February 6, 2012 
A couple of weeks ago I finally got around to taking my brother out for his birthday present (7 months later): Indoor Skydiving. I’ve done Indoor Skydiving before. Heck, I’ve done outside skydiving before. But regardless if you’ve done it before, what’s not to love about being blown around by a huge wind tunnel?
Where we went is near the local army base so actually the military uses it to practice. In addition, the day we went, there was a team of skydivers practicing their aerial manuevers so that was really cool to watch while we waited our turn.
I’ve talked about it before so I won’t go into a lot of great detail. If you’ve done it before, you know it’s not as easy as it looks. Mostly you’re graceless, bumping into walls and into the wire floor and you spend your minute just trying to stay afloat for more than a few seconds. The video below is really just what you get at the end of your second minute: they turn the fan WAY up and then the instructor zooms around with you up and down a few times. Big fun. I actually wouldn’t mind just spending the whole 2 minutes doing that rather than trying to bump around and figure out what I’m doing.
If you’re afraid to take the literal leap out of a plane, I promise you’ll enjoy indoor skydiving. There’s nothing to be afraid of, it’s completely safe, and you’ll still get a little thrill with none of the possible SPLAT!
What are your feelings about indoor skydiving or skydiving in general? Done it? Had fun? Never do it again?
That looks like so much fun. I think I will have to add indoor skydiving to my list of things to do. I’ve never done either indoor or outdoor skydiving before. Jumping out of a plane and skydiving is still something I really don’t want to try…at least not yet. I think I could do the indoor skydiving to start off with. It seems like it would be a good way to ease yourself into the idea of outdoor skydiving.
The interesting thing about indoor skydiving is that they actually try to teach you how to position yourself to stay upright. When I went (tandem) skydiving, there wasn’t any mention of what I was supposed to be doing: I just got on a plan, strapped to someone else, and away we went!
That’s awesome! I want to do both indoor and outdoor. My sister did the outdoor one, and lost her shoe mid-flight!
I’ve never heard of someone losing their shoe! But at 120mph, I can imagine that if it ain’t strapped on, it’s gonna get gone!
I’ve jumped out of the plane but i still NEED to do that! looks so fun! the better part about that one is that you get to experience the free fall for so long!
Yeah, I went indoor skydiving first and then “real” skydiving and so by the time I came around to this again, I was a little “Meh.” Until I got in there and remembered it’s still fun, no matter how many times you’ve done it!