I might be being hard on myself, but judging by the picture above it’s unlikely. Still, this is what they call an ‘unstable exit’ and is all part of the AFF training – I just took a little longer than ideal to regain stability. You can watch all the action here.

Thankfully I passed, and fortunately we don’t get grades at freefall university, so a pass is a pass! It’s another tick off the annual ‘year older, what have you done?’ personal log. It’s been a long time coming so I finally took a week off and headed to Madrid for a few days jumping. The plan was to become fully qualified, but with only 4 days and the last shut down with high winds, I’m still shy 4 or 5 jumps and a packing course but 14 jumps with 7 of them solo remains satisfying for now.

Not to worry, one of the pros is keen to have some skydiving tee designs done in exchange for free jumps and training. Then I’ll be free to continue my globe trotting adventures complete with aerial views at terminal velocity. Big thanks to all the expert instructors and packing crew that saved my life dozens of times at the drop zone.

Once you hop and pop, you can’t stop!