sports review: skydiving (boston skydive center)
if your friends jumped off a plane, would you do that too? yeah :D
overall rating: ★★★★★/5
it was so fun!!! i really think that everyone should go skydiving at least once in their lifetime if they're able to
but i'd be lying if i said that i wasn't about to shit my pants starting the week before the event up until i got off the bus that Took us to the skydiving field in general. once i finished signing all of the waivers [1] and got geared up, i simply accepted any fate that would follow me
let's dedicate a section of this review to eric, the skydiving instructor that i was tied to and led the diving. he's an interesting 30-ish y/o white man from north carolina with a lot of energy. he kept doing that thing where he just said a lot of jokes (dark humor, not a big surprise) about how jumping off a plane will be fine, cool, chill. at one point while we were in this small sus plane, he made a clicking noise with some of the gear and said these lovely words
if you hear this click as we're falling down the sky, that's just me quitting my job
this man was overall funny and transformed all of my nervous energy into Calmness [2]. i'm glad that he and juan (the pilot of the plane) were able to make my day so fun :)) what was less fun was eric sorta jumping off the plane without telling me he was gonna do that, re-enactment by haku from spirited away below
once i made it back to the ground i took a bunch of polaroid pics with my pals (asantoss and K) and laid on the grass while the rest of the seniors finished skydiving. 10/10 would do it again
here's a link to me being all silly as i skydive
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[1] the things we signed off on were So Interesting. "i can confirm that my private parts will be touched ... i will have a higher exposure to covid ... i will not sue if the equipment malfunctions" AND MORE
[2] a nervous laugh a day keeps the nervousness away!
