I want to face my worst fear
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I am very scared of heights.I get vertigo.
This has increased with age.
I could not ever imagine driving over the bridge at le havre,or indeed Dartford.
But I have decided in my insanity I want to face this fear full on
I want to sky dive......
No idea if I can be strong enough
What is your biggest fear and can u summount it?
This has increased with age.
I could not ever imagine driving over the bridge at le havre,or indeed Dartford.
But I have decided in my insanity I want to face this fear full on
I want to sky dive......
No idea if I can be strong enough
What is your biggest fear and can u summount it?
jessica said:
I am very scared of heights.I get vertigo.
This has increased with age.
I could not ever imagine driving over the bridge at le havre,or indeed Dartford.
But I have decided in my insanity I want to face this fear full on
I want to sky dive......
No idea if I can be strong enough
What is your biggest fear and can u summount it?
Hate heights. Can climb a ladder and even get on the roof but dont feel secure.
No dam way would i jump out a plane, id rather ride it down than jump out, but seeing as ive never been on a plane.....
Not too happy about tall buildings either which is why i stay out of em.
Worst fear? Drowning, deep water, large voids.....(ex missis).
jessica said:
I could not ever imagine driving over the bridge at le havre
Pont de Normandie is the bridge near Le Havre. Very impressive bit of engineering that. You can actually walk over it and the views are outstanding. Sorry..just remembering holidays past and I know this doesn't really help you..
buzzsaw said:
I could not ever imagine driving over the bridge at le havre
Pont de Normandie is the bridge near Le Havre. Very impressive bit of engineering that. You can actually walk over it and the views are outstanding. Sorry..just remembering holidays past and I know this doesn't really help you..
what dya mean walk over it
eeek
i could slither on my belly with my eyes tight shut.....
Indeed my hubby drove us over it me shouting u r dead u bastard.whilst closing my eyes and hanging on to the car seat.Much to the amustment of the children...
jessica said:
I could not ever imagine driving over the bridge at le havre,or indeed Dartford.
jessica,i also hate hights but i dont have a problem with the qe2 bridge,in my case im fine if im on solid ground (as-such) but where it comes to ladders/scaffold/cherry pickers i am absolutely useless.
good luck with beating it.
I'm still scared of heights but I'm also a skydiver. Put me 30ft up a ladder and I get disco leg, could never be a rockclimber. There's something different to being 2 and a half miles up, it's not the same kind of fear.
A tandem skydive puts the fear outwith your control, you're just along for the ride. Highly recommend it though, it may well help in a lot of respects.
My biggest fear right now, well I can't divulge. Surmountable ? who knows.
A tandem skydive puts the fear outwith your control, you're just along for the ride. Highly recommend it though, it may well help in a lot of respects.
My biggest fear right now, well I can't divulge. Surmountable ? who knows.
Do it! Its frightening when you're in the plane going up but absolutely awesome as soon as you're out there. I found it a lot less nerve-racking than a bungee, mainly because it was a tandem so I didn't have to do the jump myself, but also the perspective of height isn't so acute... looking down on 120 feet seemed a hell of a lot worse than 12,000 feet.
My recommendation is to do it in a good location, and get all the videos and photos etc, I really treasure mine as they're quite spectacular.
Good luck.
My recommendation is to do it in a good location, and get all the videos and photos etc, I really treasure mine as they're quite spectacular.
Good luck.
anonymous said:
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Spot on. This is how I cured myself of vertigo
Looking back I would never do it again
for the reason I asked myself then would be the same now: Why the hell am I getting out of a perfectly good plane? But I was volunteered for Cancer Research by a few 'mates', and having found over £700 in sponsorship money there was no going back
Throwing oneself out of a large hole in a small aircraft from 2700ft was the hardest thing I have ever tried to convince my brain to do
Once out there, the training takes over automaticaly and after four seconds and "Check canopy" you are floating like you probably never will ever again. It is a truly surreal and very spiritual moment, tandem jump is good for longer free-fall, but there is nothing quite like guiding yourself down with a highly manouvreable sports-chute 
Memorable? Hell yes, it was the 1st of September 1996 at 2pm. Why do I remember? Because my daughter was delivered at exactly the same time as I jumped out of the plane, number 3 in the door, at 14.00 exactly
Did it cure my vertigo? Yes, from 2700ft.
Climb a ladder? You can
right off 
deltafox said:I am very similar, can just about go up a ladder, could probably get on the roof of the house. However, I would never be able to get off the roof and back on the ladder, I would cr@p myself.
I am very scared of heights.I get vertigo.
This has increased with age.
I could not ever imagine driving over the bridge at le havre,or indeed Dartford.
But I have decided in my insanity I want to face this fear full on
I want to sky dive......
No idea if I can be strong enough
What is your biggest fear and can u summount it?
Hate heights. Can climb a ladder and even get on the roof but dont feel secure.
No dam way would i jump out a plane, id rather ride it down than jump out, but seeing as ive never been on a plane.....
Not too happy about tall buildings either which is why i stay out of em.
Worst fear? Drowning, deep water, large voids.....(ex missis).
To try and get over this I went parachuting several times, loved it, had a great time and would happily go again.
Still hate going up ladders and heights in general and jumping out of a perfectly good aircraft made no difference.
My worst fear would be parachuting, landing on the roof of a house and having to climb down a ladder to safety - work that one out!
jessica said:
I could not ever imagine driving over the bridge at le havre,or indeed Dartford.
I want to sky dive...... No idea if I can be strong enough
Amazingly I have done both
I hate heights too. However I think that there are two kinds of height. One is standing on a ledge halfway up an office block looking down at the tiny cars underneath and imagining you could fall off and go squish. That's not good.
But the other kind of height is when you're so far off the ground - in a plane - that the ground looks like a model, and you can't fall 'cos you're in a plane, not clinging to a window ledge.
So if you can travel in a plane, you should be OK. You will jumping with others and when it comes to the crunch you go because you don't want to be the only one to chicken out. You sit on the edge of the plane floor and dangle your legs out (you don't have to look down). There's a wind but no worse than you'd get from a car on a motorway. Then you just shove yourself off as you've been trained to do. As you're travelling forward at the same speed as the plane, you don't get a sudden falling feeling; the wind buffeting is the main thing you'll feel. Before you know it, the parachute is open and that's it. There's nothing else to do (apart from steer) until you reach the ground.
Do try it. You'll be bricking yourself until you actually jump, then when you walk back in clutching the chute you'll be grinning like a Cheshire cat and wanting to do it again
thebluemonkey said:
Pretty much everything that happens in Arlington Road. Scary, scary film.
With one of the best endings I've ever seen
My biggest fear... this is going to sound stupid to some people i think, but it's wasting any more of my life on things/people that aren't worth it.
Little Red said:
Pretty much everything that happens in Arlington Road. Scary, scary film.
With one of the best endings I've ever seen
My biggest fear... this is going to sound stupid to some people i think, but it's wasting any more of my life on things/people that aren't worth it.
Sensible fear to have
ultimasimon said:
thebluemonkey said:
Pretty much everything that happens in Arlington Road. Scary, scary film.
With one of the best endings I've ever seen
My biggest fear... this is going to sound stupid to some people i think, but it's wasting any more of my life on things/people that aren't worth it.
Sensible fear to have
Well good on ya for facing yours mate, don't know if I'd have the bottle to do it
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