Slept at 9 pm last night to pass the time to today. I wake up every couple of
hours in the night and take a look at the time. I go to the washroom at 8:30 am
and 3 minutes later, I am fully awake. I don't know if it was the shit loads
of hours of sleep I got or that it was all the thinking about skydiving I was
doing...maybe both. These last couple of days, every day, reality kicked in
more and more. Today was the worst of it, a combination of nervousness and
excitement mixed with a pound of "let's fuckin' do this". I'm about to get
ready and go pick up the boys and head down to Skydive Vancouver. Check in
time is at 2 pm. Getting so wasted after...atleast I hope.

I picked up the boys and stopped at the gas station on the way out. I fuelled
up and got a bag of chips to munch on. 5 minutes later, I hit the highway.
We got there about 25 minutes before check in time. When we parked, my buddy
saw a kid he worked with who just got back from his jump and was so shook up.
He was talking with a blank face and trying not to show it but you could
totally tell he just went through a huge trip. I walk in, check in, and
head out to the training center. They gave me the jumpsuit, got me ready,
made me lay down and I already knew what to do (too many skydiving youtube
videos and skydiving research). They told me to put my legs back, I did,
arms out when they tap me, I put them out and training was over. The
camera man started rolling and I was walking towards the plane. I hopped in
and watched the plane go higher and higher. I focused on the streets turning
into thin lines and the cars looking like little ants crawling around. Soon,
I realized I couldn't tell we were going higher because we were already high
as hell. My leg is trembling a little bit so I pull it back because it was
touching another instructor infront of me and I didn't want him to know.
My instructor hooked up my harness to his which makes me realize, it's
coming up. My instructor tells me we're going third. The door opens and all I
hear is the wind. The asian kid beside me gets ready to jump, he jumps
and that was one of the scariest things of the day because I know I'm up next.
The asian girl behind him sits on the edge and when she jumps, I hear a scream
that fades away so quickly while she drops towards the earth. Damnit. I'm
up next. I sit on the edge, mouth kind of dry, lick my lips and hear the
instructor say "ready, set, go!" We jump and all my fear is gone. I am falling
and this is amazing. I get tapped on the shoulder and my arms come out. I am
flying. The camera guy comes infront of me and I give him the thumbs up.
Then I feel my goggles kind of slipping, I put them back on and give the
camera another thumbs up. I fly for a while and the parachute comes out.
I feel like the parachute is pretty uncomfortable and after a couple of
seconds, I hear the instructor say "we're kind of tangled here buddy!" I think
"Oh shit, my friends were making jokes about me dying but this can't happen."
All of the sudden, I feel a twist unravelling and feeling much more
comfortable and I ask him "is that serious?" He says no and that it was just
a little tangle. He asked me if I didn't feel it. I told him I have never done
this before so I really don't know what feels right and wrong. I tell him that
the first 5 to 7 second were "the shit" and ask him if I get my license, the
free fall will be longer. He says yes. Now I can't believe I was so calm
and having a normal conversation thousands of feet in the air. I come down and
land on my ass in these really small stones and I gotta say landing was really
fun as the rocks cushioned the ground and i dragged for about a foot. I
finished off the interview and I was a new man. I just skydived. I felt like
"the man". Was I coming back? Hell yeah I was coming back. A thrill to me is
something that feels different to everyone depending on how you see life and
the experience that you go through living it. I have to get my license and make
those first 5 to 7 second turn into much, much, much more. Overall, the best
experience in my life.

[JohnnyMarko 1]

ummmmmmmmm

[petejones45 0]

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ummmmmmmmm

another classic example of a dz.com user alienating a new jumper

Look out for the freefly team, Smelly Peppers. Once we get a couple years more experience we will be a force to be reckoned with in the near future! BLUES!

[darkwing 5]

Congrats! Welcome to skydiving. This was perhaps the best write-up of this genre. As in some other endeavors, you never forget your first one.

-- Jeff
My Skydiving History

[Sangi 0]

Glad you enjoyed, the first one is always the one that stucks in your mind the most.

It's gonna be a lot more interesting further down..

Goodluck

"Dream as you'll live forever, live as you'll die today." James Dean

[petejones45 0]

Nice help....

Look out for the freefly team, Smelly Peppers. Once we get a couple years more experience we will be a force to be reckoned with in the near future! BLUES!

[thrillseeker420 0]

Hey Johnny, I don't know what you're 'umming' about. Maybe you haven't heard of a TRIP REPORT. Usually it's supposed to be about a drug but...It's a bigger TRIP and THRILL than anything in this world. Cheers buddy.

[thrillseeker420 0]

Thanks for the welcomes everyone. I decide to do it again. I think I will remember the second time a little more since I can enjoy it even more without that camera in my face :P