10 Things To Do Before Your First Parachute Jump

10 Things To Do Before Your First Parachute Jump

Before you jump with a parachute write your will. Just kidding. Of course there are risks in skydiving but they are not higher than in other extreme sports. Leave wills to those who always worry. Focus on few things that really matter before your first jump. Here are they:

1. Find a drop zone. Of course you won’t travel days just to make a parachute jump. You need to find drop zone near you. If you are lucky to have several drop zones around you may be able to pick based …

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Learning Parkour – 3 Ways to Learn Parkour

Learning Parkour – 3 Ways to Learn Parkour

Learning parkour is becoming increasingly popular, but it isn’t the easiest thing to do especially if you try to learn it on your own. This article will discuss 3 ways to learn parkour that will get you on your way to learning this exciting and fascinating sport.

1. YouTube Videos: There are ample videos on YouTube that can show you many parkour techniques to get you started. Whether you are brand new to the sport or you want to learn some more advanced moves, online videos showing you examples can be a …

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Skydiving Safety Tips for Beginners

Skydiving Safety Tips for Beginners

Parachuting, also known as “skydiving” has become one of the most popular extreme sports in the World today. From its inception in 1797 when Andres-Jacque Garnerin made jumps out of hot air balloons, to the use of them in fighting wild fires and wars, and now as a recreational extreme sport, it has come a long way.

United States Parachuting Association has over 30,000 members, some of whom will take well over a thousand jumps this coming year, but it does not come without extreme risk to the skydiver. Though the risk is small, over …

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Getting the Essentials for Scuba Diving

Getting the Essentials for Scuba Diving

Scuba diving is a life long hobby for many. If you are interested in it as well, then purchasing your own gear will probably be a good long term investment. In the beginning, you will be overwhelmed with all the items you need to purchase, but stick with it and it will all become second nature to you. Before you go shopping, you need a list of all the essentials you are going to need.

Buoyancy compensators are one of the most important pieces of equipment you can get, so starting here is a …

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An Introduction to Scuba Diving

An Introduction to Scuba Diving

Ever since I have been very little I have always been in love with the sea. My family would often take us to the beach to swim, or sail our yacht out to the small islands just off the coast of Australia to go snorkeling within the beautiful coral reef that exists there. However, it wasn’t until I was fifteen that I went first scuba diving, and it has since been one of my greatest passions to go diving all around the world at the most amazing of locations. There’s nothing like feeling like you …

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Discover the Underwater World Through the Lens of a Dive Mask

Discover the Underwater World Through the Lens of a Dive Mask

Many diving institutions exist. To name a few – PADI, SSI, TDI, NAUI or BSAC. Whichever qualification you decide to gain, they are all just brands to help you take your very first step to explore the wonderful marine life. All diving institutions basically teach the same methods in scuba diving. One of the basic qualifications available is the Open Water Course. This qualification gives you your license to dive anywhere in the world, whether it be in the shallow waters at 5 meters such as where divers do …

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Myth’s About Skydiving

Myth’s About Skydiving

There are a lot of myths concerned with skydiving, why don’t we take a look at a few of these myths and see if we can discover whether they are true or false?

1. When you are skydiving you cannot breathe.

This is a total nonsense, if people could not breathe when they were skydiving how on Earth would they be able to open their parachutes and how would they be able to execute their safe landings, nobody would willingly jump out of an airplane if they knew that they would not be able to keep conscious …

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Let Your Heart Skip A Beat With Skydiving

Let Your Heart Skip A Beat With Skydiving

Skydiving is an extreme activity that will definitely give you an adrenaline rush. You need to know the basic essentials of skydiving. More and more people of all ages and of different professions have now ventured out into the world of sport parachuting. Some people say that it is an amazing experience and gives you a feel of euphoria. Oftentimes, you read testimonies on this extreme sport in a magazine placed in modern magazine racks.

This tremendous sport involves a high speed. It is an aerial sport that gets a participant to …

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Extreme Skydiving – Constant Thrills

Extreme Skydiving – Constant Thrills

The Trill of a Lifetime

Many people have found a way to make jumping or parachuting out of an airplane an extreme sport. This seems to be a thrill that some people seem to love. It’s not enough to jump from more than several thousand feet from the sky that seems to be routine and boring for some people. They feel that extreme skydiving has to be some more than exciting and dangerous. They feel the need to add the extra special and the unusual that makes their skydiving experience unbelievable and unrealistic. People put …

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Why a Tandem Skydiving Package Is a Great Gift

Why a Tandem Skydiving Package Is a Great Gift

A tandem skydiving package is great for those skydiving for the first time. However, the package can also be given to friends and loved ones as gifts. This is in an effort to provide those you love with the adrenaline rush of a lifetime.

When providing tandem sky diving as a gift, you may wish to buy the entire package in advance or in a gift certificate so the individual you are buying the gift for can choose their own package. They may be able to choose their own particular tandem …

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