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Orange Blooded [2232]
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Anyone in here been skydiving?
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May 2, 2025, 12:51 PM
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Is it worth a Saturday afternoon and $300? It's one of those things on my bucket list and I'd like to pull the trigger before it gets too hot.
To dos and don't?
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Re: Anyone in here been skydiving?
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May 2, 2025, 12:52 PM
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If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
$1.00 to Steven Wright.
Or the Estate of Mitch Hedburg... whichever.
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Oculus Spirit [41477]
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Solo, or do you plan you have your chute cut by the redhead?***
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May 2, 2025, 12:59 PM
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Paw Warrior [4940]
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Re: Solo, or do you plan you have your chute cut by the redhead?***
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May 2, 2025, 1:01 PM
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Fear her biting through on way down.
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Orange Blooded [2232]
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [102709]
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Yes, actually went right before
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May 2, 2025, 1:18 PM
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I went rocky mountain climbing and 2.7 seconds on a bull named Fu Manchu.
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Orange Blooded [2232]
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Did you find that it helped you love deeper and speak sweeter?
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May 2, 2025, 1:20 PM
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Give forgiveness you'd been denying?
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [102709]
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Heisman Winner [86836]
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Heisman Winner [86836]
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I'd wreck or mend wearing some tight boxer briefs
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May 2, 2025, 1:24 PM
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so you don't go down swangin and a dangling and slap yerself in the eye.
Also, probably take about 6 immodiums before hand just to be sure.
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Top TigerNet [30150]
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interesting physics problem
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May 2, 2025, 3:14 PM
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if you're skydiving, and you diarrhea out your bunghole, what gets to the ground first...you or the suqirts?
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Heisman Winner [86836]
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You either land in a pile of your own ####,
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May 2, 2025, 3:29 PM
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or a pile of your own #### lands on you.
Not a promising situation either way.
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Ultimate Clemson Legend [102709]
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Does the diarrhea have a parachute too?
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May 2, 2025, 3:34 PM
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Or are you questioning the drag coefficient of liquid poo?
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National Champion [7362]
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Re: Anyone in here been skydiving?
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May 2, 2025, 1:30 PM
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I’ve done it. Skydive Walterboro. Would recommend. It’s fun but unless something has changed, you’ll have to do a tandem jump on your first try.
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Orange Blooded [2232]
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Yeah I assumed as much, I think you even have to do it more
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May 2, 2025, 1:33 PM
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than that in order to go solo. Gotta get a license or something.
I'm down for that, just wanna see what the sensation of falling is like.
I do laugh when I picture the chaos that would ensue if they just let people jump out of a plane without any formal training.
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National Champion [7362]
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Re: Yeah I assumed as much, I think you even have to do it more
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May 2, 2025, 1:40 PM
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The ride up is cool. Lots of excitement and anticipation. The jump itself is wild. It’s loud, fast and somewhat terrifying. I like that part the most.
Once your chute opens, everything gets really quiet. I, for reasons unknown, decided to think “what will happen if the cords supporting me were to break” on my first jump. That thought made for a long ride to the ground. I would recommend thinking happy thoughts instead.
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Re: Anyone in here been skydiving?
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May 2, 2025, 1:36 PM
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More importantly, is there any Applebee's near there just in case a meets a lady friend he wants to impress?
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National Champion [7362]
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Re: Anyone in here been skydiving?
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May 2, 2025, 1:42 PM
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I can tell you one thing for certain. Telling the woman sitting next to you at Applebees all about it won’t get you laid.
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Re: Anyone in here been skydiving?
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May 2, 2025, 1:46 PM
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Even after half dozen mini bottles of sparkling Barefoot?
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Orange Blooded [2232]
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I wonder if they would let me jump interlocked with
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May 2, 2025, 1:38 PM
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my guide, if you know what I mean.
By interlocked I mean my weiner would be inside him
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Heisman Winner [86836]
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thanks for the clarification***
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May 2, 2025, 1:49 PM
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I spent a good 20-30 years being fully onboard with the idea,
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May 2, 2025, 1:36 PM
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but heights also didn't scare me when I was young. I got up on the roof a couple days ago, and it's so very dicey and nervewracking now, knowing how many things will break if I slip. I'm not sure I could bring myself to jump out of a plane now, but if somebody took me up, I guess I'd jump. It's just not on the bucket list anymore.
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Did you write this post or did I?***
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May 2, 2025, 1:43 PM
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Greenr been scared of heights since day 1. First visit to Washington Monument
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May 2, 2025, 1:47 PM
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was filled with tears, probably 8 years old. Same with Hatteras Lighthouse. I get scared hiking in the Colorado Mountains, I even freak out about heights when someone gets near an edge, not even me.
Skydiving is a no-go without The Implication
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Oculus Spirit [41477]
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Funny. I was in DC for the first time at 8 years old.
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May 2, 2025, 2:11 PM
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And got my head stuck in the railing in the metro station. Also many, many tears trying to get it out.
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Dude, legit, your references have been off the chain
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May 2, 2025, 2:12 PM
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Recently. Carry on my wayward son
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All-In [10215]
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Very odd
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How do I describe my fear of heights?
Went to top of Stratosphere in Vegas and rode the thing that shoots you up in the air. Not terrified at all because strapped in.
After, standing on 108th floor behind glass and clearly safe, terrified
Went zip lining in Costa Rica. Climbing up to platform, terrified, climbing so slowly others in the group are asking ###. At top of platform, once clicked in, no problem and could jump right off
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I have not, but I do have a couple of skydiving stories...
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May 2, 2025, 2:24 PM
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STORY #1
While a Clemson student, one of my best friends and roommates got into a skydiving club, made a bunch of jumps, seemed to really be enjoying doing it until one day, he was next in line to jump out of the plane when the guy before him jumped, the chute didn't open, and SPLAT. My buddy's career in skydiving ended THAT DAY.
STORY #2
I was dating a girl at the time I graduated Clemson, and I went back to Rock Hill after Clemson and we just sort of drifted apart after that. She started dating a guy in Greenville whose hobby was skydiving. They had gotten pretty serious and then one day he jumped out of the plane, the chute opened but got fouled up, and he hit the ground hard enough to cause some major damage, but he did live. Not sure of the details beyond that, but I hear she tried really hard to keep the relationship going but it just didn't work out. Last I heard that guy was permanently disabled, but not sure of any details beyond what I already told you.
Suffice it to say...skydiving is not now, nor has ever been, for me.
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Re: I have not, but I do have a couple of skydiving stories...
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May 2, 2025, 2:59 PM
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Freshman year. Club Day out in front of Loggia. Sky Diving club sounded fun. Had to get paperwork signed by parents. Mother says, get your Diddy to sign it. Diddy says, "Son when you get old enough to sign for yourself then fine. I'm not signing." Funny how priorities change in such a short amount of time.
By then I was more worried about going to Vietnam...until I got my number. Was like 286. Yankee down the hall got #1.
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yes, it's great
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May 2, 2025, 2:33 PM
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did a tandem jump with a group of friends many years ago
loved it!
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Heisman Winner [86836]
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How firm was your bonar?***
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May 2, 2025, 2:34 PM
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There's only one don't: Don't go skydiving.***
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May 2, 2025, 2:43 PM
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Orange Beast [6164]
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I used to skydive. I'd say it's worth it. I assume you're doing a tandem jump?
May 2, 2025, 3:09 PM
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You won't really have to do much other than some simple ground training. The guy on your back will handle just about everything else.
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Heisman Winner [86836]
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"You won't really have to do much other than some simple ground training.
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May 2, 2025, 3:14 PM
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The guy on your back will handle just about everything else."
This is RIGHT up YeahBudddy's ally.
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Orange Beast [6164]
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Yep. "Lube up" would be my recommendation.***
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If you join the Army, you get to do it for free ... plus a coupon for a haircut.***
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Ring of Honor [23561]
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No. I'm not jumping out of a plane unless it's on fire in a death spiral.
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May 2, 2025, 3:45 PM
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bungeed before butt dont have the cajones for that.***
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Yes worth it
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May 2, 2025, 4:24 PM
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If you feel a lump in your throat, that means you're having a good time.
If you feel a lump in your back, it means your instructor is having a good time.
(In all seriousness, the skydiving part was awesome and easy. The scariest part were the nerves on the plane ride up)
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Ring of Honor [23561]
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Old joke you may have heard before. Grandpa is telling the kids about
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May 2, 2025, 5:09 PM
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his first training session to be a paratrooper in WW2. When it was his turn to jump, he just couldn't do it. Big burly guy in charge yelled and screamed and cussed, but he still wouldn't jump. Finally the big guy gets up close behind gramps, jerked down his pants, and said - Boy, if you don't jump, I gonna stick it where the sun don't shine...
Kids: Grandpa, Grandpa... did you jump? Did you jump?
Grandpa: A little, at first.
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Pretty sure I heard that on Jon Boy and Billy show about 1989***
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SAVE UPPPP!***
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