What does skydiving feel like

The parachute ride can be as gentle or as dynamic as you would like it to be. If you go toward the more dynamic route, you can experience some stomach-tingling sensations as the instructor spirals the parachute. Because of the misconception that you will experience a stomach drop when you skydive, many fear eating before their jump.

The truth is you should treat your skydiving day the same as any other. Drinking water, tea, or electrolyte beverages before a skydive is fine, but under no circumstances should you consume alcohol before skydiving.

If you are suspected to be under the influence, you will not be allowed to skydive. How would you describe what skydiving feels like? Call or book online today! Book Now! Each one of our skydiving instructors is thoroughly trained, highly experienced, and safety minded.

Oklahoma Skydiving Center. What does skydiving feel like? The simple answer: no! What does the rest of the skydive feel like? But, in nearly 50 years of skydiving in Chicago, we've heard it all - and we settled on the clearest answers we could. There are two ways to explain how skydiving feels that satisfy most people. Your senses come alive when you make a skydive. Some mention "sensory overload" after their first jump, and it's because you are experiencing so many things at once, it's hard to separate one from the other.

You see the world from an unfamiliar point of view. You've viewed from above from airplanes or on maps apps, but the detail and beauty you notice with only air between you and the Earth is like the most vivid picture or movie you've ever seen.

You smell fresh air. You know that crisp, clean smell you notice from a cool gust of a wind, or standing on top of a mountain? It's that. You are several miles from familiar scents. In freefall, it's just pure fresh air. You hear the loud rush of wind. It's similar to static from blowing into a microphone, or the loud sound in your head the moment you splash into water. It is not harsh or painful, but it is too loud to carry on conversation. But once the parachute opens, it's quiet.

The kind of quiet that can only be noticed after chaos. The peaceful kind. You feel temperature change and pressure on your skin. Even on a hot day, it will be noticeably cooler at jump altitude. It's like opening the refrigerator door on a hot day, and having that wave of cool rush over you. The wind resistance from your freefall speed feels like pressure. Not painful, but instead like you are being supported but can also move your arms and legs.

Skydiving is a unique sport that represents the closest thing yet to human flight. First-time fliers often ask us what it feels like to skydive. So what does skydiving feel like?

Jumpers tend to experience a wave of rollercoaster emotions when they come in for their first skydive, from jitters on the ground before the jump to the adrenaline-pumping sensation of freefall and the peaceful ride back down to Earth under a large parachute.

Chances are, the jittery feeling you get ahead of a skydive begins long before you walk into our airplane hangar. That feeling only accentuates when you enter our facility, sign pages of waivers reminding you that skydiving can be dangerous, watch planes take off and parachutes land, and then get suited up in your own harness and introduced to your tandem master.

You might even be overwhelmed with a sense of fight or flight. We encourage you to fight through it. For the first few seconds, you may get a thrilling sensation that might remind you of the steep drop or upside loop of a rollercoaster ride.

After a few seconds, however, you reach terminal velocity and you lose that stomach-in-your-throat feeling. You might even do a few turns and really start to have fun.

After about a minute of falling a few thousand vertical feet, the most relaxing part of the skydiving experience begins. As you pull your parachute and it unfurls above you, your body is whipped underneath it and your speed stopped short.

For the next five minutes or so until you land safely on the ground, you soar through the sky. This is when the breathtaking views and beautiful scenery start to take hold. Many experienced skydivers believe this part of the jump is the most therapeutic. The residual feelings of excitement and relaxation will stick with you for hours, days or even months and years to come.

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