Thinking about selling skiing gear for skydiving gear, thoughts?

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xxACIDTRIPxx

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Wanna get into BASE, yeah skiing is sick but let's be real it's insanely expensive (especially if you are like me and only like to ski the best locations on earth) Skydiving is a lot more accessible and I can still travel the world doing it.

Thoughts?
 
Don't you need to take lessons first wich aren't free and the traveling the world could get expensive too unless you got a sail boat or something, just sayin.
 
Skydiving is by far the most expensive sport I can think of. BASE is exponentially more dangerous and requires a lot of experience skydiving to justify trying even the most safe of BASE options. I love skydiving and I plan to do that a lot more in the future, but BASE is risky for the sake of risk. There is zero time to pull a reserve in a lot of jumps, and if you do have time you need to be very experienced to pull it off.

So unless you want to hope for the best and await the inevitable, you'll need to spend a lot of money to build experience and discipline as a skydiver. At $25 a jump at a cheap place if you pack your own chute that you already bought for several grand after doing AFF for several grand.....skiing is definitely cheaper.

I've spent my entire career in aviation and have jumped a bit. It's dangerous, and that risk is balanced by caution, discipline, knowledge, and experience. If you don't have all of those always, eventually you'll fucking kill yourself. And no one will think you're badass for dying at 28 "doing what you love", sorry.
 
14331342:Dustin. said:
Skydiving is by far the most expensive sport I can think of. BASE is exponentially more dangerous and requires a lot of experience skydiving to justify trying even the most safe of BASE options. I love skydiving and I plan to do that a lot more in the future, but BASE is risky for the sake of risk. There is zero time to pull a reserve in a lot of jumps, and if you do have time you need to be very experienced to pull it off.

So unless you want to hope for the best and await the inevitable, you'll need to spend a lot of money to build experience and discipline as a skydiver. At $25 a jump at a cheap place if you pack your own chute that you already bought for several grand after doing AFF for several grand.....skiing is definitely cheaper.

I've spent my entire career in aviation and have jumped a bit. It's dangerous, and that risk is balanced by caution, discipline, knowledge, and experience. If you don't have all of those always, eventually you'll fucking kill yourself. And no one will think you're badass for dying at 28 "doing what you love", sorry.
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I don't care about being badass

Or posting for clout on social media

I am the only person I can think of who doesn't photograph my whole life

It is something I have always wanted to do, can't explain it

I am willing to put the time, effort and money into learning

In terms of money, skiing costs me around 10-20k per 6-8 week trip
 
14331296:Elcheapo said:
Don't you need to take lessons first wich aren't free and the traveling the world could get expensive too unless you got a sail boat or something, just sayin.
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Don't mind spending money, it's just with skiing you pay a lot to travel and even then conditions aren't guaranteed
 
14331348:xxACIDTRIPxx said:
I don't care about being badass

Or posting for clout on social media

I am the only person I can think of who doesn't photograph my whole life

It is something I have always wanted to do, can't explain it

I am willing to put the time, effort and money into learning

In terms of money, skiing costs me around 10-20k per 6-8 week trip
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oh well i didn't know you were so unique and brave. in that case, totally do it
 
BASE is so much more expensive than Skiing haha.

I mean, I used to be pretty poor and could still find means to ski and afford gear...
 
Op that DMT must have fried your brain cause BASE/sky diving is light years more expensive to get into than skiing

plus I’m thinking you haven’t ever seen footage of BASE jumpers slamming into cliffs and dying on impact- it’s a sport where If you participate in it long enough you will become a statistic.
 
The single reason I haven't gotten into Base is I know I'll get addicted and then more than likely through my own negligence kill myself.
 
One if the reasons I haven't gotten into skydiving is how expensive it is. Then to make a shit ton of jumps to be ready to get into base jumping. Idk man. Also not something where you want to cut corners.

Skiing really doesn't have to be that expensive.
 
14331637:theabortionator said:
Skiing really doesn't have to be that expensive.
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It really doesnt... My garbage-snow touring setup includes a pair of older Black Diamond skis I got for free from a trash can behind the ski shop I worked for - theres a cracked edge but whatever theyre fine for skiing on sloppy snow - then I mounted them with pair of Dynafit TLT's (like, the super old version of the speed-turn) from I shit you not, 1999 that I picked up for, I think 40 or 50$.

also I have a backup pair of boots.. old Scarpa Lasers that cost me 20$ and I cut down some older skins from a pair of skis I had sold.

throw in a cheap old shovel, a probe wont cost you much, a cheap quality beacon like a tracker 2 and chuck them in a cheap used Dakine Heli bag. Sorted.
 
14331436:DingoSean said:
BASE is so much more expensive than Skiing haha.

I mean, I used to be pretty poor and could still find means to ski and afford gear...
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No Dingo, he's special and his trips cost $10-20k for 6-8 weeks. Sorry dude, you and I don't understand.
 
14331348:xxACIDTRIPxx said:
I don't care about being badass

Or posting for clout on social media

I am the only person I can think of who doesn't photograph my whole life

It is something I have always wanted to do, can't explain it

I am willing to put the time, effort and money into learning

In terms of money, skiing costs me around 10-20k per 6-8 week trip
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you skiing mountains made of cocaine guy?? if you're spending 10-20k for 2 months of skiing you're doing a lot more than just skiing lmfao
 
You’re going to have to invest in an AFF program which will run you about 2k right out the gate nowadays. Equipment will be another 2-4K plus coach jumps, and repeat levels if you don’t pass all AFF jumps. I usually spend $75-100 per day of skydiving as an experienced jumper. My best advice is to go to a drop zone. Meet people, do a tandem, see if it’s something you actually want to do. You may think skydiving is lame, or you may really like it. Don’t even think about BASE until you spend time in that world. You may even lose all interest.

Then if BASE jumping is something you want to do down the road, take the same approach. Meet BASE jumpers and watch jumps. You can see a BASE jump at the bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho on any decent weather day. Similarly, Moab offers a great way to see jumpers off Kane Creek Rd.

My personal opinion after a decade+ In flying sports, 1,000+ BASE jumps, and many skydives is that it gave me a really unique outlook on the world. The people I met, places I saw, and feelings experienced led to an important development of self that I still am processing to this day. Alternatively, it was an arduous process watching so many people pay an ultimate price for what now seems like an unnecessary sacrifice. However, perspective differs for everyone in the context of time and I don’t fault anyone for passionately pursuing the art of flight. After all, it’s a pretty amazing thing being able to use some nylon and gravity to pilot yourself down a mountain.

Side note: I find it pretty sad that people in here seem to lack enough humility to not feel restraint about sharing an opinion on which they have little to no experience. It’s akin to someone who has never skied answering in a thread about how to do corks.

**This post was edited on Oct 13th 2021 at 11:08:37pm

**This post was edited on Oct 13th 2021 at 11:09:38pm
 
14331349:xxACIDTRIPxx said:
Don't mind spending money, it's just with skiing you pay a lot to travel and even then conditions aren't guaranteed
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Inb4 weather says flight is grounded
 
so i started skydiving in june of this year. i have 60 jumps so far. i have spent well over 4k on the sport getting liscenced and all that. and this is before buying any gear. buying a rig helmet alti etc etc is going to cost easilly 6k and then if you want to get into base you going to have to do atleast 200 skydives at the very minimum even then you might not even be ready. not once have i considered selling any ski gear for skydiving shit. just get a well paying job and work hard because its easy to spend 500$ at the dropzone in a few days jumping which in my opinion isnt worth selling a pair of skis for. skydiving is much more expensive than skiing so be ready for that.

yearly skiing i ski 160 days and i dont pay for passes as i work at the mountain. my only expense skiing is for gear. last year i probably spent less than 2500 on skiing. this year i spent over 4500 on skydiving and didn't even buy gear. on the other side once you are liscenced and have your own gear you are just paying for jumps. but still going from 10,000" is like $42 at my local dz hop n pop is just under $30 i think. and there are days i do 6 + jumps so it adds up fast.

if you have any questions about the sport i can answer but i am quite new to the sport so take what i know with a grain of salt. but i put in work this summer. if you are also by chance from Alberta maybe we can jump sometime. skydiving is just as fun as skiing and i love it. its all i want to do in the summer now. ski all winter skydive all summer. this is the way.
 
14331533:Young_patty said:
Op that DMT must have fried your brain cause BASE/sky diving is light years more expensive to get into than skiing

plus I’m thinking you haven’t ever seen footage of BASE jumpers slamming into cliffs and dying on impact- it’s a sport where If you participate in it long enough you will become a statistic.
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YoU wilL Bec0Me a sTATistiC
 
14331778:MitchPee said:
You’re going to have to invest in an AFF program which will run you about 2k right out the gate nowadays. Equipment will be another 2-4K plus coach jumps, and repeat levels if you don’t pass all AFF jumps. I usually spend $75-100 per day of skydiving as an experienced jumper. My best advice is to go to a drop zone. Meet people, do a tandem, see if it’s something you actually want to do. You may think skydiving is lame, or you may really like it. Don’t even think about BASE until you spend time in that world. You may even lose all interest.

Then if BASE jumping is something you want to do down the road, take the same approach. Meet BASE jumpers and watch jumps. You can see a BASE jump at the bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho on any decent weather day. Similarly, Moab offers a great way to see jumpers off Kane Creek Rd.

My personal opinion after a decade+ In flying sports, 1,000+ BASE jumps, and many skydives is that it gave me a really unique outlook on the world. The people I met, places I saw, and feelings experienced led to an important development of self that I still am processing to this day. Alternatively, it was an arduous process watching so many people pay an ultimate price for what now seems like an unnecessary sacrifice. However, perspective differs for everyone in the context of time and I don’t fault anyone for passionately pursuing the art of flight. After all, it’s a pretty amazing thing being able to use some nylon and gravity to pilot yourself down a mountain.

Side note: I find it pretty sad that people in here seem to lack enough humility to not feel restraint about sharing an opinion on which they have little to no experience. It’s akin to someone who has never skied answering in a thread about how to do corks.

**This post was edited on Oct 13th 2021 at 11:08:37pm

**This post was edited on Oct 13th 2021 at 11:09:38pm
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I have done tandem before.

Anyways thanks for the advice. All ready booked my AFF course.
 
I dont enjoy shitting my pants thinking about how im doing something that kills people all the fucking time.

so for me skiing would be more fun all things considered.

but if you are very diligent abt learning to wingsuit etc, it could be cool.

overall though i think skiing is more based.
 
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