We Skydived Indoors!
Last week, Isaac and I went skydiving indoors!
How it came about is this: we were invited to a special “bloggers” session at iFly Singapore, a 3-month old outfit that holds the world’s largest wind tunnel for indoor skydiving, also known as bodyflight: it is almost 5 storeys tall: 16.5 ft (5m) wide and 56.5 ft (17.2m) tall.
So, when we got the invite to try this out, I was very excited. I had done the real thing before (jumped out of a plane from 13k ft) and had always wanted to practise my skills in a wind tunnel because my aim was to eventually skysurf one day:
(Like, how cool was that?!)
But to skysurf, one needs to have done about 3000-5000 individual skydives. The cost of doing those thousands of jumps is a little prohibitive. In comparison, a bodyflight jump is considerably less expensive.
Even though having experience and jumps in bodyflight doesn’t contribute to a skydiving certification, the practice one can get would definitely lend to better control while skydiving outdoors.
So to Sentosa Isaac and I trotted last Friday. After some briefings and demonstrations, we each had two very windy 45 seconds “fall” at 190 km/h+ (120 m/h). :)
Check me out:
(Thanks iFly Singapore!)
Apart from treating us to this special opportunity, they have also kindly extended a special package to our readers: for every Wednesday for the month of September 2011, you can get an Adult First Timer package at S$59 (USD 49) instead of the usual price of S$89 (USD 74)! All you have to do is to tell them you saw it via SGEntrepreneurs and show them this post.
As their tagline goes: Anyone Can Fly. (Check out this FOUR year old girl do her thing.)
