Gravity? Oh, THAT theory :D

[LastPoet]

Hey guys, just sharing my skydiving experience around

Sorry for the low quality, but its their trial video, I'll get the better quality version later.

IT'S FUCKING AWESOME!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8ijXh9nYNo

[Minimalist]

I'll never understand why anyone would jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

[LastPoet]

I'll never understand why anyone would jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

Because we have parachutes?

[Minimalist]

And if the plane is on fire a parachute is a good thing to have because it beats the alternative.....barely.

[Doubting Thomas]

Gravity is only a theory.

Besides, this just looks like Intelligent Falling to me.

[Cinjin]

I'll never understand why anyone would jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

Several reasons ... but only you can decide if they're good reasons.

I've done it. These were my reasons:

1 The "I did that" claim to fame. (personal pride factor)
2 The extreme rush of free falling 6000 feet. It's amazing, and the closest thing a human can get to actual flying without being strapped to a machine.
3 A need to experience everything life has to offer, being that it is so dreadfully short.

and of course ...

4 I don't want to be 75 years old and telling my grand kids how much fun I had playing mini-golf at the local putt putt between annual trips to the petting zoo and watching reruns of Bewitched.

For the record:

I have swam with sharks.
Bungee jumped.
Cliff dived.
Sky dived.
Bridge jumping.
Gotten stoned, drunk, laid and handcuffed in a police cruiser (all in one afternoon)
Illegally bike raced at 160 mph
Totaled my brother's brand new motorcycle the day he bought it.
Jumped every ATV known to man
Rock climb and still do on occasion
Almost died deep sea diving
Kayak level 4 rapids (terrifying)
and Repelled off a 1400 foot vertical rock face.


... and you know what. I regret nothing.
Life is short. Why sit it out?

[5thHorseman]

Apparently LP likes men strapped to his back. Never would have guessed that one .............

[Reforged]

Hey guys, just sharing my skydiving experience around

Sorry for the low quality, but its their trial video, I'll get the better quality version later.

IT'S FUCKING AWESOME!!!

I hate you so much right now. -.-

[Cyberman]

As a lifelong acrophobe (look it up) the only way you could get me to do things like these would be to drug me into a coma. Even then I'd insist on a blindfold. Just watching videos of this stuff makes my intestines and genitals leapfrog each other.

[Zen Badger]

Haven't done skydiving, yet.

But I did do gliding for about 6 months('til I got bored).

Done aerobatics in a Tigermoth and if you know what a Tigermoth is you'll understand just how scary that is.

Am seriously addicted to high speed motorcycles

And I am of the opinion that you cannot truly value your life until you come close to losing it. Hence why activities like these are so compelling.