What do skydivers have in common?
The skydivemag.com team analyzed personality traits at DZs and wind tunnels, coming up with these commonalities. Recognize yourself?
Rules don’t apply to us
We text and drive, for example. We’re used to assessing risk right?!
We’re selfish
When we turn down an event we want to do, we’re secretly glad when the weather is pants
We’re poor communicators
We plan on going to an event but we don’t let anybody know or register
We behave like children
“Yes I’ll come to your event if you find me a rig/a bed for the night/babysitter”
We’re last minute.com
We book our flights really late, and then hate ourselves because they’re so expensive
We change our plans frequently
So then we even need to change our last minute flight
We’re safety conscious
We have to make sure the air bag’s functioning correctly in our rental car! 😉
We have a strange attitude to money
We spend 700 bucks on jumps but baulk at paying $50 for a hotel
We’re hunter-gatherers
We automatically fill our pockets with food from the hotel breakfast buffet – even when not skydiving
We can’t break old habits
Even when not team training we have to tell someone we’re going to the bathroom
We don’t like people telling us what to do
Especially when they’re right
We’ve seen stuff
We know at least one person who’s living proof of the marvels of modern surgery
We probably don’t have a pension
We’re not sure it’s a realistic investment
We have a credit card bill
Naturally – or we have no credit, or we’re DZ bums
We’ll always have a bed for the night
Anywhere around the world the skydiving community looks after its own
Warning!
Recognizing yourself in 10 or more of the above confirms you’re of skydiver species!
