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in today's episode we are talking about indoor skydiving how to make this trip yours and some
really fascinating q a if you're curious about this indoor sport but if you're new
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let's jump into some of the top things you gotta know if you want to do indoor skydiving
i was at ifly in south seattle they have locations all over the world but after you suit up and do
a quick briefing you fly with an instructor mine brighton awesome this is kind of awesome
but i got to do two flights that were exactly 60 seconds each wait what's the number one mistake
that people make uh bending their legs yeah so when you bend your legs the bottom half of your
body actually sinks out yeah it makes it a little bit harder for you to fly harder for us to control
you and so if you keep your legs straight and hold still wind picks you up keeps you floating got it
so it's all about the body positioning which we'll talk about more in a minute but you're
probably wondering is it hard and it's not because the instructor is there with you the entire time
it's just fun but it's different mainly because of the wind how fast is the wind that's coming
through the tunnel yes and it makes sense because it changes by person tell me more yeah so you were
flying at like 58 59 percent um i don't know the exact wind speed of miles per hour it's somewhere
in the 90 miles per hour sort of range because i weigh a lot it's pretty pretty average that's
what we see with most people you know flying on the belly to earth position you know you have
a lot of surface area hitting the wind so you don't need as much wind speed to hold you up and
it's safer for first timers that's why we give you the baggy suit that air picks up that suit
so with that suit they provide you have the option to cover your face completely
i chose not to so i could smile for the camera which also means i was drooling all over myself
i should talk about the suit for a second because when you come here you should be wearing just
loose regular actually not loose fitted clothing because you're wearing the whole suit over you
brighton's in there with you and you're wearing a fitted suit yeah so just talk
to talk to me a little bit about the suit yeah so like my suit is fitted more i have to adjust
to other people's wind speeds the suit is a bit tighter for me it helps me cut through
the wind better and walk around get places fast do what i need to do your guys's suits
are a little bit baggier and so what it does is that bagginess the extra material creates drag
creates the lift makes it a little bit easier to fly with that wind speed yeah so you're basically
driving the toyota corolla of suits no easy to drive you know nice and smooth
mine's a little bit more of like a ferrari you know you gotta know how to drive it
what are people most afraid of before they go in
um honestly just the heights like during the high flight people are like oh i'm scared of
heights and but they don't really realize that as soon as you get in there it's just
a bunch of fun you know you're not even realizing that it's scary because you're just having a blast
and in those high flights those are optional at ifly you pay additional for what they call
a high flight which i recommend because i mean doesn't this look like fun it's because it is
give us a full demonstration of what what this what the body is okay the body position okay
go ahead so we got legs wide the legs straight hips forward we're going to bring our arms
up we're going to bend them slightly and then we're going to look up at our hands
and obviously we're on our belly so you so we practice that in the classroom beforehand
and it's funny because you told us to do this yeah but i was still doing this yeah sometimes
you're not really aware of how your body is just overwhelmed by all the wind and that's
why we're there to kind of adjust it give you correction stuff while keeping you safe let's
recap this experience expect to be at ifly for about an hour plus there's classroom time
suiting up then two flights at 60 seconds each you pay extra for high flight around 20 dollars
but two flights in general are around 65 to 85 depending on what time and day you go let's
say for someone like me who just had her first experience if i wanted to try to get at your level
and do some of the awesome tricks you were doing yeah like what does that look like for someone are
we learning in this classroom or what does that look like yeah so we basically did what you did
today you started out you know coming in doing a first time experience seeing what it's like
and then you saw with chase one of my students we start out on the net we turn the wind speed down
real low so that we don't have to worry about you flying up we can just step out in front of
you how low is low because i noticed he was very very low like what was that wind speed for him
on the net for him he he's done a little session before on the net so i had him around 55 on the
net so a little bit probably like 80 something miles an hour he is he knows the position to keep
himself there and then we started turning the wind speed up as he got more comfortable with
his positions you know we teach the maneuvers down there at the low wind speed it's much more safe to
do it that way and then once they're comfortable doing all those maneuvers controlling themselves
we turn it up a little bit more and teach them how to start coming up off the net so will chase
spend classroom time with you or is it simply you're giving him what to work on next and then
he's just doing that the next time he comes um we don't necessarily do a classroom portion we
do it's called like a briefing and so before his session you know 10 15 minutes before we'll kind
of go over what we're going to work on and how i'm going to communicate what i want him to do
yeah obviously it's kind of hard to talk in there so and we have a lot more ways that we communicate
in there with hand signals and stuff other than the ones that you use today and so yeah basically
we go over everything how it's going to go how we want you to do it you know what to do if you get
in this position you know how to keep it safe that sort of thing we go over all that stuff uh so that
we can have safe and have fun and learn about that how many second time like how many people
come back like repeat come back uh we have people come back all the time so we offer you the return
packages after you fly because obviously we don't need to come back and fly more with us
how did i do today you did really well honestly yeah so you're you're pretty arched out so your
body was bent like this so it's having to use a little bit more wind speed to keep you up but if
you get you just a little bit flatter and with the position that you're in you're doing really well
how do i get flatter because i was what was cool was when you're in there you can watch the replay
there's a delay so you're watching yourself right after you come back in and i was watching myself
so i could just for the second flight yeah so what should i do differently for my third flight uh
just de-arching your chest a little bit so what i mean by the arch is we're gonna just cup in
the chest pushing our fold shoulders forward a little bit yeah and so you were super like this
we just want to kind yeah hips forward you want these to be the center point but not so much that
are bending our legs whoa what an awesome time i hope to see you at ifly this is one of many videos
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the next adventure ciao of course awesome instructor today awesome yeah nice job yeah