The Truth About Skydiving (What No One Tells You)

How safe is skydiving? Surely it's easy, it's just falling out of a plane? How does a parachute actually work? Prepare to find out the answer to all of these questions and much more about the sport as I take you on a POV Skydive at Hibaldstow.

0:00 Here's The Plan
0:22 The Equipment Explained
3:24 Is It Safe
4:30 Why Do We Skydive
6:05 Raw POV Skydive
10:19 What Just Happened

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[robertbullock]

I did my first tandem at 54 years old. 14 jumps in, one solo so far, im now 57.
One common misconception is the feeling of falling, I’ve never felt that .
To be honest, the freedom of bing up there is incredible. No plane no ground. Exililerating but so peacefull.
My goal, I want to be inside of a cloud

[lehoff]

Done 500+ jumps i miss it but really enjoyed my time did it. Travelled around the world and jumped out of dozens of aircraft. Nice to see videos of it popping up on YT.

[johnwood]

I started jumping back in 1972 and we jumped from a farm airport. We used “Cheapo” and T-10’s chutes from the old military style. I finally got one of the “Drivable “ ones from the Golden Knights, a Para Commander, which was like flying a Ferrari. The modern parawings and such didn’t exist so we didn’t have those nice zero mile pr hr touch downs like they have today. We all started with static lines and after 5 or 6 jumps you went freefall. No tandem stuff like they do now. Sky diving is such an experience you just can’t describe the feeling.

[kaylasouthworth]

Love this. The scariest part during my experience was when that door opened and there was no turning back! 😂

[TheBaconbush]

I loved this video, for the simple reason that it made it all flood back. I never got very far on my AFF, I was on my 5th consolidation jump when family and finance circumstances changed, my dream came to an end. I can feel the nerves now thinking about climbing into the rig, going out and checking your landing pattern and holding area, I can still feel the fear when nearing the drop zone, the absolute deathly feeling before leaving the plane door, and then all of a sudden life changes, you relax and you start to enjoy life, for nearly a full minute of free-fall you live life to the max. Thank you Adam for the video 👌👈🤘

[ddthames]

Great intro and overview. I started jumping when I was 54 and in 10 years did 1200 with almost 1000 as wingsuit jumps. It was all a lot of work for me but overall a wonderful experience. I stopped jumping (about 2 years ago) to focus on other things but what a great experience those years were.

[nickpook]

Not a skydiver (done a couple of Tandems) but flew about 1500 hours of jump flying for Skydiving centres before going on to the airlines. Brings back memories of the energy and joy at a Skydiving centre.
One thing I noticed at the time was that there was a similarity between the number of jumps a skydiver had and hours a pilot has in the way they talked and thought. A 200 jump skydiver sounds like a 200 hour pilot; they’re confident and know they are good. A 2000 + jump skydiver, like a 2000 hour + pilot, knows that’ll they’ll never know enough or be good enough.

[netrgm]

Great Video!!! I haven't jumped in about 35 years. I'm 68 now. I had about 600 jumps when I stopped. This definitely brings the adrenaline back and lot of great memories. I have done night jumps, helicopter jumps, I jumped out of a WWII era cargo plane once, and more. I was also a camera man. Thanks for the video!!!

[mattwoodford]

A frequent phrase you'll hear is "it's nothing 1000 jumps won't fix". Enjoy your journey towards becoming an experienced skydiver (that's after the first 1000) it's a sport of limitless progression :)

[EcouragingGodStories]

Did one tandem dive some years ago. STILL get the willies watching you guys dive. What a rush!!!

[Dexter-lt]

I’m going this Sunday for the first time my gf got it as my 29th bday gift. I’m from Spain so I’m going to Castellón. This was a such a dope video broski! Really enjoyed it

[NadirOnTheGo]

Really entertaining and much needed content. Thanks for making this bro!

[yossi]

I totally thought that the jumpers we were watching had around 3k skydives like the guys interviewed in the beginning, especially when it seemed like they were doing a Mr Bill-type exit (nicely done btw!). I was then very confused about why the pair had trouble docking and OP couldn't do a clean backflip. I was like, "What is going on? These guys look like they only have 50 jumps or something!" Then it turned out that is indeed the case. Great jump and great explanation of equipment and procedures too. Beautiful golden hour jump. DZ looks really nice too. Keep it up! Blue skies! Cheers!

[dustdevilz]

I learned to jump at Pope Valley Parachute Ranch in 1974, I was 16. I jumped through college back when lots of the gear was pretty scary. My first backpack free fall rig had a Piglet for a main. The first square main I jumped was in a borrowed rig. The canopy was a 7 cell Flyer, converted from a 5 cell Flyer in its owners garage on his sewing machine. I jumped it out of a Citabria at 2300’. I got a line over the top and it spun so hard I could barely raise my hands to get my thumbs into the Capwells. I chopped it and was under the reserve pretty fast. Later I bought my first Square, a Unit. I haven’t jumped in a while now but I wouldn’t hesitate too if an opportunity presents itself.

[glenr]

Fabulous video brings to mind brilliant memories of my 5 solo static line jumps in 1995 at Weston on the Green. Incredible experience

[sonnypruitt]

Just imagine how safe our highway would be if all drivers had this mindset of safety, nothing left to chance, and knowing what to do when things go wrong.

[Lift-N-CollectStamps]

I am one and done with skydiving lol. I did it about 10 years ago in Vegas. Checked it off my bucket list.

[jr_]

This is incredible, my palms were sweating just watching it but it gives me that masochistic urge to want to try it myself

[howardcobb]

You and your cohorts enthusiasm made this one a great watch. Super video.

[MrHartApart]

second coming up next weekend. first jump was a lot less scary than I thought it would be. leaving the door, BANANA, it was pure euphoria.