This weekend me and my new found friend Rocco went to San Diego to do some skydiving. I´d only heard rumors how good and cool the DZ was supposed to be, and all of them were true. The minute I walked in to the DZ I had a good vibes about the place. It was a very small DZ, but with a lot of skydive feeling.
The landing area was a nice grass area surrounded by mountains. There was actually no place to land out, but with good spotting and good winds hat didn´t matter. The winds here was 99 % of the time blowing in the same direction so everyone knew how to fly in for their landing which never led to any misunderstanding, safe!
And for the swoopers and tandem there was golf grass to land on, deluxe!!
And the view from the plane, the freefall and from canopy was amazing. You could see the ocean, the mountains and Mexico at the same time, awsome, and also the peaks of the mountains stretched up to 3000 feet so when you deployed your chute you had the mountainpeaks horizontally with your eyes, sweet I must say!
We did 5 sweet jumps including one special jump for this DZ. It was called Pilecone, The San Diego 500, and they got the name from the Daytona 500, the nascar race. It worked almost the same way but up in the air. Two people acted as cones on their belly holding on to a long stripe, with a distance of 200 feet from each other. And the rest, in case the rest was 21 people, was tracking left turns around them, like a race, coolest thing I´ve done in a while ;-) Have to do that again, so I´m bringing that to Sweden to do it there!
The pictures and video from that and the other jumps will publish a bit later due to some technical problems.
So I registered and got my self up in the air either in the Caravan or the Twin Otter they had there.
Todays agenda, Head down practice!
Packing area
Manifest
Tandem area
Max Bond, T-Rex boyfriend, had a bad landing one day but he´s happy anyway ;-)
He´s coming to Sweden in May to jump and work with us. Big Up Max!
Swoop and Tandem landing, golf grass!
Main landing area
Way to the plane
Ready to go
The caravan
Sweet view of the DZ
Mexico
San Diego, Mexico and the ocean
In the caravan
Rocco & Me
The Twin Otter
Rocco
Cool swoop
Another cool swoop
Rocco in the air
Another new found friend - Adam
The DZ @ night
I will publish more pictures from the freefall and also some videos as soon as possible.
I had the best day at Skydive San Diego with some awsome jumps. You know when you have one of those days when everything goes right, this was one of those days!
So if you ever have the chance to go to Skydive San Diego, either if you are an experienced skydiver or just want to do a tandem, this is the place, you wont regret it!
Bye San Diego for this time, I will see you again....
Sweetliving tours continues...
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