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Title: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: jbeany on September 09, 2007, 02:29:01 PM
SKYDIVING!
The first pic is me in freefall, at about 11,500 feet up - that's about 2 and a quarter miles.
Second pic is just after the chute opened.
Third is about a minute away from landing. 

It's totally amazing!  You gotta try it!

I'm still on an adrenalin buzz hours later!   :bandance;





EDITED: Re-sized third picture - Sluff/ Admin


Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: bolta72 on September 09, 2007, 02:46:07 PM
ooooooooooooo  I don't think so, I get dizzy standing on a 3 ft ladder. More power  to you. :clap;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: goofynina on September 09, 2007, 02:50:55 PM
Jbeany, girrrrrrrrl, i admire your guts honey, that is so awesome for you  :clap;  and awesome pics too, thank you for sharing and thank you for having a safe landing (NOW DONT YOU DO THAT AGAIN, YA SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH) ;)   Nah, you go girl, and inspiration for us all to go out and do things despite of what or how we feel  :clap;
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Post by: tamara on September 09, 2007, 03:13:32 PM
YOU GO GIRL !  :yahoo;  :clap;  :yahoo;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Jill D. on September 09, 2007, 03:17:48 PM
Awesome...good for you, jbeany !!!!   :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: angela515 on September 09, 2007, 03:29:03 PM
OMG, Your so AWESOME!!! Your amazing! :)
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Post by: Ohio Buckeye on September 09, 2007, 03:35:53 PM
wow, amazing!  Congratulatlions!
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Sluff on September 09, 2007, 03:38:18 PM
Great job. How exhilarating.   :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Wattle on September 09, 2007, 03:45:10 PM
OMG is right, are you crazy?  :urcrazy;  ;D

Please tell me you had your eyes closed!   :P   :bandance; :bandance;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: charee on September 09, 2007, 04:02:20 PM
Wow how amazing i would never have the guts to do that way to go Jbeany :clap;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: okarol on September 09, 2007, 04:22:37 PM
JB I knew you were a little  :urcrazy; but brave too  :bow; - ! What a ride!!!
I am a big chicken when it comes to falling!
I am proud of you for doing it!  :2thumbsup;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Romona on September 09, 2007, 04:27:10 PM
 :yahoo; :yahoo; :yahoo; :thumbup;
Good for you!
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: kitkatz on September 09, 2007, 06:40:28 PM
Jumping out of perfectly good airplanes??  Nuts to that!

I am glad you had fun. I think life should be grabbed and throttled...so why am I just sitting here?
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Laurie on September 09, 2007, 06:55:09 PM
Way to go jbeany. That's Awesome.  :yahoo;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Zach on September 09, 2007, 07:14:23 PM
Outstanding!
 :bow;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Roxy on September 09, 2007, 08:02:51 PM
  :yahoo; That's awesome!!!! I keep saying one of these days I'll get the guts to do it! That's wonderful that you did that!!  :bow;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Joe Paul on September 09, 2007, 11:12:35 PM
 :thumbup; Looks fun!
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: babi68 on September 10, 2007, 01:10:45 AM
Fantastic, I have wanted to do that for a while but I don't have the guts... well done to you... I am sooo jealous... Liz :waving; :ausflag;
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: Earlinda on September 10, 2007, 06:09:59 AM
JBeany those are awesome pics!  You should post and tell us what it felt like.  Are you going to jump again?   :2thumbsup;

Earlinda
Title: Re: Wooooooohoooooooo! Here's what I did today!
Post by: jbeany on September 10, 2007, 10:07:17 AM
Hopefully, I can go again next year.  It's kind of expensive, so my family went in together to pay for it as an early birthday gift for me.  I wasn't nervous, just excited.  The plane ride was gorgeous.  We flew up over the lake and you could see dozens of sailboats and miles of farm and forest.  The only scary part was the instant you sit on the edge of the plane with your feet dangling over, looking down and thinking "Oh @#$%#, what am I doing?"  Free fall was really intense, but it's over in a few seconds.  The chute snaps open without less of a jolt than I was expecting, although I do have a few good bruises from the harness.  After that, all I could do was laugh - it was truly amazing floating down.  The tandem jump instructor let me steer the chute on the way down, and it was all over way too fast!