Scary AFF Skydive

[DA7362]

Hey that was no worse then me at the same stage as my AFF, on my level 3 i did some 15 x 360 degree turns my instructor couldn't stop me either. You need to get back in to it mate as soon as poss. Even it that means jumping at the Geese!

[shawschannel]

look like he was about to jrop the  camra

[ACorlett48]

The rocking got me at first and makes you want to kick like hell. I learned early the arch is the only way out and no matter which way your flipping just relax, stick your junk out and its smooths itself if your not over compensating constantly. hoping the weather will be good to do 7 cause doing my first front and back flips was the best feeling ever!

[Rcslayer2k2]

C.A.R.T. my instructor told me i will never forget. Counter Arch Relax.... and Toe Taps. Blue Skies dude

[jhaining702]

I am going through AFF now and my last jump, level 3, went bad. scared the crap out of me. Going to practice in a wind tunnel before my next jump. Thanks for the encouragement to continue. I have definitely thought about quitting, but am going to hang in there. Can't imagine doing a back flip. I need to remember to arch and relax!

[spark1177]

woooooo!!!! nice control towards the end but instructor let u get too far away, good job u woke up to your alti, i would have shat myself. did u also pull on your back? balls of steel.

[MaksimSF]

Hey, nice free fly bro :)

[avidfcp7]

Jumps in this video are fucking epic! The man is fearless. Can I request that you make a webcam video on your thoughts going through the stages of your AFF please?

[katyu16]

GOOD FOR YOU. You stuck with it. How many jumps now? Are you an "A" or "B".?

Blue Skies from California !!

[irishmike1999]

@katyu16 B licence, though haven`t jumped since i did the naked one for Cancer Research last year. Intend to hit Elsinore and perris next summer though and start into it again

[zeroedodici]

nice buddy.

[acrazedmaniac]

nicccce! your on the learning curve and doing it well!!! remember when i was making static jumps in 1975. now its all hooked up for a ride thing...

[flightdeck485]

that was plain SICK!!!! glad you got down ok.....not so sure i'd be willing to jump after one like that.....blue skies

[n00bszpro]

this made be 14,000 ft right? sydney skydiversz

[mkb0909]

Well, I hope you stuck with it man! Just relax and it will go well.

[mkb0909]

That is so horrible, it has to be staged.

[irishmike1999]

wish i had the skill to stage that

[Anthony123999]

do backflip i did

[2008HLB]

congrats and way to go! your determination deserves a huge amount of respect!!! skydiving is not easy or natural, and you overcame your challenges like a champ. way to stick with it!

[WelcomeToMyDream]

rock on Mike! Looks like my level 3! Whoot!

[ninemen123]

This is cool, I wasn't bad but my instructor was an asshole and acted like I was the worst person ever, got my licence in the end though in spite of him.

[LososInDaHouse]

Maaan, that was awesome dance! :D Blue skyz and predictable dances:D cheers!!

[TYLERdubs]

haha very nice.. I still skydive that way sumtimes!!

[hennrock87]

hey mike are those bobster prescription goggles you got on, in the video?

[irishmike1999]

@hennrock87 yup they were bobsters

[rosneiantonio]

@hennrock87 massa prakas

[SuperGeppie]

@AdeptusMechan1cus

I'm one of the biggest rookie in skydiving but even i totally agree. At 0:44 the instructor should have given the sign to stretch your legs instead of the thumbs up....

[getyaboogieon]

holy shit that would've been terrifying. Bloody good work getting back up there and finishing off the course after an incident like that!!! Which DZ was this?

[irishmike1999]

@getyaboogieon perris

[irishmike1999]

perris

[mauriciomakoto]

Did someone notice that the pin cover goes out?? This is no good since the air drag can pull out the canopy

[GORYU123]

how much dose this cost?

[nipzilla]

@GORYU123 ... for the A license package it's about $2000.00

that's including gear rentals, training, 25 jumps, and a lot of sleepless nights lol.

you only live once. do it bro. you will never regret it!

....

blue skies!

[MgpMontville]

fuck.....ARCH DUDE!!!! don't go fetal if you end up on your back!!!

[Sittinprettihere]

That was insane!!! You pulled extremly low. I would have peed my pants. Lol. I want to take AFF also. But I am so scared that I would totally lose control and not be able to gain it back. I see where some people just keep spinning out of control. I could only imagine when you pull how many twists you end up having. But congrats on passing the class. I bet you have tons of jumps by now. :o)

[viper19861986]

I had my first roll over today on AFF 4...

On exit i was doing fine but before i started COA i flipped?

I was on my back for 1sec, then "rolled out of bed" and snapped back into an arch.

That was my first time on my back and i hope the last until i plan on it :D

[kevinbs05]

Hey that looked like me when I jumped out of the plane today, although eventually did level off and somehow even passed.

[jamesb131]

Your right you do fall like an anvil! you definitely got better though.

[willsmithorg]

You were fighting too hard. Keep still, the instinct is to kick with your legs which makes you unstable. Also your chute looks really big - it's changing your shape away from an arch - was it the right size? (I have 50 jumps, still learning a lot...)

[LCPStud]

Tell me that first jump wasn't an AFF jump. Please. Really, tell me you are kidding.

Student was not even arching from the get go, yet no arch signal from the "instructor" (i.e. shake), let's him go anyway, and you can see for like 10 seconds student is only on the verge of control, student goes back to earth, and then he let student save himself.

What kind of an instructor lets a student get THAT far away. The problem is not that you were a bad student, looks like shitty instructing to me.

[Thorsten690]

RESPEKT

[eventerkatie84]

Well done! I did my first tandem a few weeks ago and am keen to do AFF - looks like a rush! :) xx

[katyu16]

Everybody's a "crap" student when starting off. You got better with every skydive! congrats on your "B" license!...I'm about to get my "B" too.

Blue Skyz from Skydive Elsinore

[binaryLV]

Well, not really everyone. There are students that have never jumped, but have spent months or even years in simulators - they can go through AFF with no problems, sometimes in a single day.

[Freeflyer91]

I met a windtunnel instructor once with 500 hours in the tunnel and not a single jump to his name. Needless to say when he did start he ran rings around the instructors in the air.

[mpr106]

your mistake was in TRYING to arch, what you should have been doing was ARCHING! :oP haha awesome vid thou dude, and congrats on the B cert!

[archreachthrow]

lol. we were on the same boat....

[77artpunk]

Will always remember my first coached dive after AFF though. Instructor had me get out, get stable, check altitude, close my eyes for a few seconds while breathing slowly and thinking "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast", then re-open my eyes slowly. When I re-opened my eyes, it was if the whole universe "clicked". I felt the warmth of relaxation down my spine. I was as rested as if I were in a library. It was no longer about adrenaline. It had become spiritual. Now I could fly.

[77artpunk]

Amen. I think everyone goes through this once. When I went into the blue/green washing machine (unintentionally) during AFF-4 it freaked me out, but just like everyone else wrote: relax and arch and you almost instantly recover -- which actually built confidence. Had great AFF instructors though. "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

[kr0me]

No matter what position you're in, hips down and you'll always self right, during my aff i had one problem after the somersault out of the plane and started panicking as I couldnt get stable, after a while I just thought fuck it, relaxed, hips pushed down and hey presto, all good again. scary shit though

[toobshmoob]

That looked like fun!

[demonicowl]

He improved as the video went on, must have had a good instructor

[bballashotkalla]

if you didn't say u messed up your arch you'd think u were an awesome freestyler haha. im having arch problems right now too.. nice to know im not the only one :$

[joshle12121]

WOW......  relax and arch!!!! push those hips towards the ground!

[0xJessicax0o9]

ok haha

[0xJessicax0o9]

ahh:( how does it feel to do this?? I wanna try soo badly but idk how it fells lol. Is it like.. safe?? haha. How does it feel?:)

[MrGrimCreaper]

cool

[77artpunk]

Jessica: Before I made my first skydive, that was one of the questions I asked my instructor: "How does it actually feel?". IIRC, he made the waterbed analogy. That is, the relative wind will feel like a "cushion". Analogy works, somewhat, but since skydiving is outside your regular experience (until you do that first jump), it can't be really described fully except by one word: wonderful. He also said it would be the most fun I ever had with my clothes still on. He was right.

[77artpunk]

Analogy I might make is to stick your hand outside your car window and feel the relative wind, but imagine your entire body experiencing that sensation. If you are worried about that "rollercoaster dropping on the hill feeling" (knots in stomach), there is no need to. You don't experience negative G's. The sensation is zero G!

[wonderbreadjumps]

you know aff instructors are prohibited from freeflying (such as head down) during an AFF jump.. He was in a "steep track" ;) haha

[LouBriccant84]

lol the sitfly comment was funny! I noticed that too. I found if I think about my body position, I overanalyze. Then if I just go up there and feel the air and pretend like i know what i'm doing. It looks like i know what I'm doing. But ppl say its easier for me b/c I grewup around skydiving my whole life so I'v been pretending sents i was 2 and did first jump at 14yo

[drinkfightandphuck]

I thought my first jumps were bad! Thanks for making me feel better about myself :)

[micsimus]

nice sit flying at 1:11

[Mr750Turbo]

Its very important if you fly without control to push your hip the best you can. Than the physic make you stable. Let the arms loose and the air will be your friend. If you fly on move you must push the hip harder. you can practice it at home. When you sleep you can give yourself the signal to push trough. You have to do it on command than it will works in the air. So i have done it

[freeflyerme]

what is the AFF instructor

there when he did not intervene. or he just films?

[jaredtlong]

Just made my 8th jump!!! Graduated AFF and on my way to getting my A license.

[irishmike1999]

Well done.

[drumatic86]

i don't get why AFF is different in USA.. in europe you get held by two instuctors till you reached level 5

[jaredtlong]

I don't get it either. I thought that at least for my level 3 AFF I would be with 2 instructors, but levels 3-7 were just with one. Oh well, it was fun nonetheless!!!

[jaredtlong]

Yeah. Thanks for the vid. That would have scared the crap out of me as well. Just had my first AFF jump yesterday. I was really unstable in the free fall. From your description, you have given me hope! :)

[crazyflat]

Thanks Mike. Just had my first jump ever, aff, and didn't manage the pull. Nice to hear students like us can make it.

[dpawar73]

I went into crazy spins on my AFF 4, JM nosedived and caught me, later on the ground i realized i have broken my finger in this. Got to be a easy way to learn this sport - windtunnel does it help?

[and1c]

dpawar - wind tunnel makes a huge difference for AFF students

[dpawar73]

and1c - all right I just booked my flight to LA for this weekend only to have some tunnel time.

[katyu16]

You picked it up pretty fast. All you gotta do is arch...and WHERE'S THE INSTRUCTOR? He shoulda been MUCH closer to you on that first jump.

[ptarmey]

If you were out of control, you should have pulled earlier. You were apparently not altitude aware. If you get a line twist or a hard opening its better than smacking into the ground and / or leaving yourself no room to open reserve in case of malfunction

[XShadowXSinXDarkness]

is skydiving scary for a first time?

[Adeksz47]

is skydiving so hard? lol

[Krusty1985]

lol, good job mike, u did the right thing!

[internetguy1979]

thats a disgrace sky dive looool

[mojo1198]

Very cool video. Starting AFF in a few weeks. Went for my first jump four days ago.....can always learn from others!! :)

[sstevens582]

HAHAHAHA Thats SO funny Mike, did you post this or did the California lot?? xx

[irishmike1999]

Glad it tickled you, and yes I posted it.

[jards8010]

1:18 nice back flying, shame about the rest of the skydiving :D !!!

[irishmike1999]

it would have been even nicer if i had intended to do it!

[ThatGeorgeKid]

i couldnt do that on my own!!! i might be doing a Tandem in Jubne/July

[MooreTV1]

Did you throw your pilot chute or did the AAD activate?

[imadumbass0691]

nice job man

[srvban]

At about 1:12 u are in sitfly ^^

[novolo]

congrats

[megaplasma111]

fuck!! i`m gonaa do it soon! great jumps!

[JetJockey87]

you could see it on your face as you exited. You look like youre on coke!

[martinmorono]

Holy shit! It's awesome how u r still jumpin after that experience! Well done!

I'm going to start my AFF course tomorrow, and I'm too excited to think on anything else!

Blue skieees!

[irishmike1999]

relax, arch and enjoy

[leisaanddirk]

Holy Cow you were low at 1:27. I bet you were scared out of your wits. You kept at it though apparently.... great job!

[sportymb]

Legally, yes, you can be 16 for a tendem jump. I don't know of any DZ who in their right mind would let a 16 yr old do AFF level 1...let alone the entire package. A couple year4s to go, bro.

[arcus6]

nagambie does it

[1Sh0t1K1llSNipEr4Evr]

Hey i gotta question, you can be 16 and do the whole Aff package right? cause if so im definately doing it. : )

[wwscsoccer5]

is it scary like does it feel like ur stoumac is in your mouth (like a free fall ride at an amusment park) or somthin

[sisubilly]

It is not like a roller coaster. There is no sensation of acceleration or free fall. skydiving is actually a smooth ride.

[dorbie]

Nice sit and head down, you were clearly a very advanced AFF student :-)

Glad you kept at it.

Much more interesting than the average AFF video.

[Colingoesfast]

wow man. You pulled way low on ur first jump on this vid. You said your instructor was at 3,500??? You musta been at like 2,500 feet at least lol. But good job sticking with it

Blue Skies

[irishmike1999]

Remember looking at the Alti and thinking "The needle shouldnt be in the yellowy redy bit, had better dump!" Took the rest of the day off after that one.

Absolutely love it now. The sky is such an amazing place to be.

[Colingoesfast]

dude im glad you stuck with it. Skydiving is totally amazing!!! Im in college and Im saving up some money to buy the whole aff package. I cant waait to do it

[rcr97]

Mike,

To watch the faces of the instructors in the bar when they saw this video for the first time was worth the air fare alone!

[irishmike1999]

My pleasure! See you in may?

[sunburnedbuns]

wow your a brave one, that would of been my wake up call, Im just sitting here watching and my jaw dropped I was scared for you. You thought quick and deployed your chute though and thats awesome. When in doubt deploy!!

Blue skies!

Andrea

[dmtaylor67]

Ok, you know what? I was excited about doing this in April now I am having second thoughts. I may just stick to Tandem.

[ThePartyMan]

Do your AFF, i know that its worth my life. Its that awesome to do.

[HavnPhun]

Wow! You scared the crap out of ME! If that had happened to me early in my training, I don't think I would have had the guts to go again. Looks like you made great progress afterward though. Congratulations...and don't let anyone EVER tell you that you don't have guts. My hat's off to you my friend!

Keep Flyin High!

[marka1236]

god damm, you got some guts doing it again, you was on your own their,i bet he thought u was a gonner