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At this time you will see skydivers exit the plane and you and your instructor will be moving towards the door. Once you get to the door, if you can remember this try to clear your ears again. Sometimes the pressure gives you a headache once you’re on the ground, this will stop that. So try to remember it. When you leave the airplane for your tandem skydive you will not feel like you do on a roller coaster. You probably will not feel anything in your stomach. Remember when you leave the plane you are going as fast as the plane.

So now you are in the air, you are skydiving, you did it. You actually jumped from a perfectly good airplane and you are flying towards the earth at about 120 miles an hour. You are having the time of your life. Do not forget while you are flying to check out the world it is beautiful. Look all around not just down. If you have a cameraperson do not forget to geek him or her.

During your tandem skydive, you will freefall to about 5000 feet before your instructor opens the parachute. For a split-second when he or she opens the parachute you will feel a little bit in your stomach. This is called the elevator affect. After the parachute is open your instructor will check everything out to make sure everything is okay. At this time you can talk to your instructor and ask him or her if you can fly the parachute. Most likely the instructor will say yes. Flying the parachute is a lot of fun so do not be afraid to fly. Once you get to about 1000 feet, your instructor will be getting set up to land. You will need to listen to what your tandem instructor has to say.

When landing the parachute it is critical to keep your feet raised above your instructor’s. You do not want your feet to touch the ground before your instructor’s. This can be bad. Your instructor will tell you all this as you approach the ground. Do not let the speed of the canopy bother you on landing. Just listen to your tandem instructor. Do what he or she tells you to do and everything will be fine. If you bought video, your videographer will probably be filming you while you land.

The more you can relax the better the skydive will go. And what is the number one most important thing to remember? “Have Fun”!! This is what it is all about, having fun. I have been jumping for 30 years. I started back in 1974 when skydiving was crazy and unsafe. The one thing I always remembered is to “Have Fun”. I hope this information will help you on your first tandem skydive. Blue Skies

About the Author:

Jeff Wark has over 30 years of skydiving experience. His skydiving experience includes being a tandem instructor, RW flying, free flying and videography. http://www.tandemskydivinginfo.com This article may be freely distributed provided the author’s bio and website link remain in tact and active.

Written By: Jeff Wark

A Skydiving lesson in California is a great way to begin the sport. Skydiving is a very popular extreme sport it today’s society. The rush of jumping out of a plane and slowly floating to the earth in a peaceful surrounding is an urge many people cannot ignore. Skydiving lessons in California aren’t difficult to locate.

CalAdventures offers assistance with finding a skydiving lesson in California as well as other extreme sports like backpacking, dirt bike and ATV racing and riding, bungee jumping, and cave exploration.

One company offering skydiving lessons in California directly is Adrenaline Air Skydiving of Santa Rosa. All of their instructors are fully licensed by the Federal Aviation Administration and the United States Parachute Association. In addition to traditional skydiving lessons, they also offer tandem jumps, also known as jumping with a partner for people who are new to the sport, a full service training course for certifying jumpers which includes static line training, tandem transition or accelerated free fall methods, and solo free fall jumping for certified skydivers. In addition to the jump itself, you can get video and photos to remember the jump.

Adventure Center Skydiving also offers skydiving lessons in California. They advertise offering California’s highest tandem jumps. They take first time jumpers up to eighteen thousand feet and allow them to jump strapped to an instructor. Tandem jumping is a great way for novices to experience this extreme sport. First, you take about a half an hour of a skydiving lesson.

Then you put all of your gear on including a harness, goggles, and a jumpsuit. After that, it’s off to the plane for a fifteen minute ride up. You and your instructor leave the aircraft together for a one minute free fall and a five minute glide to the ground. The skydiving lesson is continued during the free fall as you learn to practice your landing and control your chute.

Another skydiving lesson in California can be taken at Air Adventures West. They offer accelerated free fall training. In this course, you spend approximately one day learning to jump. During the jump, two instructors stay with you, and yours stay in constant radio communication. You spend about one minute free falling during each jump. The extreme sport of skydiving has erupted with participants and companies willing to help. A skydiving lesson in California is easy to locate.

About the Author:

J Ewing contributes adding articles to http://www.skydiving-parachuting-guide.com . An online magazine that carries articles on skydiving equipment, and a guide on the best drop zones, including New York or California

Written By: John Ewing