How do people actually learn sports like paragliding or kitesurfing or skydiving?

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I mean, if you take biking or skiing, you can start try, fail and try again, but in those extreme sports I mentioned in the title, you don’t really seem to get second chances lol

Any idea? Any personal experience?

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In most places where those kinds of activities are generally done you can find classes or instructors who will teach you the basics. Especially if you’re renting equipment, those places tend to either offer such services themselves or have partnerships with providers who do. For something like skydiving they won’t even let you on the plane until you’ve had at least some instruction because most people don’t know how to operate a parachute, for example, and that sort of thing is pretty important to know, and in that specific case your first dive will almost certainly be tandem with an instructor so you have someone who actually knows what they’re doing in case you forget how to do something or freeze up.

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