AlanA4 0 #1 November 8, 2009 Hey guys. I am doing a project for my Recreation class on Wingsuit Jumping and Skydiving. Along with the assignment I have to interview a few people. One of these people has to be sometone who has turned this into their career. There are only 10 questions and I was hoping one of you guys had 10 minutes to take a look at the questions and help me learn more about the sport. Thank you guys so much! Here are the questions: 1. How old were you when you made your first jump? 2. How high is the highest you have ever jumped from? 3. Financially does this sport keep you both happy and secure? 4. When did you realize that you enjoyed this enough to do it for the rest of your life? 5. How many jumps do you make in a year? 6. How do you feel about wing suiting? 7. Have you ever tried it and if not would you ever like to? 8. How dangerous is wing suiting in comparison to skydiving? 9. Have you ever had any situations where you feared for your life while jumping? 10. If you had to describe these freefalling sports in one word what would you chose? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohanW 0 #2 November 8, 2009 Quote Hey guys. I am doing a project for my Recreation class on Wingsuit Jumping and Skydiving. Along with the assignment I have to interview a few people. One of these people has to be sometone who has turned this into their career. There are only 10 questions and I was hoping one of you guys had 10 minutes to take a look at the questions and help me learn more about the sport. Thank you guys so much! I answered your other questionnaire as well, I see you're asking different questions here and, though I'm not an instructor, I'm taking this quiz as well. Quote Here are the questions: 1. How old were you when you made your first jump? 27 Quote 2. How high is the highest you have ever jumped from? 18000' That's an answer to a meaningless question, really. It's not about how high you go, it's what you make of it. Quote 3. Financially does this sport keep you both happy and secure? N/A. But very, very few people can scrape together a living on skydiving, let alone achieving financial security. Quote 4. When did you realize that you enjoyed this enough to do it for the rest of your life? 5. How many jumps do you make in a year? N/A. Tandem instructors tend to make many more jumps than fun jumpers, but tandem jumping is very different from other disciplines. Keep in mind the skills and responsibilities of tandem instructors, AFF instructors, S/L instructors and "ground" instructors are very different. Quote 6. How do you feel about wing suiting? From an instructor's perspective, it's an advanced discipline which touches on skydiving but has its own additional hazards and skill-sets. There has recently been talk among wingsuiters (not all of them instructors) that wingsuiting is more different from other skydiving disciplines than any other discipline, and I think that idea has merit. Tracking and Atmonauti (angled flying) tend towards wingsuit flying more than towards other disciplines in this respect, though, though without the additional difficulties of a wingsuit. Quote 7. Have you ever tried it and if not would you ever like to? Yes. Quote 8. How dangerous is wing suiting in comparison to skydiving? On a scale of 1 to 10, where crossing a busy street is a 4, skydiving is a 6 and quarrelling with the wife is 11, about a 7. Quote 9. Have you ever had any situations where you feared for your life while jumping? Not while jumping, I was too busy solving my immediate problems. With hindsight, yes. Quote 10. If you had to describe these freefalling sports in one word what would you chose? Focus. Or maybe Flow. (In the Zen enlightenment sense of the word. See my other post. But in one word, that's a necessarily limited answer. It's much, much more than that. It's nowhere near as lonely as it suggests.)Johan. I am. I think. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
riggerrob 558 #3 November 8, 2009 1. 20 years old 2. 19,000 feet above sea level 3. Happy yes. Financially secure? No, because I believe that professional skydiving instructors are way underpaid for the responsibility they take. 4.. Sometime back in the late 1980s. 5. 300 + 6. I enjoy wing-suiting 7. N/A 8. Wingsuiting is less dangerous than tandem or BASE and more dangerous than jumping with a camera. 9. I only feared for my life during my first few hundred jumps. Since then, the only thing that scared me was a tandem student hanging onto my hand at opening altitude. 10. Freefall is like flying, with the wind in my face. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
johnny1488 1 #4 November 9, 2009 1. How old were you when you made your first jump? 20 2. How high is the highest you have ever jumped from? 17k 3. Financially does this sport keep you both happy and secure? Happy yes, secure? I own my home and am doing OK 4. When did you realize that you enjoyed this enough to do it for the rest of your life? after my first jump 5. How many jumps do you make in a year? about 1000 6. How do you feel about wing suiting? it's fun, but i only do it once or twice a year 7. Have you ever tried it and if not would you ever like to? about 20 jumps or so 8. How dangerous is wing suiting in comparison to skydiving? Its a lot to deal with, but can be done very safely if you have the experience 9. Have you ever had any situations where you feared for your life while jumping? No, not yet 10. If you had to describe these freefalling sports in one word what would you chose? Fun Johnny --"This ain't no book club, we're all gonna die!" Mike Rome Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Para5-0 0 #5 November 9, 2009 1. 23 2. 24,000 3. No, You can pump gas and make more money. 4. After first jump 5. 1000 Jumps/Year 6. Sub Discipline within the sport, I do not wingsuit. 7. Yes I have. 8. Anytime you add another system to the sport it increases the odds that something will go wrong. 9. Yes, 10 Malfunctions in 8500 Jumps 10. Intense. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
crazydiver 0 #6 November 12, 2009 1. 16 years old 2. 24,000 feet above sea level (19,000 above ground) 3. It keeps me happy, but not very secure 4. From day one 5. 500-900 6. Meh. Have done some wingsuit jumps, but they didn't turn my crank as much as other people 7. See answer to number 6 8. A little more dangerous if something were to go wrong, but not incredibly more so. With adequate experience and training I would argue its hardly any more dangerous 9. Not really. I have had 10 reserve rides out of 4200 jumps, but all have been very manageable. 10. Party Cheers, Travis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bucketlistpilot 1 #7 November 13, 2009 1. How old were you when you made your first jump? 45 (wish it was 18) 2. How high is the highest you have ever jumped from? 14k 3. Financially does this sport keep you both happy and secure? Bit late for that now I think, but who knows 4. When did you realize that you enjoyed this enough to do it for the rest of your life? after my first jump 5. How many jumps do you make in a year? 37 so far, hope to do 100 next year 6. How do you feel about wing suiting? Want to try it one day 7. Have you ever tried it and if not would you ever like to? One day 8. How dangerous is wing suiting in comparison to skydiving? Way beyond my experience level 9. Have you ever had any situations where you feared for your life while jumping? No, not yet 10. If you had to describe these freefalling sports in one word what would you chose? EpiphanyIan Purvis http://www.loadupsoftware.com LoadUp DZ Management App [email protected] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AlanA4 0 #8 November 16, 2009 I just wanted to take the time to thank all of you for answering my questions. I am putting together a presentation this week and I hope it will get more people interested in Wing Suiting and Sky Diving. Thanks and good luck. Alan- Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
