Getting to know you: Skydiving Edition - See a two man triple flip tandem jump shot after the first day videos!

Hey again, steemitizens!

I think it would be nice if people I follow would sometimes spend a little more time talking about themselves now and then. I love it here, but I'd like to know some of you better and make some new friends.

So now and then I plan to drop little personal glimpses into the life of this 48 year old goat named @sircork.

This post, we're going to my skydiving classes which I took a few years ago. Here are two videos. One of my first Tandem Jump, 8 years ago, yesterday on June 20th of 2010. Happy Anniversary post to myself and skydiving!

In both of these videos, it was one of the most brutally hot days on the Florida east coast imaginable. And one of my first "solo" jump, with two instructors, and the very first time I ever jumped out of a plane not tied to somebody smarter than me about getting down alive. It was me and the clouds. And two very help and talented skydiving pros teaching me on either side in freefall.

There is no practice run for your first time, it's not a dress rehearsal. Every jump after #1 though, is 100% practice for the next one. I enjoyed it my first dozen times and I'll do it some more!

About a year after these videos my best friend and I took another friend for her first jump on her birthday.

I decided to do a tandem that day for old time's sake and because, frankly, it was cheaper and faster to get on a lift load than to jump solo and miss the flight with my friends. So I tandemed but told the guy I was experienced so to mix it up. We did a back flip out of the plane in tandem. Here's the best shot. I'm the guy on top in jeans. We rolled twice and popped. Actually a tough tandem trick and we had to talk our "our moves" on the plane to be able to shift our weight right and flip the much heavier tandem chute rig on his back at the same time. But we did it! As you can see here. No fear!

Everybody fell down just fine. Nobody even got stuck up there! I'm the tall one on the right.

Have you ever jumped out an airplane?

Tell me about your experience with skydiving in the comments!

And with that, this post is over.

Full steem ahead, steemitizens!
@sircork
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Ha. I have absolutely no urge to jump out of a perfectly good flying airplane, ever. Good for you, man. Looks scary as shit tho.

Nah, it's eaaaasssssy! :) Anybody can fall straight down!

Sure, but I am good at falling up also... What's that do for me?! NOTHING. I'd probably be stuck mid-air... forever. Falling down, and up. Canceling each other out. ha

Like a piece of buttered toast strapped to a cat's back!

Buttered toast always lands on the butter when you drop it. Cats always land on their feet. So if you strap buttered toast to a cat, it can't land "wrong" so it can't land at all, and you achieve anti-gravity. Because Science! ... and reasons...

By golly, you're right! mind blown

It's just physics and geometry mostly.

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