Shane Willard

WOW!!! For Christmas 2007 my folks bought skydiving gift certificates for me and my brothers. I can still remember when my mom gave me the envelope containing the gift certificates….she handed me the envelope and looked at Kelli and said, “I’m sorry Kelli.” Ha ha ha.

Anyhow, since Drew was going to be getting married right away, and since he was going to be honeymooning and then immediately moving to Cedar City…we needed to do our skydiving before he left. So we decided on the 23rd of July.

The experience was INCREDIBLE. I’d have to say though, that I wasn’t scared at all about skydiving…up until I had to open the door to the plane and prepare for our jump. The good thing was that the fellas that were diving tandem with us didn’t really give us time to second guess ourselves. We moved to the door and it was “Ready, GO!”

AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I couldn’t stop screaming/yelling. What an incredible 50 seconds! I really don’t remember much about the free-fall except that I did the breast stroke in the air and my instructor made us corkscrew down for quite a ways…giving me a nice headache. AND THEN….

…i felt this release… …it was really strange… …it was as if my instructor had released me from his harnassing. I didn’t really have any time to think about what was going on before POOOOOOOFFFFFFFF!!! Out came the parachute. (Now, I wasn’t expecting what was about to happen….I probably experience the strongest g-force of my life.) When the parachute deployed the harnasses JERKED so incredibly hard that my eyes felt like they were in my tennis shoes. Every ounce of blood in my body must have been forced into my ten fat toes (speaking of fat…I had to pay $58 dollars to jump because I weighed in 29 pounds over 200 lbs). It took a good 10-15 seconds for the chute to finally stop us enough so that the blood in my body could restore oxygen to my brain. What a RUSH!!!

Then, the instructor had fun. We corkscrewed, and whirlybirded our way through the sky until we decided to say hello to Drew. We glided over to him, gave him a quick salutation, and we were off nose-diving some more. The free fall and the parachute descents were equally as exciting and fun.

The sad thing is that the whole descent only took 7-9 minutes…far too short to leave a person completely satisfied. I can’t wait to go again. I’m sure it’s not going to be happening any time soon, but I sure hope it does.

Enjoy the pics.