What’s so good about skydiving?

Here we take 5 with Skydive Jurien Bay co-owner, Christine Sparrow to ask “what is the best thing about skydiving?”

Christine: Well, the best thing about skydiving is what it gives you in your life afterwards, and it just gives you this confidence that you can do anything. Especially learning to skydive, it’s the people you meet because skydivers are a big family. And we’re all united in our love for one thing, and that’s flying and freedom.

The people you meet, you’ll make friends that are just friends for life, that you couldn’t even imagine before you started skydiving. And it just comes through in everything else you do in life, in that it’s just this confidence and this feeling of anything is possible…Sometimes when we have our students phone in to skydive they tell us, they’re dreaming about it and they go back to work and they can’t stop thinking about anything else. It really is a quite an addictive activity.

If you want to travel, it’s so awesome for travel because everywhere you go from then on, you just go to the drop zone, and you don’t even have to get accommodation. There’s no more staying at backpackers. You can always stay at the drop zone, and people will take you in, and take you home. You really do get to see the best, sort of, sightseeing. We call it flight seeing, because then you see that new country or that new place from the air, and you meet the locals and they tell you what to do and what not to do.

It just really does change your life in so many ways, and I see it, especially with our students coming through, all the time. All of a sudden, their life’s never the same again. A couple of years later they can totally change their careers, and the next thing they’re working as a tunnel instructor in Poland, and they’re an international skydiving coach. Their whole life changes and it really is so satisfying for us to see that happen to people, and see these amazing opportunities open up for them, which they would never have had if they never learnt to sky dive.