RE: Skydiving
October 22, 2012 at 6:42 am
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2012 at 6:43 am by LastPoet.)
(October 22, 2012 at 6:09 am)FallentoReason Wrote: One thing I don't understand is how people get over the mental barrier that maybe you shouldn't jump.It differs from person to person, the way I do it, is trusting the professionals there, knowing that we have 2 parachutes. Besides if they both fail, you don't have to pay the bills anymore, and in my case definately stop smoking
The first time I jumped, I did got an anxiety peak when the go green light lit up, but I though "I got to all this trouble climbing up here, might as well go trough with it!", and after that was (and I hate this word) epic. The point is the barrier wasn't enough to overcome my will to jump, to see how its like. Some people do have increased anxiety over a jump, thus avoiding it, and other situations. I for once hate wasps, and run like a little girl when I see 1 or 2 hovering my head, in a irrational response, although I don't fear any other insects.
Quote:Something else I've always wondered is if you have that feeling in your gut similar to that of a rollercoaster when you're at the peak and then accelerate downwards real fast. If you have that feeling all the way down then there's no way I could ever do skydiving!
No, because you suffer a natural gravitational acceleration when jumping out of a plane ( <= than 9.8 m.s^-2 ), while a rollercoaster does accelerate the carts faster (forced acceleration > than 9.8 m.s^-2) and you are sitting vertically, that is why you feel a queasy feeling of weightlessness on your organs.
