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lol john.. anyways. what i meant was i was focusing so much on breathing because , well at the time thats the only thing i could think of... - wind smacking my face, going up my nose..started to think, am i breathing? keep my mouth closed , and tried to take deep breaths through my nose. felt like i was breathing, so im pretty sure my breathing was fine. instructor opened the parachute just fine,which i think i could feel it opening, was cool. little line twists but instructor kicked out of them. then i felt like i was suffocating but breathing fine. very bad feeling. I felt around my chest, and the straps were snug, but they weren't to tight, not clue why i felt so out of breath. (and what im most worried about)then i just got nauseous and numb from waste down.

So when I went for my first tandem a week ago, I felt fine until the canopy opened, then I became slightly dizzy, felt like throwing up ( never did but gagged a lot ) legs and feet went numb, and felt like i was out of breathe the whole way down. i felt like the harness was nice and snug, tight, but i could breathe fine, during freefall i was focusing a lot on breathing, it was an unusual feeling having wind smack my face so fast, i was trying to breathe through my nose, and im pretty sure i was. So im not sure why i felt like i was out of breathe. I will ask the instructor for advice when i go back this week for my 2nd tandem( i want to be prepared for when i have to fly the canopy by myself during the AFF. ) Has anyone experienced this on there first time?

Thanks for the reply Brice

I'm going to get some time in there with an intructor, fun is just part of it. hopefully ill learn while doing it.

Thanks for the replies.. (yea im actually in henderson, right by boulder city.) I'm going to check out Mesquite. I'm also going to an indoor skydiving wind tunnel soon before I go to any a.f.f

Hello everyone! I went on my first tandem a week ago at Sin City skydiving.. Was a lot of fun. I nearly threw up under canopy, and was gagging as soon as we hit ground.. But I'm hoping that wont happen again.. I'm going to do another tandem just to be sure. When I do decide to take the A.F.F class I want to be sure that wont happen again. But basically I'm wondering if anyone has gone to Sin city skydiving, and can recommend there A.F.F class. Mesquite also has a skydiving school, its only a couple hours away and seem like a bigger place. but ive never been there..