Skydive Los Gatos

After watching a short video you will be trained by your Tandem Master instructor to make your first skydive. People have been using parachutes for hundreds of years, even back to China in the 1100s. Around 1495, Leonardo DaVinci designed a pyramid-shaped, wooden framed parachute. Bay Area Skydiving in California! Do it now! Bay Area Skydiving's experienced jumpers have made Bay Area Skydiving a way of life with thousands of freefall skydives. Tandem Training generally takes less than 30 minutes, and depending on a number of variables, a student may spend only half a day for the training and the jump. With the Tandem Skydive, both the student and the instructor are attached to the same parachute system. Tandem skydiving requires equipment with several differences from normal sport skydiving rigs. People first heard the term "skydiver," coined by Raymond Young in the mid-1950s, as the first commercial skydiving centers opened. Skydiving is great when you connect with more and more skydivers, you can get connected with other skydivers that are already experienced. You can also lead your friends to try this extreme sport, they will love the idea of living on the edge. Despite the perception of danger, fatalities are rare in skydiving, each year a small number of people are hurt or killed parachuting world-wide. Tandem instructors are required to pass an instructor certification course for the system they jump before skydiving with students.