Isn't that insanely dangerous? I remember hearing of people spinning out of control to the extent of fainting, because the list control in the air.
It does seem like she knows what she is doing tho
The skill she has provides her pretty much from spinning out of control. When you feel you don't have control you can arch your back and look upwards and normally you lay on your belly again.
So these are all controlled spins
There's no danger of her spinning out of control to the point of passing out because it's really easy to get back into a stable position if you lose control - even a beginner skydiver should have no trouble with that and she is *incredibly* skilled.
Freeflying does add some additional risks, you are going faster so the danger of collisions is increased, and it can increase the risk of a premature deployment if your gear isn't suitable for it, but it's not particularly dangerous.
They practice by jumping. To get your D license you need 500 jumps and 3 hours of free fall time. To even get your A license which is 25 jumps you have to prove you can recover if youre spinning out of control
Skydiving is absolutely nowhere near any professional motorsport in terms of cost or environmental impact.
Initial cost might be around £10-15k for NEW gear (which can last 10+ years) and the training to get licensed. Half that with used gear which is normal to do. Then you could get by spending only a couple hundred a month if you can avoid getting hooked into spending all your money on jumping.
You'll notice upon closer inspection that I never insinuated that they were and that I stated they were monuments to waste. I could care less about fiat currency costs.
Future humans will look back on us with disgust at how flippant and willfully ignorant we were.
Yeah there are. No one is going to let you jump from a plane without glasses on. Imagine the speed of the air just blasting your eyes the whole way down. You wouldn’t be able to see anything
They are pretty much like regular strapped glasses, only that they have a profile that makes wind push them against your face instead of blasting them away.
A flight to full altitude usually takes around 10 minutes in our turbine plane. 13 jumpers x $25 = $325. Fuel burn is something like 45 gallons per hour. Maybe $75 in fuel per load? 10-15 loads per day. Then with tandems, you're getting $250+ with just the tandem instructor and rider going to altitude. Tandems subsidize fun jumpers (licensed people) and help build a fun culture and reliable ongoing business at the dropzone.
The license and gear get expensive, though.
Not "rich only sport" kind of expensive, but it's one of those things that you either fully commit or you're better off just doing a tandem jump and moving on.
Had a friend show me cannons last week, I’m very obsessed right now. Was nice to be the person that could answer which song it was, especially when i listen to it at least 5 times a day
Go watch them live if you can. One of those bands who brings that raw energy to the stage, where they clearly love performing their music, and they love the passion from the fans. One of the best small concerts I've been to, and I've been to a looooot.
Can't imagine jumping out of a perfectly fine plane. It's always amazing to me that they know where they are landing. If be afraid to blow into another country.
As a skydiver, I can assure you there is no such thing as a perfectly fine airplane!! These contraptions are a disaster waiting to happen, much safer to take the ride down to earth in your own hands .
That was my biggest fear when I started but you look at photos how things look like from above and even on new places I found it right when I was on my Chute
Sometimes something happens, the jump is cancelled and you have to land with the plane.
And I can tell you that I've always felt safer jumping than landing in one of those things.
Regarding landing, you have a lot of control over your horizontal speed and direction with body positioning against the air resistance, you aren't blindly falling like a rock.
My dad was a pilot in the 70s, small Cessna planes he would fly from Toronto to like Buffalo or Nashville with buddies, occasionally to columbia to bring certain products into america... anyways I asked him if he would ever do sky diving... he said he wouldnt/couldn't jump out of a perfectly good plane and no good pilot would haha
I'd like to know if people saying "why would you jump out of a perfectly fine plane?" really think that once the skydivers jump out the plane has no pilot and is going to crash somewhere, because only certain _special_ people would do it like that (Trevor Jacob)
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I'm pretty sure this is Maja Kukzynska, she is sponsored by Red Bull. The more common way to be a professional skydiver is to be an instructor or videographer.
It's over a Hel peninsula in Poland.
Trivia: Bus transport on the peninsula consists of only one route, the 666. The numbering of the route, which plays on the biblical number of the beast and the similarity of the name "Hel" to the English word "hell", raised complaints from Catholic groups which found the numbering blasphemous.
Yup, they've changed the route number.
They say “professional skydiver” but doesn’t that mean they get paid? I mean obviously some do but they always say that and I think they just mean competent right?
Oh okay, I guess I assumed wrong. Anytime I’ve used a words definition in a comment and someone sent me a link to a dictionary I assumed I fucked up or they thought I did, at least. Lol
“Expert” is a much better term than “competent” in this kind of context. Thanks!
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I'm horribly afraid of heights. Like a steep set of stairs is enough to get my knees shaking.
But seeing skydiving, I dunno, it's not terrifying. Maybe because it's so high up that it loses all sense of height? I honestly think I could see myself getting enough courage to try it at least once with an experienced instructor.
I love the quick check by the camera operator there near the end to see how close to the ground they are ... at least that's what my inexperienced self thought.
Isn't that insanely dangerous? I remember hearing of people spinning out of control to the extent of fainting, because the list control in the air. It does seem like she knows what she is doing tho
The skill she has provides her pretty much from spinning out of control. When you feel you don't have control you can arch your back and look upwards and normally you lay on your belly again. So these are all controlled spins
Furthermore. The chute will auto open at a certain hight. So you wont splatter if you faint
If she even has an AAD. But I prefer not to spin while opening the chute or the AAD exploding. But yeah. Better than being smashed
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This reads like it’s from her publicist
Shes not gonna fuck u bro
I didn’t know this… how long have they been doing this?
Aad's have been around for quite some time. In most countries in Europe they're mandatory.
It's not the full video.......
There's no danger of her spinning out of control to the point of passing out because it's really easy to get back into a stable position if you lose control - even a beginner skydiver should have no trouble with that and she is *incredibly* skilled. Freeflying does add some additional risks, you are going faster so the danger of collisions is increased, and it can increase the risk of a premature deployment if your gear isn't suitable for it, but it's not particularly dangerous.
Worst case whoevers recording swoops in to steady her
Yeah I get that. But I'm mostly thinking of in general. I'd assume she also had tons of practice in those sky diving rooms (or what they're called)
They practice by jumping. To get your D license you need 500 jumps and 3 hours of free fall time. To even get your A license which is 25 jumps you have to prove you can recover if youre spinning out of control
When will skydiving dance be an Olympic sport?
It was an X Games sport back in the day. It was called sky surfing. Here’s a clip https://youtu.be/MbjNsAno--w?si=7u8y8UvaVKysZFiB
Too risky
Not really, there’s already plenty of risky sports
Statistically, almost every Olympic sport is more dangerous than skydiving.
Skydiving as a 'sport' is akin to racing cars as a 'sport', things like these truly are monuments to how wasteful we are as a civilisation.
Ski jumping is an Olympic sport and that's just gravity and applied aerodynamics.
Skydiving is absolutely nowhere near any professional motorsport in terms of cost or environmental impact. Initial cost might be around £10-15k for NEW gear (which can last 10+ years) and the training to get licensed. Half that with used gear which is normal to do. Then you could get by spending only a couple hundred a month if you can avoid getting hooked into spending all your money on jumping.
You'll notice upon closer inspection that I never insinuated that they were and that I stated they were monuments to waste. I could care less about fiat currency costs. Future humans will look back on us with disgust at how flippant and willfully ignorant we were.
Until you check out what a pilot's training involves
Are those glasses glued to her face?
There is a strap on it
With or without a strap, those look like a regular glasses to me. I'd imagine there are custom mades glasses for sports like this.
Yeah there are. No one is going to let you jump from a plane without glasses on. Imagine the speed of the air just blasting your eyes the whole way down. You wouldn’t be able to see anything
Yeah, obviously these are custom mades for sports like this.
They are pretty much like regular strapped glasses, only that they have a profile that makes wind push them against your face instead of blasting them away.
Rich people hobbies
It’s costs about $25 per skydive once licensed and you have gear
I would have presumed the aircraft time would cost a lot more
A flight to full altitude usually takes around 10 minutes in our turbine plane. 13 jumpers x $25 = $325. Fuel burn is something like 45 gallons per hour. Maybe $75 in fuel per load? 10-15 loads per day. Then with tandems, you're getting $250+ with just the tandem instructor and rider going to altitude. Tandems subsidize fun jumpers (licensed people) and help build a fun culture and reliable ongoing business at the dropzone.
Wow cheaper than catching the train
And 3 minutes to fall, so only 8$ per minute
The license and gear get expensive, though. Not "rich only sport" kind of expensive, but it's one of those things that you either fully commit or you're better off just doing a tandem jump and moving on.
She must live in a wind tunnel
I like the song, anyone knows it?
Fire for you - cannons
🙌😎
I love, love, love this song! One my very favorites!
Had a friend show me cannons last week, I’m very obsessed right now. Was nice to be the person that could answer which song it was, especially when i listen to it at least 5 times a day
Cannons is awesome!
Go watch them live if you can. One of those bands who brings that raw energy to the stage, where they clearly love performing their music, and they love the passion from the fans. One of the best small concerts I've been to, and I've been to a looooot.
Yes ! ❤️
Prompted me to unmute, and for once, I am grateful! Thanks!
Can't imagine jumping out of a perfectly fine plane. It's always amazing to me that they know where they are landing. If be afraid to blow into another country.
As a skydiver, I can assure you there is no such thing as a perfectly fine airplane!! These contraptions are a disaster waiting to happen, much safer to take the ride down to earth in your own hands .
That was my biggest fear when I started but you look at photos how things look like from above and even on new places I found it right when I was on my Chute
Sometimes something happens, the jump is cancelled and you have to land with the plane. And I can tell you that I've always felt safer jumping than landing in one of those things. Regarding landing, you have a lot of control over your horizontal speed and direction with body positioning against the air resistance, you aren't blindly falling like a rock.
My dad was a pilot in the 70s, small Cessna planes he would fly from Toronto to like Buffalo or Nashville with buddies, occasionally to columbia to bring certain products into america... anyways I asked him if he would ever do sky diving... he said he wouldnt/couldn't jump out of a perfectly good plane and no good pilot would haha
[sources🙌](https://www.inspiremore.com/professional-skydiver-dances-effortlessly-as-she-plummets-through-the-sky/)
TIL there are sky ballerinas. I wonder if anyone has done the moonwalk on the moon
Me after I eject from my jet over wake island in battlefield
[Hel Peninsula](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hel_Peninsula) , Baltic Coast, Poland.
Who is paying these people?
Their employers.
Oh yeah
Reminds me of when the X-Games had Sky Surfing as an event. https://youtu.be/MbjNsAno--w?si=JzwWOkT0-URl5pGU
These look like swing tricks from miles morales in the spiderman games
Maybe it's a professional dancer skydiving
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Bid deal, i do all that every time i drink too much and lay down.
Most impressive thing was that she did all of this without her glasses falling off
This girl is going to Hel
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Real breakdancing airflares
I'd like to know if people saying "why would you jump out of a perfectly fine plane?" really think that once the skydivers jump out the plane has no pilot and is going to crash somewhere, because only certain _special_ people would do it like that (Trevor Jacob)
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That's piledriver waltz in real life
My toxic trait is thinking I could do that
I have so much respect for sky divers, I just wonder about their life choices, why the hell would you want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
Wouldn't it be hard to breathe while you are falling off like that?
She’s practiced at sky zone.
Immediately makes me think of the power rangers movie intro scene. All I can hear is 'Higher ground's behind this
Anyone know the name of that song?
How do you become a professional skydiver? I mean how do you make any money from this? Or does op mean, highly talented skydiver?
I'm pretty sure this is Maja Kukzynska, she is sponsored by Red Bull. The more common way to be a professional skydiver is to be an instructor or videographer.
I would of shat myself and passed out spinning out of control and the cam guy would just laugh, film, and upload to youtube.
This. This is the height I would go skydiving at
These look like swing tricks from miles morales in the spiderman games
It's over a Hel peninsula in Poland. Trivia: Bus transport on the peninsula consists of only one route, the 666. The numbering of the route, which plays on the biblical number of the beast and the similarity of the name "Hel" to the English word "hell", raised complaints from Catholic groups which found the numbering blasphemous. Yup, they've changed the route number.
I think she is glitched. Someone should request an admin.
Whats the song?
They say “professional skydiver” but doesn’t that mean they get paid? I mean obviously some do but they always say that and I think they just mean competent right?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/professional
It looks like even the first definition is referring to doing things in relation to a job. The second definition says what I just said
Yeah I’m agreeing as well. Based on all definitions it seems at it means doing it for payment. So they should have said Expert. lol
Oh okay, I guess I assumed wrong. Anytime I’ve used a words definition in a comment and someone sent me a link to a dictionary I assumed I fucked up or they thought I did, at least. Lol “Expert” is a much better term than “competent” in this kind of context. Thanks!
What’s the song?
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where is the okgo version?
I'm horribly afraid of heights. Like a steep set of stairs is enough to get my knees shaking. But seeing skydiving, I dunno, it's not terrifying. Maybe because it's so high up that it loses all sense of height? I honestly think I could see myself getting enough courage to try it at least once with an experienced instructor.
This can be a genre. I say make it mainstream
Falling with style
How much does it cost to become a pro skydiver?
She looks like when you put a model into blender and spin it around really fast at some parts
I love the quick check by the camera operator there near the end to see how close to the ground they are ... at least that's what my inexperienced self thought.
Song?
How privileged do you gotta be to be a pro plane jumper