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The doctor also said it's very common to have this sort of problem when spinning so much in the air. Skydiving itself is very scary for beginners i guess and all these hassle is just making it soo much more scary. All alone in a foreign shady country with no mental support from my instructor - it's getting really hard for me. I am soo much more scared right now. Thank you all for your support.

I requested them for a tandem where I can control the canopy but my instructor told me to take a break and get back with some experience in in some other extreme sports. Then on my way back, I met another quite experience skydiver(getting his D license) and suggested me that I go for my aff because it is pretty common when you are under another person's spiral. So I called my instructor and insisted this again. I said I'll take a Dramamine before the jump to avoid the nausea and will control the canopy in the next tandem. Now, he wants me to consult an aviation medicine specialist doctor and take a written explanation of what happened and take his written paperwork giving me green signal towards continuing to skydiving. So now I'm heading to Bangkok Hospital. And no, he is not going to refund any of that 800$.

I'm at the DZ and my instructor is not willing to take the risk. He suggested me to get into some other extreme sports like scuba or paragliding first and told me to come back next year. I'm soo sad but I also understand what he's saying. Now looking for a place to learn paragliding in Thailand.

Thanks everyone. Your answers were very helpful and also inspiring. So, now I'm on the way to the DZ and will tell my instructor that I want to take another tandem. He is supposed to teach me canopy control either way for my aff. So i will request him to teach me before the tandem and will request my tandem instructor to let me control the canopy. I was not so scared the first time, but now I'm very scared. Scared of everything. Thanks everyone.

I traveled all the way from my country (Bangladesh) to Thailand to do the AFF course and if possible get my A license. I'm paying ~2500$ for aff and made an advanced payment of nearly a thousand dollars. My instructor, Graeme Black, is an awesome and very cool guy. He talked to me and motivated me in such a way, I felt very little fear while going for the first tandem. I first felt the fear when I sat on the door of the plane for the jump, but that was OK too. The freefall was also OK I guess, but the parachute opened, the huge jerk made me so scared! And my tandem instructor (Slava,he was also pretty cool) then talked to me and said something like let's have fun and made huge spins all the way coming down. I could not take that as I am very prone to motion-sickness(has serious problems with the theme-park rides like roller coasters - immediately triggers my chronic migraine headache pain). So the same thing happened here too - when I got down I puked a lot, my serious migrane headache was back, I felt so nauseous that I could not stand up and I had to lie down in the dz for around 2 hours. Seeing my reaction to the jump, naturally Graeme got very worried and he suggested me to consult a doctor before I jump again and also insisted that I take another tandem before continuing to my AFF. He also tried to talk me out of this idea of skydiving(obviously for my safety) and told me to accept the fact that this sport is not for everyone. I borrowed a hell lot of money for this, took 2 weeks of vacation against the will of my boss for this and now I'm stuck in this embarrassing and sad situation. I'm also feeling so down and sad, because I want to do this. Do you have any suggestions for me? Thanks in advance.

How often I need to jump to keep current? I can try to go once per two months and have 2-3 jumps and so on. Will this be good enough? Please pardon my lack of knowledge and hence my stupid questions

Hello everyone, I am new here and have no experience about skydiving. But for the past 6 months or so I've become obsessed with skydiving, surfing over internet, watching videos, reading reviews and various stuffs and planning on going to Thailand to learn skydiving