Ueli Gegenschatz Quotes

I started with paragliding. Paragliding is taking off from mountains with a paraglider, with the possibility to fly cross-country, distance, just with the use of thermals to soar. Also, different aerobatic maneuvers are possible with a paraglider. From there, I started with skydiving.

Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.

I go skydiving often. At least twice a year.

I've always wanted to skydive.

I got quite bored when I was hanging in the air. I want to do it without a parachute next.

Skydiving - I love to do that.

I've never been able to sky-dive, and I've always wanted to. I've probably done everything else, but for some reason the insurance company won't let me do it.

Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

When you freefall for 7,000 feet it doesn't feel like you're falling: it feels like you're floating, a bit like scuba diving.

The first time I jumped from a plane, I screamed like a woman. I was two miles up and you could hear me clear as day. Now I love it.

I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.

I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.

I haven't gone sky diving yet and I want to do that, real bad. I love adrenaline and going fast.

Obviously, you've never seen a woman skydiving in a hoop skirt.

On a beautiful clear Sunday morning, myself and James Nesbitt jumped out of a plane together at 18,000 feet.

From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.

I want to skydive.

I like to watch surfers and skaters that are really fast and really powerful and everything flows.

I love doing stuff in a harness. It's surprising what you can actually do. I'm reasonably coordinated, so I can do flips and the flipping kicks.

I was skydiving horizontally.

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

But I've never really done anything that implies any kind of danger. I wouldn't skydive, I wouldn't deep sea dive, I wouldn't parachute. I think you're really just rolling the dice. Who packed your chute the night before?

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.