Indoor skydiving experience began with a full and fun briefing and instruction session by a great instructor who made everyone feel really welcome, kept the content light and gave some really cool tips and tricks to use. He showed us all some body techniques which he suggested we use when in the tunnel, this included free-fall techniques which are like those used when actually jumping from a plane and free-falling through the sky. The only difference here is that you are not in a plane nor are you free-falling through the sky.
The guy told us some pretty interesting facts about the actual tunnel and how its works, but to be honest I was too busy looking around and watching people in the tunnel, the noise the tunnel produces is incredibly loud and keeping focused on what the guy was saying was difficult, I just wanted to get in there and have a go!
The tunnel is a really powerful wind tunnel which is said to provide a true representation of skydiving. The people I was watching, who were also on an indoor skydiving experience day, certainly appeared to be having a great time, some were quite good and could flip about as well as hoover, what was encouraging was the fact they they all came out smiling.
I was kitted up with all the safety gear and accompanied to the tunnel by the instructor. He stayed inside the tunnel throughout the ‘flights’ to ensure safety, as well as giving hand signals to offer help and suggestions what to do. The noise inside was quite deafening, but I was far too busy trying to remember on what he’d said about free-falling and floating to take any real notice of it. Indoor skydiving it actually much harder than it looks and the minute flights go very quickly, I was exhausted at the end of the first flight.
The instructor then went inside the tunnel on his own and did a bit of ’show boating’, he whizzed about and kept shooting up so high it was difficult to see him before he came flying back down and hoovered effortlessly, I must admit if I was able to do that I’d show everyone as well, it would be great to have the experience to copy him!
The second flight was far better than the first, for one thing I wasn’t nearly as nervous or anxious. I did manage to float about and even managed to to shoot upwards a couple of times.
The actual flying time on this indoor skydiving experience is two flights which last for a minute each, this apparently equates to a total of three actual skydives and although the time did flash by pretty quickly they present you with a DVD of your flight which enables you to re-live your indoor skydiving experience over again, as well as showing mates just what you got up to! This sport is truly addictive, I left trying desperately to work out when and how I could get back to have another go!
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