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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I want to try it, it'd be like flying. Downwards.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:02, 3 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
The freefall is exhilarating, and the parachute descent is serene and magical.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:03, Reply)
it's not like I was actually going to listen to a GIRL anyway
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:04, Reply)
it was the freefalling bit.
I really don't know why I hated it, I'm not frightened of anything and I love excitement and stuff, but I just hated it. Even before I did it, all morning I was just feeling numb. And pale, exceptionally pale.
I wrote a blog post about it, (in a blog I haven't touched since I started trying to make these sodding cranes) here: thebouquetlist.blogspot.com/
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
It was just terrifying, a human's most basic instinct is to survive and in those few moments of plummeting to the earth I was going being forced fully against that instinct. It didn't fill me with adrenaline, it filled me with ice cold cement in my stomach.
Plus my tandem instructor's breath smelled.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:05, Reply)
I'd be much happier doing iot on my own, but I'd be more worried about what my trousers were filling with than my stomach
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:07, Reply)
for the first time. I'm going on mine as a solo for the first :)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:08, Reply)
or Swindon. And in October. I booked to do it last year, but the weather wasn't good enough and I didn't bother to rearrange.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:12, Reply)
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
I reckon if you're going to jump might as well do it properly
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:13, Reply)
The amount of times I lie across his doorstep begging him to jizz on my belly and he just won't.
(, Mon 16 Aug 2010, 14:21, Reply)
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