Here I Go Again

Woooooooooooooo!

Skydiving is awesome! I did it from 15000ft (The highest available) where you free fall for 60 seconds and in those 60 seconds travel 2 miles vertically down to earth where your new best friend pulls the parachute cord and you slow down to a glide down to earth. My new best friend was a guy called Adam who was from Liverpool and has been a sky dive person in America and Israel before working for Skydive Wanaka.

They give you the option to get a video and photos of the whole thing by a second man that goes with you to do the filming so I’ll put the video up here when I can but for now there’s plenty of pics.

It was me, Jon and some other person up first and as I got in the plane last, I was the first out. On the way up Adam was explaining to me what was going to happen, told me if I couldn’t breath to scream which would make me breath (apparently) and he said ‘I bet you havn’t been this close to a man in while eh!’

Then 15000ft came and my cameraman got out and hung onto the side of the plane until I was sitting on the edge with my legs dangling out. Then before I knew it I was upside down flying through the air! After a few seconds when they tap you on the shoulder you can let go of your harness and put your arms out and pull funny faces for the camera. I was soon finding that I couldn’t breath, or scream like he suggested and was trying to think of ways I could let him know that I might pass out but then thought there probably wasn’t much he could do for me anyway so I concentrated on trying to smile and look like I was saying ‘woooooh’ and ‘weeeee’.

The adrenaline rush is something else and it didn’t seem like 30 seconds before Adam pulled the parachute and we were decending at a much slower pace, he let me have a go at controlling the parachute too but I wasn’t doing a very good job so he took control back. Then he started pointing out all the different rivers and mountains we could see which was interesting an calmed me down a bit.

I landed with a bump and managed to stand up albeit with shaky legs and shook his hand, then met up with Jon who somehow managed to get to the ground first (heavier I guess).

 Yes I reccomend you do it too!

Skydiving

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