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I couldn't possibly say enough good things about this company but here it goes!
We had a skydive booked in Franz Josef but we couldn't go due to the weather so we rebooked for Abel Tasman.. terrified is not the word I could use to describe how I felt those 4 days before my skydive and I was praying for bad weather on the morning of my jump so that it would be cancelled and I could chicken out for good. Well, that is not what happened at all! I woke up to blue skies and sunshine and knew that the day had finally come when I was going to jump out of an airplane (WHAT?!)
When we arrived in Skydive Abel Tasman we were greeted with two lovely lovely people on the front desk (Ben and Jo I think there names are? My brain is a blur after the intensity of all the fear emotions). They were SO NICE and made me feel more at ease about the crazy thing that I was about to do. We had a short wait from arriving to putting on our super stylish jumpsuits and getting harnessed up. I was super scared at this stage and really was considering backing out. My tandem master was Will and he was so chilled out and answered any (ridiculous) questions I had. I say ridiculous because they were so irrational and just -never going to happen- situations that I'm laughing at myself now ??
The ride in the plane was great for the first 2 minutes and then everyone starts talking about reaching altitude and 2 minutes to jumping. Can't describe how terrified I was but the whole team are just so cool and chilled that I really trusted them all fully with my life!
I'm not really sure what happened when we jumped out of the plane, I'm pretty sure I closed my eyes for the first 5 seconds but then WOW when I opened them we were flying! I got the external cameraman and he was so good at coming super close for the photos and videos
I'm not sure if I was the most scared person in the world doing a skydive (felt like I was) but if you're reading this and you think you can't do it, YOU DEFINITELY CAN! And the feelings you get before/during and after are all so worth it
So THANK YOU Skydive Abel Tasman for giving me and my partner the experience of a lifetime, and for safely bringing us back down to Earth ???????? - via 