18th birthday: First Time Skydiving at 18,000 feet - World's Highest Tandem Jump

Skydive@ Monterey Bay
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[@grahampalmer6577]

I did this last year in March the month after I turned 18 and my location was skydive Spaceland Dallas. And this instructor I had jumped over 4100 times. I will never forget how incredible that was. The job was 14,000 feet and an entire minute of freefall if not just a little over a minute. I meant to say that’s where the jump was from. Not job. and I was also an adrenaline junkie and loved roller coasters and I told my instructor that but little did I know he had a surprise planned at the door. But he asked me if I liked to spin and I said yes. And I was the very first one to jump out of that airplane in our group. and then when we get to 14,000 feet with a combination of lots of excitement and lots of being nervous. I’m at the door with my instructor. My head is back and my chin is up high and I’m holding onto my harness. He starts to rock back-and-forth. but I can barely feel it and plus my adrenaline is so high and I’m so nervous and excited at the same time but then I could not even think for a second once my toes were adjusted to the edge, and he started to rock. So we’re standing there, crouched low, and suddenly he pushed us out, but we were not going straight. He literally jumped sideways. oh man, the feeling of going up the plane sideways like that and we started spinning a lot in freefall. The next thing I knew after he pushed us out it was just incredibly blissful, and the nerves were suddenly gone. he went around in circles at least 4 to 6 times. some of this he literally swirled around. I cannot even describe how fun that was during the swirls. you never knew if he was just gonna go in a big circle, or if he was going to swirl. And it was just so much fun that I was just screaming because I was so excited. And after the one minute fall was over. He grabbed my hand, and I got to open the parachute. how cool that was. And then we spent around seven minutes in the parachute and me and him both did some wild stuff in the parachute. We did some crazy spirals. And I’ve already done skydiving twice. About to do my third one soon. But oh my gosh. I did not expect to go out sideways like that. but it blew me away. an even better about this. We literally got to fly through a cloud at parachut level. that was so fun. It was not a rain cloud. These clouds were the puffy clouds. It was just cooler Eric kind of felt like. But I still cannot believe I literally went through one. my favorite thing was the whole thing but especially the fun that was to wait for me in freefall. The swirls. It’ll be jumping out sideways. And holy crap that was fine. What was your experience like. How would you describe it?

[@ameyak8401]

I jumped with the same instructor on Saturday !! Was great fun .

[@emaguire5917]

I found it interesting that SHE wasn't wearing a helmet, but the guy did. What was that all about???? It was like he was keeping himself protected with no regard to her.

[@kabal28]

It so her head doesn't snap back and hit the person in the face. Wanna keep that guy strapped to you safe.