JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for July 28, 2024

Well, that definitely looks like fun. Maybe I could get a very small taste of the experiences of my late brother, who was a paratrooper (101st) and skydiver.

My body

Is walking in space

My soul is in orbit

With God face to face.

In this dive

We rediscover sensation

Our eyes are open

Our eyes are open

Wide wide wide!

[Excerpted from “Hair : The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”

Might as well be walking on the Sun…

I don’t think I could handle anti gravity simulators. I don’t like high places.

It’s all fun and games until they turn off the fan.

There is an indoor skydiving arena in King of Prussia, PA.

“Thud” snerk

Be flat reminds me of the joke Sean Astin made in The Goonies.

Are they still at summer camp?

Gravity, the spoiler of all fun.

Wow! Indoor skydiving?

The session ended!

I tried the indoor skydiving once (at age 59), and it was incredibly fun. To address some of the comments above:

• You don’t feel like you’re falling, because you aren’t, you are actually being blown upward by the big fan.

• If the fan suddenly stopped working, you wouldn’t fall into it, because there is a soft mesh floor between you and the fan blades.

• I have never done real skydiving, but one of my coworkers does it a lot and participates in big events with dozens of other people skydiving together; and he goes to the simulator to do his practices, so I guess it must be similar to the real thing.

You should try it sometime! (nobody paid me)

Is this a real thing??