Can You Breathe While Skydiving?
We used to believe some wacky things. For example, when humans began weighing up the idea of freefall, it was considered smart to do so curled into a ball in case the rapidly increasing velocity would rip any extended limbs right off your body!! Thankfully thi
Why Starting Out Tandem Is A Good Idea
Many of the questions you might have about how to get started in skydiving are answered by the tandem skydive. The feeling of exiting an aircraft and falling back towards the earth at 120mph is difficult to accurately describe to others – and after trying to p
Skydiving Do’s and Don’ts.
Here at Skydive Long island, we are intentional about making tandem skydiving accessible and work hard to make your first skydive nothing short of amazing and highly memorable. Once you are committed to jumping out of a plane, your brain will likely fill with
Beware of the Skydiving Addiction
Skydiving is a lot of things. It can change your life in a single jump … and it can offer a window into a whole new world of intoxicating experiences and adventures that can hook you forever. If you ask us, skydiving is something everyone should do at least on
Skydiving Benefits
Skydiving can have a deep and profound effect on the way you view the world and travel through it as a person. Jumping out of an aircraft and falling back to earth using only gravity and a parachute to return you to terra firma is far more than a bucket-list g
What Makes A Great Tandem Skydiving Experience
Skydiving is unique. Even compared to other extreme activities, there is something singularly epic about freefall that makes it something everyone should do once at the very least. Tandem skydiving is set up to give brand new students access to skydiving in th
Best Outdoor Summer Adventure in New York: Skydiving
June 20th marked the first official day of the best season ever: summer! Although the pandemic put our plans of summer fun on a temporary hiatus last year, there’s nothing stopping us now! For many, this is the season of exploration, and if you don’t want to w
Can I Skydive with my own GoPro?
If there’s no video, it didn’t happen. It is for this exact reason that you were planning on skydiving with a GoPro to catch all the footage and feels during the fun of freefall. After all, that teeny weeny action camera seems like the perfect adventure accout
How Long Does A Skydive Last?
If the length of a skydive is on your mind, what you might actually be asking is: How long does the freefall part of skydiving last? This is an important thing to know, and it depends on how high you jump from. Here at Skydive Long Island we jump from 13,500ft
Best Time of Day to Skydive
Tandem skydiving or becoming qualified as a skydiver yourself is a highly rewarding and quite accessible thing to do. Over the years we have become very good at introducing people to the world of freefall, and want as many people as possible to experience it a
Is Skydiving Bad For Your Back?
Skydiving is the original extreme sport, and such pursuits are hard on your body, right? Extreme sports are loosely defined as including an element of risk, and while leaping out of airplanes does indeed have some risk involved – it is way, way more managed an
Do You Have To Be Physically Fit To Skydive
Skydiving is very definitely a sport. Before learning about what is involved, it can be tricky to imagine exactly how this is so – but skydiving has its own global competition circuit, and there are world records and championships people chase with dedication