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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Skydiving (and also other sports parachuting) Megathread. Touch the Sky!
 
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whatupdet
Aug 13, 2004

I'm sorry John, I don't remember

My Q-Face posted:

Don't look down, and trust your training.

On my tandem jump, I was so focused on aligning my feet in the door that I ended up looking straight down at the ground and had to close my eyes. I didn't open them again until we were out of the plane. If you do a tandem as your first, try to pay close attention to the instructions and trust the tandem master.
I made this "mistake" but I didn't close my eyes, my eyes looked like they were going to pop out of my head. I've got a DVD video of my first and only tandem jump in Boulder just outside of Vegas and it's quite comical. I'll see if I can dig up the photo of me just before we jump with my eyes opened as wide as possible haha. Best thing I've ever done in my life and is 1B on my bucket list.

At some point in time I'd like to learn how to skydive on my own but that would require either moving away or spending several days training while away on vacation.

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