Have you ever had something burning inside you which you felt was your mission to do? Yeah? Me too.
For me, this thing was Skydiving or Tandem Skydiving to be all the way correct.
The first question many of you will be thinking is “Why the hell would you want to do that?” so let me get to that first.
Why Skydiving?
I’ve never been one for bucket lists. Although, there was one day I was scrolling through LinkedIn in 2012 and reading the bucket list of some famous entrepreneur which I can’t remember (maybe Richard Branson’s) and it got me thinking. I thought if I had a “bucket list” the one thing which would definitely have to be on it was Skydiving.
I left the idea there for a long time after that but did mention to some friends who gave me the “yeah, yeah sure of course” treatment. Funny, one of the culprits actually jumped out the plane a couple of seconds before me on 11th March 2017 ..but we aren’t there yet.
What happened next? ..2015
As I said before, I left this idea for a whole three years without really thinking about it. I guess I just thought I’d do it when I do it but there was no rush.
Although, as it got closer and closer to my birthday in August 2015 I was trying to think of something to do outside of the norm. This is where I started to researching the best places to Skydive and came across this very article. Skydive Interlaken it was.
There wasn’t really a stream of reasons of why the other alternatives were not suitable it was more Switzerland was somewhere I knew. After a bit of consideration(backouts from some people) I decided to go with the date of my birthday August 13th, 2015.
Everything was planned down to perfection for the short break. Housewarming party at a friend’s place on Friday and Skydiving on my birthday Saturday. Sounds perfect right? it would’ve been if it didn’t rain all day.
Second time lucky?
The experience of 2015 although fun was dampened by the constant rain on my birthday. I was told “it’s a sign don’t do it again” so on and so on.
Initially, I bought into that, but as 2016 wrapped up what did I start thinking about again? Yep..Skydiving. So I sent a few messages around and two of my close friends were on board to return to Interlaken in March to try again with me.
The build up to this day was immense, all I could think was it is bound to rain and there’s no chance this is going to happen. Also, the fact not many of my family knew was a little stressful ha. There was most definitely a massive spike in the amount of time I’d spend checking the weather forecast for Interlaken as we approached March too.
The Day
With exception of the nerves and underestimation of the travel time from Basel to Interlaken, the day itself was great. The skies were clear, the weather was warm and not a hint of rain in sight.
Once we arrived it was all fun and games, It didn’t feel real until everything started to look like dots!
The experience itself is pretty indescribable. For a few seconds(felt much longer) I couldn’t breathe this coupled with the sheer force of the wind was crazy.
Once that was over, came the realization of high how I was (12,000 feet I think). Then as I got comfortable with it was dropzone time.
Lesson learned: The lesson learned from this experience was that not every obstacle is a sign that you must stop, sometimes it means try again!
If you are as crazy as me and my friends and want to Skydive at Interlaken go here
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