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The Boss
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Last Login: 23/10/2007 12:58:29
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| When recommending people to go give the tunnel a fly .. what tends to be the biggest barriers to get them to do it?
Is it money - the expense of giving it ago, difficulty in arranging a time and "getting to the tunnel", any sort of fear - or anything else? Trying to get a feel for what stops people going to the tunnel.
In my experience, a combination of expense and time seems to be the key things that stop people from getting on with it, nothing to do with the experience itself - which when explained properly is intriguing to most people. |
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| I've found busy schedules, kids, skydiving, and finances are barriers for why people don't get to the tunnel. For whuffos, I find time and $ to be the most frequent reasons for not getting in.
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| I recently tried bodyflying in Bedford for the first time - I'm doing AFF level 1 in a month and an experienced skydiver suggested I'd enjoy it more and have a better chance of passing all the levels first time if I did a starter course in a wind tunnel first.
The biggest reason for hesitating was the cost - £160 for 12.5 minutes sounds and feels expensive, despite the comparison with the cost of actual skydives, but it's still cheaper than doing some of the AFF levels multiple times I suppose.
I really enjoyed it, but the biggest issue was that the hand signals used are insufficient to communicate effectively the mistakes made by a beginner, which means that I wasn't really improving as fast as I might have had I been able to talk to the instructor. I might also have benefited from watching myself between sessions with someone explaining what was wrong with my posture.
I want to go back because a lot has "sunk in" since I did it, but once again, it's at least 3 hours in the car and lots of money for a few short minutes in the airflow, and I'm spending so much on AFF L1 already that I wonder how much more cash I can throw at this in the near term.
You can check out my absolutely hideous body position here.
My biggest problem was lack of awareness of the position of my legs, my knees tended to drift apart, my legs overbent to compensate when I rose involuntarily, which would cause me to backslide into the wall, bruising both knees. At least I understand what I was doing wrong now!
I have a fantastic memory of the day, but a sense of frustration that I didn't get further than I did in terms of experience. I want to go back, but it's an expensive hobby. For me, finance and time (it's inconveniently located) are the main constraints.
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| I would say that it is that the general public is not aware enough of what the sport is and what we do. I give out free flight passes all the time and most don't come back, so it's not always a money issue. Part of it is fear, that men won't admit but women will. For some people going skydiving is something they would never ever consider doing (fear), and just having the word skydiving in the name of what we do may turn some people off. A lot of times someone will come in and immediately proclaim that they aren't going to fly, then go watch some others fly and change their mind. Once they see what it is, and how safe it is they become more comfortable with it.
Brad HessMarketing Manager Flyaway Las Vegas |
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