Skydiving Review | How does it Compare to Roller Coasters and Amusement Rides?
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Skydiving was a bucket list activity for me. As an avid roller coaster and amusement park enthusiast, I thought skydiving would have similarities to the thrill rides I had previously experienced across the world. It did not. In this video, I will review my experience skydiving!
I went skydiving at Skydive Pepperell in northern Massachusetts in fall 2019. It was a tandem jump from 10,500 feet!
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Skydive Pepperell
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Nice video! it was cool to hear coasters compared to skydiving
Glad you enjoyed it!
honestly i am kind of curious what going on a roller coaster will be like now that i have gone skydiving since i have not gone on a roller coaster since i went skydiving lol
I did a tandem skydive for the first time yesterday, and this video was really useful for understanding what to expect. Like you say, the rush really comes from the flight up and going out of the door, a plane is the ultimate lift hill. For me, it really just felt like I moved towards the door and then I was out, I didn't really "jump" or even wait to be pushed, the whole thing was just one smooth motion from the instructor. If I'm honest, I love coaster airtime, and I was kind of sold on the idea of "40 seconds of airtime". That's not what you get... freefall is, like you say, more just a feeling of floating with the wind rushing past at 120mph. But the views are incredible, and of course there is the release because the waiting and the anticipation are over. And the parachute opens and gliding back down is peaceful, but also very mild (even milder than a Star Flyer, say). All in all, I enjoyed it a lot, but I think I'd like to do another tandem where I could just focus on the experience without the anticipation of jumping out of a plane for the first time. For me it feels like a very good coaster, probably even the best coaster I've ever ridden (because of the views and the duration of freefall), but also very expensive for a single "ride" and I doubt the actual experience changes much each time you do it. I think I will do 2-3 tandems per year, maybe even do some introductory classes, but I will still visit parks and ride more coasters. I don't feel like skydiving "ruined" coasters for me - I'm still excited to try new rides - but it does feel like it's a great occasional, if expensive, option for a day.
If I did it again, I'd try somewhere else for a different visual.
I suddenly understood how Intamin got the idea for Falcon’s Fury/Ikaros
Yup!
Skydiving is my main hobby (yes, before coasters) and I have around 250 jumps. It's so funny how other people percieve it 😂
Nice!
This is definitely on my bucket list already getting butterflies thinking about it
It's really cool.
Nice video! I completely agree with your review. I did find the SkyJump off the Stratosphere to be more intimidating. I had no time to worry jumping out of the plane as like you said, the instructor had control. Did you get to pull both steer handles together? Nice pops of floater airtime, while floating in the air!
I think skydiving was more intimidating since there was more build-up with the safety video, training, and plane ride. Skyjump was a shorter overall process even if you had to jump off on that one.
2/10
Lack of airtime and a noticable shortage of inversions. Felt like a one trick pony to me with the insane height
But what a one trick!
wow really that is very very harsh.
It absolutely stomps any coaster
i really enjoyed watching you talk about your experience with skydiving i myself have gone twice and its interesting because i feel like i might be the only person who made this "mistake" but the first time i sort forgot to arch my feet up many times and my insturctor had to tap my feet to remind me more then once. and its rather funny but the second time i went i think i sort of forgot to breathe because i was slightly more freaked out for some reason. but overall i had really positive experience both times i went :)
I mentally reminded myself before jumping.
@@CanobieCoaster yeah I was able to rember the second time lol
one thing i want to add is for me the first time i went i felt like the best way to describe it was i was in a big empty space with no floor lol.
It's so vast.
when we pulled the chute, afterwards it kinda felt like we were stuck up there and not falling. Sorta like sitting on a swing
It sort of does, especially in that position.
I’ll let you know if I ever go skydiving! Even though it does scare me, it is something I want to do before I die.
It's memorable.
i think you should go as soon as you can :)
thats awesome. ive been to Ifly which somewhat allows you to feel how it is to skydive so idk if they are similar
I've never done indoor.
@@CanobieCoaster some people like it but I honestly wouldn't recommend it because it just feels like being in a tube with a ton of pressure on your face and no good view
I’m not afraid of heights at all but this is something I will never do even if getting hit by stuff is rare
Entirely fair.
I have a question that you might know, if drop towers are free falling and skydiving is free falling, how do you get airtime on a drop tower but no sort of weightlessness while skydiving?
Have you ridden Falcon's Fury? I don't really feel weightless on that ride either. I think it's the position you ride in.
@@CanobieCoaster Yeah maybe, cause when you are in a sitting position facing out, I think you can get a red out after a while. So if drop towers were much longer of a fall, you might get a red out eventually but other factors probably play in like the weight and shape of the gondala as that might effect your speed. Idk though, I am no physics nerd.
It has to do with max velocity in free fall. On a drop tower you are much closer to the ground so you feel the acceleration of gravity that gives you the airtime feeling. In skydiving the air rushing past you quickly matches the speed of your fall and prevents you from accelerating (terminal velocity) so you dont get the airtime feeling only for maybe the first 2 or 3 secs after you leave the plane
@@ronnieroberts7414 So if drop towers were a lot taller like let's pretend thousands of feet, you would eventually not feel weightless anymore as your falling?
@@maxhagenauer24 In theory yes thats correct
what are you going to review next? bees? please do i would love that
Lol no
Going tmmr for my 18th birthday! Currently shitting myself
Have fun!
I wanna go skydiving but I don’t like those rides feeling😭
I wanted an even bigger thrill.
My dad said he would never skydive because he's afraid of hitting the Earth and dying lol
They have redundancies.
@@CanobieCoaster what does that mean
If it had the force of Zumanjaro I’d not be impressed
But the views!
@@CanobieCoaster that’s why Zumanjaro is an observation tower 😂
Still no
I loved it.
I feel like looking out the jump door would be the scariest part! I would honestly be less scared to do this than drop towers probably tbh
I think the plane ride up is scarier. Once you get to the jump door, you're committed.
honestly idk for me i think i was just way too excited to be nervious.
I had been looking into skydiving locations for this summer, so this was an excellent way to gauge what to expect. Gotta love those rickety old prop planes that provide a thrill in and of themselves.
It is indeed a thrill.
haha yeah. where i live i am kind of lucky where i live there are like 5 or 6 skydiving centers all about an hour to an hour in a half way from where i live. the farthest place is actually less then hours away actually lol.
I was hoping you were gonna review this! you're brave as hell. loving the vids.
Thank you!
Didn't expect to see a rating in this video😂 But it looks so memorable and one of a kind experience!
It is.
i also did not expect to see a rating.
I did the same thing and loved it too, but until we accidentally push our pilot off the plane and jump into the ocean like Drake and Josh, can we really call it skydiving?
Lol
How would you compare the forces to a dive coaster? I find them just as bad as drop towers despite facing the ground
I don't really get that floaty airtime feeling on the way down on skydiving.
I have certainly never experienced it before but really would like to try it out someday.
It's incredible.
@@CanobieCoaster agreed it really is :)
Flying jesus and banana is what they thought us when I jumped in chicago/Indiana. I will never forget the sensation of not being able to breathe on the way down lol and when they release the harness after the parachute opens. Omfg panic!
Good way to remember!
This was an awesome review. I have a similar background in coasters, rides and parks. I’ve also gone skydiving and this was a cool contrasting reviewing. Let’s be friends!
Glad you've tried it too!
I did it again yesterday I feel like the drop just destroys in coaster I’m honestly worried they are ruined for me. It felt almost faster than dragsters launch I wasn’t able to breathe😂
Glad you loved it.
I really want to go skydiving some day
It's breathtaking.
0:39 i'll never forget the first time i went skydiving. It was the best, thankfully i was able to go a second time that same summer with coworkers. We did the slide landing too, those seemed more fun than the landing on feet kind. Not yet certified to dive alone so they were tandems but still rad.
Landing on the feet kind seem really dangerous.
Cool video. I want to go skydiving some day. Maybe for my 45th birthday, or I’ll make my wife go with me for our 20th anniversary
It's a memorable experience.
That's not a biplane- and its fairly large for a general aviation aircraft.
Ah ok!
Skydiving has the best sustained floater ever
It doesn't feel like typical airtime.
how were you filmed? was it another instructor or a drone of some kind? because at 6:44 is kinda looks like the camera is floating next to the plane
Jesus christ himself did it
You had the option to use a go-pro or have another jumper film it. The latter seemed like it would look a lot cooler and it was.
@@CanobieCoaster yeah now that I look at it you can see the hands of the camera diver when they are about to jump, it must take some skill to keep a camera focused on someone while falling hundreds of feet
why not10?
Some drop towers are better.
I see big birds at Six Flags Magic Mountain. They don't need to go on roller coasters because their "ride" is flying.
Lol
That’s the most sustained airtime ever. Atleast 3 minutes of it
Feels a lot different though.
Thoosies be like: I got 45 seconds of sustained ejector airtime but the drop is severely trimmed
That parachute...
Its the plane I don't trust
It was the scariest part.
Does Skydiving feel similar to X2's face first 215ft drop?
Sort of.
If you think about it, skydiving is nonstop airtime.
It feels way different though.