When one thinks about sport you think of rugby, cricket or soccer…how banal. Think more adventurous. Skydiving has been around as a sport since the mid-fifties using static line training to teach people to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft!
When one thinks about sport you think of rugby, cricket or soccer…how banal. Think more adventurous. Skydiving has been around as a sport since the mid-fifties using static line training to teach people to jump out of a perfectly good aircraft!
This year, Skydive Mossel Bay will be hosting a Summer boogie right here at Diaz beach, featuring British Freefly champion Joel Strickland as load organizer. Joel and his team Varial Freefly were UK national champions three years in a row (with double gold in 2016 for both the freefly and freestyle disciplines). Joel will be available for one-on-one coaching for all levels–brand-new to current freefly coaches looking to up that game–as well as load organizing for all comers.
Skydive Mossel Bay is supporting Breast Cancer Awareness month in October with Pink&Drive. Except we are going to fly instead of drive!
PinkDrive is the indispensable breast cancer Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) powering South Africas mobile PinkDrive Mammography Unit and PinkDrive Educational Unit through our country, driving home the fact that Early Detention Saves Lives.
Get ready to ignite in your love for adventure and prepare your taste buds for sensory overload as we present to you the Reed Valley Tandem Skydive!
From this month onward, Skydive Mossel bay, in partnership with the lovely folk from Reed Valley Wines, is offering a tandem skydiving experience unlike any other. This awesome opportunity will make your first skydive one that you will never forget and will have you coming back for more! Here is how it works.
Skydiving is an extreme sport and if you’re going for the first time you’ll naturally feel anxious and have questions about skydiving safety. Although rare, injuries do sometimes occur but this is almost always due to deviation from the rules and regulations governing the sport of skydiving. There is an element of risk. The same can be said about driving too fast, skiing, crossing the road, or swimming. Believe it or not, skydiving has become much safer over the years. The equipment is now far more specialized and advanced, the training provided to instructors is extensive and intensive and better safety procedures and regulations have been produced over the many years the sport evolved. Skydiving is strictly regulated by the Parachute Association of South Africa to ensure the safety measure are correctly practiced.
You’ve managed to pluck up the courage to include tandem skydiving in your holiday itinerary for South Africa and wondering what it’s going to feel like while hurtling towards the earth with your trusted tandem instructor. When making the booking, you will get the option of jumping from 10,000 feet or 12,000 feet giving you up to 40 seconds of freefall. But what does freefall feel like? Is it a sense of flying or is it closer to falling? Some people have referred to it as a sense of feeling weightless. Others have said it doesn’t feel like falling because you can feel the push of air against you as you pick up speed. It’s very windy, loud, and fast.
You might have been here before. An outrageous evening and then an outrageous bet… Let us go skydiving tomorrow! And everybody high-fives and toasts with another shooter and then…. your mate wakes you and says, come-on, we are going to be late! Suddenly you are faced with the reality – You signed up to jump out an aircraft from a dizzy height.
Whatever it was that got you into doing your first skydive, there is no doubt that you would have felt some measure of apprehension before the time, ranging between mildly nervous to beyond terrified.
If you are planning on a tandem skydive, you might not be sure what to expect and feeling a bit scared. A bit of fear is normal and to be expected, so don’t worry about that. Our friendly instructors will quickly put you at ease.
No prior experience is needed for your first tandem skydive. The tandem instructor does all the work, controlling the free fall and the parachute descent. You will be given a short briefing about how to position your body during freefall and what to expect when the parachute opens. Simple as that!
If you are planning on a tandem skydive, you might not be sure what to expect and feeling a bit scared. A bit of fear is normal and to be expected, so don’t worry about that. Our friendly instructors will quickly put you at ease.
No prior experience is needed for your first tandem skydive. The tandem instructor does all the work, controlling the free fall and the parachute descent. You will be given a short briefing about how to position your body during freefall and what to expect when the parachute opens. Simple as that!
Show us what you have. Show us what your club has got.
The Club Clash FS 2-Way virtual competition is for everyone, at any club in South Africa and it is all happening on 25 March.
Mossel Bay Airfield, Aalwyndal, Mossel
Bay, South Africa, 6500
