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Friday Freakout: Double Tandem Collision Near Miss

Andrew — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:50:50 +0000

Here’s something you don’t see every day (wait for it): a tandem collision near miss with one tandem in freefall and the other under canopy. Another few seconds before deploying and this might have been a tandem sandwich — or at least a very close flyby.

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Friday Freakout: The “Screaming Horse Face” Tandem Skydive

Shannon Seyb — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:45:52 +0000

This holds a close second place to my favorite (and funniest) tandem skydive reaction of all time, but this footage is guaranteed to make you laugh and smile too! Her face goes from terror, to excitement, to hilarious horse lips, all in the span of 50 seconds. There’s only one way to watch this… Step 1: Pause the video at 0:30. Step 2: Laugh your ass off. Step 3: Click replay, then rinse and repeat.

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Friday Freakout: Tandem Passes Out – Bro, You Alright?

Andrew — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:50:03 +0000

Hey… hey, bro… you alright? Wwwhhaaat… yeah, I’m good.

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Friday Freakout: “The Screamer” Tandem

Andrew — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 11:50:19 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve posted a “screamer.” This girl has more than just second thoughts before her first tandem; she sounds like a victim being tortured in a horror movie. I’m not gonna lie, I kinda feel bad for her, but I also laughed out loud. Does that make me a horrible person?

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Friday Freakout: CRAZY – Grandma Falls Out of Skydiving Harness

Andrew — Fri, 25 May 2012 11:50:51 +0000

OMG! This has to be one of the craziest/scariest tandem videos I’ve ever seen. Kinda makes me feel sick just watching it, but luckily this tandem instructor’s negligence ends without casualty. Long story short, this 80 year-old grandma does a tandem skydive for her birthday and nearly falls out of the harness because it’s not properly adjusted prior to exit. Certainly not your typical tandem jump, but WOW is this scary. Barf.

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Hardcore HALO: Skydiving From 30,000 Feet

Melanie Curtis — Thu, 17 May 2012 12:30:56 +0000

This is what it looks like to do a HALO skydive from 30,000 feet (otherwise known as High Altitude Low Opening)… pretty quiet in the airplane before exit, sipping on oxygen. Mmm, delish. I love how this tandem student was like, “13,000 feet?? No way. I wanna jump from 30,000!” Hardcore. Now that’s some decent freefall time right there. For more HALO happiness, check out this other civilian HALO skydive from 30K.

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Nick Vujicic: No Arms. No Legs. No Limits!

Andrew — Tue, 01 May 2012 12:00:42 +0000

Nick Vujicic is a true inspiration — not only because he’s a motivational speaker, but because of his story. Born without limbs due to the rare Tetra-amelia disorder, life hasn’t been easy for Nick. But this video is proof that he’s living a life of dreaming big and not giving up. Skydiving has been on Nick’s bucket list for a while, so the team at United Parachute Technologies (UPT) built a custom harness for Nick’s first tandem skydive at Skydive DeLand in Florida. What’s next Nick… a tandem BASE jump?

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Friday Freakout: Terrifying Plane Stall

Andrew — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:30:13 +0000

This is the ultimate Friday Freakout. A paraplegic tandem skydive. A stalled plane in a corkscrew. A loose reserve handle. And scared skydivers. The first few things that come to mind are “oh f*ck” and “get out now!” So happy to see everyone land safely. That was pretty intense. Thanks to Frederik Potgieter for sharing his video.

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Friday Freakout: We’ve Got A Screamer

Andrew — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:08:24 +0000

This girl is still game for her tandem jump, but she screams her ass off on the way to the door. This is a pretty tame “screamer” compared to the grown man crying before his tandem or the woman freaking out on her tandem exit. What do you think… at what point should a tandem instructor continue the jump or call the jump off?

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Friday Freakout: Deer In The Headlights

Andrew — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:33:38 +0000

This first-time tandem is frozen stiff… like dear in the headlights. I guess he thought keeping his mouth open that wide would help slow him down. Now someone get this kid a glass of water. My all-time favorite tandem clip is this hilarious tandem skydive reaction. How scared — or relaxed — were you on your first tandem?

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Friday Freakout: Women Freaks Out on Tandem Exit

Andrew — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:12:07 +0000

This women freaks out right before exit on her first tandem skydive, but in the end she makes the jump. Although this is pretty entertaining, you can’t criticize her… she’s just verbally expressing what most of us were probably thinking before our first skydive. Did you scream/yell/cry before your first jump?

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Olav Zipser Does ‘Superman’ Track

Andrew — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:31:06 +0000

A short clip of Olav Zipser doing a Superman track while shooting video on a tandem jump. Fun times Olav!

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Cameraman Cut-Away With Skyhook

Andrew — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:10:06 +0000

After trying to clear tension knots on his JVX 86 and losing nearly 2,000 feet in altitude, this cameraman chops his main and – thanks to his Skyhook – has his reserve deployed in a split-second. Do you use a standard RSL, Skyhook or nothing at all… and why (or why not)?

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Tandemonium – This Will Make YOU Smile

Andrew — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:20:09 +0000

A season full of smiles from tandem paragliding instructor Cade Palmer at Coronet Peak in Queenstown, New Zealand. It’s fun watching other people smile, for a change.

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Friday Freakout: Grown Man Cries Before Tandem Skydive

Andrew — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:33:31 +0000

This is a clip from America’s Funniest Home Videos of a grown man who cries before exit on his tandem skydive, and in the end he just can’t bring himself to do it. He does, however, give it a second try to regain a little bit of his pride.

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Paraglider + BASE Jumper = ParaBASE

Andrew — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:49:32 +0000

A guy wearing a BASE rig jumps from a tandem paraglider in Banja Luka, Bosnia/Herzegovina. Whatever you want to call this – skydive, BASE jump, para-BASE – it looks like a pile of fun! This jump is ‘slightly’ higher than this skydive off a paraglider from 900 feet! Lol.

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Friday Freakout: Hilarious Tandem Skydive Reaction!

Andrew — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:41:03 +0000

ROFLMAO! This guy was born to skydive. One of the funniest tandem skydive reactions and Friday Freakouts I’ve seen in a long time. Go ahead, laugh out loud… you know you want to (if you haven’t already). It’s all in good fun.

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Skydiving Tattoo Sets New World Record

Andrew — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:31:24 +0000

Guitarist Zeke Galt thought it would be a great idea to have the initials of his band, Surefire Machine (SFM), tattooed on his arm during his first tandem skydive at Edmonton Skydive Centre in Canada. Who knew a silly stunt like this would set a new world record for the first tandem freefall tattoo? Probably because no one else has been, umm, “brilliant” enough to let a professional skydiver (not a professional tattoo artist) tattoo their arm in freefall. At least he practiced the tattoo on a banana before the real jump. Lol.

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Friday Freakout: Skydiving Instructor Fail… 2 + 0 = 4?

Andrew — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 13:38:16 +0000

I feel bad for this skydiving instructor who was fired for making a mistake, a fairly big mistake – forgetting to connect two of the four attachment points on the student’s harness (although he did manage to connect them in freefall before the drogue was deployed). Then again, I also feel like he should be nominated for a Darwin Award. What do you think?

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