Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
That James Bond movie? The one where Bond skis off a cliff, shucks his skis, and parachutes to the ground? That's for me. That's what I want to be. A stuntman in a Bond movie.
I've been a paratrooper all my life.
I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.
I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.
I go skydiving often. At least twice a year.
I was, somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300 jumps.
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 hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
The Queen of England jumped out of a helicopter and parachuted into the stadium. What was even more amazing was when Prince Charles flew in using his ears as a hang glider.
I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
I ran a marathon, completed a mud run and jumped from a plane.
I remember a Humphrey Bogart movie where he was a reporter, so I wanted to be a reporter, and then he was a parachutist, and I wanted to be a parachutist.
I took up scuba diving, and my next big thing is BASE jumping.
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?
You know, I had a couple hundred jumps in my career, and I made most of them, but the ones they show over and over are the ones when I crashed.
I was a pilot and flying hang gliders, paragliders, aerobatics airplanes, and then I discovered skydiving. Free fall. Free. With nothing around you, just a parachute on your back. And you go down. But you don't feel like you're going down. Total freedom.
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see that as one of the scariest things ever. And then also, I'm really not a fan of spiders and bugs.
I am terrified of being pushed out of a plane at 10,000ft with my hands tied behind my back.
I've got a dad who jumps out of an airplane.
