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Originally Posted by Sr. Mints
One question I've been wondering which may be useful to you, Daradon, is how come sometimes when a person jumps they're strapped in front of another person (presumable someone experienced?) and sometimes they're skydiving solo?
Personally, I'd rather go solo.
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Those are tandem jumps. It's a good way to go for your first time. Both for the landing, which takes some practice, and for the part that worries me the most, getting the nerve up to actually leave the plane.
They highly recommend that for your first jump, but there is no regulation that forces it. I did talk to a guy once who decided to forgo the tandem jump for his first leap, and he said if he were to do it again, he would do it the other way around. Which is saying something if you still have that attitude afterwards I'm thinking. I would think, that even if I did jump that way the first time, I would say, 'yeah it was scary, but it was totally worth it in the end to do it myself'.
Course you can tandem as much as you want, but it's nothing something that I think I would repeat. Could be some people do though.
There is something soul stirring about Cowperson's example though, I must say.
So Vulcan good, Beiseker bad? That's interesting cause we were leaning Beiseker. Close, seemed to have the more professional website. I know that doesn't count for much, but that's why I started the thread.