Discussion Base Jumping Hobby?

[lionetta12]

Hi all,

I just thought of adrenaline filled activities to try for recovery attempt, and I just now remembered base jumping. I feel like that would be a freeing and very adrenaline filled experience to do, but maybe doing skydiving first would be smart before diving into base jumping. I'm trying to recover but I kind of also had a thought about how base jumping would also be a way to CTB. A lot of people base jump above my family's property on their mountain and have done that all my life several times a day during the summer, and sometimes people do pass away from that accidently. Happens every couple years. I've personally never wanted to do jumping as a method, but if it accidently happens then there's obviously not much I can do about it. I considered some other activities for adrenaline but I realised it's things I've tried before for recovering and they didn't really give me any adrenaline and I felt numb so I'm thinking of maybe doing skydiving instead which is why this also came to mind. Just kind of want to do something that can make me feel alive.

 

[Linda]

I would strongly advise you to do skydiving first. In fact, I would advise you to avoid base jumpig altogether. In skydiving you have a reserve parachute. In base jumping you don't, because you don't have enough time and altitude to deploy a reserve if you have a problem with your main. When skydiving, you can expect some kind of malfunction (e.g. twisted risers, canopy not fully open, parachute not deployed at all) with your main on about 1 jump in 700. That's not a big problem (provided you know what to do), because you have about 10 seconds to try to fix it, and if you can't fix it you cut away your main (if deployed) and deploy your reserve. The overall result is that in skydiving only abut 1 jump in 220,000 ends in a fatality. Base jumping is much more dangerous.

You should be aware that skydiving is quite an expensive sport. To get through AFF will cost you at least $2000, and you can't avoid that. To buy your own rig, which you will want to do eventually, though you can get by hiring a rig for a while, will cost you around $10,000. You will be paying about $30 for the plane on each jump. There are other expenses too.

 

[lionetta12]

I would strongly advise you to do skydiving first. In fact, I would advise you to avoid base jumpig altogether. In skydiving you have a reserve parachute. In base jumping you don't, because you don't have enough time and altitude to deploy a reserve if you have a problem with your main. When skydiving, you can expect some kind of malfunction (e.g. twisted risers, canopy not fully open, parachute not deployed at all) with your main on about 1 jump in 700. That's not a big problem (provided you know what to do), because you have about 10 seconds to try to fix it, and if you can't fix it you cut away your main (if deployed) and deploy your reserve. The overall result is that in skydiving only abut 1 jump in 220,000 ends in a fatality. Base jumping is much more dangerous.

You should be aware that skydiving is quite an expensive sport. To get through AFF will cost you at least $2000, and you can't avoid that. To buy your own rig, which you will want to do eventually, though you can get by hiring a rig for a while, will cost you around $10,000. You will be paying about $30 for the plane on each jump. There are other expenses too.

Yeah I don't know much about base jumping, I was thinking of giving skydiving a try first and getting familar with that before trying anything more extreme like base jumping. I know it's overall expensive which is fine for me, I don't spend my money on anything but bills and traveling so I save a big amount of money all the time which I just keep saving and don't spend on anything because I don't really find anything to spend it on other than traveling which I do consider somewhat of a hobby at this point. I didn't know that base doesn't really have a reserve, makes sense why people have accidents when they do base around here frequently then. I was considering base if I ever try sky and get tierd of it or if the adrenaline kind of runs out from it, which I'm not sure if that's common but that might happen since I seem somewhat resistant to some "adrenaline" activities that I've tried, maybe that's due to my C-PTSD, not sure.