Originally published at: Skydiving without a parachute | Boing Boing
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I wonder how cold it feels; ski-diving without clothes, like that.
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gotta start with baby steps you know,
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And he was 29 when he died in 2019.
Wikipedia says he lost control at slow speed and hit a tree.
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Well, there goes his flight insurance…
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This is why tweakers from Trainspotting shouldn’t go up in balloons.
I was sure the goal was to chase down the perfectly good parachute he threw away… THAT would have been a thing. Having safety harnesses under the clothes and a half-dozen guys helping you on the way down before getting clipped to another dude is … still crazy, but not as crazy as the beginning would have promised.
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Yeah, that pretty sums up why I could never do this. Trust issues.
And I’m afraid of heights.
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That, and it is dumb as heck 
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My first two thoughts were:
- Where is that parachute landing?
- So it’s OK to trespass and destroy some farmer’s crops for your thrills?
“Get off my lawn!” shakes fist at sky
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The trick is to work out who you can trust first and then do the exercise. Stuff like that can be a lot of fun with the right people (like so many other group activities).
Avoid any mandatory group stuff at the office, though.
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so really, it’s just skydiving without your OWN parachute. you’re still using somebody’s chute!
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Oh, and make sure people understand the basic dos and don’ts.
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Jake Lombard actually manages to look quite relaxed jumping out of the plane there. 
I was lightly traumatized at the time, but I am glad now that my father presented this to me as a story about a different father and child and did not demonstrate with an actual fall.
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There have been some wingsuit landings into water or piles of boxes without deploying chutes but I think (?) that all these wingsuiters still carry a chute for backup.
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