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Pol - I expected to be scared but that didn't happen. When I was younger I logged a little over 2000 parachute jumps. The bungy jump was expensivie so I was hoping for a little fear factor.
Barr1e - absolutely. Another bungy operation on New Zealand's North Island has a jump where your head touches the water. It's free if you're over 65 and a resident. I just sent them an email asking if I can get a discount.
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I know you're intrepid and wasn't thinking so much of the fear factor, more of the anatomical and physiological effect on the body. How did that feel?
I mean does it feel like your insides are jolted around, does it suck the breath out if you, what's the effect on your spine, skin, eyes etc as you plunge and bounce with ropes potentially rubbing and pulling at your skeletal frame and skin?
How are you prepared physically and what's the after effect? Same questions apply to parachute jumping and how do the two activities compare?
The opening shock in skydiving is pretty strong. You're going from 120 mph to zero in a very short space of time. I think I lost a little height over the years from hard opening shocks.
With bungy jumping, the the line stretch is gradual and I didn't even realize at first that the freefall was ending. The harness was very comfortable. They even had an 85 year old woman make a bungy jump not long ago.
The truly scary part of of our trip to Queenstown was the bus ride to the Jet Boat ride. Go to this article and scroll down to #7. That ride had my undivided attention.
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As for the skydiving shock, I never did anything like that myself, to say I'm accident prone would be the ultimate understatement! I was once thrown against an interior wall and I'll never forget the horrible sensation of interior organs sort of vibrating and rippling, being winded and somehow amazed to realise my body was kinda 'mobile' inside. I didn't like that sensation!
I was also winded and felt the same rippling and rattling in one of the car accidents when the car rolled and somersault on an embankment.
Perhaps mercifully I was thrown from the car on another occasion when it collided head-on with a bus. I woke up in the middle of the road, the car was in a hedge.
I hasten to add I wasn't driving on either occasion!! I eventually quit riding rollercoasters after my innards started to rebel. I've turned into a wuss.
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