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Hola, I want to practice too, I am from SA too and have been struggling studying over the last two years. PM me.. www.sneale-create.com

Yeah, i am going too, hoping to get my FS1 while I am there!!! Come on guys!! you will need to book tickets soon though, as it IS the bank holiday. www.sneale-create.com

Alright!! Looking forward to it now, I don't know who the Beta Band is, but I love live music. www.sneale-create.com

Ohmigod I am so embarressed!! I wanted to say me, me! i wanna go, but I pressed the send button. Ok, Simon, I would love to go and it would be great to see you and Caz and whoever else is going. What time do you plan on meeting and where? I don't know Brixton that well, but you have my number anyway don't you? www.sneale-create.com

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Hey there, I really like the bit about flapping your arms and kicking your legs LOL!! Yeah, I have skydiving dreams too, mostly about aeroplanes crashing!! (probably 'cos I started off on static lines) the latest one I had, I had a total mal on my main, and went through my malfunction drills in slow motion and it all worked out well. Goes to show that my subconcious mind deals with it all well.. www.sneale-create.com

Hi Big Man, hi everyone, yeah, I am keen to get on the mailing list for booze ups with London skydivers. Although I can't handle the hangovers!!! Caz, I don't really fancy being "secretary" but can help you if you want. PS, thanks for the link to the thread. XX www.sneale-create.com

Oh yeah!! i think about skydiving everyday, when I wake up in the morning, and before I go to sleep at night. I get asked if I ever think about death when jumping, the answer is YES, that's why I do it, it makes me feel alive to be doing something so crazy, and it keeps me sane. In this world of politically correctness and sitting on the fence, with skydiving, when you are in that door, you need to be 100% committed to getting out and that's what I love about it, there's no um maybe, it's either yes or no, and if it's yes, it's 100% and makes me take stock of my life every time I do it. I am proud to be a skydiver too because of all the positive people I have met through it and love my skydiving buddies! www.sneale-create.com

I did my A in Eloy in January, and coming from Static lines to freefall for the first time, also had this panic reaction. On my third level ASP, I learnt that it all works much better if you breathe. You CAN breathe in freefall, but to understand how much better it is when you DO breathe, you need to conciously THINK about it. When I was learning fast fall (by pure accident, I am a slow faller and gave my coach a little too much time before I followed him out of the door), I just thought about taking a big relaxing breath and fell down to him really fast. (didn't even realise I had done it, thought he had "come up" to me!!) I recently was having panic attacks (in the real world on terra firma) before going to a job interview and the thought about doing a jump to calm myself down. My philosophy was that the anticipation is worse than the actual action of doing something, so visualised myself jumping out of a plane...the only problem with this was that the relaxed feeling I got (and the breathing relief) only lasted about 5 minutes (talk about muscle memory, I need to find something else to visualise to relax myself that will last longer!) Also YOGA is great to teach you breathing techniques. Trust me, when you have done it once, and realise how much more fun and easier it is, it will come naturally. Oh and don't forget to SMILE!! It helps too

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Hey, anybody know Amy from Orange county, with orange hair? (Who was feeding me oranges in Eloy when we were doing our AFF together!) We got on really well and I wanted to keep in contact and went and lost the serviette (paper napkin) that she wrote her email address on. Help, does anybody know her? www.sneale-create.com