TravelingWebGuy

Assisted Free Fall 1

It’s an amazing feeling.

Sitting here now I can hear the air rushing by the jump door. It’s crazy, the feeling you get. On the ground, when I’m waiting for my load to be called, I just go over my routine, what I have to do to pass this next course. Then there’s always the looking up to see if the last load has jumped out, and if they’ve opened their chutes yet.

The real experienced jumpers do something called “Swooping” When they get to about 250’ they pull a hard diving turn headed straight for the ground, their body parallel with it. Then at about 10’, all but a few seconds later, they are screaming across the ground, inches above it dragging their toes over the blade tips. And when I say screaming, I mean it. Not the jumpers, but you can hear the nylon on the chutes thwapping against the wind. They go so fast you hear a whining sound from the wind and the fabric. And they just come down one after another, feet apart.
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