Some people will tell you that parachuting is an extreme sport, a dangerous practice; the truth is, that after having done it myself all I can say it is that skydiving is the most fantastic experience one can have and despite the perception of danger, fatalities are rare in this sport, certainly worth the unbeatable feeling of freedom and the adrenalin rush that cannot compare to anything in the world. Once you have experienced the excitement of jumping out of an aeroplane at 4,000 meters (around 13,000 feet) altitude, and free-fall for almost a minute before activating a parachute, once you have glided the sky and admired the world under you from an entirely different perspective you will only want to repeat the experience again and again and again!
Skydiving my new passion
For my first jump everything went as expected. I was lucky to have known my monitor for more than a year. I felt very at ease with him not only as monitor but as close friend. I was so excited that I was not scared. We sat at the edge of the plane I put my head on my monitor’s shoulders, my legs under the plane and we fell out.
The feeling is indescribable; emptiness, freedom, speed, beauty... I had never breathed so deeply. We were falling at around 200km/h and yet I felt secure and cocooned. After the parachute opened the glide was fantastic and I was not afraid one minute. I could not believe it, I was parachuting and having the time of my life up there, joking with the monitor, feeling a freedom that I had never before experienced.
The time for landing came up very fast. The landing was very smooth and right on the spot. I couldn’t believe that I had done it and that I wanted to repeat the experience!
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