Skydiving?

[tracy_from_oz]

Another thing I embrace is sky diving a part from diving etc, I think this explains why getting life insurance was tough this past year.

I think it comes to the freedom one feels in the jump which one can feel underwater as well.

 

[Phrenzy]

I've done about 10 or so static line jumps. I was working on getting certified a couple of years ago. It was the same time I was getting deeper into scuba. I figured I should only have one expensive hobby at a time. I chose scuba. Now that I have bought all my scuba gear, I might get back into it.

 

[skdiver.com]

http://www.youtube.com/v/PmepMsWxR4M

DUDE your my hero and where do i sign up

 

[Missdirected]

http://www.youtube.com/v/PmepMsWxR4M

How did I miss this :huh: That is some good stuff right there. And your wrong on the RockStar - It's NOS :cool2::mooner::tongue:

 

[OldNSalty]

Hey, where is the US Paratrooper option?

I've never done a civilian jump but I've got a few with the army.

 

[eponym]

I taught scuba to a young Army Ranger this Summer, when he was home on leave from overseas. On the drive in to the dive site (on Oregon's Illinois River) he was focused not on the dives ahead but on the base-jumping possibilities offered by the steep canyon walls.

-Bryan

 

[OldNSalty]

Paratroopers are crazy, Rangers even more so, Special Ops guys? Well, if it wasn't for war they would probably be mostly in prison but they make great drinking buddies.

 

[CuriousRambler]

The We Go Down video is what inspired this thread, that and I've got a friend who's trying to use me to get into scuba, and I'm trying to use him to get into skydiving, we're both equally obsessive about our own sports, but want to try the other. Unfortunately (for me) he's getting out of the Marines while I'm in Iraq and he'll be moving back to Texas with his wife. I have to drive through Perris every time I drive to San Diego to get wet, so that always entices me that much more. I'm impressed with the number of responses since I posted this.

I thought I had it all covered with my poll options, but static lines didn't even enter my mind...

 

[Dzscubie]

Cheetah,

I've been diving for over 32 years and have been a skydiver for 12. Both sports are awesome in themselves but you can't judge one by the other. I love the freedom of freefall and the rush of leaving the aircraft. I also like being a member of a special group of people that by their love of something outside the Norm brings them closer together. Its kind of like a family. SCUBA is the same but different, youre still outside the Norm and still a member of a big family of people that understand what your talking about when Normal people just scratch their head and wonder what its all about.

So I say, those who can do ... and those who dont will never understand.

So....Shut up and JUMP !!!!!!