Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Skydiving


G'day mate, so you're going to jump out of a perfectly good plane? The guy is huge and has wild eyes. This will be my 13th jump, he says. Lucky number 13!, the other instructor adds and continues with a story of an unfortunate chain of events of a mate's mate that did an imitation of a floor-pizza on his 13th jump.
Emma is doing her usual: Woohoo's! while we get explained how we might have a remote chance not to turn into pavement spaguetti if we follow a few particulary intriquite instructions.

The next thing I remember is hearing READY?! 3! 2! 1! GO! a push and all of the sudden nothing but air rushing not past me, sssssssSSSSSHHHH!!!! after about 20 seconds of hurling way too fast to earth the chute opens and we are flying.

I get to control the chute and we go into a cork screw twist, yeeeehaaa. After landing I can hear Emma Screaming (she jumped 4,000 foot higher) she has explainded to the instructor she wanted to be thrilled. Guess she got what she asked for. They perform a couple of what I can only describe as triple 72 twist, barrell back flip, killer loop olly salto's.

Mega-Manue is a billabong sky-diver
Nice!








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