Wanaka Skydiving 12000 ft - 09 july 2004

I open my eyes, wash with one handmove the water drops on the window, and look outside. Beautifull morning. The mountains beginn to glow with the morning light. The sky is empty of clouds, pure, like me !?*#$*?!
I take my breakfast with my nice panorama. Suddently an ID came: Skydiving ! I go to the reception of the campground and they phone for me. Believe me or not but a half hour later I m on the Aeroport.

Fantastic, here every customer has a smile or a anxious face. The first one are the one who just jumped, the other are the one before. Just to look at that is a show !

I pass the details (clothing, video security watching and of course Credit Card struggeling !)
The moment is come, I go into the plane. Waaaoow. I feel realy good. My zygomatics are stronger than ever, to much smile.
Then the door are closing. We are 1 pilot, 4 tandems skydiver and a video men. Andree is the video men and Grant my backmen. I would have prefer a backgirl but well...next time.

First of the great things, looking outside the plane. Okay its a bit narrow here compared to the booing 747 that I take normaly, but I have the main big window just on my side, witch gives me a fantastic first class position to the Aspiring reserve covered with white sugarpulver (called snow). The plane goes up and up and the view just don t let you remember that you will jump, for the first time, out of a plane with a guy you just don t know and that could have wake up with this sucide feeling and the idee that he just don t want to leave anymore. Or the parachute could be frozen ( Constance (the german very nice girl who probably prepared my parachute) show me a list of death people and how they did that last thing (last thing because few second after...they died !), but you should read it like me: After Jumping)...Well as I seat in my mini-plane, still no fear ...but then....then the Altitude watch show the 12 000ft. No fear at 12 000ft ? Hey whats up ?

Imagine to walk 12 feet on your room, now go on the street and make 120 ft. Can you try to make 1200, if you have realy time and UDontKnowWhatToDo continue to the 12 000 feet, look back, okay can you see where you started ? 3 700 m approximatly..... yes 3,7 km. Waoooaw. From there its fantastic....Like in a plane. Ups but I m in the plane ! The door open, great...the expected moment come - no return - no Mama I want to go home ! - No Help ! No keep the money I go back by foot !
Remember I PAID FOR THAT and I DID IT WITHOUT FORCE....Sweeetttass ! (= something like "Great" ! in Kiwi)
Gennnnnialll. Dans la Serie JeSaisPasKoiFaire ! c plutot pas mal...!
I put my leg outside (I m the first like allways, hmm). Then I have to go in a vital but stupid position. I will call that Return of The Momie position ! I feel good ! I can t wait anymore.

Go !
Grant is giving the little push that will put me down back to the earth. Now its time for Road Runner and the coyote to ...fall down...Oh-oh




WAAAAOW. Direct in front of me the sky then the horizon and the ground....My body I can feel all the organ been pushed again my bones and my skin...And my adrenaline is in a uncommon percentage (to be modest). But still no fear. No its just fantastic. Its undescriptible like that (_____________ ).

Waooow, I feel alone, I think tousend of things in the few first second, it goes so fast inside me and outside...the world is beautifull, then Andree appear from nowhere....Ah yes I remember I m jumping out of the plane....and thats the camera...Hey its great...I begin to realize whats going on...I want that its continue like ever....Now I feel like superman, yes in the few second I get adict to this feeling...grreeaaat.... This jump let me realy feel like a super heros. Am I Superman ? No. Harry Potter ? No no no ! Gandalf the Blond ? NO ! I feel Incredible, yes thats it. I m INCREDIBLE, I m part of "THE INCREDIBLES". Yes ...that s how I feel....(for the 3D-uncultiveted people look at www.pixar.com , then "The Incredible".
The adventure continue with 200 Km/h down to New Zealands ground...Suddently again PAAAF ! The parachute open: FLASHBACK [Grant push me ! Tandem skydiving ! Grant - Behind - Me --Stop- End of Flashback.]. He just open the parachute and stop the chute: Para - Chute = Again -Chute . DO YOU UNDERSTAND the ethymologie of thi name now? It makes sence ?
Well now I m a parachute men, Incredible is gone and silent has come...Grant play with the para, I take my camera out, show must go on. When I look down, a lot of dots. One of this is the van, one of the other a house...We go down slowly, well after 200 km/h every else is just slowly....Nice view, feeling good....feets up...wrrrrrum...we just landed like a trees leave. Thx Grant but I want to do it again and again....like a kid that just get his bonbon but don t has enough...feeling is so great....I think I m adddddddddict.

After that, I chatted little of my spanish with Equatorian travelers, very sympatic people and like all southamerican very enthousiastic. One of them is a crazy men that lost his arm and one eyes but still enjoy the live...and the crazyness in him still push him to continue doing what he like to do. I love that. The I went with the nice Constance (Germany), Chris (a guitarist from German also) and my videomen Andree to digitalize my video...
Now I can see it again and again...And when I see it...I feel that INCREDIBLE feeling again and again....and think.

- I should do it again...-and again....
It s good to be INCREDIBLE sometimes !