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Skydiving is not just a sport, it is a sport that demands highest form of physical and mental fitness
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Fly like a bird Skydiving is an addictive sport
The desire to skydive can be difficult to put into words. Some say, “If you ask, you wouldn’t understand.” Skydivers embrace the sport with passion, always getting the sense of physical freedom and exhilaration of freefall, the peac
e and grace of canopy flight and the rush of a safe landing.
To some skydivers, learning skydiving has changed their perspective on daily life that is not under one’s direct control. The learning process is a series of physical, mental, psychological and philosophical hurdles one has to cross and challenge to oneself. Skydiving is statistically a safer activity than many more accept. The danger is always on human fault.
Skydiving is not just a sport. Archana Sardana, a housewife, had a deep desire to fly and to get a flying license but had a stumbling block. She had nerve compression of the back, and was bedridden for three months. “I had lost confidence in myself due to the spine problem but wanted to go for sky diving. I took three months of fitness training in a local gym with a personal trainer and went to Perris Valley, Los Angles, California to do the sky diving course,” she discloses.
The sport demands highest form of physical fitness.
Like anybody else, who is fascinated by skydiving and wishes to get a license, she needed to jump from the aircraft minimum 25 times.
What happened when it was her turn to go up for the first jump? While going up in the aircraft, she was a bit scared. However, on reaching 13,000 feet height, she froze though she had earlier been given four hours training on the ground by the academy and even though two jumpmasters were holding her from both the sides in the first jump. Finally, she was well guided to the comfortable landing.
Recalls Archana, “Till first 20 jumps, it was a bit scary. After that, once you know how to fly, you become confident and start enjoying. After 25 jumps, I got License A. I wanted to go for another 25 jumps, so that I could get my B License.
The advantage of having a B license is that one can jump at night. I felt one with the skies and enjoyed jumping because I had already learned how to play in the air and fly like a bird. Sky was no more a limit. It was absolutely out of the world feeling when I completed 51 jumps, I got B license.”
“So, now I am back and waiting to jump again as it has become an addiction...,” she says, “I know jumping from the perfectly fine airplane is crazy but then,… I am crazy about it now.”
MANISHA GARG
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