Rama’s SCREEN

Check out that awesome picture above, man! I’m flying. David Cooperfield’s got nothing on this Indo. Ever since I saw the movie The Bucket List, I told myself that skydiving would be one of the top things I’d have to do before I kick the bucket. And today, it really happened.
My friend and I went all the way to San Diego because over there… the place is friendly, the cost is affordable and the weather is fair all year round. The kind that I would jump out of a plane for.

The registration part was a bit time consuming. We had to sign a long waiver.
We had to wait for the first group to do their jump and it took them quite a while but we didn’t mind because we were curious to see what we were about to get ourselves into.
Watching them dancing gracefully in mid-air like soaring eagles with no care in the world, as their parachutes opened and slowly brought them down, it made me realize that I may not be the world’s leading movie blogger, I may not be Tony Stark, but the opportunities I’ve taken in my lifetime with running marathons, doing road trip across America, and now skydiving.. I say I’m one of the luckiest punks alive

And so the plane landed, and it was time for my friend and I to get trained, we were instructed what to do and what not to do. We put on the straps and the gear and I gotta tell ya, at first it was a bit baffling… I thought skydiving requires its jumpers to wear one of those suits like the ones Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman wore in The Bucket List. But apparently, that wasn’t the case. We kept the clothes we had on and that was it.

It was our first skydiving experience for the both of us, that means jumping solo was not allowed. Someday I’ll be able to do that. Someday I’ll be a pro.
We boarded the plane and it took about 11 minutes or so for the steel bird to take us up to about 13 to 15,000 feet or so.
Each of us attached ourselves to our respective experts who would do most of the work. I got to jump first, my lucky stars!… And then one, two, three… Wohooo! YEAH!!!

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Each of us got an extra cameraman who took pictures and video tape every moment of every second. (The Video will arrive at my place in about two weeks from now, I’ll show it to you as soon as I upload it, I promise)
So there were we… screaming in excitement. I tried smiling but the air pressure is messing with my groove, man!
But it was FUN, FUN, FUN! I felt like Superman and Iron Man all at the same time.
The parachute opened and the dude swung me around counterclockwise and the other way around… it was cool and all but thank God, I didn’t eat much that morning, otherwise I’d throw up right there and then.

And then we landed.. safely, I might add. But once I put my feet on the ground, I wanted to go back up there again. Unfortunately I only brought enough money to do it once so I’m planning to return in the near future.
They gave us some neat certificates.
We thank everybody there who did excellent job of making sure our first Skydiving experience would go down as one of the greatest achievements in the history of mankind…
Believe it!

Now, to return the favor, allow me to sorta promote the place/facility that has helped us made it all possible.
SkyDive San Diego is the name, for direction and more, Just go to their official website at www.skydivesandiego.com and get complete information.
The people are professional, friendly and some of the coolest folks you’ll ever meet.
So if you happen to visit So-Cal, go there and give it a shot. You only live once, so why not make it worth your while!