kai2k1 0 #26 August 8, 2004 QuoteQUESTION: WHEN did YOU find that skydiving stopped being JUST something that you DO and became something that you ARE??? Mine was on Jump 23, I was up on a coach jump, during our debrief my coach told me that he'd be more than happy to fly with me anytime. Thats when I felt like I became a skydiver. There's no truer sense of flying than sky diving," Scott Cowan Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
somethinelse 0 #27 August 9, 2004 YOU are one very cool dude! BUT many of you seem pretty defensive about the fact that you ARE different after developing a love for getting up and out and into the air. Or HAVE you actually developed "a love" for it, or are you different person now from when you made your first jump out of a "perfectly good airplane"? But then again, I really can not understand "those" types that make a jump, even their FIRST, and it's really NO BIG DEAL for them. Right, I AM A NEWBIE. And sure, that is A PART of it - but NOT ALL of it. I had a lot of quams about it, even as I have been progressing, but I've made many break-threws this summer, and feel some how "set free", or at least more liberated, and know that THIS SPORT has changed me FOR THE BETTER. I am more willing to take a chance on a good thing...Weighing my risk factors first, and doing the best I can for something I love. AND What I just wrote above can be used for a METAPHOR for anything and everything in life. Many of you seem defensive and adament about not even saying that are "a SKYDIVER". Don't you think that any aspect of who you are in your outlook, spirit or soul even FEELS different NOW? LISTEN... I am NOT niave. I have my head squarely on my shoulders and am a very well rounded, intelligent woman. But I know that this sport has changed me. And I know that "IT'S A 'GOOD THING'!!!" -LILA. (edited for spelling) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Push 0 #28 August 9, 2004 This sport has changed me, as have many other things. Life is, hopefully, a learning process. Personal growth and all that. I think that what people mean by trying not to make skidiving what they are is that they are trying not to move out to the DZ and live their life doing nothing but skydiving. In this sense, I agree. I am a skydiver because I skydive. I am a car driver because I drive a car very often. Of course, skydiving is more meaningful to me than car driving. I'm also a lot of other things, and not all of them are less meaningful than skydiving. -- Toggle Whippin' Yahoo Skydiving is easy. All you have to do is relax while plummetting at 120 mph from 10,000' with nothing but some nylon and webbing to save you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #29 August 9, 2004 Skydiving isn't who I am, I soo much more than thatYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MarkM 0 #30 August 9, 2004 Quote But then again, I really can not understand "those" types that make a jump, even their FIRST, and it's really NO BIG DEAL for them. What, you mean normal people? I've always wondered out of X many tandems how many of them go on to AFF. Then out of the ones that start AFF, how many of those go on to get their A. Then out of those that get their A, how many last longer than a year. It's probably a very small number, but I wonder if it's even a smaller percentage than other sports(say like scuba). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
