mccallj

Finally, I will get to do more than 1 jump in a day. Isnt there someone closer to ATL who can fill a guinness keg? “Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load his shit into a truck.”

First a little background. I started jumping back in June and since then I have fallen in love with the sport. I am a college student and like most college students I have no money so it took me until about 3 weeks ago to get my AFF's done. For that period of time I was jumping a mana 230 and recently went down to a 210 (cant remember the name). Every AFF level went extremely well and everything moved rather fluidly after the beginners jitters wore off. Now that I am working toward my A license I am trying to learn slightly more advanced canopy skills. Front riser dives (at a reasonable altitude of course) and other such maneuvers. If you are still reading this then congrats. My question is what should I be looking out for? Does anyone out there have any tips from personal experience? Anything that anyone could contribute would be greatly appreciated. - Parrish McCall “Last week I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure that he did not start to load his shit into a truck.”

I went to ASC for my first tandem jump. Jumped had a great time, however I waited for 8 hours. They gave the "weather hold" excuse, which is a legitimate excuse sometimes except the skies were completely clear for over half of this 8 hour period. About 8 other tandem jumpers came and left in that time, without a refund of their money. I paid for "extra altitude", 14.5k feet, but got thrown out with everyone else... at 11k. If I had known that they and their parent company both owned by the same guys had been investigated twice by a fox5 news out of Atlanta for deceptive business practices I would looked for different dropzones. As for the landing area, I know lots of people who have sustained major bone breaks in their rocky sink hole ridden landing area which happens to be more of a slope, and the swoop pond is more like a swoop puddle. Save yourself the time and frustration and look elsewhere.

Extremely friendly operators and instructors. Huge landing area, bus ride is actually pretty fun. Very relaxed but serious when it counts. I only wish I could go more often.