The Truth About Skydiving (What No One Tells You)

Is this a feasible full time job? Would love to get into it.

Red mist?! You've never seen someone bounce then.

Every single Airborn Ranger and Navy Seal I spoke to has said they would never ever skydive for pleasure in civilian life.

This is what I imagine true ego death feels and looks like 😂

Cool video! Thanks 🪂

I call "click-bait"

Yes did skydiving back in the late 1970s and early 80s.I had an old 28ft. round chute ex NZ Army they were called 7TUs.wellington skying club called them chepos then. the landings were a little hard no brakes like the new ones. I could not afford the newer ones then. Just wore goggles and a motor cycle helmet in those days

Props to the cameraman to being able to skydive with his pajamas

5000$

The only thing you missed is taking a dump BEFORE you go up in the plane. Can't tell you how many people I've seen poo their pants before or during the jump lol

Those were the things that literally everyone told me already.

Awesome

I’ve been skydiving twice at the Lodi/Acampo, California skydiving center off Highway 99, one thing is that the fast, cold passing wind opens your checks and hits your teeth with blasts of cold air and for about 2-3 days after your skydive your teeth feel very cold and sensitive, it goes away soon enough.

Is it that its just falling a long way?

Watching this mid skydive wish me luck

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lol, this is what there not telling you. how about that most skydiving instructors are severely overworked, underpaid, and have drug and alcohol problems. while skydiving itself is very safe, and the equipment is top notch now. the toll it takes on the people who work in the sport and specifically tandem instructors eventually leads to suicide, or major shoulder and knee problems that leave the jumper living in pain for the rest of there lives. hence the reason no one interviewed in this video has more than 5k skydives. the average used to be 10k for a ti

Lol .. I stop at min 1 … useless video

Does it feel like that roller coastwr feeling ?

Great footage, words I wouldn't have used when dealing with skydiving, "once in a lifetime" implying you're not going to get to do it again! And "this is the final jump", although they did add " of the day"! I'd like a deep dive into those occasions when it was necessary to cut away and use the reserve and the causes for it.

I did a tandem jump for my first time at 10,500ft. Was out in South Carolina. Was the most fun I have ever had. They recorded it for me and while the video is still cool to see I know that a video does not do an actual jump justice from what you feel and see. The adrenaline rush was better than the adrenaline I got use to in combat. I would totally do a cert class to do solo jumps or even work towards being an instructor if they had one in my area. I think everyone should have skydiving as a bucket list item. Even if they only did one jump it is something that everyone should experience at least once.

I did my first tandem at 54 years old. 14 jumps in , one solo so far, im now 57.
One common misconception is the feeling of falling, I’ve never felt that .
To be honest, the freedom of bing up there is incredible. No plane no ground. Exililerating but so peacefull.
My goal, I want to be inside of a cloud

I doubt I will ever skydive because I have a paralyzing fear of heights. But I am a scuba diver, and the information you gave at the beginning sounds very similar to the equipment checks and safety precautions we take before and during a dive. I have never thought of scuba diving as particularly dangerous, even though I know that there are dangers that go along with it. But I feel that my awareness of those dangers is exactly what makes a dive safe.

Skydiving is meant to be DANGEROUS DUH! its what keeps the yahoo's out cause I don't like yahoo's in my business, as a former DZM/TDMI/AFFI/Master Rigger/videographer /Photographer/Pilot/etc skydiving is more about the camaraderie than it is about being safe, parachutes work, the ground hurts, "No Cry Baby's Allowed" ..... also I managed the oldest continuously operated DZ in the USA for some years and Jim West the owner is a incredible skydiver and I'm glad I got to know him better than most did and run his DZ for all the years he let me...

No way would I jump out of a perfectly good aeroplane.

High Speed Dirt

I found it quite boring, only did it because I was teaching aerobatics and thought it would be good to know what to expect! 30 seconds of noisy free fall followed by 5 minutes of boredom!

Fun!

You might have explained the "shitting his pants" comment. Around 10,000 ft or so the air pressure is a lot lower, and any gas in a skydiver's intestines will have expanded in volume. When people start shifting around and doing gear checks prior to jump run, that gas usually finds its own exit. With the door still shut, the plane really does start to smell like people are shitting their pants. The smell can get so bad sometimes, jumpers will crack the door open a little bit for some fresh air prior to the red light.

Is skydiving safe? Most of the funerals I've attended for friends my own age over the years have been for skydiving accidents. You can look up the statistics online. Best bet: establish good safety habits and stick with them or the odds will catch up to you a lot faster.

Great intro and overview. I started jumping when I was 54 and in 10 years did 1200 with almost 1000 as wingsuit jumps. It was all a lot of work for me but overall a wonderful experience. I stopped jumping (about 2 years ago) to focus on other things but what a great experience those years were.

I never knew you needed a parachute to skydive!

I would have no problem being pushed out of that plane! You'd have no resistance out of me, not even a slight hesitation! Want to know what makes me soo brave and confident? The knowledge that I would have died of a heart attack on the way up.

This is an awesome video! I'm thinking about starting AFF training in the Summer in the UK. This has got me proper hyped. Thanks for the video Adam! 😁👍

I did about 25 jumps, then decided to switch to SCUBA, eventually becoming a PADI Master Diver. 🤣 There is no question, skydiving is the most "exhilarating" sport I've tried. But in my opinion, the biggest misconception about it is that it is "peaceful," and akin to soaring like a bird on a summer's day. This impression is pure Hollywood, and could not be more WRONG. I would describe it with words like "violent," "turbulent," and exceptionally "noisy." It is NOT like floating. It is more like sticking your head out of the window of a car traveling at 120 mph. If you are the kind of person who enjoys an adrenaline rush, this is your sport - the only things like it might be wing suit flying or possibly (I'm guessing!) crack cocaine. My first "solo" jump was from around 4k ft with a static line. I was actually so terrified that I managed to hang on to the wing spar for about 20 seconds (or so it seemed), with my instructor urging me to let go - but I couldn't. My brain was on total overload. Finally the muscles gave out, and I was on my way. (Those muscles didn't work much for about a week, BTW). The adrenaline begins pumping well before you jump. I don't think this is something one gets over, but perhaps, as with a drug, you may become desensitized. From birth, humans have a natural, innate fear of falling. After 3000 jumps, you may not call it "fear," but if you think it's a natural human feeling to jump out of an airplane from 15,000 feet, then you are not an average human. After my first jumps, I was unable to sleep for days. Perhaps unlike experienced skydivers, I had not yet developed a tolerance for the endogenous drugs that were overwhelming my mind and body. I've heard that some people can become addicted to this - and I wouldn't be surprised if that's true. They move on to ever more dangerous variations of the sport to keep the rush going. I'm very glad I took skydiving beyond a tandem jump, up to 12,000 foot free falls. But in the end, it was not the sport for me. I love flying (airplanes) and diving, even though statistically, diving is more "dangerous." But the experience of silent, peaceful "flying" was something I got only in drift diving.

What no one tells you is as you fall through the chem clouds your throat burns if you breath it in

This was brilliant man. I'd love to parachute man but I'm shit scared to. Wonder how I could get over that fear. 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hey, nice video. But the pin of your main loop seems placed very deep to me. Are you shure it cant stuck (e.g after you rub your backpack on the plane or so)?

To much dicking around, not enough real information.

Salute you gentlemen.

T-10, 7-TU, Para Commander, Jalbert Parasled #49 with the rings and strings deployment developed at Delray Fl. where famous kite designer Domina Jalbert presented his prototype to Dean McLaughlin. After many of the hairy-scary openings they were famous for, I was approached at Indiantown by rigger Joe Gilby who short lined it and added the first slider any of us had ever seen. I don't know if it was Joes idea and design or not but before long they were world wide on every type of canopy. I hope Joe got the credit and riches he deserves. I was just the monkey jumping it.

I went solo 3 times back in the 80s from a Cessna 172 with stripped interior and 4 others and a pilot on static line at 3000 feet! I didn't see the plane first two times due to sensory overload. At 3000 feet there's hardly any time to pull the reserve. Last time up was from 13000 feet AFF!

Did a tandem a decade ago, I think we went to 10k feet. Truth is, I had a hard time enjoying it because my ears hurt so much on the way down. Still a good experience anyway. I also got the shoulder tap to get my arms out, as it does slip the mind. Also, the diver kept pulling my head up, because I kept looking towards the ground. Not sure if it was just so I can see the scenery instead of just bellow me, or if it altered the flight / fall.

Well done -
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I miss this sport. - 263 jumps 4 mals lol great fun

I could never!

thanks for this im 60 a woman and always wanted to jump out of a plane gonna do it before 70 for sure this was insightful educational thanks

Nice reassuring information for the would be skydiver.
On a side note the AAD doesn’t automatically deploy your reserve, it initiates the deployment sequence. I know it’s a play on words but there is a big difference.

Just imagine how safe our highway would be if all drivers had this mindset of safety, nothing left to chance, and knowing what to do when things go wrong.

I totally thought that the jumpers we were watching had around 3k skydives like the guys interviewed in the beginning, especially when it seemed like they were doing a Mr Bill-type exit (nicely done btw!). I was then very confused about why the pair had trouble docking and OP couldn't do a clean backflip. I was like, "What is going on? These guys look like they only have 50 jumps or something!" Then it turned out that is indeed the case. Great jump and great explanation of equipment and procedures too. Beautiful golden hour jump. DZ looks really nice too. Keep it up! Blue skies! Cheers!

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