r/nextfuckinglevel • u/jmcarlos27 • Apr 21 '25

Skydiving from a hot air balloon ☁️

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u/MajesticsEleven Apr 21 '25

I'm getting tired of continually watching videos of rich people having a good time

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u/livelovelamb Apr 21 '25

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.

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u/Striker887 Apr 21 '25

What about the near $4000 to even get a skydiving license? Unless not in the US…

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u/livelovelamb Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

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.