Skydiving Marin

The Tandem skydiving instructor controls the whole jump from exit through freefall, piloting the canopy, and landing. With the Tandem Skydive, both the student and the instructor are attached to the same parachute system. Bay Area Skydiving located in California, just outside the San Francisco Bay Area. Only the most highly trained, professional, USPA certified instructors teach at Bay Area Skydiving. Tandem skydiving refers to a type of skydiving where a non-skydiver is connected via a harness to an experienced skydiving tandem instructor. 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. Bay Area Skydiving, the San francisco Bay Area's choice for skydiving. The Tandem skydivingThe student needs only minimal instruction before making a tandem jump. Many schools offer video of the freefall and landing. Some drop zones use tandem jumps to introduce students into the solo training programs. Tandem skydiving requires equipment with several differences from normal sport skydiving rigs.