Skydiving Contra Costa County

Finding a good skydiving school might be a great first step. You should first investigate very well the school you want to atend. A great thing about skydiving schools is that most of them offer first jump opportunities. Those adventurous spirits daring enough to make their first skydive at Bay Area Skydiving are rewarded with the finest instructors available. Most countries have varying laws or regulations allowing who may skydive with a passenger or student. For example; in the United States, the FAA requires each potential instructor to have over five hundred individual skydives and three years of skydiving experience. Bay Area Skydiving in California! Do it now! An important thing to be mentioned is that the parachute canopy is a rectangular, inflatable wing, open in the front to scoop, or ram, air. The parachute is forced to stay filled by the fact that it is sewn closed in the back. Several airfoil-shaped sections, sewn together side by side make up a ram-air canopy. The sections build a wing similar to an air mattress. Our experts are considered to be the best in their field. After World War II, an abundance of surplus parachutes and former soldiers with the courage to jump them for sport resulted in the growth of parachuting as a hobby. After watching a short video you will be trained by your Tandem Master instructor to make your first skydive. Tiny Broadwick, another professional parachutist in the U.S., became the first woman to jump from an airplane in 1913 and the first to make a freefall in 1914. Bay Area Skydiving's experienced jumpers have made Bay Area Skydiving a way of life with thousands of freefall skydives. So start your freefall adventure training courses at our skydiving school taught by USPA rated instructors and jumpmasters.