If I wanted to try skydiving for the first time, in switzerland, something like a tandem jump rather than a course, can anyone recommend who to do it with?

krlock3

Im not sure about real skydiving, but something very accessible is bodyflying.ch which is the largest indoor tunnel in Europe where you can actually simulate skydiving, you fly out of the top of the building, its very cool.

If its not a fortune i would be well up for this krlock3!!!!

http://www.skydiveswitzerland.com/en/skydive/welcome/

I found the above link already. Seems quite professional..... 15000 ft for chf 410.

Yes, i would have to convince myself first!!!

Nice site, for an extra CHF75 i think its worth going to 18,000ft.

Plus CHF150 between us for the DVD (a must really).


So all in for CHF 560

Ok, so i am on hols the first two weeks of july, and i do not want to spend my hols being worried about the skydive, so i will arrange it soon upon my return, for something like early august.... could be great to have a weekend in interlaken anyhow!

if you are in for that, we will pick it up again there.

krlock3

Sounds like a plan, although i see myself as more of a Richard 'Ditch' Brodie.........you can be Chris Morrow if you like

A good friend of mine is a seasoned speedskydiver and skydive instructor. You'd have to come all the way here, but his prices are nowhere near the 400 CHF i've seen there...

if you look hard enough (or not that hard actually), there are plenty of skydiving disaster videos on youtube. best not to think about it.

Have you got a link to his site Shorrick??

If it works out alot cheaper the difference can be put on a hotel and train fare perhaps.........never been to Geneva either.

Its 3 hours by train from Zug to Geneva.......how long do you think it would take by car out of curiosity??

I was going to post one earlier, but i decided against it....

He doesn't have a site. This is his passion, not his dayjob They also jump out of Fribourg and thereabouts at times.

At least three as well. I wouldn't bother with a car.

haha, oh go on then, but only because this one has a happy ending.... scott "learned to pray real fast" apparently.

I went up with them last summer! Definitely try to get pics and a film done (I know it is alot of money).

I jumped at 15,000 and it was great- the only thing I didn't care for was when he spun me around ALOT at the start (for sensation) and um, me no like! (next time I know better)

I know you have to wear a special (ghostbusters) bodysuit, but do you think they will let me wear my superman t-shirt on top???

There's more to this... Scott yanks the cord and the chute opens - NOT. If you look closely you see Scott pull something by his right nipple and in a forwards motion - this is the main canopy RELEASE. His instructor then pulls the ripcord which opens the main.

Watch it again around the 30s mark - the instructor grabs Scott's hand, guides it towards the rip but then lets go and moves his own hand to Scott's back (behind his kidney) and pulls sideways away from Scott's body...

(I've got a video of me breaking my ankle on my 31st and last jump )

I'm booking for early August I reckon, with about 5 mates from the office. We going with these chaps - http://www.skydiveinterlaken.com/con...sp?txtLangID=3

Check out some of the clips on youtube.... looks wicked!

I did a tandem jump from a helicopter a few years ago in Speck.....can't find the details of it just now,but I'll post em when I find it. It was great and like someone said earlier it's WELL worth it to get a video made of you doing it. Getting to see the look on your own face as you make that leap out of the aircraft is priceless. Next time I'm taking an anti sickness tablet before hand though...........don't think the altitude change agreed with me Think I too paid about the Fr 400 mark