matttrudeau
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Staind has that new song, "its been a while." I think it goes great with sunset dives.
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How many people out there have had a personal friend who died skydiving? How could you possible continue, knowing one of your friends died doing what you love?
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The article said they were jumping from 19,000. Does that seem a little high to anyone else?
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Thanks for the tip. We all tend to focus too much on the freefall aspect of skydiving. Canopy control is just as important as any other part of the skydive.
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Sky Monkey, are you part of the "Sky Monkey" Freefly team?
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Check out these stats I found. Unbelievable! Activity Participants Fatalities Rate per 100,000 per year participants All accidents 230,000,000 96,000 42 Traffic Fatalities 162,850,000 46,000 28 Power Boat Racing 7,000 5 71 SCUBA 300,000 140 47 Mountaineering 60,000 30 50 Boxing 6,000 3 50 AIR VEHICLES: Air Shows 1,000 5 500 Homebuilt 8,000 25 312 General Aviation 550,000 800 145 Sailplane 20,000 9 45 Balloon 4,500 3 67 Hang Gliding 25,000 10 40 SKYDIVING 110,000 28 25
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How ya doing? I haven't been in a windtunnel yet but I will be going this month. July 23 to July 28. I'm going on vacation in Las Vegas and I plan on visiting the wind tunnel. I think its going to be a great place to learn stability and maybe even a few tricks. I'm doing it so I can feel comfortable in free fall and that's it. As you know, there are many other parts to a skydive that should not be overlooked.
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Thanks a lot for all your contributions to my post.
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I've made two tandem jumps and I loved every second of it. I'm debating on whether or not to continue because of the risks. It seems like most people I talk to associate skydiving with death. I know that skydiving is a lot safer than it used to be. How safe is it, really? I know on average 25 to 30 people die every year from skydiving. I'm wondering how many could have been avoided and how many are unavoidable?
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I am new to the sport of skydiving. The staff at Skydive New England treated me as if I was a veteran. Everyone was willing to help if I had a question. Because of this, I will hopefully be a part of the AFF graduating class of 2001. Blue skies!