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controlled falling marketed as the safest way to terrify yourself on purpose
means The sport of jumping from an aircraft and free-falling through the air before opening a parachute to land safely.
from A clean modern compound of "sky" and "diving" — "sky" from Old Norse "ský," meaning cloud, and "dive" from Old English "dūfan," to plunge or sink. The word itself is a 20th-century coinage, born with the sport once parachutes became reliable enough to fall on purpose; before that, people who left planes mid-flight were generally trying very hard not to.
- terminal velocity
- You fall around 120 mph belly-down
- free time
- Average freefall lasts under a minute
- first jump
- Most beginners go tandem, strapped to a pro
- odd record
- People have skydived past age 100
- the chute
- Reserve parachute is legally required backup
for instance
intrepid museum new york — offers tandem jumps over the hudson river and new jersey with trained instructors