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  1. https://www.facebook.com/events/299364460233030/?source=1

    Girl Squirrel Power, She's Got Wings
    Oct 10 - Oct 12

    Ladies! Come and join us this fall for a Sisters In Skydiving Wingsuit event! We are super excited to host an event where all the lady wingsuiters have a chance to flock, improve, and have a blast together! Skydive Lake Wales is generous enough to offer everyone $20 cash jump tickets ($17 for military) all weekend!!

    Jeremy Tyer will be offering discounted First Flight Course to all the new ladies. (Contact Dani U for details and sign-up)

    Wickey Wing suit will be providing us with some suits to try on for $50 for the entire weekend! (also contact Dani with your size measurements, type of Wickey suit, and experience level if you are interested in using)


    The weekend jumps include:

    Skill camps with video debrief (fall rate adjustment, formation flying, acrobatics, etc.)

    MANY all female wingsuit world and state record attempts
    (the only current record is 4 way docked)

    Wingmen initiation jumps

    Other possible fun organized competition jumps by skill level


    There also will be:

    T-shirts
    Jello shots
    Karaoke
    Games
    Food truck on site for breakfast and lunch
    Friday night pizza
    BBQ Steak dinner saturday night for a small fee
    and many other fun thing to do!

  2. Thought I might actually jump on this one. I had a serious accident at 29 jumps, ended up with a broken vertebra and fractured pelvis. I was life flighted out of the field I landed in and spent 11 days in the hospital, the first 5 days of it wondering if I was going to be able to walk again.I was told by my ortho to stay grounded for a year, he wasn't familiar with skydiving as a sport. So I took his 6 month healing period for the bones and how I felt after a lot of working out and strength building, into consideration on my decision.
    For a while I didn't think I would ever get back into the sky thought that the metal would really be a reason to stay grounded. After 8 months of working out, a bit of depression about being out of the sport, I felt like my body could take it. I was really shaky the first tandem and two solo jumps back. It took a couple weekends of jumping to figure out how my body flew with its modifications. It was frustrating, but I don't think I have every been more proud of myself.