I�ve heard lots and lots of reasons...
If we start out with tandem jumps it seems to be mostly gifts and banchelor partys. People want to give someone an extra ordenary experience.
A tandem jump isn�t realy a start for a skydiving career but more like one of those once in a lifetime experiences... Few people continue to take their certificate.
But almost everyone understand why skydivers do...
There is a scientific reason, they say that risktaking people have a "Risk gene" called D4DR that other "safe" people miss.
Well I like thrills, kicks and rushes.
I�m what some people call a seaker.
I�ve been seaking kicks all my life.
I�ve spend time skating Inlines, Skateboard, snowboard and such things.
Then one day I decided that I have to try jumping out of a perfectly good aeroplane.
Said and done and the kick was unbeliveble.
There is more to skydiving than that kick though.
Up there in the sky you find peace...
Once you leave the plane you don�t fall you fly! Everything else in life is gone from your mind and it�s only here and now that matters. A freefal last no more than a minute but when you�re up there it feels like a lifetime. You�re aware of every movement you make with your body. There is no such thing as a unintentional movement up there. Your mind is so focused on everything and that�s probably the reason for skydivers being so tired after a good day of skydiving with many jumps.
The freedom up there is not the same kind of freedom that people speak about in life but a freedom of mind. Your mind take a minute of vaccation from the world down there.
That�s one of the reasons that I skydive.
Apart from the reason that I know what a cloud feels like...
