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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I’m a skydiving instructor. A skydiving course starts with ground school, where we use several techniques to prepare the students before their first jump. We especially train the door exit procedure, the normal parachute deployment procedure, the emergency procedure, and the parachute landing fall, so that they have done all of them tens to hundreds of times before their first jump. We talk about how the parachute behaves and how to fly and land it, we look at others jumping, we walk around a scale model of the drop zone to get a feel for how the parachute drifts in different winds, and we put the students through several harrowing emergency situations in a training harness to see that they can act correctly on what they’ve learned in a stressful situation. Most of what they learn is how to safely handle bad situations that they may never encounter – but it’s also possible that it happens on their very first jump. Only after that do we let them jump, with instructors, and for each jump they complete safely and correctly, we gradually add more advanced maneuvers.
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