- Archive
- for July, 2010
An Open Letter to Skydiving (it’s like dating, remember?)
AUTHOR’S NOTE: In case you hadn’t heard yet, skydiving is like dating. Kinda. Dear Skydiving, Hi again. Nice to see you. You look handsome today, with your light breeze and baby blues. I missed you. It’s Friday morning, which means it’s the best slash worst time of the week. It’s the best because I’m BEYOND super pumped to come see...
My friends and family get it. For the most part.
There have been some interesting posts coming from my friends over at Skydive Addiction about whether or not we should discuss skydiving amongst our friends and family that don’t have this strange desire to throw themselves out of airplanes. Adam said the people who haven’t done it just don’t get it. For the most part, I think he’s right. I...
Skydiving is like dating. Kinda.
If I were in a relationship with skydiving, I’d say we’re playing it fast and loose and things are looking like they could get pretty serious. We’ve already been through a lot together, skydiving and I. We’ve shared my first jump, my first stand-up landing (yay!), my first cutaway, my graduations, many beers after a day full of jumping (perhaps...
My Addiction is Three-Fold.
25 jumps to my A-license. 25 things on the list. 25 years on this planet. 25 minutes of freefall so far. 25 is looking to be a promising number, and an incredible year. This weekend, I earned my A-license. I’m coming to find out that this skydiving thing is much, much larger than throwing myself out of airplanes. There’s a whole...
Life or death situations. No, really.
If you’re reading this through RSS or on the actual website, then you’re probably the half of my audience that hasn’t ever jumped out of a plane. Or if you have, maybe once or twice. If you’re reading this through Facebook (namely the Freefall University page) then you probably have. That being said, my fourth jump on Saturday was one...
