{"id":2605,"date":"2015-06-22T15:40:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2605"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T15:40:29","slug":"50-go-skydiving","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/121-life-goals\/50-go-skydiving\/","title":{"rendered":"50. Go Skydiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"s1\">Completed September\u00a027, 1998 @ Beiseker, AB<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive005_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2333\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive005_1.jpg\" alt=\"skydive005_1\" width=\"640\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive005_1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive005_1-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>I went skydiving at the Skydive Ranch in Beiseker, Alberta. A whole bunch of CUC students went in several vehicles one Sunday, looking for some intense excitement! <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive002_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2330\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive002_1-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"skydive002_1\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive002_1-300x220.jpg 300w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive002_1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I was the fourth to jump from my load. Seth, Jonathan, Brandon, and some stranger were in the plane with the jumpmaster, the pilot, and me. I got rather nauseous in the plane so I was glad to jump out of the thing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Actually a funny thing while jumping out of the plane&#8230;\u00a0 After Mike (my jumpmaster) checked my chute and said all was well, I crawled out of the door and clambered out onto the strut of the plane and held on (basically flying like superman) awaiting instructions, Mike gave the go ahead and I yelled &#8220;Hi Mom&#8221; to the camera on the right then looked at Mike for the thumbs up, got it then as instructed I looked up at the bottom of the wing and looked for the &#8216;dot&#8217; that I was told would be there.\u00a0 As soon as I see the dot I am to yell dot and let go of the strut, but there was no dot on the wing.\u00a0 I must have spent a while looking for the dot before I finally gave up and yelled dot anyway and let go.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive004_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2332\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive004_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"skydive004_1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive004_1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive004_1-365x365.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The jump itself was terrific. I totally forgot to count before checking my chute, I was understandably frantic.\u00a0 Loads of fun maneuvering the chute to where I was supposed to land. My landing was OK, the chute caught air after I landed on my feet and pulled me over before I could bunch it up.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t afford the video so&#8230; no live shots for y&#8217;all.\u00a0 I highly recommend doing it once, easily addicting though, so be careful.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The six-hour training and the one jump (from 3500 feet) cost $64.20CDN including GST (it was so cheap because we were a large group).\u00a0<\/span>Our instructor was Mike Soboren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s2\">The Skydive Ranch has closed since the jump however, something about safety issues. It&#8217;s under new management and called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertaskydivers.com\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Alberta Skydivers<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p7\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive003_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2331\" src=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive003_1.jpg\" alt=\"skydive003_1\" width=\"640\" height=\"411\" srcset=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive003_1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/skydive003_1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Completed September\u00a027, 1998 @ Beiseker, AB I went skydiving at the Skydive Ranch in Beiseker, Alberta. A whole bunch of CUC students went in several vehicles one Sunday, looking for some intense excitement! I was the fourth to jump from my load. Seth, Jonathan, Brandon, and some stranger were in the plane with the jumpmaster, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/121-life-goals\/50-go-skydiving\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2235,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","page","publish","author-admin","post-2605"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2605\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}