Category: Skydiving

When squaring up to the idea of going skydiving for the first time, people have many questions. What is it about leaping from an airplane that makes this an item on so many bucket lists? Is skydiving good for your health? Can it really change your life? Why go skydiving? There are some very compelling…

In the world we live in today, we tend to accept things for the way they are without ever really questioning how they came to be. Which came first? The chicken or the egg? Since the beginnning mankind has always wanted to fly but unfortunately gravity has served as a relentless ball and chain that…

When my friend tried to talk me into skydiving, I always had a well composed excuse of the story of a tortoise and most it always began with a question. Do you know why tortoises live for a hundred-plus years? Well, perhaps they have a protective shell to make them resistance to any attack, my…

Skydiving, also known as parachuting, is considered by many one of the most dangerous sports in the world. Johnson et al. asserts that, though not always, skydiving involves a certain time of free fall after diving from an aircraft at high altitudes in the sky, with the body accelerating at an increasing rate up to…

Jumping is fun! Skydiving is not just falling; it is flyingthe closest we have been able to come to free, unencumbered, non-mechanical individual flight, says Mike Turoff in the book The Skydivers Handbook. I totally agree with him because skydiving provides the maximum liberty that one can ever experience. In this article, Id like to…