As requested by Helly:

A tandem skydive puts a passenger in a harness. He is hooked via the harness to a certified tandem instructor (actually the instructor's Tandem parachute rig) by four points. The Tandem parachute rig is huge; The main parachute is on average 400 square feet; compare that to my personal parachute which is 120 square feet.

A tandem rig weighs about 60 pounds. Compare that to mine, which weighs around 10. My stubby little arms can't reach the bottom

of the tandem rig where the drogue pilot chute is (in other words I'd have a hard time opening the darn thing).

Your average joe who comes to the drop zone to do a tandem is about 5 foot 8 and weighs about 200 pounds. I'm only 5'2". He would have to wear me like a backpack. I guess I could take a cattle prod with me and drive them around with a pair of spurs - "Yee-ha! Jump little dogie, jump!!"

I suppose I could get a smaller tandem rig, specifically built for me, and only take people my size. That would piss off our other tandem instructors though, who have to take those bigassed, sweaty, stinky men all day and consider the smaller people (who tend to be mainly women) a welcome break.

I did a tandem jump with my husband because after taking the tandem course. To complete their rating the instructor candidate must do 5 tandem jumps with a licensed skydiver who has at least 100 jumps. I presume this requirement is so the candidate can become more used to the system and is jumping with someone who actually knows what is going on.

I had about 500 jumps at the time and was spooked to get on the airplane without my own parachute. But the jump was fun, plus it was kinda romantic until we got near the ground. Then I was being a front seat driver: "Uh, Jon, shouldn't we start our downwind now? Jon, if you don't turn we might hit the building..."

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71: I did a tandem hang glide once. It was fun, but I wasn't hooked like I was when I skydived for the first time.
72: I have been white water rafting twice. I had problems with hypothermia both times.
73: I adore sailboats above all boats, all which are nifty.
74: I obviously have no problem with motion sickness.
75: I obviously have no fear of heights, either.
76: If I have any fear it's fear of social situations with strangers. I mean it's a hard core crippling kind of fear sometimes.
77: Our wedding anniversary is August 27th. I forgot about it until my mom sent us a card this year.
78: Jon and I got married in freefall by a Universalist/Unitarian preacher who also skydives.
79: I broken 2 bones in my body: my left tibia and my 5th thoracic vertabrae.
80: I have had a tonsilectomy, plus my wisdom teeth were removed. I was also put under anesthesia for an endoscopy.