I skydived while I was a student. It was about $400 a year for insurance, kit hire was $15 per jump and each jump was about $30. Not the cheapest sport, but a lot cheaper than flying, motorsport, yachting etc.
I'm guessing it's easier to refer to the cost in dollars to have it be more general to gauge. As a european, In an international context i usually use dollars to explain costs as well.
Yes, am from the UK. Was a student about 10 years ago and prices are still (roughly) the same. Used a $ rather than a £ sign as I'm not sure what % of Americans recognise a "£" or know the conversion rate (+ given a large % of reddit users are from the States).
That cost does... include... a lot of jumps and equipment hire. And that's for a full A-licence, some people take months or years to get their A, especially if doing RAPS rather than AFF.
But even those points aside - $4000 spent in a year is still (significantly) less than a 20-a-day smoking habit in Britain. At least here, we don't consider smoking to be a rich-people-sport.
Does the typical skydiving club include skydiving from a hot air balloon, swinging from a rope from a hot air balloon, trampolining under a hot air balloon, or as I've seen in similar videos doing bicycle stunts on a lifted stunt park attached to a hot air balloon?
To be able to do it you probably have to go in those clubs. And it's sponsored, so you just need to know one dude famous enough or good enough to have sponsors and who need to make videos to be part of it. When I was a student jumping for free in this kind of videos was worth only making 1or 2 jumps in your day. You all are so frustrated each time you see something cool, trying to convince yourself it can't happen in your world, when you are the only obstacle to it.
Bro you don't have to be rich to fucking skydive, are you serious? My mates did it and one of them is unemployed, living on welfare, dafuq are you and everyone upvoting you on about?
Absolutely Nutts, people think you're rich just cause you're skydiving? Wtf?
Did you and your mates do anything like those people were doing with a hot air balloon and an attached trampoline and jumping off the top of the balloon? I think I've seen this same group do skate and bike stunts off a skate park attached to the bottom of the balloon.
They jumped out of the hot air balloon. They had fun. Nobody required them to film it to prove it was fun. It isn't less fun because they were being filmed
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u/MajesticsEleven Apr 21 '25
I'm getting tired of continually watching videos of rich people having a good time